Mahla Haghighat Joo

Professor Dinsmore

English 113B

2/18/2015

When Food Makes Health Problem

Eating is the most vital and delicious part of our life. From morning to night, we connect

with a a many types of food which may be healthy or unhealthy. Most of the time, we do not care

what we eat because our minds are busy thinking of our day's problems, virtually all of us have

thought about studying, working and doing sport to follow our dreams. So, we do not have time

to care about what we eat and how many times we eat in a day since daily problems drag us out

of present moment.

Although food make us energetic, sometimes it makes us face health problems including

diabetes, stomach ache, hypertension, and obesity. Four years ago I did not care what I ate. I

studying for the bar exam in my country. It was a difficult exam, every morning until night I

went to library and studied for 10 hours. To save time for studying I ate fast food as in that time I

thought about success and nothing else. I have thought about this matter a lot. There were a great

number of participant in this exam and they competed with each other to pass this exam. Three

days a week for nine months I ate a piece of toast, chicken, tomato, and mustard for lunch.

Three month after that I started eating this food I felt pain in my body. It was horrible and

I could not sit on sofa or chair. As soon as I sat on a chair, I felt a lot of pain. I went to bar class

with difficulty since I had to sat on a chair for 12 hours. After two days I went to the doctor and I

found that it was a stomach ache, I have not had any problems like that before . He gave me a lot

of drugs. I used them for two months and I felt better but once I started to eat fast food again I

found that it did not cure at all.

One day I met one of my friends who works in herbal remedies shop. She told me she

had this problem before and she feels better now. Herbal remedy is a kind of remedy which you

use vegetables and fruits more than chicken and meat and it is forbidden to eat any fast food. I

tried to use vegetables and fruits. I ate baked vegetables for two months and I felt better than two

months earlier when I used drug. I did not eat any meat or chicken for two months and in a same

time I started to do yoga. It was one of the best experiences I ever had in my life. Eating baked

vegetables had far more advantages for me. One of the greatest benefit of it was my digestion

became well because before that during digestion I felt acid secretion in my body. Also, because

of doing yoga I felt that I am relaxed more and I did not feel any stressed. It helps me find peace

of mind and soothe myself. Once I have read an article on the net that said: fast food makes us to

tolerate stress and I really experienced it.

Now, I haven`t been cured completely yet but this experience causes that I changed my

mind about eating food. Because I do not want to have stomach ache anymore, I am trying my

best not to eat fast food as much I can. Now I live in the United States, although there are a great

many opportunities to improve in education and knowledge but it is the fast food country.

Although, technology makes life easier it does damage some part of our life. Nowadays,

we are witness of a great deal of new disease and most of them are for the food that people eat.

For lack of time during the day, a vast majority of people eat fast food, but as soon as I am not

healthy how I can earn money. Because predominantly all of the money that I earn goes to my

treatment. However, it is difficult to omit fast foods for me at all specially, the minute you walk

down to the street and the smell of fast food tempt you to buy just french fries.

First week of my life in the United States was very consuming because I was seventeen

hours on airplane and my sleeping system was changed. After that I had to go to school and

register for first semester. So I did not have time to cook for myself . Once, I went out to fast

food restaurant and ordered a pizza. As soon as, I arrived at home, my stomach ache was started.

It was very bad experience that I had in the US. After this experience, I promised to myself not

to eat fast food very much especially American pizza. Because it contains a lot of cheese which

is harmful for stomach. However, It is some how difficult to get rid of it, but it is noteworthy to

find a way to improve my life. Recently, I found farmers market near my house and I decide to

buy organic food more than non organic food. Although it is some how difficult to find farmers

market but it makes me stand in balance in front of the daily pressure.

As a master student, It is difficult for me to cook every day because of studying, doing

exercise and having class, but when I think about the problem that fast food creates to me I

decided to cook. Maybe at the first step of thinking about cooking it seems difficult, but when

you start to prepare ingredients to cook you understand how interesting it is. Also, it makes us

energetic and happy. When we connect to smell as well as the taste of food, our body's hormone

which makes us happy is secreted and makes us happy and peaceful. I think tasting a new food

always is an adventure try to enjoy your life.