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Your letters: Eat for the right reason
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ome articles get stored in our memory for life. The article 'I am working out so I can eat whatever I want' published in The Jakarta Post on March 25, 2014 seriously makes us think about the motive behind our eating and working out. Mitch Felipe Mendoza succeeds in beautifully describing the right reasons to eat.
While we are eating, our brains should be the master of our stomachs because a glutton lives to eat and a wise man eats to live. To reduce that big belly, we have to stop overfilling it. It is a known fact that more people die because of food than famine.
Working out can in no way justify the intake of everything and anything in the name of food. We should be smart in choosing what we eat because that solely decides our mental and physical health. Appetite comes from eating, the more one has the more one would have.
The author emphasizes the right reasons to eat. We should eat mainly for the right health-related reasons and not for secondary ones. Food intake should be properly planned by us so that we get the required nutrition and don't overload the system.
Camel therapy does not work on humans; we should take small meals rather than large ones that are diffi cult to digest and make us feel lethargic. The golden rule should be: Do not feed the body until it demands food.
Winston Churchill said, 'Eating words has never given me indigestion.' Today we eat not because we feel hungry but to satisfy our taste buds, and this unhealthy habit of food intake results in people becoming overweight, which further takes shape in the form of numerous dangerous diseases.
Battling overeating is not easy, but nor it is impossible. We should dump junk food and time-to-time snacking. It should not be forgotten that fast foods are fast to increase weight. We should always control our urge to go for foods high in salt, sugar and fat to stay healthy. The young and growing children should never diet.
Remember, we should not eat to look good but to feel good, and we can feel good only by eating a healthy and balanced diet. Be a smart eater and never feel shy to say no to any kind of unhealthy food. We are what we eat is old. The latest is you are what you eat.
Indu Nandal
Purwakarta, West Java
