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Eat to Perform — Not to Escape · The Road Doc Podcast

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Hey everyone, before we dive into today's episode I just want
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to take a moment and say thank you.
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This is the final episode of season 3 and its been such a
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wonderful ride for me. Specially creating this series
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called Eat Smart has not only been meaningful to me
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personally, but hearing from so many of you across the world and
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even from the different parts of the world had made me truly
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special. I started this with a simple
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girl to share what I have learned and lived through, to
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help you take better care of yourself.
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Most probably I talk without fluff, without pressure.
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I just real talk. Every message, every share,
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every listen. It means more than you know, and
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I promise this is not the end, just at the end of the chapter.
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Season 4 will be coming soon with new themes, new energy, and
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even more value that I hope connects deeply with your
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everyday life. So once again, thank you so much
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for riding with me. Let's close this season so
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strong. Alright, thank you all once
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again. Let's deep dive into our episode
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final episode for this Eat Smart series.
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Eat to perform, not to escape. Yeah, we all have those days,
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isn't it? Some days we have bad mood and
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then we eat some ice cream or we are bored, we eat some snacks.
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But the question is, is that really helping us or we are just
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doing mindlessly? You know, I would like to share
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some insights from my own personal experience.
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Me and my friends while we are, you know, just chilling in my
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space, just watching TV. And they were like, we want to
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eat something. And then I gave some snacks and
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stuff. And I got very curious because
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few hours back, like literally one to two hours back, they had
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full, full on blast kind of food, comma kind of a blast.
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They ate a lot. But then within one to two hours
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they were very hungry because I asked them like what made you so
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hungry? They said we are not hungry, we
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are just bored while watching TV or something.
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So they just want to eat. And then that triggered me to
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record this episode. Basically, they are just eating
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because they are bored. And I am so surprised.
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And I asked them, like, do you only do this or everybody else
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does this? And they were like, yeah, most
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people does this on a daily basis and what's wrong with it?
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And then I understood, OK, now I have to definitely add to this
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my final podcast because I mean, final episode of this podcast
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for this season. So that people need to keep in
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mind we only eat to perform, not to escape from boredom or
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sadness or bad mood or bad day. You have to eat something very
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mindfully because most people got confused here eating food
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every now and then without feeling hunger.
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Hunger is like you are just overloading your system
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unnecessarily and inviting unnecessary problems to your
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body, mind, gut, everything else.
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So you need to understand eating to escape is nothing but
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emotional. Eating that short term dopamine
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will lead to definitely long term guilt for most people.
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So what I highly suggest is you need to be very very very very
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mindful when it comes to food and you only need to eat it when
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you really really feel hunger or hungry.
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If you are not hungry, just drink some water and focus on
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your thoughts. Most of the time most people eat
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excess amount of food because they want to numb themselves
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from whatever the pain they are going through, are emotionally
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depressed or whatever the reason might be.
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So I think most people does this subconsciously.
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They eat a lot. I call it most.
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I mean, we all call it like emotional eating, like sudden
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cravings when they are very much bored and when they are anxious
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or angry or tired, they just eat mindlessly munching.
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And nowadays most people scroll through Instagram and eat
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non-stop. They will eat something they
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don't even feel and they will feel guilty after eating you
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know so like for after eating it for few minutes they feel
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something is wrong with their gut when they are.
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When they sad themselves in silence then that's when they
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understand this is all messed up.
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So definitely people need to focus on changing their mindset
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when it specially comes to food because food is supposed to be a
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fuel not an escape. I will give an example.
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Say I own a Domino 400, isn't it?
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Its like this, I just fill the gas till up to the certain point
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and then I don't right. I only refill my tank when it's
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about to be empty and when it's about to be like it's gonna come
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to stall. Other than that I don't feel it
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unnecessarily. So if you keep on feeling your
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stomach or your motorcycle till the rim, guess what will happen
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every now and then? It gets overload and it
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overflows and the gas will be all over the place.
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Same goes with your stomach too. If you eat excessive amount of
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food, it is just too much overload to your gut and your
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brain, to your body and it takes lots of time, effort to digest
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and convert into energy. And if you look at your own
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belly or stomach and if you see a round pot sitting over your
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belly, which means you are eating excessive calories of
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food, which is not at all helping you in any way.
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They are just stored in as fats and you will feel bad, groggy,
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mentally foggy and all those things because of that.
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So you have to eat something or you have to eat food only to
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perform your daily functions and daily activities.
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So don't overeat with how to find out once you had overeat.
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Some food is simple after eating food after a few minutes, if you
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already feel sleepy or foggy or tired or Moody, which simply
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says you already over eat more than the required calories for
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your body. So you plan accordingly and eat
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accordingly. Choose very, very wisely and be
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very aware of what you are eating.
