Thursday, September 11, 2014

Many of us "live to eat" rather than "eat to live". Do you agree? (ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY)


      

      There is some truth on the above statement, for there are many who certainly put great importance to the food they eat until they have a problem with it. Many people complain that they are overweight, that they have spare tyre  and how they wish that they can  be slim. For most of these people who complain thus, I can see that they are the cause of their  condition, and that is, they simply eat too much. Except for rare  medical cases where hormonal disturbance may cause obesity, I can safely  say that just  about all obese people love to eat.

      I have a friend  who weighs 260 Ib and he stands at merely 5 feet 2 inches. He looks like a ball actually. He is so fat that he cannot  put his hands down his sides like normal people do. His hands sort of dangle from his shoulders. He attributes his obesity to "something" wrong with my glands. He does not admit that it is his addiction with eating is causing the problem. His ideas of lunch is two glasses of lime juice. He literally stuffs the food into his mouth and with hardly a chew swallows the whole lot. His "something is wrong with my glands" declaration is just an excuse.



      Judging by the number of people who strut around their  bellies leading the way, it will not be too far-fetched to say that they  "live to eat". If they merely eat to live, they will not allow  themselves to bloat up as they are. It is the inevitable complaint  of overweight  people that they have difficulty doing physical exercises and they are prone to illness.Why then, if they can see that being overweight is not something good, do they not desist from eating excessively? The  answer is that they live to eat. They simply  love the taste of food. In short, they are addicted to food.

      This addiction is further encouraged by many restaurants and eating shops that seem to mushroom everywhere Young and old, rich and poor- they all patronise these  places. They are always  pot-bellied experts ever willing to comment  on the best dining  places in town. They can describe in great detail  and with great enthusiasm all the best meals  they had ever had. If these people  do not live to eat, who else do ?

      To be fair, not everyone live to eat. There are many sensible people who eat just to keep their  bodies in a good working order. Overeating is out of the question for them. They know the dangers of obesity. They treasure their health more and thus live their lives minus the problems and anxieties of the obese. There are enough  problems already in this world. There is no need to add the problems of obesity to it.


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