Gerald D'Cunha

  “All you need is love. But, a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Charles M. Schulz   T he evening before last, my wife I had been to R-City Mall. She wanted to pick some outfits for her Yoga sessions. So, we landed up at the Decathlon outlet at this mall. By the time the shopping got over, it was 8.45 p. m. While waiting there for madam to finish with her choices, my mind was running very wild: “What would we have at the food outlets? Which late-night movie shall we watch?” I was dying to have a big-fat chicken burger at the McDonald’s, and was assuming, that my wife would love to have her favourite Fillet-O-Fish. Perhaps, she would love to watch the late show of ‘Jurassic Park’ at the INOX… I had checked the timings: 9.45 p.m. But, I hadn’t checked it with my wife. When I, finally, did, I heard this: “No way. I have cooked for the dinner very nice-and-big (read, ‘very expensive’) pomfrets for you. We are going to have dinner at home.” I sulked. “Come on,...

“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.” - Benjamin Franklin I saw Kannan in our Tai Chi class after many Sundays. “All is all?” I enquired.”Seeing you after a long time.”  “Oh yes, all is well,” Kannan replied in his gung-ho style, “September-November are my months of hibernation… I go into my cave… They are less productive. In November, I come out.”   Today, Kannan and I were discussing about the food habits… “If our stomachs are fine, we are fine,” Kannan said, “as they say, we are what we eat.” The habit of eating light, putting less strain on our stomachs is a habit, like all healthy habits, we need to cultivate with discipline. What works for us at our young age doesn’t work for us when we grow old… Heavy food at night, particularly late in the night, is a major cause for most of our health issues. Kannan shared with me the way he had brought about changes in his eating habits. He emphasized on the time-teste...