Do Your Parents Influence Your Eating Habit?做你的父母會影響您的飲食習慣呢？

The society is changing.社會正在發生變化。 Raising a child to maintain a healthy body weight and the right attitude towards towards food is getting tougher.撫養子女，以保持健康的體重和正確的態度，對食物是越來越強硬。 Obesity (because of overeating) or underweight (because of eating disorder) is some of the challenges which parents are facing nowadays.肥胖病（因為暴食）或不足（因為飲食失調）的一些挑戰，其中父母所面臨的今天。 Today, I would share with you how my parents, especially my mum, played the role in influencing my eating habit.今天，我會與你分享如何我的父母，尤其是我媽媽，發揮的作用在影響我的飲食習慣。

I remembered when I was in kindergarten and primary school, I would spend part of my pocket money, given by my parents, to buy junk food at school canteen.我記得當我在幼兒園和小學，我會花的一部分，我的零用錢，所給予我的父母，購買垃圾食品在學校食堂。 I would have to hide them in my drawer at home if I wanted to share it with my siblings.我會隱藏他們在我的抽屜在家裡，如果我想一起分享我的兄弟姐妹。 Mum would scold me if she found out.媽媽會罵我，如果她發現。 My favorite was actually sweetened chewing gum, and not really the crispy potato chips.我最喜愛的其實是含糖的口香糖，而不是真的脆薯片。

As I lived in a small town, I could only see fast food as shown in the TV advertisements. Only if my family traveled to a big city once in a blue moon, we would eat fast food and that because my parents decided to spoil us for a day. 正如我生活在一個小城鎮，我可以看到的只是快餐顯示，在電視廣告上，只有如果我的家人前往一個大城市，一旦在一個藍色的月亮，我們會吃快餐和，因為我的父母決定將破壞我們一，兩天。 Mum would briefly mentioned that eating fast food was unhealthy each time but my brothers and I were just busy paying attention to the finger-licking fried chickens.媽媽會簡略提到，吃快餐是不健康的每個時間，但我的兄弟和我都只是忙於注重手指舔油炸雞。

Mum did not feed us with any junk foods though she knew how much we loved those food when we stood in front of the ice cream machines during each grocery shopping trip.媽媽當時沒有給我們任何的垃圾食品，雖然她知道我們是多麼喜歡那些食物，當我們站在前面的冰淇淋機，在每個雜貨店購物之旅。 When we lined up at the cashier, we always tempted to take the candies.當我們列隊在收銀員，我們總是誘惑採取糖果。 Sometimes, my mum would give us signal to take one or two, but most of the time we were not that lucky.有時候，我媽媽讓我們的信號，採取一個或兩個，但大部分的時間我們不認為是幸運的。 While she did not specifically ban chocolate and ice cream in the house, they are once a month thing.雖然她並沒有特別禁止的巧克力和冰淇淋在眾議院，他們每月一次的事。

In the fridge, I would never see bottles of soft drink and Coke or 7-Up becomes a precious item for me during festivals.在冰箱，我再也看不到兩瓶汽水和可樂或7行動變成了寶貴的項目，我在節日期間。 What was inside the fridge instead was loads of fruits including oranges, apples, mangoes and pears bought by my dad.什麼是內的冰箱，反而是大量的水果包括橘子，蘋果，芒果和梨子買我的父親。 My dad does not drink beer and he did not even store one can either to entertain guest at home.我爸爸並不喝啤酒，他甚至沒有一商店可以受理，客戶在家裡。

One of the things which I wish I would have done when I were small is to eat more vegetables.其中一件事我想我會做的，當我被小是吃更多的蔬菜。 I was very picky and ate only few I liked such as tomato and carrot, probably because of their attractive color.我很挑剔，吃只有極少數我很喜歡，如番茄，胡蘿蔔，可能是因為他們有吸引力的顏色。 Much persuasions have been done by mum to encourage me to eat more vegetables, including using the cartoon character Popeye to get me eat more green vegetables.很多人，已經做了媽媽，鼓勵我吃更多的蔬菜，包括利用卡通人物大力水手獲得我吃更多的綠色蔬菜。 You know, the story of getting stronger to beat enemy after eating green spinach.你也知道，故事越來越強，打敗敵人後，吃菠菜的綠色。

When I came to study in big city, I did feel like a prisoner who has just gained freedom in terms of choice of food.當我來研究，在大城市，我也覺得自己像一個囚犯誰剛獲得自由的條款，選擇的食物。 McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza hut, Kenny Rogers Roaster, and Burger King were the common places I ate out.麥當勞，肯德基，必勝客，肯尼羅傑斯焙燒爐，漢堡王人共同的地方，我吃了。 Not forget to mention the roadside stalls.不要忘記，更遑論路邊攤位。 My healthy eating habit disappeared overnight.我的健康的飲食習慣在一夜之間消失。

After college days, I went to study in the UK.之後，學院天，我去研究，在英國。 I cooked with my friends because we could not afford to eat out. i熟與我的朋友，因為我們不能吃。 Though I was not a good cook, I had great time shopping for fresh meat, fish and vegetables.雖然我不是一個好的廚師，我有很大的時間購物，新鮮肉類，魚類和蔬菜。 I learned how to read food labels too.我學到如何閱讀食物標籤。 Whatever my mum told me since I was small started to apply.無論我媽媽告訴我，因為我是小開始適用。 What is more important is that I realized how much I have missed home cooked food.什麼是更重要的是，我意識到我是多麼錯過了回家的熟食。

I grew up knowing what healthy eating is and I am glad that I rediscover it in my adult life. When I looked back, I am glad that I have loving parents. 我成長的知道什麼是健康飲食和我很高興我重新找回它在我的成年生活，當我回頭看，我很高興我有愛的父母。 It was indeed a wise decision for dad not to spoil us with much pocket money when were small.它的確是一個明智的決定，為爸爸，不要破壞我們與很多零用錢時，被小。 My mum may not have sit down and tell me why she did the things 20 years ago, but I have learned so much from her.我媽媽可能沒有坐下來，告訴我為什麼她沒有的東西， 20年前，但我學到了這麼多，從她的。

How about you?如何你呢？ Did your parents or your friends play any influencing role in shaping your current eating habit?你的父母或您的朋友發揮任何影響的作用在塑造您目前的飲食習慣呢？

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