Fruit Food and Alcohol

I haven't tried all the fruit here, I've tried the local oranges and banana's. The oranges stand out the most. They are much sweeter and more flavorful than the oranges back in the states. The reason for this (I think) they are picked when ripe unlike the oranges in the US. Oranges in the states are picked with shipping in mind so they are not ripe when picked. By the time they get to the store they are ripe. Oranges in the US are good, the oranges here are better.

There seem to be two different types of banana. One is shorter than what we see in the states and it has a slightly different taste. I don't really care for it but they do have the bananas we have in the state and it's difficult to tell if they are really better tasting.

I bought some chocolate at the grocery store the other day when I went to the movies. Gotta have some chocolate for the movie. I bought two different types, chocolate covered nuts/raisins and some M&M's. I ate the chocolate covered nuts/raisins at the theater during the movie, Zero Dark Thirty. My stomach did not react well to the chocolate. After very little sugar and no chocolate for five weeks my body rejected it in the form of abdominal spasms the following day.

Many of the blogs I read were filled with information about the food here and how wonderful it is especially the local food, the Thai food. I agree, it's all so tasty. Some of the blogs wrote about the local food taking it toll on you (them/us) but they were in the minority. These particular blogs made reference to the MSG as the culprit behind the down side to eating too much of the local food. This also has been my experience. I feel my blood pressure go up when I eat out. If I eat out just once and eat the wrong food, food with too much MSG and whatever else they are putting in the food to make my body not react well to it, I am very aware of my BP going up.

I think it's just the body type. Some bodies do not react well to the food cooked here and my body is one of them. My BP will also go up when I drink and I'm not talking about heavy drinking but just a couple of beers. I think it's my new reality, I cannot have alcohol in my system any more. I will not get to see the age of sixty three if I drink, that is unless I get on meds for high BP and fuck that. I've not had a drink it about a week. My body has a way of telling me it likes the absence of alcohol in my system. 

When I first read CWG (Conversations With God ) the book made clear the fact our bodies were not made with the intention of being able to handle alcohol. Alcohol is not good for the human body. As I read that book over and over again I now wonder if the reason my BP rises when I drink is because I believe so strongly that alcohol is not good for me. I think my BP rises as a visible/tangible sign of my bodies rejection of alcohol.

I never witnessed my parents drinking when I was growing up. My dad did not like to drink. I think it has something to do with Korea and the war. My mom did some social drinking but but that was never at home and I don't think she drinks much today. She does love her cigarettes and they will put her in an early grave. The fact I seldom, if ever, saw my parents drink programed into me the absence of wanting or desiring alcohol.

Unfortunately I cannot say the same thing about me and my daughter. She witness me and my sisters drinking quite a bit. I think she witnessed her mother drinking alot as well. Lots of social drinking, I'm not referring to drinking like alcoholics. Lots of drinking at family functions and at the holiday's. I think my daughter grew up desiring alcohol because of watching us adults drinking. I think she probably does lots of social drinking now.
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