The Cult Of Food And Its Consequences

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Now more and more people are passionate about a healthy lifestyle. Nowadays it has become fashionable and prestigious

• Healthy food
• do not smoke or abuse alcohol
• doing sports, yoga or dancing

However, there are still families in which a real food cult reigns!

Most often, the mothers of such families are real cooks. They are very fond of treating guests and households with pies, pancakes, dumplings made with their own hands and other "snacks".

This is especially true for the south of Russia.

This in itself, of course, is not bad! It's nice when at home we smell cozy with pies and other delicious food. However, it is worth considering the consequences as well.

It is much more difficult for people to resist if the "feast of the belly" is constantly reigning around

• Rarely are anyone lucky enough to have such a fast metabolism, when all these kulebyaki and buns do not have time to be deposited on the stomach and on the sides!
• Most often, children in families with this style of eating gradually begin to gain weight.
• In addition to being overweight, which often entails offensive ridicule from peers, such children acquire many other problems.

First of all, such children are at risk, like potential diabetics

• My grandmother, who is absolutely not inclined to be overweight, was a great cook, exactly as I described above.
• Her pies and pies were famous far beyond our home.
• Colleagues and students of my mother (she taught mathematics at the Polytechnic College all her life) counted the days until the feast in our house. Pies, pies, rolls, cheesecakes, dumplings, cabbage rolls, meat baked with different sauces. And at least, and sometimes a complete absence of alcohol, instead of it cherry, apricot, peach, quince, raspberry compotes from 3-liter cans. Tasty extraordinary! And how much sugar is there !!!
• Three of her four daughters inherited the habit of cooking a lot, tasty and abundant.
• Only one of my aunts is not overweight and it is not easy for her. She does not eat for 15 hours and does light gymnastics all the time.
• The rest of the sisters, including my mother, became very fat right after giving birth. And the grandmother was proud of her slenderness and said that they all just went to her mother-in-law.
• I am sure if there was no such cult of food and temptations there would be less!

Unfortunately, one of the sisters has long passed away, not wanting to be treated for cancer.

But the other has been living for many years after oncology.

Donara, 90 years old, 55 years of them - life after cancer! Almost a constellation saga.

This certainly deserves admiration, but the quality of life is also important. Now this auntie, who has been a pretty fatty all her life, moves in a wheelchair.

Like my mother, who is generally doing well for 84 years, but her knee joints completely refused to serve her. She recently underwent surgery on one leg, and will soon have a second.

Mom is no longer as fat as before, because she lost a lot of weight when my brother, her son, suddenly died.

In memory of my brother

By the way, my brother was not prescribed any radical treatment for oncology because he was a diabetic.

- Our family had a very unhealthy diet! - Vova once said when I was visiting him in his country house in the suburbs.

He was not fat because he kept an eye on his diet all the time, ever since he was diagnosed with diabetes and his wife tried to cook healthier meals.

I began to gain weight from the age of eight, after I fell ill with asthma and began to treat me with hormones. With such constant food temptations, over time, the former "goner" developed an appetite that did not slow down to affect her appearance.

Unfortunately, after oncology and hormonal treatment, the weight put me on my shoulder blades.

Now only self-irony saves me and the fact that I am getting very old so as not to repeat my mother's way, when my legs fail completely!

It is good that the generation of 30-year-olds of our family system made the right conclusions from this sad story that

• Children should not be overfed!
• Children not only have to, but simply have to go in for sports or other physical activity!
• Food in the home should be light and healthy!
• Food should never be a reward. "Solve the problem, let's open the compote."
• There are many joys in life, and besides "tasty things"!
• The task of parents is to gently convey this to children, to make their life rich and without the cult of food.

Therefore, the youngest are all slender and athletic.