Hunger is not an aunt

Analogues of the saying about hunger, which is not an aunt

• Hunger drives the world
• Hunger is not an aunt, the belly is not a basket
• Hunger is not an aunt, but the belly is not a basket
• Hunger is not an aunt, the soul is not a neighbor
• Hunger is not a neighbor: you can't get away from it
• Hunger is not an aunt, it will make you speak
• Hunger is a grumpy godfather: she gnaws until she gets it
• Hunger is not an aunt, it will make you work
• Hunger drives the wolf from the forest (to the village).
• Hunger is not an aunt, she won’t put a ball
• Hunger is not an aunt in the forest will not run away
• The hunger of the stomach does not swell, but on an empty stomach is more fun
• Hunger is not an aunt, frost is not a brother
• With hunger, the belly will not burst, it will only wrinkle
• They don't die of hunger, they just swell

“Hunger is not an aunt,” the people say, but they add: “The stepmother is fierce, but the hunger is more fierce!” (E. A. Salias "On Moscow")

Application of the saying in literature

— “They guarded them, but hunger is not an aunt - they broke themselves crusts of bread, but for future use”(Daniil Granin "Zubr")
— “I used to think that hunger is not an aunt, but it turns out that an aunt is a hunger”(Vasily Grossman "Life and Fate")
— “But nothing. Hunger is not an aunt. “I see,” the woman did not immediately say and walked away, apparently losing interest in both the frogs in the hat and in both men.(Vasil Bykov "Wolf Pit")
— “But if hunger is not an aunt, then the cold is also not an uncle, do you agree?”(Vladimir Sanin "Don't tell the Arctic - goodbye")
— “That’s enough, isn’t it,” I thought, listening, “is it for example, isn’t it according to the proverb: “hunger is not an aunt”?”(I. A. Goncharov "Frigate" Pallada ")

Proverbs and sayings, as well as set expressions that have come into the modern language from past generations, play an important role in human life. Thanks to phraseological units, it is easier to express thoughts. Sometimes one phrase can replace 2-3 sentences. What does the proverb “hunger is not an aunt” mean and what is its history of origin? What connects the desire to get enough with a relative?

Meaning and usage

The feeling of hunger can overtake anyone. What a person is ready for for the sake of his satisfaction is an individual question for everyone. In the 17th century, the expression in expanded form sounded like this: "hunger is not an aunt - she will not slip a pie." The meaning lies on the surface: in a difficult period of life, at a time of lack of food, a close relative will definitely help and feed heartily, in contrast to the lonely most acute feeling that can lead to inexplicable unwanted actions.

The mention of the proverb in specialized dictionaries dates back to the 19th century. Sayings shortened over time are often found in speech, but not always the essence can be thought out without the missing part. The expressions are such an example:

• it was smooth on paper (but forgot about the ravines);
• don't say gop (until you jump over).

Years later, the beginning of a stable expression is used more often, and the remaining words are implied in absentia and omitted in speech, assuming that the interlocutor's inner voice will complete the phrase.

There is an assumption that there is a different version: “hunger is not an aunt, but a dear mother.” Understanding the meaning should be approached from the side of understanding the benefits of fasting. Linguists are ambiguous in the veracity of this interpretation - it is in doubt. But it should be noted that this feeling sharpens many instincts, and when it reaches a critical point, overshadows all other desires and needs. In search of food, a person is ready for a lot.

Literary lines

In works of art, you can also often see sayings and proverbs. They add beauty and folklore to any creation. So, in Bykov's literary work “Wolf Pit”, to enhance understanding of the current situation, it was mentioned: “Hunger is not an aunt. - I see, - the woman did not immediately say and walked away, losing interest in the frogs in the hat and both men.

Here the second variant of the interpretation of the phraseologism can be traced, each author introduces a piece of his subtext, depending on his role in a literary work. This proverb can be seen in D. Granin in "Zubr", V. Grossman "Life and Fate", V. Sanin "Do not say goodbye to the Arctic", I. Goncharov "Pallada frigate".

