>NB: to Carrol, purity rituals aren't psychological in origin. Their
>function is group solidarity and they are born of the working of social
>structure, _not_ individual minds.
Joanna:
>Who says a lot of Marxist grouplets are not basically conservative?
>I had the misfortune of belonging to a Trotskyist sect for a couple of
>years. I thought they were extremely conservative.
I thought about that, but it wouldn't comport with the thesis as to what conservatives are on the theory andy referenced.
>"Aside: Also, don't forget that, while waiting to eat, people may
>actually be hungry. With so much of our health problems being
>connected to a diet high in refined carbohydrates and eating too much
>at one meal, people increasingly have big blood sugar swings that make
>them very cranky, irritable, and anxious when they don't eat."
>
>Very very true. But what my daughter observed was that they were bitchy
>before they got a table and lamb-like afterward....still fifteen, twenty
>minutes before actual food arrived. Though granted, when they sat down,
>there was bread and water.
If I can find that research I mentioned, it would explain that. Apparently, just the idea that we are going to get fed will make all the difference in the world. In the same study, they talk about how all a cyclist has to do is *taste* sweetness for it to trigger the ability to call up the adenosine triphosphate–creatine phosphate (ATP) energy system otherwise considered spent under endurance conditions. Mostly, we metabolize fat for energy or glucose for energy or some combination. But when we want to bust ass in a sprint, we are working the ATP system. It's what someone sprinting that last portion of the Tour de France is recruiting in order to do it.
Kelley