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Are you hungry really or you are just eating because you are
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bored. We need to keep that in mind.
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Food is in the enemy. It is your ally if you use it
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right. But the moment you use it in a
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wrong way it literally turns into poison.
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Not the literal poison but a slow poison that you will slowly
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see the adverse effects of it in your long run.
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Which leads over eating and excessive eating of food leads
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to so many diseases like I will give the simple regular disease
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we have right now is like diabetes.
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Over the period of time you will end up having diabetes because
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you over it and everything that from there it leads to bunch of
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other diseases that correlates with this particular disease.
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And you will end up in a loophole of eating over again
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and again and again and again and again.
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You will fall into that loophole of eating a lot and people also
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have misconception these days. Just because you eat a lot that
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doesn't mean you get a lot of energy.
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That's completely utter nonsense because there is also an age
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limitations for everyone. Especially for people who are
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like teenagers. They can eat a lot, that's fine
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because their metabolism is so high they can burn it.
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Everything they are entering into a growth phase that's fine.
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After you reach to a certain age point where there is no growth
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physically, then definitely eating a lot will make you just
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obese or overweight. That does not help you in any
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way, so keep that in mind. Of course age also matters while
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eating a lot. So some people might question me
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like this dog I ate. I am almost everyday, I eat a
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lot, all kind of junk food and everything, but I don't get fat
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or I don't be obese or stuff like that.
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And let me tell you what, if you eat a lot and you develop a
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fatty belly or something, you are still in a healthy phase in
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terms of health. Because once you overloaded your
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body and your body shows the signs of depositing fat which
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means you are still in a safe zone where you can come back to
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your normal face. And for some people if you are
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still looking like thin which means your blood sugars are
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being affected. In a long time you do not even
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realize because everything is happening, happening internally.
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And after few years if you go and test it out for diabetes,
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you will end up you will having so much sugar in your blood and
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it leads to so much, so many problems like kidney diseases
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and stuff like that. Just so do not get full because
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you eat a lot and you still look like a thin stick.
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That does not guarantee you that you are very healthy.
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So there are so many different parameters and so many
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misconceptions around all these things which might mess you up.
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I can pretty much understand that.
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So regular checking checkups for your health is pretty much
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necessary once you reach certain age group.
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Usually we say once you reach 40 years, you need to check up, go
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for a regular checkup and all those stuff.
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But looking at today's problems with the food, I think once you
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reach 30, I think we should start yearly checkups or
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quarterly checkups with your health.
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Check up your haemoglobin, blood sugars and diabetes.
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Check all these things, you know, pretty much necessary
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because so much I know on an average most people are not
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exercising these days. Everybody has like a sedentary
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lifestyle. Most people are indoors all the
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time. Nobody prefers going out and
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exercising these days and eating too much of food that literally
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makes them numb. All these things are, you know,
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scheduled you for long term destruction.
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So in order to avoid that, you need to be very very very
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mindful when it comes to food South and also in India
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specifically, I need to tell you because most of the weddings,
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receptions, all those high 5 stuff will happen late at night
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which is absolutely I am against all those things.
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I will also explain you why because weddings and receptions
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are fine, but most of the time when they will allot the times
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for food, usually it's after 8:00 PM or something like that.
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And guess what, if you eat after those times and you are
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somewhere around 40s or 50s and stuff like that and you go eat
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the food and come back home, guess what's going to happen.
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You won't feel like active, you won't feel like good, you don't
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feel well the next day, you feel drowsy, you feel mentally foggy,
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you feel your mood is disturbed. You feel all those things for
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sure. And I am completely again, I am
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not, I am not against weddings or receptions or any functions
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or some type, but the timing is very crucial.
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I really suggest to keep push those receptions or whatever
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during daytime before 6:00 PM would be absolutely amazing for
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everyone. But unfortunately these things
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become very common in India. I don't know why but that's OK.
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But you know this is there are exceptions to.
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I mean if you are only going to have that once in a while, that
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will be fine. But if you are having such food
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timings especially in Indian weddings, we all know that you
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will definitely if you are an Indian, you will be able to
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correlate with this especially in weddings and so-called
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receptions and family functions or whatever.
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They will serve you with most heaviest food possible and if
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you eat few of them, congratulations, you will be on
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a consistent basis. If you attend all those
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weddings, you will be very high risk for developing diabetes in
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long term. So yeah, I think it's a high
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time, I think for our generations to change all those
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timings. At least pick a Sunday or
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something like somewhere in the daytime, like a lunch would be a
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preferable time rather than the evenings.
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I don't know but looks like people are prefer on night times
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only. Maybe this is because they are
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not aware of what comes after. But again, I am not against
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anything. I am only against the timing of
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particular food events. That's all because I will also
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give one more example I have recently when I went for Kerala
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Wayanad ride, I have met certain people who are software
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engineers and bank employees and other stuff.
