Sudden Changes in one's Preferences

[kirolak]

Not sure if this would have any value to anyone else, but over the last 3 or 4 weeks I've experienced a total change in certain food preferences; for example, I used to eat only brown rice, but now it nauseates me & I have changed to Thai fragrant rice with Turmeric; I could never bear to drink more than half a cup of strong green tea, whereas now I crave it & consume 5 or more cups of it each day; the black beans I used to enjoy now taste unnatural & sweet; and my daily dose of avocado seems bitter & slimy. I used to have an occasional glass of Shiraz wine, but even the thought of it makes me recoil in disgust. My vegan mayonnaise tastes like poison; so does any sauce or condiment except for the smoked jalapeno. (keyboard does not respond to my efforts to write a tilde over the n!):confused:

Certain smells are also repellent to me (jasmine, for eg!??)

I don't see any health benefits that could result from any of these changes, & just find it rather strange. Has anyone else found this happening to them lately?

[avid]

This happened to me years ago, I was pregnant!

[mosquito]

That's really strange. Obviously one's preferences change over time, but to have so many in such a short space of time is highly unusual. See if you can identify any changes that have happened in your life, not just physical, but changes in life circumstances, anything really. Especially try to identify things which your immediate reaction to would be - "no, it can't be that".

[grannyfranny100]

When I went thru menopause, my body talked to me in the same way. Or at least that is how I took it. I was just happy that we had a dialogue. I preferred that to the introduction of Big Pharma which was the hit of the day with later possible cancer side effects.

[Kryztian]

This frequently happens to people when they have organ transplants. And the new cravings they develop were often common to the person who previously owned the organ.

[seah]

Absolutely, this happened to me over a year ago, after I had surgery. My way of eating has totally changed. I crave lighter foods, salads with fruit and nuts in them, which before I could not stomach. Dressings of oil and vinegar only. Dairy and meat are no longer a daily necessary. I enjoy eating dinner earlier, about 4 o'clock. Drinking alcohol no longer feels right, even though I still like the taste of white wine, 4 ounces is about all I can take in one sitting.

[Inmortal719]

The only radical thing that makes a sudden change in tastes like that that I know of is when you eat something excessively, I once ate like 2 bags of tuna myself when I was a kid, it was my favorite! I felt so full and bad that I puked all of it, hahaha, I may have been traumatized back then so afterwards I couldn't stand the smell taste or even look at tuna again, everytime I was near I felt nausea, revulsion..

http://www.jugos-curativos.com/tuna.png

[Heartsong]

Aging can bring about these kinds of changes as can the onset of allergies. Changes in your sense of smell and taste can make some foods unappealing and thereby make your stomach turn.
If you remember what you ate in your twenties, foods that were eaten nearly daily, you probably aren't eating them now. Even the mere thought of them makes you wince.
Our bodies change and if you are listening, your habits will change with them.

[Wakanpyro]

I do know what you mean, and I don't believe it is a physical component. Something is happening.......change.......of some sort.
I have recently been going through and trying to pay attention to the changes myself. Not through it yet and don't exactly know what is going on, but I don't believe it is something within the physical body, but more of something having an effect on the body....if that makes any sense...............

[Constance]

Yes! :sun:
I have found that I really need to have a very diverse diet and that I can only eat certain foods for a short period of time before the body wants to have something different.

[DeDukshyn]

Yes this has happened to me too. I believe a gene expression shift can change the way your body processes it's intake substances for conversion into any of the over 5000 different and unique chemicals it uses for it's various functions (by chemicals, I mean in the literal scientific sense - our whole world is made of chemicals from that standpoint). Even a small shift in the way it does this processing can vastly affect what it desired for intake, and this can have an effect on food preferences.

A good example of this shifting would be what is called being "Ketonic". Inuit eat mostly entirely meat products because they have no choice really (no offense just an example), so their bodies are specially adapted to get all it's energy and nutritional requirements from only a few food sources. Ironically, despite the extremely excessive fat and protein consumption, true (natural life) Inuit rarely have issues with weight, diabetes, etc. This is due to their bodies being in a ketonic state (or more accurately in ketosis). I believe it also makes one smell funny. Medical science used to consider this a "dangerous state" to be avoided at all costs, but then it was found that Inuit live entirely in this state their whole lives. It has also been learned that the body can turn to a state of ketosis merely by shifting the diet consistently.

Anyway, just an example how a small shift in the way the body process its nutrients (caused by whatever reason) can lead to changes in food preferences and cravings as well.

[kirolak]

Yes this has happened to me too. I believe a gene expression shift can change the way your body processes it's intake substances for conversion into any of the over 5000 different and unique chemicals it uses for it's various functions (by chemicals, I mean in the literal scientific sense - our whole world is made of chemicals from that standpoint). Even a small shift in the way it does this processing can vastly affect what it desired for intake, and this can have an effect on food preferences.

A good example of this shifting would be what is called being "Ketonic". Inuit eat mostly entirely meat products because they have no choice really (no offense just an example), so their bodies are specially adapted to get all it's energy and nutritional requirements from only a few food sources. Ironically, despite the extremely excessive fat and protein consumption, true (natural life) Inuit rarely have issues with weight, diabetes, etc. This is due to their bodies being in a ketonic state (or more accurately in ketosis). I believe it also makes one smell funny. Medical science used to consider this a "dangerous state" to be avoided at all costs, but then it was found that Inuit live entirely in this state their whole lives. It has also been learned that the body can turn to a state of ketosis merely by shifting the diet consistently.

Anyway, just an example how a small shift in the way the body process its nutrients (caused by whatever reason) can lead to changes in food preferences and cravings as well.

Interesting! Now I have been vegetarian my whole life & vegan over the last 4 - 5 years; but I have no desire for corpse; it just struck me as weird that all these changes of taste would happen so suddenly :) I had a tooth pulled about a month ago, I wonder now whether that could have been the catalyst. It's not a huge issue, just something odd I wondered about.

Thanks to all for the theories; DeDukshyn, yours has struck the most chord in me. . . . :sun:

[ThePythonicCow]

This happened to me years ago, I was pregnant!

I too have just started consuming lots of rice with Turmeric, and strong green tea.

I'm pretty sure I'm not pregnant :).