Expressions similar in meaning

The saying “hunger is not an aunt” has many analogues, the semantic load of which is almost identical. It was said above that the full version has an ending: "they won't slip a pie." In other variants, the following endings occur:

• the same structure as "do not put a ball";
• with a comparative aspect, like “and the belly is not a basket”, “the soul is not a neighbor”, “frost is not a brother”;
• and another type, such as “will make you speak / work”, “will not leak into the forest”.

In addition to the options mentioned, modified versions can often be found in use:

• the hunger of the stomach does not swell, on an empty stomach it is more fun / drives the wolf out of the forest / drives the wolf out of the forest / not a neighbor, you won’t leave him;
• hunger is a grumpy godfather: she gnaws until she gets it;
• they do not die of hunger, they only swell / the belly does not burst, it only wrinkles.

Each version of the folklore turn was formed thanks to folk art and is associated with a particular situation. Which option is suitable for enhancing the tone of a sentence or in expressing thoughts is everyone's choice.

Foreign versions

In English, the following options are provided for expressing this thought:

• needs must when the devil drives;
• hunger breaks stone walls;
• hunger pierces stone walls;
• hunger drives the wolf out of the wood;
• hunger is rather a mean stepmother;
• hunger is no joke.

The exact translation of which also varies:

• you will not go on rampage;
• hungry feeling can break/pierce stone walls;
• the feeling of hunger drives the gray out of the forest;
• hunger, that evil stepmother;
• hunger is no joke.

The meaning of all these options come down to one thing: the feeling of hunger can make a person go to great lengths.

- a rather funny and not entirely clear expression. Even completely incomprehensible. The opposition itself is incomprehensible. hunger is not an aunt". What aunt? Toli is the father's sister, or just any aunt ...

But everything falls into place when you find out that hunger not aunt, this is only the first part of the expression. In full it looks like this Hunger is not an aunt, she won’t bring a pie. That is, hunger encourages a person not to wait, but to act. As the saying goes, "What you stomp, you will stomp."

This proverb is quite old, found in dictionaries published at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This kind of reduction, or truncation of full expressions, is not uncommon. For example, “, (yes, forgot about the ravines.)” “Don't say gop! (until you jump over)"...

There is, however, another interpretation of this expression:

Hunger is not an aunt, but a mother and it should be understood from the point of view of the benefits of fasting. Although this version of the full phrase raises some doubts.

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Fortune telling on coffee grounds arose almost simultaneously with the advent of coffee as a drink. Did you know that Ethiopia, a country in the northeast, is the birthplace of coffee?

One of the myths about the exploits of Hercules (a giant from Greek mythology, who, under the name of Hercules, migrated to the Etruscans and Romans) tells that during

"It was under King Peas” they say, meaning “in ancient times”, a long time ago. But what is this king pea why peas and not radishes, for example?

Three sources, three components

It would seem that everything is simple, not Newton's binomial. To normalize weight, you need to normalize your relationship with food. To normalize the relationship with food, you need, in fact, three important things - to find out and understand how I eat and what I eat, to understand what is happening with my body image (people who are globally dissatisfied with the way they look, not extra pounds on stomach or thighs, but themselves in general, are much more likely to “break loose” and periodically gain a kilogram - in revenge on their own body for being so unattractive) and let the choice of food, time and volume of food eaten by the body, that is, the feeling of hunger.

If you are addicted to food, if you have experience of emotional eating, binge-eating or compulsive overeating, then I give you a hand in cutting off that you have a difficult relationship with feelings of hunger.