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But I observed one thing, most of them are not fit, not
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healthy. They are all like overweight and
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some people are like obese and stuff like that.
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Then I asked do you even workout?
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What is your timings and all those stuff?
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And most of them like told me after heavy work we come home
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and then we eat good food. And I asked them like are you
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really hungry at that point of time or you just ate?
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Because in our tradition we say you have to eat before sleeping
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or you have to eat, you should not sleep on an empty stomach
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and such like something like that.
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And most of the people told me that they just eat even though
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they are not hungry. I am like surprised and ask them
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why because after eating they will get good sleep.
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Basically what they are doing is they are numbing themselves and
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they think because of that numbness they get good sleep.
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And I ask them next morning when you wake up how do you feel?
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They tell me like they feel like they have headache.
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So what do you do when you feel like headache?
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They will have some cup of tea or coffee.
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My God, this is even the worst. So you are basically very tired
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and you are numbing that by having a caffeinated drink early
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in the morning or whenever you wake up on an empty stomach,
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isn't that right? And they said yes and then I
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asked them follow up question. So after certain hours you feel
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like heavy stomach, gassy stomach, bloating, all those
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things. And they said yes.
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And this cycle continues every single day.
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So guess what? This caffeinated drink in the
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morning will simply aggravate acidity in your stomach, which
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leads to bloating and irregular moods and that mental foggy
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feeling everything. And they eat late at night which
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spikes their insulin to stay at the peakest level whole
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throughout the night. And then next morning they take
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this caffeinated drink and then high sugar foods.
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And then the cycle repeats and repeats and repeats, which means
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their insulin will never become normal.
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Basically because most caffeinated drinks like tea and
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coffee have good amount of sugar, they drink with good
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amount of sugar and most people do not even sleep well because
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of this. And it is a brutal thing for
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their long term health where they will inevitably develop
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diabetes because your insulin was never normal and did not get
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the time to recover at all. And if it goes for over period
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of time and this becomes a habit, this habit in order leads
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to a ritual and then it becomes a normal lifestyle thing.
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And after few years they will end up having diabetes and from
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there every organ will get into a trouble in some way and
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eventually their lifespan get reduced.
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And you know, and not only that, some people have social
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gatherings, they have alcoholic beverages, isn't it especially
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at what time, night time? And it also contains certain
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levels of added sugars and stuff and what else they add to that?
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They add soft drinks and then they add fried foods and then
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they are all excessive sugar kind of foods.
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At that point of time. Look at how much you overloaded
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your body with excess sugars without even realizing that you
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have done this by yourself. So now everybody who is
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listening to my podcast at any point, if you think you are one
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of them that I gave so many examples, now you need to cut
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down everything one at a time. Do not worry, you would not
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develop diabetes or anything on one day.
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But if you do not break the chain at this point of time and
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if you do not start eating only to perform, then you will
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inevitably develops so many diseases in the long run.
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But this is the root Causeway for everything.
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Keep that in mind. This is the root cause that most
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of your doctors and healthcare professions will not be
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disclosed due to time factors and patient rush and everything.
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But this is the actual root cause of your problems in
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day-to-day life. Yes, you heard it right.
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And guess what? If you go out to a restaurant in
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weekends, when will most people prefer to go out anyways?
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In the nights And they will go and have all the soda drinks,
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energy drinks, soft drinks. All these things have excessive
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sugars and then fried foods, heavy foods, biryanis during
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that time and you are inevitably rooting yourself for a higher
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higher destructions and you will eventually end up having lots of
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diseases that you won't even realize that you have them until
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you get tested. I know most of the Indians won't
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get tested because they don't even have an idea that there are
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certain tests that exist to check their health because
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nobody gives a damn about their health in the 1st place until
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they end up having any disease or having some uncertain thing
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that happened. That's when they will realize
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health is very important. I don't know why this happened
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to this kind of, we came to this kind of situations somehow, but
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I really, really, really urge you guys, especially people over
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30 to get annual or quarterly checks for your health just to,
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you know, be healthy. So that's why I always suggest
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everyone, most of 95% of your diseases can be solved with
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right amount of food at right amount of time.
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That's why I named this series as Eat smart so that you will
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you will not end up having these diseases or end up having to pay
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huge bills to the hospitals in later on days.
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If you are, you know, end up in sits that such situations and
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after hearing this podcast and you still did not change
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anything, then definitely you people need to have my business
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card for sure. Now I am going to make lot of
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money out of you for not following my instructions.
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So get my business card for sure or get my e-mail to approach me.
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I will give you consultations for sure and this time I will
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charge you so that you will understand.
