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The futility of trying to eat heathily
Reading the recipes on this web site may have
given you the impression that Maria and I like to eat healthily. That is not
entirely correct. I am writing this as someone who works in an office with a
big, juicy vending machine. In fact two, one for sugary
drinks and one for chocolate and crisps. If I wanted, I could probably
tell you everything that each sold, from memory, and be able to rate them all
in terms of taste, value, and boredom relief.
I sometimes go on a health crusade and stock up on plenty of fruit at the local supermarket and keep them in my desk drawer. The problem is that I don't then eat them. In fact once, a banana decomposed oozing putrid brown sticky former banana onto one of my books. Try explaining why the pages of a financial engineering book are stuck together. There are limits to how excited one feels about the subject. This reluctance to eating the healthy option even when it is right next to me, and the vending machine is a short walk away is not for the exercise, but because of the many times that apples, oranges, whatever have singularly failed to quell my appetite. Chocolate does the job and there is caffeine and many other stimulants in it which actually improve intellectual and emotional performance. What can apples offer against that? Yes Maria (and my mum) will probably kill me when she reads this, but then with the sugars that I am flooding my body with on a daily (and nearly hourly) basis, perhaps she won't have time. But at least I won't be hungry. Steve |