Nowadays, people always try to work hard in order to have a better life. Though our living standard has been improved dramatically, our quality of life is not as good as it is in the past in many ways.
First of all, many people cannot efficiently allocate their time for relaxing and working. In order to meet higher daily expense and to avoid unemployment, people have to work harder than they did in the past. Moreover, to many individuals, their job is no longer a way of earning a living but gives them a strong sense of personal fulfillment, which turns them into workaholics. The more time people spend on working, the less leisure they have. It causes an imbalance between working and relaxing, which makes it difficult for people to enjoy their happy lives to the full.
Secondly, the majority of people become more and more materialistic. Nowadays, people tend to measure success and social status by the properties we own. Therefore, with a view to gaining respect from others, people always set themselves many material goals such as buying a modern car or a new house, etc. Even when they already possess those luxuries, they long for better ones. They are always obsessed with their goals and let materialism little by little dominate them.
Lastly, family life seems not as happy and cozy as in the past. People now are inclined to giving more priorities to their business meetings rather than their family gatherings. In addition, their ultimate goals in life is gaining material things, not having a happy family life. They might think only material properties bring them a happy life and look down on spiritual values. Therefore, they only exert themselves to be successful in their career and ignore their family. It leads to unhappiness or even breakdown in modern families.
In general, modern life brings about a lot of drawbacks to people. In order to overcome those drawbacks, we had better give more priorities to leisure activities, spiritual values and family life which we used to neglect. Hopefully, people can both enjoy their modern life and happiness at the same time.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Benefits of home-cooked food
Foods play an important role in our life, for they provide us a variety of vital vitamins and minerals. Therefore, it is necessary that we choose the best foods which are good for our health. To my mind, home-cooked foods are the best choice for three following reasons.
First of all, by preparing meals at home, we can control over the quality of food. Cooking at home provides not only various choices of fresh ingredients but also proper hygiene. As a result, we can enjoy safe, healthy foods when cooking at home. On the contrary, many restaurants and food manufacturers profit by using out-of-date ingredients and ignoring good hygiene principles. Consequently, there is a high possibility that foods in such places have low quality which may negatively affect on eaters’ health.
Secondly, cooking at home helps us avoid harmful substances. We can choose to buy ingredients from trustworthy sources to make sure that they contain the fewest dangerous elements. Also, it is possible to wash the ingredients and eliminate all dirt, impurities, and pesticides when cooking at home. On the other hand, foods in restaurants or pre-packaged foods may contain a lot of unhealthy additives or artificial colors and flavors. Also, owing to mass-producing process, cooks in some restaurants or factories hardly wash and clean their ingredients carefully.
Last but not least, another benefit of home-cooked food is cost saving. It is obvious that we only pay for the ingredients and some other uncostly additives when eating at home; meanwhile, we have to pay much more than that when eating out or buying canned foods because the price includes service and producing cost except for the food itself.
In short, home-cooked foods are really beneficial in terms of health and finance. Therefore, we should choose home-cooked foods as our major intake no matter how busy we might be in this modern life. I strongly believe that cooking at home is the most healthy and economical choice.
First of all, by preparing meals at home, we can control over the quality of food. Cooking at home provides not only various choices of fresh ingredients but also proper hygiene. As a result, we can enjoy safe, healthy foods when cooking at home. On the contrary, many restaurants and food manufacturers profit by using out-of-date ingredients and ignoring good hygiene principles. Consequently, there is a high possibility that foods in such places have low quality which may negatively affect on eaters’ health.
Secondly, cooking at home helps us avoid harmful substances. We can choose to buy ingredients from trustworthy sources to make sure that they contain the fewest dangerous elements. Also, it is possible to wash the ingredients and eliminate all dirt, impurities, and pesticides when cooking at home. On the other hand, foods in restaurants or pre-packaged foods may contain a lot of unhealthy additives or artificial colors and flavors. Also, owing to mass-producing process, cooks in some restaurants or factories hardly wash and clean their ingredients carefully.
Last but not least, another benefit of home-cooked food is cost saving. It is obvious that we only pay for the ingredients and some other uncostly additives when eating at home; meanwhile, we have to pay much more than that when eating out or buying canned foods because the price includes service and producing cost except for the food itself.
In short, home-cooked foods are really beneficial in terms of health and finance. Therefore, we should choose home-cooked foods as our major intake no matter how busy we might be in this modern life. I strongly believe that cooking at home is the most healthy and economical choice.
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