It is possible that you have completely forgotten. when was it last tested. You so many times a day "apply" to this or that food that you have completely lost this feeling. Or perhaps you unconsciously seek to avoid feeling hungry. Because it makes you feel anxious. As we have already figured out in the previous materials, the feeling of hunger has a very long evolutionary and social history. From a caveman's point of view, hunger should be avoided at all costs. From the point of view of a reasonable person, the feeling of hunger is a dangerous, threatening experience. You can die from hunger, you can become seriously ill. From the point of view of modern man, hunger is just a guard. This is evidence that - once! - you have a body (and if it is not one that you and other people like, if it does not meet the standards - beware!), two! - it, the scoundrel, demands its own. He needs food, evidence that you don't eat butterflies and pollen, that you need calories. Evidence that once you start eating, you, like any other person, are theoretically able to get better. If hunger doesn't regulate food intake, then what does? Emotional state - time. I eat because I am sad, lonely or angry, I eat as a reward for the work done, or vice versa, so that I can postpone the start of a business that is unpleasant for me a little more, finally, I eat because I am overworked, take responsibility and I can't reschedule, and I need insulin bursts of energy to move on. These reasons have already been discussed earlier.

What else regulates your meals? In situations where food is not driven by hunger, anything is.

I eat for company. My husband came home from work, the children came from school, I'm not hungry, but I eat, because this is a way of communication or a means of structuring this communication.
I eat because the social situation pushes me to do so. I came to visit, and it is inconvenient to refuse. Guests came to me, and not to feed them is inhospitable.
I eat because food is in front of my nose, and since it's there, I eat it (something that almost all compulsive eaters note - if it's not good for me to eat it, I can't have it in the house).
I eat because I'm used to certain activities in my life being accompanied by food. Saturday grocery shopping, a trip with the kids to the cinema and much more puts us in the face of many cultural food establishments that are so tempting to open their doors to us - you can not cook, do not clean the dishes, and we are still here ...
I eat because I'm thirsty, and I'm not used to distinguishing thirst from hunger. I eat because I'm cold, I eat because I have a headache, I interpret every signal from the body that is not hunger as hunger because I am too anxious or too difficult to accept hunger as it is.

And what sensations does the feeling of hunger cause in you when you still experience it? Watch yourself, this is very important to understand.

These experiences can be so conflicting that the slightest feeling of hunger will cause great discomfort: no, I don't want to think that I have a body, I don't want to admit that I need calories! As a result, I will constantly “bite”, eat not at those moments when I am hungry, but when I am hungry - I will resist this feeling with all my might and chew on a cabbage leaf. True, the feeling of hunger tends to only increase from trying to feed him with a cabbage leaf, and the result will be a food breakdown - cookies, ice cream, sweets, a bowl of Olivier salad with fresh bread ... Then the cycle will repeat itself, and so many times.

The wisdom of the body: one old experiment

Being born into the world, the child has a completely distinct unconscious ideas about what he needs for a healthy and nutritious diet - in the event that the process of his nutrition is not interfered with. However, the more developed the world calls itself, the more adults tend to interfere in the process of feeding children, to subordinate it to their convenience, the opinion of popular pediatricians, developmental standards, tables and charts. The results of the following experiment at one time had an extremely supportive effect on my weakened maternal psyche - once I happened to become the mother of a boy who, at the age of one, one and a half years and two years old, ate practically nothing. Grandmothers and pediatricians brought all sorts of blasphemy on me, sandbox comrades-in-arms boasted of cheeky babies and volumes of food eaten, and I was looking for an answer to the question - why is it different with us, why does my child not eat a bowl of buckwheat porridge for lunch, like a neighbor, but is content with two banana slices or dried?

The answer was found in the description of the most famous, large-scale and long-term dietary experiment of the century, conducted in 1928 by Clara Davis (a description of the experiment in Russian can be found in the book Feeding the Child by William and Martha Sears, Davis herself's article on the results). Davis observed small (aged 6 to 11 months) residents of a special nutritional kindergarten organized for the purposes of this experiment for 6 years. The participants in the experiment were children of single mothers who were unable to support and provide for their children, and children of teenage mothers from unwanted pregnancies. Most of the children suffered from severe anemia and severe underweight, rickets and other disorders that usually accompany poor nutrition. Every meal, every bite of what each child ate, was recorded over the course of these six years, which eventually amounted to about 38,000 food diary entries.

