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- The Story of Coffee
- Coffee Botanical Aspects
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- On Health
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Careless Whisper: The Stomach's Call
For those who skip meals, beware. If you think your little mischief will go unpunished, think again.
Times are changing, and the time allotment for each facet of life grows shorter and shorter. Some people barely even have time to sit down for a decent, unhurried meal.
On a normal basis, breakfast would be sometime between six to seven in the morning; lunch at twelve noon; snack by three or four in the afternoon, and supper by seven, or eight in the evening.
For people living in the metropolis, especially for call center agents, businessmen and others who have time-pressured careers, eating is just a passing bodily requirement to be attended to until it could still be resisted. The problem with living urbane is the maintenance that goes along with it. You have to work hard in order to survive.
Lunch by three in the afternoon, or supper around eleven in the evening is no stranger to these types of people. “It goes with the job”, they say. However, there are certain truths that also go along with skipping mealtime.
When you skip a meal, you will either lose appetite at the next meal or overeat. Overeating is not only physiological, but also psychological. The mind tells you that your body needs twice the food intake, so you double the amount of food you eat for a certain meal, keeping in mind that this particular meal serves to replenish or substitute the skipped meal. The body can only take so much at a given time, though, and once a certain limit is reached, the body cries out in agony. The result is stomachache, headache, vomiting, and ulceration of the stomach lining.
Of all these ailments, the stomach ulcer is the most commonly experienced by people who have skipped meals. Ulcer manifests into stomachache, and is caused when the stomach lining has no longer food to grind, therefore grinding the stomach wall itself.
Another alarming fact is that when the body clock gets to be modified, it is quite hard to be restored in its original state, and it will only be a matter of time until all other body systems start to fall down like dominoes.
A busy schedule is no excuse for eating on time. Allot ample time to do all necessary activities. Avoid procrastination. Learn to delegate.
When eating time comes, eat slowly and carefully. Chew foods like your life depended on it. Enjoy the eating experience. Besides, you won’t have to rush eating if you organized your other daily activities in the first place.
If your eating patterns have already been disrupted, try seeking help from a nutritionist or a dietitian. They know better how to restore your eating habits into normal again. And when you do became normal, please take extra care of your body. You only have one of it, so be more cautious. Eat healthy, and eat right.