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That fat will accumulate very fast, causing you to gain If you look online, you will find many theories about
more and more weight how to eat healthy. But even when we know all those
theories, when you go to the restaurant or supermarket,
But most food nowadays contains a lot of sugar – like it’s not so easy to just change our habits. People like to
Coca-Cola, all kinds of nutrition bars, beverages, and stay inside their comfort zones – they don’t have much
more. If you look at the label, you’ll see they all contain motivation to change.
lots of sugar – but the food companies want the food to
taste good, so they have to add more sugar. That’s what that Avengers: The Age of Ultron movie
trailer reminds me of, that line:
Once you add more sugar, the food will taste more
delicious. So the more you choose food based on the taste, “You want to protect the world, but you don’t want to
the more you will want to eat sugar – that’s the fact we change.”
have to face.

It’s better you just eat real food. For example, if you
want to eat fruit, then it’s better you eat the actual fruit,
and don’t just drink the juice. When companies make
juice, they filter out all the fibers and other natural
ingredients, so its only juice left – and that’s mostly just
water and sugar. Even if you drink those 100% juices,
that’s still just sugar and water.

So it’s better to eat real food. Also, don’t eat anything too
sweet or salty, and don’t eat fried food, like French fries. For many practitioners it’s the same – so we can make a
Actually, I like fried food, but after becoming a monk, I movie called, Practitioner: The Age of Buddha.
don’t have much of a chance to eat fried food, because we We have to change. We want to get liberated, but we
don’t offer it in the monastery – and that’s good for me. don’t want to change – but if you don’t want to change,
there’s no chance that you can get liberated. EH