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t may be a new word for you, but Urbandictionary.com defines “strazzled” as a cross between stressed and frazzled. It’s safe to say we’ve become quite the strazzled society, especially in 2020. And when we feel strazzled, we tend to reach for junky comfort foods high in sugar, fat, white flour, and carbs. Perceived as warm and satisfying, comfort foods tend to be disagreeable to our health. Paradoxical how we soothe, reward ourselves, or celebrate events with the scrumptious, memory-evoking, comfortcreating, extremely delicious traditional celebratory foods of our childhood. We also indulge comfort foods when grieving the stressful loss of someone near and dear or when we’re experiencing pandemic anxiety. However, eating dead processed food makes us feel lethargic, less than whole, and unfulfilled. When we eat food in the state nature intended we feel that delicious nourishing energy.
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We’ve learned from volumes of studies that the low-grade nutrition of the Standard American Diet is directly related to heart problems, high blood pressure, obesity, cancer, diabetes, depression, and a number of health miseries according to JAMA. Alas, coping with life’s stressful lessons, the conscious, uncontrolled mind seeks short-lived happiness from foods that light up the brain’s reward system like a pinball machine. Wheee! The brain responds to happiness and stress by craving soft, sweet, smooth, salty and unctuous comfort foods such as calorie-dense chips, ice cream, cookies, grandma’s pie ala mode, mac n’ cheese, pizza, gooey chocolate brownies, carbolicious bagels, and fatty meats. Different for each person, soothing comfort foods tend to be the favorite foods from childhood, or a specific person, place or time with which the food has a positive memory. The inconvenient truth: the industrial-strength, traditional warm and
