Are you a couch potato?
Most eating preferences are habits, influenced by a person’s lifestyle. When TV viewing replaced our entertainment options, it did not only revolutionise our free time activities, but also modified our eating habits to a large extent. Family meals started moving around our favourite soaps. Playtime got reduced by cartoons. Holiday treks were replaced by movies and popcorn. Research has linked excessive TV viewing to obesity especially in children. The proverbial "couch potato" image is scientifically true.Research also suggests that we tend to eat more food and remember less about what we ate when we are busy watching TV. So how does one get out of this habit? Ideally switch off the TV, computer etc. and concentrate on just food while eating. "Hey, I'm supposed to have small regular meals, you cant seriously mean that I switch off the TV every single time I eat?? What about the evening snack time?" True, TV viewing is such an integral part of...