[Part 2]

Source: cnn.com

Title of the article: Why family meals matter

Date: 07/11/2008

Preview :
This holiday season, one of the most valuable gifts you'll give your family won't come wrapped in a box or have a card attached. Instead, it will happen around your dining table, where you'll sit down to share a meal, conversation, and traditions with the people who matter most to you. And....

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People nowadays are busy with their work and sometimes they can't spend the time with their family. Thus, they will not be as close as they should be. When compared to the past years, the children would know more information which related to them such as relatives even the far relatives. Besides, they were close to each other. Did you ever wonder why today's children only know their relatives which live within 10 km from their house? Even if they knew the far relatives, do they know each other and remember their names well? They don't remember! Why did this happen to most of us? The answer is so obvious. This is due to less communication between parents and children. There are things that children can't learn through studies at school but from parents. If they seldom contact with each other, how would they know?

Therefore, this article might help you how to spend at least 3 hours with your family in daily which is during our breakfast, lunch and dinner. Having meals with family is the most wonderful thing. You can gain a lot of benefit and lose nothing if you did it. You can know a lot of facts about the family generations and updates within your family. Its like sharing the family happiness. Besides, family closeness showing how sweets you are. People always talk how cute if the family are together *this happened when they saw in the movie*. If you are envy with such closeness, why not trying to be close to your family?

Aside from the closeness and family basic knowledge, family meals are 99% healthy. If you said you did eat the meals cook by your mother but not with the family, the diet you eat is not as healthy as if you eat with family. Eager to know why? I actually wondering why too because I always eat without my family *sigh*. From the article, family meals are controllable. With the amount foods served at the dining table, the chef *mother* will give a right quantity of foods to each individual. At that moment, it won't be as quiet as you think, at least one member of the family will talk. Then the other members will join. When I think about this, the common topic they will talk is about their children achievement or if the parent saw their children separated the vegetables from the main meal and transferred it to another plate as if they are enemies, the parent will at least advised them how healthy that vegetables are and convinced their children to eat the vegetables.

Just imagine when you are eating alone *I don't think you should do that though since I think you already experienced it* Maybe at this moment, when you read this, you are eating, did you ever notice, how quite your surrounding is? It's because you are alone. There is another disadvantage of eating alone. You can just take how much you want without caring how unhealthy it was to take more than you need.

And if you noticed, having meal with family are usually at a certain time. That time is actually the perfect time to eat! It gives time for the stomach to digest the foods you are eating. For instance, just compared these two next statement:

Situation 1
A is eating dinner with her/his family at 7 pm. He/She is so happy knowing many facts about their family. He/she just told his/her family about his recent achievements. Besides, he/she just knew that his/her sister got a scholarship. Not to mention, his/her sister invite the whole family to go shopping tomorrow. It's something to be looking forward. (^0^) What a great day! He/she just need to do his/her homeworks soon so he/she can enjoy the whole day tomorrow.

Situation 2
A is eating dinner after he/she played his/her computer game which is.......at 11.00 pm. After 25 minutes rest, he/she will go to his/her bed...and SLEEP.

Which one do you think is better? The first statement right? It's not that I want to mention my earlier task *about obesity*, but A *situation 2* will surely gain weight faster since the leftover digested foods are stored as fats. He/She is not using it for doing works.

And like the article state
those who frequently ate with their families had better grades and lower rates of depression, and they were less likely to use alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs.

My favorite quote in the article:
"Family meals aren't just about food, they're about family."

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