Eating well

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Eating well

When we are hungry, our bodies are not in peace

When I first arrived in Michigan in 1997 to pursue my Ph.D. degree, I had many things to do to adjust to the new place, culture, and study. One of my Thai friends in Seattle recommended that I should take 1,000 mg of vitamin C a day. My friends in Michigan also said to me, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” In any case, everyone should care about eating foods that are useful to his or her body. Eating well is important to maintaining our lives. It includes eating to be full and healthy. When we are hungry, our bodies are not in peace. Drinking enough water each day is also necessary for our bodies. Most people say eating well is as important as exercising well. I absolutely agree.

everyone should care about eating foods that are useful to his or her body

Over the past few years, I have heard from American and international friends, commercials, and media talking about loving good food. Some friends whom I invited to dinner often say after seeing the food on the dining room table, “Wow! Good food!”. After finishing the dinner, some friends said “Thank you so much for treating us with such good foods.” My mother said, “Your friends probably never have hade real good Thai food,” when I told her about the compliments.

Anyway, the compliments make me think about what good foods really are. Perhaps, some people think about good foods as delicious foods. The others may think about them as expensive or high quality foods. And some health nuts may think about good foods as total macrobiotic foods.

Eating well is important to maintaining our lives

There have been tremendous numbers of research on what foods we should or should not eat; how and how much we should eat. The research included what kinds of exercise we can do and cannot do; how and how much we can do.

I try to read those kinds of books and watch TV programs to educate and to motivate myself as often as I can because I can because I am not the kind of person who exercises and eats right on a regular basis.