Food was offered to the children, but never forced in any way. Food was laid out in certain places, in full view of the children. Babysitters caring for infants who were not yet able to walk never actively offered food to children. Only if the child was absolutely unambiguously drawn to a certain food, he received it in a spoon. If the child refused to eat, the spoon was immediately removed. Children who could walk on their own could freely approach and choose any kind and combination of food that they liked. The food offered was absolutely natural, each type of food was a single product - combinations and mixing of products were not allowed. Why? To make sure the child chooses a specific, specific food for its nutritional value. Therefore, whole grains were present in the diet of the experiment, but there was no bread. All kinds of food were unsalted, salt was served in a separate bowl, like any other food, and the children could choose it if they wanted. Among the products offered were vegetables and fruits, several types of meat and viscera (kidneys, liver), whole grain cereals and cereals, milk and dairy products.

The first discovery of the experiment, now widely known as a scientific fact about children's nutrition, was that children consume an uneven amount of calories during the day, week or month. On one day they can eat twice the daily calorie allowance, on the other they barely gain half. On one day, the caloric content of the food eaten could reach the norm due to the consumption of a small amount of foods with a high caloric value, such as meat or cereals, on the other, due to vegetables and fruits eaten in large volumes.

None of the eating styles of any of the little subjects followed the dietary guidelines developed by the Institute of Pediatrics for their age in any way, and none of the diets was similar to the other. Each child ate differently. These little rascals didn't give a damn about food rations. They ate liver stew with milk and a couple of hard-boiled eggs at night. They gladly placed a circle of banana on top of potatoes and devoured this dietitian's nightmare with gusto.

It was found that, in comparison with the statistics of other children's institutions, the children participating in the experiment rarely and rarely get sick and experience minor health problems typical for this age. Constipation was unknown in this kindergarten. No cases of vomiting or diarrhea were found. During the experiment, viral infections such as influenza, which children fell ill with, passed with a low temperature and lasted no more than 3 days. Children were noted to eat unusually high amounts of fresh meat, milk and fruit during the recovery period from infections.

Of course, the participants in the experiment underwent regular and detailed medical examinations, which noted an increase in hemoglobin in the blood to normal levels, normalization of calcium and phosphorus levels, excellent calcification of children's bones, who suffered from rickets before the start of the experiment, in some cases in an advanced stage, and most strikingly that children gained weight up to the norm required by age, but no more. Of course, there were thinner and more solidly built participants in the group, but neither emaciation nor obesity was noticed. One of the physicians involved in the medical evaluation of the participants subsequently wrote an article in a reputable pediatric journal calling the experimental group "the most physically and behaviorally fittest group of the human species" he had ever seen.

And the food did it all. Or rather, intuitive body settings that allow you to choose exactly the type of food that is most needed by the body at the moment. Children did not receive any types of vitamins, not even fish oil, and no hardware methods known at that time to improve health (UV lamps, heating, etc.).

Subsequently, a number of dietological experiments were carried out with children, which showed the exceptional ability of the human body, “unspoiled” by the norms of nutrition, to independently regulate the level and type of food intake.

Based on this idea, a method was developed to help compulsive gluttons return to the intuitive settings of their own body. If a person suffering from a disturbed relationship with food can learn to recognize his own feeling of hunger, nuance it, eat exactly what his hunger requires at the moment, and stop at the moment of saturation, then the result will be physical and mental satisfaction, the cessation of diet cycles. gluttony and normalization of relations with food.

Hunger is not an aunt, but a friend, comrade and brother

Hunger, as a physiological "event" of the body, is regulated by the hypothalamus - a tiny part of the brain, located in its depth and localized mainly. in the stomach. This means that “hunger in the head”, “boring in the mouth” and “grandmother will be offended if I don’t eat this cutlet” are by no means physiological events, and have nothing to do with hunger. Right now, while reading these lines, put your hand on the place where you feel hunger. Where did your hand go? The stomach is located just above the abdominal area, literally half a day above the abdomen. If the hand is there, everything is in order. And it happens that the hand points to the area above the stomach, the discomfort in which is regarded as hunger. This is not hunger, but anxiety, a feeling most often interpreted by people with eating disorders as hunger.

