2006-07-30 08:27:31 · 6 answers · asked by JD 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I think we do both.
I am diabetic, so I have to eat 6 times a day to keep my blood sugar from crashing. Sometimes, I don't want to eat that much and it makes me sick if I get too busy or am just not hungry when my body says, "Hey, feed me something!" So, in that case, I am eating to live. On the other hand, I love cooking and finding new, creative recipes--it is a hobby that brings me pleasure. (yo! why aren't you on the cooking page?). I like trying out new restaurants, like Thai and Chinese, and I would eat a good prime rib starving or not! ...mmmmm. When the mood hits me, I am just living to eat the good stuff.
When we eat to live, we eat the healthy stuff--not for pleasure, but to sustain our bodies. When we live to eat, we go to McDonald's and get fried chicken parts and smashed cow-body burgers. Americans, as a whole, live to eat---"10,000,000,000 Burgers sold " tells the whole pathetic story!
2006-07-30 08:42:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We eat to live as a process necessary for the continuation of our human lives. If your living to eat you have some issues to work out or just a bad hobby.
2006-07-30 15:31:32 · answer #2 · answered by jasonlajoie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eat to live would be the proper way.
But human nature is such that we are a bottomless pit - we will have great difficulty achieving that. So when you catch yourslef being greedy.... STOP.
We live to eat when we should be eating to live.
2006-07-30 15:32:41 · answer #3 · answered by elymendoza1984 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you living just to eat your life is not a life and even you didn't deserve to live but you have to eating to live and not only to live but to live proud of what you did for your self and others.
2006-07-31 04:53:04 · answer #4 · answered by khadijeh a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My normal state is to eat to live ... but when I'm in Italy, I'm living to eat ... mangio bene ... ahh delicious ... worth every calorie ... ma-ma mia.
2006-07-31 14:43:21 · answer #5 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on with what motivation you are waking up each morning...
2006-07-30 15:31:45 · answer #6 · answered by Sweetie O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