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Do you live to eat or eat to live? Do you have a complicated relationship
with food? Read this article to find out more about food.
When you read in English, sometimes you will meet new words. It is a good
idea to try to guess the meaning of the unknown words by looking at the context
in which they appear before using a dictionary. This way you can become a more
proficient reader.
Do we live to eat or eat to live? That is the question.
I remember as a child growing up in Britain having fish and chips or baked
beans on toast at least twice a week on my lap while watching my favourite
cartoon. Of course I enjoyed my food but it wasn’t something I often talked
about. Now, I’m not blaming my culture for my lack of interest in food at an
early age. Perhaps my silence was due to the fact that I didn’t know anything
about food. How many children know that prawns only turn pink when they are
cooked and that tuna does not come from a can? Now after having lived in
Southern Europe, Asia and Australia I find myself talking about food all the
time. The world has seduced my taste buds and opened my mouth.
Food that’s plain and simple is often the best but not always so. For many
of us food is a need. For others, food is a friend. Yet to some others food is
an enemy. Cravings grip us at all the wrong times while we struggle to follow a
strict diet that turned all our favourite desserts into mortal sins. There are
others who regard food as an investment. To them, food has some kind of special
powers that can control their lives, for better or for worse. If that’s the
case, it’s time to change and make food work for us.
Let’s start by using food the way you would use a pencil or a pair of
scissors. We begin using food as a tool. Like tools, some food works well for
some tasks and some is specially designed to accomplish others.
Let’s say you’re feeling down. You had a tough day or a tiff with a best
friend that drove you round the bend. You decide to treat yourself to a bar of
chocolate –nothing like chocolate to perk you up. Unfortunately you’re setting
yourself up for a higher dose of the blues. That’s because chocolate bars have a
hefty amount of fat and sugar – which takes a long time to digest and can draw
energy away from your brain – and caffeine which will temporarily boost your
mood and alertness but send you crashing back down as soon as its effect starts
to wear off.
Does this mean snacking is a bad idea when you’re feeling down? Not at all.
You just have to do it wisely. In place of a chocolate bar, have a slice of
toast with chunky marmalade. Then instead of fat and caffeine you’ve just given
yourself a dose of vitamin C that has been shown to fight depression. In
addition, marmalade is loaded with the type of sugar that spurs the release of
mood-lifting chemicals in the brain.
In fact you can manage your mood and boost your brainpower, metabolism,
even your sex life, by eating the right food. Whatever your goals, you can
custom-design a diet to help you meet them. Here’s how taking control of your
food can help you take control of your life.
The next time you have an important meeting that requires mental
processing, try some brain processing food that looks like this: tuna salad on
whole wheat bread, green salad with tomatoes, a handful of nuts, bananas, a
glass of skimmed milk. Tuna, bananas, nuts and whole wheat bread are high in
vitamin B6, which has been scientifically proven to help preserve cognitive
skills. Protein-rich food contains a nutrient called Tyrosine, which studies
have shown, are linked to clear thinking and alertness. Greens such as broccoli
and spinach naturally contain loads of vitamins and iron. Lack of .these
nutrients can lead to fatigue and difficulty in concentrating.
Having said all that, let’s not be too stressed about what we eat. Many
scientists these days believe that indulging in life’s little pleasures may
actually help improve your health because of the psychological lift it gives
you. There is a lot of truth in the old saying that ‘a little of what you fancy
does you good’.
小编：人活着是为了吃饭，吃饭是为了活着?对于吃货们来讲，这真是个难题!当你感到心情低落时是不是想大口吃冰激凌或者来上一大块巧克力?噢不!这样只会带来脂肪和糖分的罪恶感……本文倡导合理地使用食物，把食物当做工具而不是敌人。当你心情很差或是需要脑力运动时，一片涂着橘子酱的小土司、金枪鱼沙拉、一把坚果或者一杯脱脂奶都会是一个不错的选择! |
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发表于 2016-7-10 17:32:45