Healthy eating


Sometimes I cannot help myself having junk food. (Please click Read More for details.)

I usually do not have junk/fast food such as hamburger, fried chicken, pizza or cup noodle etc. I rather cook something with what is left in the fridge. My previous Japanese entry is about what I cooked yesterday for lunch. It includes fried pork with some ginger, stewed vegetables (pepper, carrot and aubergines) and left over pumpkin. Sounds very healthy, doesn't it? (Ah, I had a sip of beer together with them.)

There is, however, a moment I feel like having one. It is when I watch a very stupid film. Last night was another case...

We rented a Rat Race video and it was very funny, very suitable for a lazy Saturday evening. We then watched a video of Saturday Night Live including our favorite Wayne's World TV series starring Aerosmith. It did turned a certain switch in myself. After the first 30-minute show is over, I dashed to the kitchen and you see what I did in the photo above.

The freeze-dry noodle in the above photo is one of the oldest and popular brand in Japan. (I think I have seen a packet noodle of this brand in TESCO or somewhere.) They are now doing a campaign and if you find a note 'you got it!' on the back of the lid, you will receive a gift from the company, and this is why this cup was purchased and waited to be cooked here in our place. I missed the gift, but I enjoyed the noodle a lot together with the rest of the video.

I have read an article about human appetite, and it said we start feeling hungry by several different factors. When we are out of energy of course, when we see/smell/hear about food and in the worst case when we feel stress we feel like eating. (I think watching stupid videos is a kind of stress, not a bad one though, and it stimulates a very tiny bit of my appetite.) Eating concerns not only about what we eat, but how and when to eat. The article concluded that appetite unhealthily stimulated causes incomplete digestion which ends up physical disorder. Eating doing something else like watching TV, reading books, working etc etc will cause sickness. My parents used to tell me to 'concentrate on eating' (well casual talk at the dining table was restricted more or less) and they unknowingly (I,m sure they were) told me to eat healthily.

I regretted about what I had done last night this morning in the toilet. Let's eat properly. (And this regret only lasts until I watch another stupid video.You cannot refuse your appetite, can you?)

Posted: (日) - 10 5, 2003 at 02:27 PM          

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