Sweet Tooth
Blog 3 Who doesn’t love eating sweets? I have always been one the biggest advocates to have cake for breakfast. After all, it is just bread but in a different form. Some people may view sweets as childish behavior since children due crave something sugary; however, I gravely disagree. I believe everyone finds pleasure giving in to their sweet tooth, but society evidently appears to frown upon this decadent behavior. The sense of taste is more about pleasure. Currently, this was not always the case. Back in our ‘hunter gather “ days, we relied on our sense of taste to notice the toxic morsels we could be collecting. Aristotle seems to have been right. Animals who move to gather their food need taste to help them distinguish health-giving from dangerous substances.” (Fulton 202) Perhaps our society’s disdain for sweets stems from the artificial sweeteners that ...