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I know Indians and most people across the world have this kind
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of mindset where if it is free, nobody gives a damn.
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I am fully aware of that as well.
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And this time once we charge certain amount, that's when
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people will realise how important their health in the
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1st place is. I'm just kidding guys.
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I don't charge, I don't do any such things but I'm just this is
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just for fun. I'm just saying all this anyways
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so people keep in mind you can change everything and you can do
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everything. You can achieve everything in
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life, but first thing you need to conquer to do great things in
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life. First thing you need to conquer
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is keeping health in check that contains everything.
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Because if you are not healthy no matter what, no matter if you
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have crores of money or millions of dollars in your bank account,
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it doesn't make it a damn. You might have access to good
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amount of health care systems or good doctors but guess what?
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If you do not treat the root Causeway of the problem, you
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will end up spending lot of money and coming back to the
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same again and same loophole again and again and again.
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So mind you, your root Causeway for most of the problems is in
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what you eat on a daily basis. So take control of your health
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and start eating healthy foods and start eating smartly so you
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won't end up like that. And I will also like to suggest,
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just because I said eat healthy, that doesn't mean you need to
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avoid all your favorite foods forever.
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No, no, I'm not saying that you can eat whatever you want once
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in a while. That's fine.
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Your body will take. But it should be like this.
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Let's just take in a week. It should be 9095% healthy.
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May be that 5 to 10% you can have once in a while unhealthy
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kind of food. I am not saying you should have
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it if you ever want to have it, you can still enjoy that once in
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a while. That's all right.
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Your body can take care of it, but mostly nowadays people are
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going 9095% of unhealthy food because they are cheap and
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easily accessible everywhere and that five to 10% of healthy.
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That's where even for some people, 100% unhealthy every
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single day. Trust me, I know you guys are
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working very hard and you are making that money in a hardest
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way possible. You are working long hours and
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stuff like that and if you do not take care of your health,
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you will just end up spending that hard earned money to the
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hospitals or health care professionals and doctors,
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everyone like us. And you will then feel like what
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is the whole point of working this hard in the 1st place?
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So I know, I know, I know. And I will also agree on certain
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things that no matter what and how much healthy food we eat, we
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still die. Some people also say this, I
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completely agree. But we do not die due to
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diseases. We might die in other ways true.
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May be some uncertain things that we are not in control of,
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may be true. But you would not end up in
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hospital for you know, having the said diseases before at
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least at least we can take preventive measures.
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That's what I am trying to say. Especially even I am seeing
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looking at the teenagers and kids, they are all eating high
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sugary foods from very young age.
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I mean come on guys, what happened now?
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Like you are eating all the nonsense these days in the name
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of, you know, trends and all those things.
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Don't do that. And even I saw the parents are,
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you know, feeding little kids with high sugary drinks.
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I saw with my own eyes when I was travelling from one place to
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another. I don't remember what that place
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is. I was waiting for the said
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vehicle at that bus station and I noticed the kid was like less
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than five years and mother is feeding with a soft drink
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because the kid is very hungry and she is feeding with a soft
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drink. I was like what you are giving
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soft drink to your kid at that age?
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Then I asked her are you aware of what you are doing right now
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and she innocently replied like my kid is very hungry.
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I don't know what to do so I just gave him a cool drink or a
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soft drink. I told the mom politely, ma am
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you are destroying your kids health you have no idea of.
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Rather than giving that soft drink or whatever, why don't you
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purchase a water bottle which is much much much better in this
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scenario. Because of this, your kid might
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have so many problems in the long run.
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And the mother politely replied, that's OK, no problem.
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And I said you definitely deserve a business card, my
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business card. When everything goes wrong, then
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definitely visit me. You will definitely visit.
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I told her in a smiling and funny way, they just took it as
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a joke. I made it as a joke, Don't
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worry. But come on, don't put yourself.
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Especially for the new mothers and fathers, you need to be
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aware of what you are doing guys because 90% of the problems are
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with the new generation parents because they eat all the
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nonsense and that's what they teach their kids.
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So you are doomed. So I hope you all got the good
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value from it and I would like to wrap this episode up and also
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this season up. This is season 3.
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I call it Eatsmart series and I hope you got a good value from
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it and all my tips will work for you for everywhere.
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All you just need to do is eat mindful food and eat healthiest
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food possible. That doesn't not necessarily be
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very expensive. Eat whatever you can, whatever
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available in your environment, but eat mindfully.
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That's all I'm saying. Thank you so much for everyone
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for tuning in to my podcast and thank you for everyone who is
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listening from all across the world.
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It really means a lot. It keeps me going and I will
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definitely come up with the new seasons soon.
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So thank you. Thank you so much.
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This is Doctor Mukun signing off.