We always relate 'food to enjoyment' (If we are eating, then we are enjoying) which is very very
wrong, terrible and sad. its so serious that even kids are thinking the same way too. some parents believes that taking their kids to fast food daily to have meat pies, ice creams and the rest are a good way of having fun. they have forgotten that kids can enjoy going to the park or playing games they love without thinking of food. the issue is that these kids has also come to believe that going out and eating is the only way of having fun called ENJOYMENT. This mentality has left most kids obese or unfit. Our parent does not understand that losing weight is hard or what fat kids go through in school, from name callings, bullying and having no friends at all. These kids resolve to having food as their comfort. They eat when they are angry and lonely. Emotional eating is common, i use to resolve to food when I am down but now i have realized that i have control over food not the other way round. We should eat to fuel my body, and not because we see food or have the money to buy the food.
Some so called high and might in the society also relate food to enjoyment. They have totally forgotten what eating balance diet is all about. Eating balance diet is not about consuming a plate full of meat or pastries. Having money is not an avenue to abuse food or your body. You see many of our men with extreme pot bellies and are proud of it. like seriously!!!
Adults have the mentality that going out to eat and having some drink means real enjoyment. My people, you don't have to eat every food in a party or finish a plate of food given to you just to have a feeling of enjoyment. People die young daily, most which are associated with what we eat not witches from the village, am sorry. Too much food is not good.
With our weather in Nigeria, a lot of people should be losing weight but we are not. why? because we eat a lot and move less. My weight loss journey started in Nigeria and i did very well because we have wonderful weather. The bottom line is, what your body need not want.
Please lets help ourselves and our future generations, if its hard for you to lose weight imagine how hard it will be for a fat kid to lose weight.
source: http://skinnyymi.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/nigerian-mentality-on-food.html#comments
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