Theme: Healthy Food

Title: The Road to Become Healthier

In 2018, CNN has compiled a list of World’s 50 Best Food. Thus, how does the top
ten best food in the list look like? Number ten, start with Chicken muamba from Gabon,
followed by ice cream, Tom Yam Goong from Thailand, Penang assam laksa, hamburger in
Germany, Peking duck in China, sushi in Japan, chocolate in Mexico, Neapolitan pizza in
Italy and the number one goes to Massaman curry in Thailand. Going through the list, are
your mouths watering imagining the food in your mind? Meanwhile, can you recall how much
healthy food from the top ten list? There are very little to mention, isn’t it? Yet, these are the
food that we love to eat! They are tasty, delicious, finger-licking good but they are all oily,
high in sugar and cholesterol level. Hence, today I am going to talk about healthy food in
which my discussion will consist of the components of healthy food, how to eat healthily and
the healthy diet.

Talking about the components of healthy food, the first thing that comes to our mind
is of course, food pyramid! Basically, there are five food groups which consist of grain
products, fruits, vegetables, milk products and meat. These make up the components of
healthy food if we consume them with suitable proportion. Since we are young, we are
taught to eat according to food pyramid because it enables us to have a balanced diet, but
honestly, do we practice in our daily lives? or more accurate, do we care about this little
triangle thing in each of our meals? “Eat more fruits and vegetables!”, it is an undoubtable
fact but only put into practice when we are sick, isn’t it? Some of my friends even choose to
eat instant noodles just to save money for more travelling and entertainment. So, do we
consume enough components of healthy food in our daily meals?

Talking about healthy food, the most important question is how to eat healthily? The
24-hour working Mac Donald restaurant nearby my house is always crowded with people
and reaches its peak time during night time every single day. While the fast food trend still
lasts long in our daily lives, don’t forget about the new raising popular drink that the
youngsters crazy for, yes, the bubble milk teas! Nowadays, the issue is not people don’t
know how to eat healthily but they don’t want to do so! Fast food is not only delicious, it is
easy to get, extremely suitable for us who are busy with work and lazy to cook. On top of
that, bubble milk teas are cool, trendy and most important of all, instagrammable!

To eat healthily is not difficult, everything starts with some small changes in our lives.
When we go to the cafeteria, take steam chicken instead of fried chicken, more green
vegetables instead of fried eggplants. Besides that, choosing fresh fruits rather that sweet
snacks and plain water rather than soft drinks can help to reduce the consumption of sugar.

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It is no doubt that it is hard to have healthy food if we eat outside. Take a look into the
restaurants in Queensbay mall, Nando’s, Morganfield’s, Seoul Garden, BBQ-Plaza, Flipped
Burger. Healthy? Nah… If we can be more hardworking to do our own cooking, we can
prepare a healthy meal which contains food like ABC soup, steamed fish, fresh fruits and so
on that are definitely healthier to our body compared to outside food which are all high in fat,
cholesterol, salt and sugar.

By the way, the United States has promoted a dietary pattern named “DASH diet”
which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. It has been ranked as the best
and healthiest diet for diabetes for eight years in a row and proven to lower blood pressure
as well as several types of cancer and heart disease. The DASH diets are plant-focused,
rich in fruits and vegetables, nuts, with low-fat and non-fat dairy, lean meats, fish, whole
grains, and heart healthy fats. Perfect together. For example, it encourages the consumers
to choose steamed brown rice instead of white rice, limit fried items as well as sweet and
sour dishes, choose dishes that are simmered, steamed or stir-fried and so on.

In conclusion, technology is becoming more advance today but people are less likely
to have healthy food. Food is our life so as our health, please don’t take it for granted. Small
changes start with you that lead you to succeed on the road to become healthier. Don’t
forget, eat tasty yet healthily.