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I won’t be impressed with technology until I can download food!
~Anonymous

Food… when I hear this word, I smell flavored sumptuous and mouthwatering dishes around me that lends me wings of joy!

‘Food is any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth’ according to the dictionary. But to me, food is something else: it is something that elevates my mood, enhances my tummy-happiness, and satiates my rhapsodic urges aside providing me with nutrition and energy. 

Some people just eat food to live, but I live to eat! It’s like a complete process: close your eyes, take a bite, and chew it slowly – only think about its taste, taste that no one tried before and make newer combinations in your palate to discover the tanginess, nuttiness, saltiness, crispiness, and crunchiness of innumerable cuisines. Yes! That’s how lost I am in the food labyrinth. When people ask me what makes me happy, I retort, ‘food!’ 

Food, earlier loved by people is also now hated! The only reason for its resentment is the not so healthy category – ‘junk food’ that makes people fat and sick! Junk food - an epidemic - is spreading among young population causing obesity and other lifestyle disorders. The three countries with the highest child obesity rates are the South Pacific island nations of Kiribati, Samoa, and Micronesia with India not lagging behind. Obesity, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure are at unprecedented levels due to the spread of fast food and sugary drinks. Isn’t this nerve-wrecking news? 

Why make food your enemy when it can be your best friend?  Try making junk food healthy! Junk food healthy? How? Sounds weird right? But replacing white flour with wheat flour, adding vegetables to pasta and Maggi, choosing roasted over fried and creating a khakra pizza could be a few of the healthy starters for indulging in food!

Isn’t the quote, ‘I like you cause you join in on my weirdness’ trending?

Comments

  1. Unknown20 January 2018 at 05:46

    Very well said

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  2. Unknown20 January 2018 at 05:54

    Wow this is my favourite post so far ! Reading this articles really made my mouth water :D

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  3. Anju Gupta20 January 2018 at 10:10

    A good piece of writing. I like the quote you can never download food even with advanced technology. Food is something come directly from heart.

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  4. Unknown20 January 2018 at 10:24

    Food cant be your beat friend. Coz food is love

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  5. Unknown20 January 2018 at 10:24

    Food cant be your beat friend. Coz food is love

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  6. Kartik Verma20 January 2018 at 11:13

    Wow !!!! Great work Aashita .

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  7. Unknown22 January 2018 at 08:38

    Dear Ashita!! My heartfelt blessings are with you when i read your blog and sense a hint of my eclectic thoughts of my youth in your writings!!your blog about food has provided much food to the mind and soul ! You have approched a topic of global cause with much ease and simplified it for everyone from foodie to the doctor treating diabetes , obesity and all. I Bless you and hope that you keep on upping the level of thoughts with each word of your for the benefit of all.By Nisha Gupta

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  8. Unknown27 April 2018 at 08:06

    Food is life
    I agree with that anonymous qoute of yours
    Great going Ashita😙

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