The next step is to inventory the bodily sensations associated with hunger. Grab a piece of paper, sit down, and describe what signs of hunger you can experience (most of you have already done this in the previous exercise, so just open the appropriate entry).

* Rumbling in the stomach
* Empty feeling in the stomach
* Sucking feeling in the stomach
* Weakness
* Dizziness, headache
* Irritability
* Trembling in limbs

Please note that absolutely all the signs of hunger that you wrote out are bodily sensations, or sensations, in a smart way. Also note that if you write down only trembling, headache or weakness, then these are signs of extremely intense hunger, and this means that you do not recognize its milder forms, and listen to the ted only when hunger becomes over -intense. How to deal with it? How to catch more subtle sensations? Listen to your body for a day or two and try to catch when the feeling of emptiness forms in the stomach or it begins to rumble - these are more or less accurate signs that you are hungry. At the same time, on an emotional level, and this is important to note, anything can happen to you. We are hungry no matter what happens in our soul life. Any change in the feeling of hunger in response to mental events (not only gluttony, but also anorexia, inability to eat in response to stress) can be signs of a disorder in this system.

Now we will learn to recognize the intensity of the feeling of hunger that I am experiencing at the moment. To do this, we will use the following scale:

Starving - Extremely hungry - Hungry - Slightly hungry (would eat something) - Neither hungry nor full - Not particularly hungry - Fully full

Copy or print this scale for yourself on a small piece of paper that you can carry with you. For 3-4 days in a row, take it out as often as possible and determine how intense your feeling of hunger is now. I know that many obesity treatment programs and books on overeating offer similar scales in numerical terms, from 1 to 10, and advise "only eat if the feeling of hunger is at level 8 and above," for example. This strategy is STRONGLY unsuitable for compulsive eaters and bingers, because, as we have already established, most of these people are extremely inclined to try to satisfy the needs of other people. With self-esteem dependent on the opinions of others, the compulsive eater will try to "be good" and only eat if the feeling of hunger is an intensity of 3 or 4, or vice versa, suffer from guilt because "he ate to level 10". Any attempts to clothe bodily sensations in numbers lead to what we are trying to get rid of - increase the distance between consciousness and body.

As you begin these observations, you may discover several typical phenomena.

First, often compulsive eaters only recognize hunger when they actually almost die from it. If you wait until this moment, then a physiological state sets in when the body is so desperate for food that it becomes completely all the same what and how much - any, the more the better. In this state, no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to determine what exactly you need right now to get enough - as the children did in the experiment of Clara Davis. This condition is fraught with a huge risk of overeating, and this is what most often happens to those who like to sit on a strict diet.

Another typical state - neither hungry nor full - is very often interpreted by people with eating disorders as hunger. They automatically think that if they do not feel excessive satiety, heaviness in the stomach and a rush of drowsiness, then they are hungry. It is hard to imagine, but there are states in which the body experiences balance and stability - this is not a state of satiety, but it is not yet hunger. Between the state of "I'm dying of hunger" and the state of "neither hungry nor full" are precisely those points on the scale when it is best to make a decision to eat something. It is advisable not to bring yourself to the state of "extremely hungry", but to eat something else on the way to it. It is in these states that your body is able to receive the best. the most accurate solutions. what exactly do you need to eat now. It is the food consumed in this way that is absorbed in an optimal way.

Note that you are trusting your body to make decisions about food, and this means responsibility, as opposed to control. Time (time to eat), social situations (mother-in-law won’t survive if I don’t eat a pie), food itself (it lies under the nose, it’s so tasty, and in half an hour it won’t lie anymore, because the children or colleagues at work will eat everything) stop managing your eating behavior, and rightly so, because what they know about your body and its needs. Calorie counting tables and allowed food lists no longer control your behavior because you are an individual and you definitely do not fit into any of these tables. In this mode, you can eat absolutely everything, there are simply no prohibited foods.

To simplify the process of "tuning" to recognize the desired states, imagine a large glass of water. It is half full (or half empty?). As your hunger increases, the level of water in the glass decreases. The task is to catch this moment and fill the glass again to the level when it becomes half-hollow (or is it half-empty?).

