We’re spending the day at the beach, and she’ll tell you her order: sandwiches, chips, fruit, maybe some cut-up veggies and ice cream if anyone is selling it. What is it about the beach that makes us want to eat an entire deli section’s worth of food? It can feel impossible to resist the siren song of a sandwich in your bag on a beach day. She beckons as both a comforting meal and an activity.
How can you deny her? This is the beach, where hunger (or maybe just the urge to eat) can feel deeper and more urgent than in the rest of your life. I asked Lisa Moskovitz, a registered dietitian and CEO of NY Nutrition Group, whether Big Beach Hunger is real, and she said it "absolutely” is. Hunger comes from different places - a biological need to eat and an emotional one - and the beach can trigger both.
First, the biological. Even if you’re there to relax, getting to the beach works up an appetite. "I think we underestimate the laborious nature of going to the beach,” Moskovitz said.
"Planning, lugging our chairs, walking on the sand ...
sometimes you’re already like two hours into physical activity before you’re actually sitting down on a towel or chair and relaxing.” You’ll further increase your appetite with activities once you get there - swimming, volleyball, seashell gathering - said Avery Zenker, a registered dietitian in Ontario. It’s also an easy place to get dehydrated, another hunger culprit.
Moskovitz and Zenker both said people can confuse thirst w.