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November 4, 2010

WHAT'S WRONG WITH EATING TOO FULL.............. ?

Overworking body.....                                                                                                                               
   Imagine having a small family car. Instead of using it for short travel between home and office, you use it for long distance travel between different cities every day. Instead of using it 1 hour a day, you use it for 10 hours a day. Instead of driving at 70 km/h, you always speed up to 170 km/h, hitting engine's red line.
   Can you estimate your car life span? Do you expect having various problems with your car after a short time? Driving your car at high speed for a long distance is like always eating too full. You force your body to always work at its red line.
   Do you know digestion is the most demanding work for your body? Think about the organs involved such as your mouth, stomach, liver, pancreas, duodenum and intestine. Think about the length of digestive tract from your mouth to intestine. By eating too full, yor body zaps up much of your energy for digestion. Otherwise, this energy may be used for other purpose such as enhancing your immune system.

DO YOU REALIZE YOU BECOME VERY TIRED EASILY AFTER A BIG MEAL ? THAT IS THE SIGN OF YOUR BODY WORKING HARD TO DIGEST ALL THE FOOD YOU TAKE IN.

   If you eat an extra bowl of noodle, your pancreas has to produce extra insulin hormone to process the extra carbohydrates you take.
   Your liver, stomach and intestine also have to produce extra enzymes to digest and process specific nutrients from that bowl of noodle.
   Therefore the more you eat, the harder your body has to work to process it. Of course, we must eat to survive. But we don't have to eat that much !
   If you drive your car slowly and handle it gently, you can use it for a long time. But if you always floor the accelerator and drive like a rally driver, you know the consequence on your car life span........