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"The April rain, the April rain,
Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;
And in grey shawl and woodland bowers
The cuckoo through the April rain
Calls once again."
Mathilde Blind, April Rain
Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;
And in grey shawl and woodland bowers
The cuckoo through the April rain
Calls once again."
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Why they are named junck food?
Do you love eating Hamburger, fried chicken and chips? Or drinking frizzy drink, such as coca-cola? Those kinds of food taste good and we are told they are harmful to our health, but I really love them, not all of the time but try them once or twice per month. This question has perplexed me for a long time, why these foods are named junck food?
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Junk means rubbish. They are rubbish food.
> But these rubbish food are truely my favoriate ones, especially when I feel desperate and am full of stress. @mheredge They can let me relax and feel better, although I know those feelings are just temperary.
This is just like alcohol. It brings relaxation to many people and cheers them up, but it comes for a price. Exercise is far healthy means to tackle stress and anger. And even exercise can be abused as well.
http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/my-loubia-lubia-loobia-classic-algerian-beans-372923
Too many calories than necessary for most lifestyles (few people make a living by felling trees manually nowdays). The volume factor adds to this: a person needs a certain volume to feel full. It leads to obesity and even diabetes. Advanced stages of diebetes make a person unable of walking, even to bathroom.
The food contains too many taste and flavour enhacers (both natural and artificial). That's exactly the reason why the dishs seem tasty, but it's cheating. The artificial substances damage a person's health, while all of them degrade the abilities of a person's tastebuds, who can't taste subtle nuances being used to junk food. Though they restore after switching to a healthier diet.
Junk food is a processed food which hurts a person's digestion system because it's built to deal with tougher substances.
While all these things don't kill on the place, they can significantly decrease lifespan and the quality of life.
Sweets are ok, but on the conditions they're eaten in the morning and in small quantities just enough to catch the taste. That's the French way of having sweets. Or, maybe while doing a stamina sport (marathon runners have Cola during the exercise) or while doing hard physical labour.
But Algerian loubia soup looks very healthy @lisa.
> @Practical_Severard this is why I never enter MacDonald's or any other fast food place any more (I used occasionally before).
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> But Algerian loubia soup looks very healthy @lisa.
I think that fish and chips is no better, since it's deep fried.
As for McDonald's it's sometimes useful as a free and clean public bathroom.
Fish and chips are very unhealthy when you look at how it is all deep fried. I did used to occassionally (only two or three times a year) indulge, but only if it was from the North Sea Fish Restaurant around the corner from where I used to live.
http://www.northseafishrestaurant.co.uk/
This shows it very well:
https://www.google.fr/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x48761b3a694d4ffb:0x4ae2951b092bc04a!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4s/maps/place/north+sea+fish+restaurant+london/@51.5264933,-0.1252908,3a,75y,169.89h,90t/data=*213m4*211e1*213m2*211saL28Q_dKzwcwkjThsFNtjw*212e0*214m2*213m1*211s0x48761b3a694d4ffb:0x4ae2951b092bc04a!5snorth+sea+fish+restaurant+london+-+Google+Search&imagekey=!1e2!2saL28Q_dKzwcwkjThsFNtjw&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjp3sijuP3ZAhUSDOwKHWqTBDcQpx8IxwEwCg
> I have a few times slipped in to use their facilities @Practical_Severard, though sometimes they make it difficult unless you can show you're a customer.
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> Fish and chips are very unhealthy when you look at how it is all deep fried. I did used to occassionally (only two or three times a year) indulge, but only if it was from the North Sea Fish Restaurant around the corner from where I used to live.
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> http://www.northseafishrestaurant.co.uk/
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Unfortunately, my liver doesn't allow me this.