Script: Hello, everyone, how are you doing? Last time, I said, in winter, sunrise is about 8am and sunset is around 5pm. I would like to make a correction. After changing the clocks, sunrise is about 7am, and sunset is 5pm. If I could change the rules, I would prefer a later sunrise and a later sunset. It gets dark soon after my kids come back from school, and I feel like I have to rush them to eat dinner and do homework. For those people working a 9 – 5 job, it is nighttime the moment they step out of the office. Isn’t that depressing? Okay, so, today we are going to talk about eating habits. Breakfast is the first meal of the day. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night…. Do you eat breakfast? Do you skip breakfast? Health experts say it is not good to skip breakfast, and there are 5 reasons: 1: Quick Fix of Essential Nutrients. 2: Prevent Weight Gain. 3: Healthy Skin. 4: Power Your Brain. 5: Energy Boost. A lot of people who are trying to lose weight make the mistake of skipping breakfast. When you skip breakfast, you often crave sugar and end up eating unhealthy snacks before lunch time. Or you end up eating a lot during lunch time. What do you eat for breakfast? It is important to eat protein in the morning. A quick and easy breakfast would be 1 boiled egg, 1 slice of toast and 1 fruit. I love my morning coffee, more like, I need it. I cannot start the day without a coffee. How do I take my coffee? With milk and honey. How do you take your coffee, or tea? The phrase “how do you take” in this sentence means, if you add milk, sugar, sweetener or prefer it black. Are you a picky eater? A picky eater is someone who doesn’t like to eat a variety of foods, and dislikes many kinds of foods. What do you crave? Do you eat 3 regular meals a day? Or do you graze during the day? To graze is to eat small portions of food throughout the day. Usually, when people graze, their food choices are poor. People usually graze on low nutrient foods like chips and sweets. Grazing is not the same as snacking. Snacking is eating between main meals, and you finish it right away. Usually, snacking is planned and choices are better. For example, if you eat a fruit in the mid-morning, that’s snacking, not grazing. If you have a bag of Smarties on your desk and you eat 1-2 Smarties while working, and it takes you a few hours to finish that bag of Smarties, that’s grazing. My meals are mostly planned. I eat breakfast at 7am, usually oatmeal topped with granola, and blueberries. Around 9 or 10am, I eat a slice of cheese with toast. Lunch is around 12 noon. Then mid-afternoon, before I pick up the kids from school, I eat a granola bar, or some leftovers from lunch. Dinner is at 5:30 – 6pm. My last meal of the day is 8 pm, when I indulge in a little bit of sweets, 1 to 2 oatmeal cookies while watching Netflix. What is your eating habit like? Thank you for listening.

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