Japanese learning note - blood sugar (Day3)
My mom is nurse and she checked my blood sugar after a dinner one day at the beginning of this year. Then we realised that I got myself in a big trouble after I moved to Tokyo 8 months ago.
My blood glucose (blood sugar) was unbelievably high and was near the level of type 2 diabetes.
For a normal person, the blood glucose is no higher than 120 mg/dL 2 hours after meal, but my was 190 mg/dL, it is prediabetic level. (photo from http://www.bloodsugarbattles.com/)
Why did that happen? .... because there are just so many delicious sweets in Japan, I do not think anyone in the world can say NO to them.
Anyways, knowing my problem, I tried to eat less carbohydrate and sweets for the past 4 months (OMG I really miss them), this is what my typical meal looks like now, and if you compare it with my meal 4 months ago, yes, very very different.
The first day was really tough, I will definitely write another post to share about how did I get rid of sugar and the struggles I went through.
Actually, this post is about English and Japanese learning, considering that I am taking a course called Introduction to Food and Health which is provided by Stanford University on Coursera for free.
There are some nice points about food, so I try to translate the original sentences into Japanese.
Ok, here we go.
・The human body runs on food.
(人間の体は食べ物で作られる。)
・Once, food shortage was the major concern.
(かつては、食糧不足が大きな問題でした。)
・After the Second World War, technological advances in food production led to a new era that was characterized by an overabundance of inexpensive food, and relatively little physical activity.
（第二次世界大戦後、食料生産における技術進歩のせいで安い食べ物が豊富で、身体活動が比較的少ないという新しい時代に導いた。）
・We are living in a food environments that fails to support our health.
（今の食環境によると健康に生活していくことができません。）
・A food that's high in refined carbohydrates, like white bread or soda, will lead to a more rapid release of glucose into the blood.
(精製した炭水化物の多い食品は、例えば白米と食パン、血糖が急速に増えてしまうことにつながります)
Let's keep low blood sugar and carry on.