Example: WHY DO PEOPLE EAT FOOD?

a) Because they feel hungry.

b) For entertainment.

c) Because it's fun. (see "b" above)

d) Because they want to fill that sense of emotional emptiness that's bothering them all the time.

e) Because Mommy (or someone else) told them to.

f) Because it's 12 noon, breakfast time, or supper time.

g) Because there's "nothing else to do".

h) Because the body needs nutrition.

i) Because it would "go to waste" otherwise.

Etc.......

Now is any one of those the "correct" answer in any exclusive sense? No. They are all valid answers under certain circumstances, given certain people's view of food, and what they're thinking (or not thinking) at the time.

People, in fact, frequently eat food for reasons which have nothing whatsoever to do with actual physical needs or the structure of their body and its natural functions.

- LH

p.s. Hesperis tells me that the first time she ever spilled salt (as a child), she naturally picked it up with her right hand and threw it over her right shoulder! She says the movement came naturally to her. She then recalled that there was a superstition about throwing salt over the left shoulder, and wondered if she should have done that.

I have given this some thought...and YES, it IS easier to pick up a small object with the right hand and simply throw it straight back over the right shoulder. Try it. It's marginally easier than reaching across your chest and throwing it over the left shoulder.

Poof! Another scientific theory bites the dust.