In "Why cooking skills are the key to healthy eating", by Philippa Roxby, researcher recommend that parents who want their children are healthier should let them cooking. This is a positive impact to children's eating behavior and more likely to grow up to be healthy adults by knowing about cooking which is important life skill.
Nowadays, our lifestyle changes to be modern than the past. We have to rush to go to the office or school so early because of traffic jam. Mothers have to go to work instead to be housewife. I think that people in big city, like Bangkok, have less time to spend in the kitchen and select instant food or take home instead, such as pizza, hamburger, fried-chicken and snacks. That is impact to our health which is tend to be obese easier. In my view, this is very serious problem, because I heard news that young boys or girls were death because of overweight. At the present, Thai people was encouraged in this, then now we can see about the decrease weight campaign, konthairaipoong, from many mass medias. Absolutely Thai nutritionist said the same way with researcher from A study in Liverpool that home-made cooking is good for your health.
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In my life as I can remembered, we are always have home made food than eating in the outside. My mother was the nutritionist and my brother was graduated from Food Science, so cooking is my family's hobby absolutely. Every weekend, we have been spending tome together for cooking and create new dishes. I think that homemade food is more hygienic, healthy and delicious. In each recipe or meal, we try to make it nutritionally balance. But now I have gain more weight after I stay at home for 6 months replace my hall at workplace. Maybe because I eat too much. Finally, if you have enough free time, you will try to cook for making yourself healthier.
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I am very tempted to answer the question in Mo's caption to her image, but I'll wait for others to share their ideas first. I wonder if our answers agree.
ReplyDeletePeter.. Here i comeeeeeee :p
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mo. Although, i can cook some special food like omelet(hahaha). My dad is family's chef, he spend time in kitchen more than my mom, he usually cooks many interesting food on weekend so I'm enjoy my meal every weekend. I agree that instant food is not good for health. Most of them are full of adiposity. Cooks always use used oil to cook food that is a cause of cancer and fat. They do not pay attention in what are they doing, they just think about profit. Nonetheless, during weekday, I have to have instant food!!
Som,
DeleteWhat is "adiposity"? Where did this word come from?
I just checked: it isn't in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
I think that there is a useful discussion to follow here.
DeleteI asked my aunt and I forgot to check meaning of it from Oxford Advanceed Learner's Dictionary.
DeleteSom,
DeleteThanks for the reply. How does your aunt come to know such a word? Is she a doctor?
To everyone:
Why am I worried about adiposity? (There are two, fairly different, reasons.)
No, she isn't a doctor but she do reseach for Thai's Ministry of Public Health.
DeleteThe OED entry for adiposity, n. is
Delete"The degree of fatness of the body or part of the body (of a person or animal); esp. excessive fatness, obesity; an instance of this."
It's a perfectly good English word, just a bit uncommon, which is why it doesn't make it into the OALD, although adipose, adj. does make it.
So if I want to find out the meaning of technical term, I will have to look at OED. Right?
DeleteAdiposity is some of medical vocabulary, I'm not sure about the meaning but understand it.
No. adipose is also a technical term, as the OALD tells us, but it's used commonly enough to be included in a general dictionary with an academic bias. A technical medical dictionary for doctors would certainly include adiposity. (I haven't checked this assumption, but I'm pretty confident it's right.)
DeleteThe massive OED is much more ambitious: it aims to include every used definition of every word in English, which is why the full entry for the word academic runs to 10 pages in my MS Word copy and paste. I used to use a paper version of the OED in Australia, and that was a real pain. It is twenty very large and very heavy volumes, in very small print! I guess it was good exercise for the arm muscles.
Around 1995 it became available on CDrom, and I quickly opted for that. But as soon as it went online, that became my dictionary of choice. I love having such an amazing resource so easily and usefully available. I donated my paper copy to my brother. It looks great on his bookshelves, but I don't think he ever uses it.
There is a nice photo of the old fashioned paper OED on Amazon. I wonder how many are still sold? And who buys them? And why?
DeleteIn fact, I can't understand why anyone today would choose the CDrom version over the online version: the online version is constantly updated, it also links with the OED Thesaurus, the format is clearer and easier to read, and it offers far more powerful search features.
Nowadays people work hard to achieve what they want. Money is the first thing that they give precedence. Someone think money can buy everything what they wamr. From my experience, someone died before they have chance to useneyey money because money can't buy healthiness you have to do it by yourself. Diet have impact with your body. I think handmake food much more better than fast food because we can choose which is the best thing for your body but it not easy for modern lifestyle. Even though we can't choose diet but we can avoid food that destroy our body.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that homemade food is better than take home food as we can choose the best ingredients for each meal.Moreover,cooking together in the family will improve the relationship between the members.
ReplyDeleteI really like cooking but my problem is that I don't concern about the nutritionally balance.I often cook junk food myself to satisfy myself and thinking only that it is cheaper to cook junk food by myself so that I can eat them as much as I want.I know this is very unhealthy.I will try to change by attitude :P
By the way,the baby is so cute :)
I just add new photo, maybe you have to choose again. ;))
DeleteIs that you in the second picture, Mo? I think she is cute =]
Deletehehehe you were too slim in the photo.I like chubby baby ;P
Delete@ Som : Right, it's me. lol What do you want to eat tomorrow?
Delete@Pang : Too slim? I'm appreciate that. hahaha
The second one looks like a healthy, well-cared for child. I'm glad this one is you.
DeleteI think the first one looks abused - that sort of obesity must be a serious health risk and affect the poor baby's ability to live normally. Why would a parent treat their child so badly?
I dont know Mo. I have to see what will be on table tomorrow morning =] How about you? isnt it some sandwich again? ;p
DeletePeter,you are right that the first child does not seem to be heathy,which is not good.
