You
are what you eat. Your health, your
appearance, your productivity – they tell what you are according to your
eating. It is the metamorphosis of life,
if you are a big fan of pork, no offense but you’ll look like what you love to
eat – sounds funny but nevertheless be figuratively true. If you are hard-headed to stop your obsession
to yummy but unhealthy foods, do not get surprised if you are a regular patient
in the clinic. You like sweets, then why
complaining your sugar content? You like
juicy taste of pork chicken and beef then why are you crying for your high
blood pressure? You love alcoholic
beverages and carbonated drinks, then why are you worried of your bladder, gall
stone, liver and heart? You are fond
with junk foods so why will you expect good nutrients? It is a junk for junk, garbage in is garbage
out. It is whatever you are doing will
just come back to you. Fruit of your
deed is karma. Call it harsh but you are
just deserved for them.
In
health issues, there are many stories surround us that if we will criticise
each stories, the common denominator is foods.
First of all, you are not really taking care yourself if you get illness
because of your eating habit. Many
people have wrong impression that because they eat vegetables today or for two
days, then on the rest of the week and next week they can eat meat like pork,
chicken, beef and other lambs. Or not
because they are working out then they can disregard the standard advice of
doctors and health buff about health.
These are wrong. That is why you
may wonder why despite your tries to eat and live healthy yet you are ending up
in clinic and hospitals for check-up of illness because you are having wrong
belief. The thing is, you can eat this
meat once a week at most and the rest of the week or the next week should be
vegetables, fruits and wheat bread.
You
are a customer of processed foods, then you will ask why you are not feeling
well? You love cheese so much, you like
junk foods, and you like soft drinks – that is why your blood pressure is not
well. You always cook Frankfurters, used
them ingredients in many meals, and they are not good. Frankfurter, ham, bacon, instant Ramen are
processed foods and anything that is processed foods mean unhealthy because
they are rich in sodium. Also the
artificial seasoning and spices. What so
bad about these foods and what makes process foods unhealthy is that most processed foods are loaded with
sweeteners, salts, artificial flavouring, factory-created fats, food
colourings, chemicals that alter texture, and preservatives. But the problem is that it is not just what
were added but also what were taken away.
Processed foods are often stripped of nutrients that are designed by
Nature to protect your heart such as the soluble, fiber, antioxidants, and the
good fats. These were taken away in
processed foods* (from an article).
Health
should be our way of life. If frying is
your way of cooking, then stop frying and instead cook the food the way you
will not need to use oil like poaching, grilling and steaming. If you really cannot avoid frying, then just
use a very few amount of it and just do fry once in a while only, and avoid
using spices. You can still enjoy fancy
foods but all things in moderation. As conciliatory, take those unhealthy foods
once in a while because they could be only bad if eaten excessively or
regularly. It is because people are
always wanted what satisfies them.
People want to satisfy themselves with delicious foods that they can get
from the addicting taste of fats from meat, salty of additives in processed
foods, accustomed sweetness of fancy pastries and candies in trading business. If you are eating the natural foods, you will
not need to take medicines to maintain a good blood pressure. Life is simple, don’t need to become
complicated. You can go along with the
fun of modern day but do not forget simplicity.
In our old days, our ancestors have survived the simplicity and naturalist
of life. It was all natural then, and it
is what we need now. And this is what
people need to learn – to disown fakes and change their mindset about the
definition of delicious. At the end, it
is just a matter of taste preference, it is just a matter of taste buds.