I crave sweets more than salty snacks. My mom and dad also crave sweets, so I think I get my sweet tooth from them. My mom is in love with cookies, so we always have cookies in the house. My mom and I also love to bake new things. The thing is with me is that I can go without sweets and not crave them. Like over Lent I gave up ice cream, chocolate and sweets from the cafeteria at BSC. It was hard at first but after a couple of days I was totally fine, and I didn’t crave sweets. Sometimes I do crave something salty. For example, when I have a salty snack, I need something sweet to balance out everything, if that makes sense.
For dinner’s my mom will cook during the week and on the weekends my dad will cook. We eat pretty healthy. We eat a lot of chicken and vegetables. We don’t cook fried food a lot so most of our food is grilled or baked. My dad will make a lot of homemade foods also. He likes to make homemade spaghetti sauce, salsa, oatmeal cookies and he will even make homemade pizza. My family also has a garden during the summer, so we eat a lot of veggies from the garden, but we do eat a lot of vegetables all year around. My family does have healthy drinking habits. We will have a drink when we’re at family events and during holidays. We also have a boat in Michigan on Lake Huron and sometimes we will have a drink up there.
I can protect myself from future diseases by watching what I eat and having a balance diet and not eating a lot of sweets. This could affect my biological children someday so I think that I would just teach them about having a good diet and eating a balance diet. I feel like any food can affect behavior and diseases. Some foods are processed, and I think all the processed food causes diseases and can affect the body in a bad way. I think the information about alcohol does affect my decision on consuming alcohol. It makes me think twice about consuming alcohol.
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