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Does eating and drinking cut our life expectancy?

Eating along with drinking is essential for every single person on this planet. Without any water to drink and food to eat we can’t live. But it is very important what we eat, because our health depends on it. Many people are overweighed and obesity shortens a person\'s life, they have allergies or diseases and so they cannot eat for example strawberries or any food containing gluten. I think this definitely affects their quality of living.

Although many people are not interested in what they eat, we should choose the quality, amount and variety of foodstuffs.

We can always choose if we want to take healthy meals or not.

In general healthy nutrition means lots of vegetables and fruit, low fat, not too much of salt or sugar in food. As for drinking it is very healthy to drink mineral water, fresh fruit and vegetables juices and herbal tea. Young children and teenagers should drink a lot of milk in order to have good teeth and strong skeletons. People should drink none or little alcohol.

I think that as a mother I think more of the nutrition in the food, because I want to give the best to my daughter. Because eating more healthy food means to feel fit and live a better life. In my opinion, every mother wants the same, and they start to cook on less butter, use rather virgin olive oil than normal vegetable oil. Add more vegetables to the food, make salads, and offer more fruit to the members of the family. Prefer poultry to pork or beef.

But especially for men, it is hard to become accustomed to this, they often say that they are not rabbits and they refuse to eat salads.

The problem is that many people find unhealthy food tastier. To buy a hamburger or something like that is easier and it takes less time than cook something at home.

But let me have a closer look what is eaten in Great Britain and the USA.

In Great Britain they have usually full breakfast that includes fried bacon and eggs or sausages and baked beans often with a toast and marmalade and a cup of tea with milk. But sometimes they simply have a bowl of cereals.
Lunch in GB is not the main course of the day, and it consists usually of some creamy soup, sometimes it is only a sandwich or a toast with tuna and cheese in it.

The English are very well known for their teatime at five o’clock in the afternoon. It is usually a good opportunity to invite friends over and have a nice chat over the steaming cups of tea with milk.

The last and the main course of the day is the dinner. When I was in England it occurred to me as a very special occasion. When the dinner was cooked, everyone sat at the table, mother served a portion to everyone and then she sat at the table too. No one could start to eat before anyone asked the head of the family, father, if they can start eating.

After this everyone stated to eat; and the family was talking to each other about the past day. The supper consisted of main course and a salad. The food was filling, some meat with stew and the famous Yorkshire pudding, steak, pork chops, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, baby carrots, broccoli or with vegetable salad. Sometimes the family ordered takeaway china. Everyone had a glass of water in front of him or her. Sometimes adults had a glass of wine. The English are very polite and they do appreciate when someone is acting politely, and is not rude. After the dinner, if anyone wanted to leave the table he or she had to ask father if he was allowed to. Then everyone could follow the first one. Children helped mother (to) clear the table afterwards.

In the USA breakfast is usually quick and easy meal like a bowl of cereals and milk or a toast spread with butter or jam and a glass of juice or milk. Most Americans begin their day with a cup of coffee. A family breakfast at the weekends they have a hearty breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon, egg omelettes, or pancakes with maple syrup.

Similarly to GB, in the USA lunch is simple. A sandwich with peanut butter and cucumber, or some marmalade, cheese or ham would be the right lunch for any American. However, there are people who are not troubled with making lunch by themselves; they simply go for lunch to a restaurant.

The supper in USA is very similar to that in GB I think, but in my opinion the Americans are not so strict about the rules at the table.

In Slovakia, we have rolls with butter, jam or salami for breakfast and tea or coffee with it. Lunch being the main meal of the day consists of some soup and the main course such as a steak and potatoes and maybe salad. The supper is often skipped, it is said to be more healthy to eat only light supper or nothing.

I think Slovak diet is very tasty, but not very healthy. Our special and traditional meal is dumplings with bryndza, which is melted sheep cheese with sprinkled fried bacon on the top.

The best known Slovak soup is a hearty cabbage soup with smoked pork sausage that often contains mushrooms, and sometimes plums. I like it best when it is really sour.

America is very well known for hamburgers and Coca-Cola, in my opinion everyone knows where these are from. As well as everyone knows that turkey is on every table at Thanksgiving day in US. I think that other specialities we can find in every American cuisine are pecan nuts, peanut butter, sweet potatoes, jelly, pumpkin juice and famous apple or blueberry pie.

From British kitchen it is pickle that was very strange for me. But there are some other specialities like pudding, pâté, pies filled with meat.

I think that American cuisine is the same as the British one are providing more and more foods, because these are very cosmopolite countries. So for example in England it is very popular to call to a Chinese restaurant and put an order and then go and pick the food up, this is called Chinese take away. In America the most favourite food is pizza, which is typical Italian food.

There cannot be a proper meal without something to drink. Water or mineral water is mostly spread drink, I think. Children prefer fruit juice or tea. Some adults have a glass of wine or champagne with dinner. Men also like beer.
Beer is the product of alcoholic fermentation of barley and other cereals. Originally, beer was an alcoholic beverage flavoured with malt and grain. It was flat, slightly sweet, and spoiled quickly. When brewers began adding hops, they found that it gave the beer a slightly bitter taste and increased its shelf life. When, during the brewing process, hops are added, along with the type of yeast used has led to different types of beer.

As for wines, we know red and white wine. The exact origin of wine is unknown. Wine fermentation takes place in much the same process as it did centuries ago. Although technology has come a long way, there are still many uncontrollable variables in the process. For example, the specific type of yeasts that grow in different vineyards vary, thus the quality of the finished wine will also vary. This fact accounts for why wine from certain countries is considered superior to wine from another country.

Every cuisine all around the world has its own specialities. I think it would be boring to come somewhere new and eat something familiar. I like trying new things, even if they are quite different to the food I am used to.

But still everyone can choose what they want eat. It is only the question of their own selection.

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