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We Eat Carbohydrates To Live

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We eat to live is something mum would say anytime we (me and my siblings) try to cheat. Of late, I helped her chop chicken for a pot of stew when she insisted I peel off  the overlying skin. I was interested in this recent development so I had to ask, apparently ‘there's fat deposits in the skin’, that's something I have to verify. Our parents in their advance ages are doing the things we should do now as millenials, one of which is; eating to live. You might find that the taste of mum’s stew have changed over the years, with less pepper and salt, she's got a whole pot of natural medicine. Mum’s take would be “don't be all out about pleasing the tongue and belly, you have to think of the long term effects”. Nutrition is about everything edible and what they do for the body.  We need some in large quantity (macronutrients) and others in small quantity (micronutrients), Carbohydrates fall under macronutrients and are needed in large quantity. Carbohydrate is one word that...