I have been studying chemistry almost every day for 22 years since high school. This includes 6 years in nuclear engineering in the US Navy, 3 years as an undergraduate in Flagstaff AZ, 5 years as a graduate student at Stanford, 3 years as a research fellow at UCSF, and 5 years doing public outreach through a nonprofit while teaching at Stanford and UCSF. You would think that my entire nutritional focus would therefore be how the molecular aspects of nutrition impacts our quality of life. But nothing could be further from the truth.
The most important aspects of quality of life involve emotional connections that lie far beyond the grasp of scientific understanding. This includes the connection we have with our own childhood and the foods we received with love from our parents. The cartoon movie Ratatouille demonstrated this extremely well in the scene where the food critique time-tunneled back in his mind to his childhood and was overwhelmed with emotion when eating the ratatouille made by Anatole the mouse. You are seeing this scene re-enacted as I shove a chocolate eclaire into my mouth that my mom made for me last night. Thank you mom, for the eclaires throughout my childhood, and for the eclaires today. I can't thank you enough.
See the video here, below, or see my entire channel at YouTube.com/DrClydeWilson.
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