Re: The Placebo Effect
"I wonder if we couldn't achieve some improvement in well-being just by steaming up a little dish of, say, kale, labeling it "health", and wolfing it down each day."
Of course you could... you should always eat and drink with a grateful heart and never when upset, angry etc.
That is what your prayer is for.
Before I eat I think, may this food feed and build my body, mind and soul.
We could go into the placebo effect more though, like how people who are trained (most for a lifetime) in meditation can rebuild and renew on the cellular level WITHOUT food. This has been proven and has something to do with the body/mind connection and the vagus nerve. What we think is, we are creators.
But that is a huge discussion on its own.
grz