CONSCIENTIOUS NUTRITION FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

“The way to a person’s heart is through their stomach” and “you eat with your eyes” are both old proverbs that still apply today. Ronia Schiftan, media and nutrition psychologist, describes in the Soil to Soul Talk with moderator Andrin Willi when we begin to "program" our eating habits, and whether the corona crisis will change these habits in the long term.
Eating habits form during infancy. When grandma served up her lovingly baked apple pie, no other apple pie stood a chance against it, even decades later: Grandma's pastry remains the undefeated number one. Why is that? On the one hand, it’s because those little pots and pans of tangible love trigger emotions, like well-being, security and contentment. So, when we smell the aroma of a fresh apple pie, that smell can both remind us of our childhood and cause those emotions to rise to the surface.
But habit also plays a role here: the more we are served and eat something, the more likely we are to get used to the taste. So, can we train our eating habits? A question that also often pops up in connection with nutrition during the corona crisis. "Yes," says Ronia Schiftan, "but it takes time, and we have to maintain those new habits".