Perception of taste and size of serving:

I will start with a little example:

When I was younger, I used to live in a culture where green tea was cherished. We used to get green tea servings in very small cups. A cup of tea looked like the one above. It was pretty satisfactory a size for a serving.

In 2000 I moved to US. A few years down the line I was at a QT gas station and had my first iced "green apple green tea". They had that offered in 44 Oz cups (1.3 Liters), and I had that fairly often. That messed up my perception of green tea servings forever. Now I can't feel satisfied with a little cup of green tea, and I get my green tea served in at least 250ml cups now.

Similar is the case with coffee. My friends here in Spain have coffee in little cups, whereas my system requires coffee to be served in 250ml or so. I do not know if I am pleasing the taste buds or I am filling up a more primitive desire of filling my stomach with it.

There is a primitive psychological connection that governs the desire to eat with the pleasant taste. Maybe the connection gets reinforced by habits, and once reinforced it's really difficult to go back to enjoying small servings just for the sake of taste. In words of an ex addict "when you have tasted excess, everything else tastes bland".

And that might be one of the biggest reason for obesity in America. The perception of taste is so strongly linked with the desire to fill stomach that it's very difficult to feel satisfied with a small serving size. Is it possible to break that connection just by changing habits alone, or would any drug maker have to make a blocker for that connection? if someone does, that could become the medicine that saves America.

The "Draw Mohammad Day"

Some chicken shits, while hiding behind fake IDs are putting a lot of lives at risk by insulting a lot of people.

Lets assume that the number of 'extremist' Muslims is more than the entire Chinese army. Is that a good start? Fine, that makes them 0.2% of the Muslim population. Lets assume that 6 MILLION Muslims go out in protests etc.. that's 0.4% of the Muslim population.

So these guys just offended more than 99% of Muslims just to make their point to 0.2 - 0.6 % of the population. And they provided ammo to those 0.2% to recruit more, to convert more towards extremism.

So, mr whoever were behind these acts of insulting 99% of otherwise peaceful, moderate Muslims, while you, chicken shit, are hiding behind a computer screen with a fake ID, some soldiers will get killed because of the hatred you spew.

Unfortunately the movement's organiser is a German. I guess Islamophobia is the new 'IN' thing there.it's been a while since they last hated people based on a religion.

Yes I am doing the same thing these 'draw Muhammad' idiots did. I'm offending / insulting the entire German populace based on the actions of a few. Get the point.