Though I know that a majority of the readers will answers
in the negative, I ask this question –How many times have you gone to sleep hungry?
And it was not by choice but due to lack of money to buy food. We know the
answer and the truth is that while we live our lives without giving a thought as
to where our next meal is coming from, there are millions of people living with
us in this wonderful world of ours who have no idea about the same.
Before we think about solving the world’s problems, let
us try to understand what exactly food is. We wake up in the morning with a cup
of maybe milk or tea or coffee or fruit juice. We follow this with a variety of
things –fruits, bread, cereals, egg, meat etc. After a few hours our stomach
starts to growl when its lunch time. Similarly when it’s time for dinner. I cannot
focus on anything when I’m hungry and I’m quite certain that is how it is with
a lot of people. We all know that to lead a healthy lifestyle we need to eat
healthy food –fibers, protein, carbohydrates. The food that we consume gets
converted to energy which runs our body, our internal organs. Plain and simple –food
is our fuel. If we have to live, we have to eat. And being alive is the greatest
requirement for us to achieve greatness in life –our sole purpose. I mean when
have you heard dead men achieve great feats after their death? We now are on
the same page and that is –we need food to be alive and do what we have to do.
