March 7th, 2005
Any revelations stemming from historian Joachim Fest’s book, Hitler’s Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich, this one anecdote from a secretary seems most bizarre: Hitler “would lie there, completely apathetic, thinking only of … chocolate and cake. His craving for cake had become pathological. Before, he used to eat three pieces of cake at most, but now he had them fill his plate to overflowing three times.”
As I’ve argued before, vegetarian lifestyles aren’t always the healthiest…
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I got very nervous reading your post, because I thought you were going to make a chocolate-Hitler connection. I can’t tell you my relief when the ultimate dietary culprit in the post was cake, not chocolate and, even more than that, vegetarianism, not chocolate. It would be too terrible if I suddenly felt morally obligated to give up chocolate.
heather March 8, 2005 at 7:45 pm
Somewhere sometime I read that sugar’s molecular structure is similar to that of alcohol. Depressed people are known to resort of alcohol; it is not as well known that many people take to high sugar intake for the same reason. Certainly, as days get shorter and darker, and the seritonin level drops, northern people often crave sugar (rather than alcohol.)