"You know what I could really go for after a stressful day...a fat, juicy carrot." - Said no one ever! When the body undergoes a stress response, the natural instinct is to turn on survival mode. Survival mode typically means that digestion is not the first priority. The hierarchy of survival goes: heart --> lungs --> muscles (necessities to run from a tiger) --> digestion --> reproduction --> psycho-spiritual. If the body wants food at all, it wants things that are easy t
