By Yiler Huang

Recently, we had a special speaker who is a nutritionist come to teach us important things about eating healthy so we could have nicer skin and stronger muscles. She explained to us the importance of the amount of different foods you eat, like eating foods with: B12, calcium, B6, vitamin C, zinc, and iron to promote healthy muscles. As well as what order you should follow to eat them. For example, she taught us that an average person should eat around 800 grams of rice. If you were not eating the recommended amount, it might result in malnutrition. However, eating too much might result in obesity. She also stated the order in which we should follow when we are eating, because our body might develop too much of the chemicals that lowers blood sugar in a short amount of time and that might cause obesity as well. Knowing the importance of a healthy diet allows you to know how to maintain and take care of your body.

The information she provided has made me think about slightly changing my eating habits. I do not see myself changing my diet too much because it is not realistic. Since it is my mom buying and preparing my food, it would be too much of an inconvenience to her to completely change our diet. However, there was one point that drew my attention. During her presentation, the nutritionist recommended an order of how we should eat our foods. First, we should drink our water, then vegetables, beans, eggs, meat, and finally rice at the end. This is the most realistic change that I could try as it is not too hard to follow, and I don’t need to measure anything if I want to follow this order. It would not require much change to my eating habits and amount. This is because I already eat the recommended daily amount, there would not even be much change if I wanted to follow the nutritionist’s proposed amount.