Keep Your Health In Check - This Dashain

As the festive season is upon us once again, much of our focus diverts to the different kinds of food that are set to be prepared at home.

From all the various types of meat to the many vegetarian delights, the festive season is a foodie’s delight. Amidst all the tasty food that surrounds us, we disregard personal health and go overboard on food. Granted this happens only once or twice in a year, it still has an adverse effect on your body. You may not notice it right away, but once the festivities conclude your body starts showing all the food you consumed during that period.

For meat lovers, the varieties of dishes are almost endless. From chicken, mutton or duck meat, meat lovers can call on a wide range of dishes to fill their stomachs during the period. However, considering all that goes on during the festival, we tend to consume more amount of meat than we actually should. While there is no data that suggests that you should eat a specific amount of meat per day, we should keep our meat consumption at a fairly low level.

The majority of the Nepali population does enjoy meat filled dishes. Since the festive period will be a busy one, we cook meat in large quantities to feed any guests and household members. Cooking in large quantities requires excess amount of oil and that oil does not go away and leaves large gravy like liquid at the bottom of the cooking utensil. We Nepalese enjoy that excess oil and mix it with rice and gulp it down like it’s nobody’s business. While tasty as it may be, it does have a bad impact on your body in the long term. Our excess consumption of meat is something that we really need to keep in check on a day-to-day basis.