Tummy Aches

Me + quinoa + tofu + bean sprouts + carrots + red peppers + onion + focaccia bread + butter + milk = tummy ache.  Envious? You'd be surprised by how many people are.
What are you eating right now? Im not kidding you. Do you have a cup of coffee beside you at the moment? A piece of bread in the toaster? Or do you just have really bad breath form your dinner? I think its disgusting how much of our lives revolve around food. I mean, when is the average American or Canadian not eating? What about when you go to the movies, heck, even out with friends? First dates and business meetings? On the way home from school?
I did a bit of hunting around actually, and apparently 4.5 hours every day are involved in food purchase, preparation and consumption. According to the Eating and Health Module of the American Time Survey the average American spends 66.9 minutes eating throughout their three daily meals, 15.4 minutes snacking, 42 minutes drinking, and 7 minutes snacking when waiting for food preparation to finish.
I am not going to natter about exercising. I'm not going to tell you all to choose food from the Earth and not from machines. I won't tell you that one out of three children in North America are obese, or that two thirds of our population don't meet the daily nutritional amounts.  
I will however try and bring your attention towards 925 MILLION people. Because 925 000 000 people are hungry. 925 000 000 tummy aches are the opposite of mine. I hope you notice the luxury in our gluttony, and that you see thr fortune in our fat. I'm going to relay that the average woman in Kenya walks two hours for dirty diseased water. I am going to tell you that when you "die" for a caff cookie, or those triangle chip things each day, 16000 children die of starvation daily, one every five seconds.
So by the time you finish reading this blog, another twenty five children are gone.
And that, that's food for thought.
-em