The Ethics of Eating

Ethics, of eating? The title might have surprised you. We often take eating as just a part of life and do not pay enough attention to it. While we eat, we provide our body with the necessary nutrients to produce strength and energy; in this way, we maintain the body and keep it active. Unfortunately, it has become a practice for office workers that we often skip meals because we have ‘more important things to do’.

A person needs to eat at least three times a day. During these three sessions, nothing can be more important than your food intake. If you forget this and think that you are very smart to go without food quite often, you will have to pay for it later.

The Result of Skipping Meals:

First of all, you will feel fatigue if you do not eat properly. Secondly, as the body is not getting food in a certain time schedule, you will permanently get an irregular pattern of hunger. An irregular eating pattern will lead to poor digestion. Also, you can find sudden pangs of hunger which will lead you to gulp loads of junk food.

So, let us discuss the ethics of eating:

1)      Time

So, the first ethics for eating is time. You need to fix certain times for your daily meals and should try to maintain the schedule. By doing this, your body will get a permanent message and it will develop a stable pattern of nutrition.

2)      Measurement

You should decide the course of meal before you sit for it. You need to fix the amount of vegetables, carbohydrates, proteins, fat etc according to your body structure, your health condition and your hunger. Yes, also count your hunger; I am telling you why, shortly.

3)      Enjoy Your Meal

This is the most important part of your eating. Enjoy each and every morsel you take inside. Whatever you get on your plate, consider it as a blessing; remember, so many people go hungry all over the world everyday! While you enjoy your meal, your body also accepts it with pleasure, digests it very well and your metabolism goes really well.

4)      Neither Too Much; Nor Too Less

In the modern age, obesity has become a common issue all over the world. Obese people often go hungry or eat half meal with a thought that the gap will be fulfilled with their body fat. But the human body is too complex to understand matters in such a simple way. Going hungry is really a bad idea; you do not need to overload yourself, but you must fill up the stomach. Now, nature has given you the sense to judge when your stomach is filled up and you do not need to eat more. Apply that sense!

5)      Only Eat While Eating

This is another most important ethic of eating. I do not need to explain as you have already got it from the sub-heading! So from now on, avoid television, newspaper, mobile phone and useless talking while you are eating. When you focus only on your meal you can enjoy it and can keep watch on what you are eating and how much.

So, these were all about the ethics of eating according to my observation. Please let me know whether you enjoyed this article. If you have any special principle of eating, please share!