Overfed and Undernourished
Your body is desperately craving some real nutrition, but you're too zoned out from binge watching and social media scrolling to notice. The only signal that you hear is an intense hunger. You mistake your body's demand for fresh fruit as a craving for sweets and decide to nuke that hunger with a dozen doughnuts. The closest thing your body will get to some fruit is artificial fruit flavors. Your blood sugar spikes and you're riding high for a little while, but your stomach makes quick work of all those carbs. Pretty soon your blood sugar is crashing back to Earth, leaving you irritable and famished again.
Then a burger ad on tv catches your eye. Your body is still craving some actual nutrition and your subconscious mind spots the meager vegetable toppings in that greasy burger. Meanwhile all you notice is that juicy meat, gooey cheese, and dripping sauce. You can't place the order fast enough. The delivery makes it in record time and soon you're digging into your stack of bacon double cheeseburgers. The wilted vegetable toppings your body was craving are buried under a mountain of meat and cheese, smothered in sauce. You intersperse greedy bites of burger with eager handfuls of salty fries and greasy onion rings. Any nutrients in those sides have been deep fried into oblivion. To wash the whole thing down, you gulp sugary soda like it was water in the desert. You demolish the meal in record time, leaving you surrounded by the wrappers and detritus of your binge. Your breathing is labored, lungs competing with your overstuffed gut for space. You're not quite finished though. You want to put these hunger pangs to rest for good and a thick strawberry milkshake should do the trick. You gulp it down slowly and deliberately, letting it fill every remaining nook and cranny in your pained gut. After licking down the final drops, you're painfully full and finally satisfied.
Your stomach may be fit to burst, but your body still didn't receive the nutrients it really wanted. These pale imitations of fruits and vegetables only set you up for even more powerful cravings later on. For the moment though, you're content. You doze off on the couch, snoring peacefully beneath your double chins and bloated belly.
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