EAT WHAT YOU SHOULD

 

EAT WHAT YOU SHOULD

Eating is consuming , swallowing, chewing, munching food. It is a necessary activity for the body and is performed four or five times a day.

No body can survive without eating and digesting food.  Food is a source of energy which we need to perform our physical and mental actions.

The benevolent God has made available innumerable kinds of food. One has to choose from amongst them according to one’s liking but not always.  You have to select foods according to your age and state of health. If your liver, kidney, heart, lungs and other parts of the body are not functioning normally, you have to eat what is medically advised. Moreover, you have to limit the amount of whatever you eat. An important saying is : eat to live, not live to eat.  Excessive eating spoils health. It is a vicious gluttony which reduces one’s life span.

            There is another important saying: Over-eating and over-sleeping is the habit of animals.

Simple diet is said to be best, for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats piling upon each other. The English poet-dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616) said : There are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

Some famous eating quotes are: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. “ “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”  “The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.”

Finally, when you are sick or even healthy, eat what you should, not what you like because: What is food for one man may be bitter poison to others.

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G.R.Kanwal

7^th August 2024