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I have an observation that - I think - needs input from medical doctors/food scientists/nutrition specialists/biochemists - and also other ES members who are kind enough/care for offering decent comments (please: no fighters/street fights needed): Although the medical examination for the newly hired employees in the company I work for is as tough as if it were for admittance to a military college, I get surprised to find out that these young men have several weaknesses in their digestion system that show up a few years after they start working. I tell them,these types of health weaknesses used to show up in my generation after getting into the forties (excess acidic stomach, slow digestion, uric acid -----). In my cell memories: as a young man, when I was away from home and feeling hungry, I search for a grocery (Baal or with today's terminology mini/supermarket) buy 1/8 or 1/4 Kg white fresh cheese depending on how much money I had and pickles (Mekhalel), then go to a bakery and buy a piece of a long white bread (in Alex called: Phino) sit in the first Caffee (Kahwa or presently: coffee shop) that show up after having this protein-rich/vegetable and healthy food. The waiter (El Kahwagy) without a word, as he sees his table turned to a dinning table instead of serving softdrinks; brings at once a glass of water and usually hope getting better with your meal (Seha wa Afia). He, noticing you swalloed your sandwich, comes to you and ask for which drink you need. As he takes your order into his memory(no writing) he takes whatever leftover your meal off the table, and in a minute you have your drink; hot steaming tea/turkish coffee/soda. Presently: children and adolecent plus young men/women; most of the new generations - I think and might be wrong or exaggerating - are addict to bagged (Kias) cooked food; mostly potatoes, made of starch plus vegetable cooking oil only God knows the quality of its source. More memories: whenever I had a work in Cairo, and after finishing it, I loved to go to El Hossein mosque, pray the noon and afternoon prayers, and there was a "Masmat" ie. a restaurant presenting the cattle foot cooked with bread and rice (Kawaree) and served with soup and lemmon. I used to buy Mikhalel with an entire Egyptian Pound (purchase power of the 1970s) before entering that restaurant. It was one of the most delicious meals to me in Cairo. Afterwards I had my minted tea at El Fishawy Kahwa/coffee shop. I think if one of my young chemists had to have all these dining rituals, he could be hospitalized. I in my old age 57 should be hospitalized as well. The last time I were at El Hossein two weeks ago, I searched for "Kawaregy El Haad El Gedid - the Masmat" just to remember my younger years and was disappointed to find it switched to a dimmed lighted western looking restaurant for the tourists. The Mekhalel shop disappeared too and a "boutique" showed up instead. There is only left one thing of my past: The Mosque of El Hossein itself. As I enter it full of the materialistic calculations/work competitions/pressures, and after visiting El Mashhad El Hosseiny" then pray, I leave with a spiritual dose that makes me feel as if my weight got lighter and my facial muscles got relaxed and look at our Donnia (life) from above and wonder how our vision is so limited if counted on only the materialistic calculations. Wish to know if my observation is correct/close to be correct/far from being correct. To summarize: Are the changing feeding habbits responsible for the early (premature) weaknesses in the digestion system of the younger Egyptian generations?. Sorry for the long elaboration mixed with spiritual revelations. Salam.
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Ms Dalia Thanks for the link. You are right in describing it as "somehow related". It is about Obesity in Egypt; and it's very informative about that subject. Still curious to read about the effect of bagged (Kias)food on the younger generations. I am concerned about their weak health relative to their being in their most powerful age. Wish you have a nice evening, I repeat my thanks/appreciation for your help. Salam. Yours: Sciencesailor
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