Forum 5

Forum 5

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I personally crave salty foods over sweets. In fact, I do not like chocolate icing or really anything chocolaty. It is just too sweet for me, but I could eat chips and french fries and things along that nature every day. My family at home eats home cooked meals most of the time and my parents only buy milk and water. My mom doesn’t buy much juice or sodas because she says it’s unnecessary that our bodies don’t need. Sometimes my dad will occasionally make sweet tea. Whenever we go out to eat, we normally all get water but sometimes we will get a soda instead. I honestly do not really crave sodas either. I would choose lemon water over sodas any day. Now that I am thinking about it, my mom also craves chips and salty foods rather than sweets, but i find it interesting that my dad craves sweets over salty foods. Some things that I notice in my dad that I don’t in my mom is that his muscles will ache sometimes, and I have heard that sugar can cause your body to hurt as you age. My mom’s dad is actually an alcoholic but my mom nor her sisters ever drink alcohol. My mom’s mom was not a heavy drinker either so it makes sense that the mother would have more of an effect on the fetus than the father would because the mother actually carries the fetus inside of her. With that being said I think that everything you eat, and drink has consequences on your body, good or bad. I think it is very important to pay close attention to what you eat and drink especially if you are pregnant because it can affect the fetus and the mother. What one consumes now I think has a great influence on their health and condition of life in the long run.

 

 

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Hey MacKenzie, I totally agree with you on how everything we put into our body has a consequence good or bad. I also agree that sodas and juices are not really necessary for the body. I think people drink them for the taste rather than thinking about their body. A lot of people don’t like the taste of water so a lot of people will drink flavored drinks. A little food for thought for the juices that I learned in one of my classes is that if people can not put on weight and there having trouble keeping weight on; drinking juice is recommended for them rather than water to keep the weight on.

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Heyy Mackenzie ! It is cool that your family cooks meals instead of eating out every day. For a while when I was in high school, my brothers and I were all in season with sports at the same time so we ate out almost every day. I am the same way with drinks when I go out to eat because I almost always get lemon water. Partially because it is good for me, but it is also cheaper and goes along with my college student budget. It's interesting how having a preference for sugar affects your dad's body. I wonder if your preference of salty foods was inherited from your mother or if it was just a learned trait.

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Hey Mackenzie-
I find it really interesting that you share certain cravings with either of your parents. As far as I can tell, I don't really have that much in common with my mom or dad when it comes to our preferences. It seems to me that our tastes are completely different when it comes to sweet snacks. I might think something is entirely too sweet and sugary, but my dad claims that he barely tastes it. That makes me wonder whether it is our cravings and metabolism that are different or if it has something to do with the sensitivity of our taste buds, which would be a completely different area of research.

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Hey MacKenzie , I completely agree with the fact that everything we put into our bodies has a good or bad consequence. I also agree that sodas are not good for the body. You don't need all excess sugars in your bodies. I like how you said your folks cook everyday opposed to eating out everyday. I'm one of those individuals that don't like water sometimes. If I drink water , I have to just finished working out or doing sometime strenuous. Sometimes I honestly crave water. I love juice. When my mom goes to the store she always buys like six things of juice, a case of water and a couple gallons of tea. I totally agree with the fact that pregnant women have to be careful of what they take in their bodies because it can have some affect on the fetus short term and long term.

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