Creativity and Binge Eating

You may have read the title of this blog and thought I meant to pair creativity with “cooking” not “bingeing.” But the way creativity relates to a binge is exactly my focus, because much of what you get out of it is what you’re seeking in your wild food sprees. In “Creativity—A Bright Light in Your Golden Years” by Walker Meade (Better Living, 7/13), Alice Flaherty, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, says the creative drive results “from an interaction of the frontal lobes, the temporal lobes, and dopamine from the limbic system.” Although you may think that folks are either creative or they aren’t, according to the article, “A good deal of research suggests that everyone is capable of tapping into his or her creative spirit.” This is good news if you’ve been abusing food rather than expressing your creative drive more appropriately. Have you ever heard someone say they forgot to eat because they were so caught up in an activity—making jewelry, playing the piano, refinishing a chair, or planting their garden? These are all creative efforts. You don’t have to be Monet or Alice Walker to consider yourself creative. Creativity comes in all forms, from the every day—redecorating your living room—to the exceptional—Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. June Lebell, a Sarasota radio personality who’s also a musician tells us that for her, “creating is living.” She’s not talking about making...
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