TM Most people have a love-hate relationship with food. We love to eat, but we hate to shop, hate to cook, and hate to clean up. And of course, we worry about our weight. Perhaps it's because food reminds us that life is not only fun, but also fragile, frustrating, frightening, and mystifying.
Life is a metabolic mystery.
No matter who we are or what we do, we all have to eat and drink and go to the bathroom. But how and why the food we eat transforms itself into life, and ultimately waste, is a mystery that science cannot fully explain. It's hard to live with such profound uncertainty. So we try to distract ourselves with fast food, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and entertainment. And we try to ignore the biological basis of life - especially the connection between food and waste.