DeleteMany people(including me)think that fat children are cute so they just let them eat unhealthy food as much as they want and thinking that is not a big deal.This is a bad idea.Parents should concern about their helth more.
So, should candy, chocolate cake and fatty pork be made illegal because of the obviously serious health risks and related social damage and costs that such dangerously unhealthy eating habits cause?
Delete(This question is also connected with an idea on J's post about weight-training.)
I agree partly with the idea that homw made food is a better chioce, because it depends on each cooking style as well. Some families get used to some particular taste such as salty, spicy and so on. I went to my friend's house a few years ago and had a chance to see her cooking. Then I found that she put many tablespoons of sugar and a lot of fish sauce, oyster sauce and ketchup. The taste of her food's too sweet and salty to have it without having rice together.
DeleteTo sum up, home made cooking would be a superior choice if you make it with good ingredients and cooking process, while food which you buy, you'd never know about how clean and how much nutrition it has.
I don't think that parents who have obesity baby was badly treat with their kids. It's misunderstand about nutrition and let their eat too much snacks or foods. Like Pang said, some people think fatty babies mean that they healthy and cute but truly not.
DeleteI totally disagree with your idea that candy, chocolate cake and fatty pork be made illegal. It doesn't solve the problem. We have to change attitude and teach them it the right way to be healthier, including parents and kids.
I talked with my mom and brother about this. My mom said pediatrics doctor did recommend about nutrition but only vaccination program. And she never met nutritionist during appointment at hospital. My brother said that now nutrition have main task at hospital's kitchen only but not suggest about nutrition to patient. I think this is a big mistake, because we have children who tend to be obese more than the past. So pediatric doctor also have to suggest about good nutrition for kids or have meeting with nutritionist about good healthy recipe.
Moreover, in school, I recommend that government should concern about food for making it nutritionally balance by recommendation of nutritionist and decrease selling snack.
If everybody concern significant of this problem and try to change it in healthy way, it will be good for kids and us.
Mo's point that the parental behaviour leading to seriously obese children is due misunderstanding and thinking that it's cute reminds me of the issues that Hartmann raises in "Improving CQ: Understanding Cultural Values" (2007, pp. 18 - 21) and in "International Culture" (pp. 11 - 12).
DeleteThe idea that babies should be fat and "cute" is a cultural value, which might be reflected in an attitude that feeds them a lot and often, even spoiling them with sweets, cakes and other dangerously unhealthy foods. And of course, my comment that this constitutes child abuse reminds us of the need for mindfulness that is mentioned as one of the three components of Thomas and Inkson's concept of cultural intelligence.
But already, Mo's suggestion for behavioural changes by both paediatricians and parents shows that mindfulness, simply being aware of and understanding how other people think, does not mean we need to accept or agree with those ways of thinking and the values that they represent.
Whereas Mo has simply suggested that the behaviour be changed, I've gone a bit further and suggested that current behaviour is abuse by parents. I do not think it is intentional abuse. I am sure it's an expression of love, but it is also seriously harmful to the child's health and I suspect likely to cause life long health and other problems, and that sounds like abuse to me, however lovingly it is done. I don't think the parents are bad people, but what they are doing is very bad for their child, which is why I agree with Mo that some changes to existing traditional customs and manners would be a very good thing. Similar changes probably occurred about 40 years ago in Australia: today, a doctor would very plainly tell any parents whose child was so unhealthy that they were causing serious harm to their child's health and future well-being, physically and psychologically (no one wants to be a fatty on the school play ground - that is definitely not cool, and kids are cruel to the uncool).
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Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing (2nd. ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Additionally, fat baby is symbol of rich or plentiful of food and money for Chinese's cultural value, such as logo of soy sauce's brand. This is good meaning but actually bad for health.
DeleteI prefer to go out to eat rather than prepare food at home. I know that food that is cooked at home seems much cleaner than food that is cooked outside. However, I am not keen on cooking at all. Food that I am able to make is only an omelet. I have rarely learned how to cook from my mother at a kitchen. That does not mean that I do not like cooking, but I am afraid of cleaning up my kitchen after cooking. I used to see my mother clean up the kitchen. She spent time cleaning up more than cooking. ^_^
ReplyDeleteI do not like washing dishes, too. That why I stop cooking. ;p
DeleteMaybe you should find someone to do this job. Maybe your hubby? lol
DeleteI must also agree with this. I would probably cook more if there were not washing up to do afterwards.
DeleteA spend time to cook at home is a very good activity for us. I used to practice cooking for an easy menu and I can do this. After that I try to practice cooking for more difficult menu but I did not quite to succeed. However, A cooking easy menu for eating at home that make people get healthy because you can choose to buy any materials without some chemical and clean them for cooking with yourselves.
ReplyDeleteI think most of the foods in market are unhealthy. Most of them are junk foods. They composed of excessive fats and carbohydrate that may cause us diseases, but somehow we can find some restaurant that serve us some healthy foods which are becoming famous these days.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don't do it so much these days, I like cooking at home. As others have written, you can choose exactly what goes into your food, but my main reason is that I enjoy cooking for myself and friends. When we were around 12 years old, my mother started to teach my brothers and sisters and I to cook. I liked cooking cakes and biscuits then, which were tasty, but I don't think very healthy, for they were full of sugar and butter. These days, I prefer to cook more nutritious food and almost never cook sweets any more.
ReplyDeleteBut about the only think I regular cook is a simple omelette, which I often have for breakfast. I guess that's reasonably healthy, although as well as a good piece of butter, I also like to mix in a dollop of virgin olive oil. I kind of hope that the olive oil will undo the cholesterol in the butter and eggs, but they are all high in fat to add to my growing waist line.