Our entire food history, both phylogenetic, that is, historical, and otntogenetic, that is, individual, available to each person personally, makes us forget how to listen and tell the body when and what it wants. Eat while they give! If you don't finish your meal, you won't leave the table! For mom, for dad, for aunt Sonya! All this experience teaches us NOT to listen to what we really need, and therefore we find ourselves where we find ourselves - having quarreled with the body, having made food, fuel for the body and a means of obtaining pleasure and energy, a black demon that tempts the poor of us, an enemy of the kind human.

Some people are lucky with relatives, and some are not so lucky. Those who are lucky will understand the folk aphorism "hunger is not an aunt." People who are not familiar with good relations with relatives do not realize the full depth of the proverb we are considering. In any case, for those and for others, we will conduct a small study. In it, we will reveal the meaning and significance of the connection of good relatives with hunger.

Knut Hamsun, "Hunger"

Hunger is a terrible state if it sharpens a person long enough. In order not to starve, people steal, sometimes kill. A person needs to eat three times a day, or at least twice. Some manage to eat once a day, but this is when circumstances force them.

Literature provides vivid examples of the fact that hunger is not an aunt. First of all, this is the novel by Knut Hamsun "Hunger". The finale of the novel is quickly erased from memory, but the masterful descriptions of a man who has not eaten for more than a day remain with the reader forever.

The most interesting thing is that Hamsun's character is a journalist. He needs to write in order to eat, but he cannot write a single article because he is hungry. The letters merge. Cramps and pains in the abdomen interfere with work. It is not for nothing that Hamsun is called the “Norwegian Dostoevsky”, because he writes out the ordeals of the hero with amazing psychological accuracy, bordering on meticulousness. A man in a classic novel would agree, not thinking that hunger is not an aunt.

Charles Bukowski

The creator of autobiographical novels, Charles Bukowski, also knew what hunger was, firsthand, because the hero of most of his novels is constantly hungry, but as soon as he has money, they immediately go down in the nearest bar. Nevertheless, Book (as friends affectionately called the founder of “dirty realism”) argues in his writings with two common truths: first, the artist must be hungry all the time in order to create something out of the ordinary; secondly, "a well-fed belly is deaf to the teaching." Answering both arguments at once, he concludes: a) hunger is not an aunt; b) he personally works better when he eats a good portion of boiled potatoes with meat or sausages.

Sergey Dovlatov

Sergey Dovlatov does not lag behind foreign authors. Somewhere in the vastness of his not too impressive, but sparkling prose, the image of a hungry journalist was lost, who, sitting in the park, lustfully looks at the swans swimming in the pond and is already trying on how best to catch them.

But everything ends well: the hero meets a wealthy middle-aged lady, who takes care of his food supply. Say: "Alphonse!" And what to do, the proverb “hunger is not an aunt” speaks the truth.

By the way, Dovlatov claims in his notebooks that this story had a real prototype and everything was exactly as described. However, we promised to tell about relatives and hunger, so we will deal with a direct linguistic interpretation.

Relatives and hunger

The saying “hunger is not an aunt” implies that a person has good relatives, and they will definitely feed and caress him if necessary. What can not be said about hunger - it is ruthless and torments a person inexorably until he satiates his womb. Such a blissful picture, probably, was where the saying came from. The situation is pleasant in that a person has relatives who will not let him disappear just like that.

Now, when a person is engulfed in the spirit of competition and greed, all family relationships go to hell. “Man is a wolf to man,” said the Roman sage, and he was absolutely right. Apparently, in ancient Rome, relations between people were not very pleasant.

In other words, we are very happy for those who have somewhere to go. With each turn of capitalism (especially in Russia), a person is rapidly dehumanizing and individualizing. Relationships between people are broken. People turn into islands in the ocean of life, drifting by themselves. Watching such a bleak picture, one involuntarily thinks: what will happen if aunts, uncles, parents suddenly disappear from the world? To whom will the starving wanderer go?