When I was young (about 50 years ago) obesity wasn’t really an issue.
In those days most houses had a small kitchen where a meal was cooked. We either ate in the kitchen or a small dining room. The rest of the time indoors was spent in the living room.
Since then there has been a move to more open plan houses and big kitchen with lots of food storage.
Now, for a lot of us, the most used room in the house is a family room containing the kitchen and a big television. Meals are often eaten at the kitchen counter.
What all this means is that we spend a lot more time sitting near cupboards, and jars, full of tempting snacks like:
- Cake
- Crisps
- Nuts
- Biscuits
- etc, etc.
We are also a lot closer to that fridge with those sugary drinks, and the freezer with tubs of ice cream.
I don’t know about you, but the only way I resisted temptation, and lost 12kgs a few years ago, was to keep biscuits and ice cream out of the house.
Will you be too close to temptation in your new house?
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I really like all the points you’ve made.
This is really very interesting post. I don’t think that modern kitchen design is making us fat. It is all about our self-control. In fact, eating unhealthy and fatty food making us fat.