Comments on: Food: do Malaysians have a problem? https://glendalarke.com/2008/05/food-do-malaysians-have-problem/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:34:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2008/05/food-do-malaysians-have-problem/#comment-22464 Thu, 29 May 2008 20:37:00 +0000 #comment-22464 That roasted restaurant was delicious.

]]> By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2008/05/food-do-malaysians-have-problem/#comment-22463 Thu, 29 May 2008 05:56:00 +0000 #comment-22463 I have been practising self control for months now, but it isn’t getting me anywhere. The only good thing I can say is my weight is not going up.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2008/05/food-do-malaysians-have-problem/#comment-22462 Thu, 29 May 2008 05:15:00 +0000 #comment-22462 Self-control? Moi?

]]> By: hrugaar https://glendalarke.com/2008/05/food-do-malaysians-have-problem/#comment-22461 Thu, 29 May 2008 04:08:00 +0000 #comment-22461 What happened to good old fashioned self control? :S

]]> By: Jason https://glendalarke.com/2008/05/food-do-malaysians-have-problem/#comment-22460 Wed, 28 May 2008 22:34:00 +0000 #comment-22460 A similar problem is happening in parts of Africa, where previously food was scare, now cheap, high-fat low-grade meat products are suddenly affordable. The inevitable consequence is an unprecedented obesity problem. From famine to feast, quite literally.

Humanity is battling its hard-wiring, unfortunately: it really is natural for us to over-consume when the food is available, to put excess energy by for the lean times. If those lean times never manifest, and food is always abundant, then we just keep getting bigger.

This is one aspect of medicine that will be solved: some kind of pill that will keep us lean, by working around our body’s natural tendencies. Seems like cheating, really!

Of course, with the steady increase in energy prices making transportation of food and its production more expensive, along with with drought (which will only get worse with climate change) decreasing overall yield, perhaps overeating will eventually no longer be a problem.

]]> By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2008/05/food-do-malaysians-have-problem/#comment-22459 Wed, 28 May 2008 21:07:00 +0000 #comment-22459 Unfortunately the obesity epidemic is spreading. It is such a shame to think of countries that have wonderful foods of their own are gradually changing to American pop culture foods – do they have MacDonald’s in Malaysia. That is one of the most pervasive influences I think.

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