Health (Lina Quiroga)

My name is Lina Quiroga, my birthday is on 30th of December and I was born in Colombia.

Well, for me, to talk about health means talking about having a good lifestyle, don't feel any pains in your body, eat regularly and feel good with your life and yourself.

Obviously, to carry out all this, you must eat the three meals of a day, which are breaksfast, lunch and dinner, and avoid fast food or anything that could contain much fat or sugar.

If I have to talk about my example, I should say that I'm not really healthy, because I don't usually eat those three meals at their corresponding hours. I always eat when I'm hungry and whatever I find to eat.

I think health is important, and to do some exercise too.

I don't play any sport, but I would like to. When I was in my country, I was in a basketball team and I loved it. Actually basketball is my favourite sport. I think that comes from my mum, because she used to play it too.

And talking about diet, as I said, I eat when I'm hungry and I don't follow any diet. When I'm at home, I eat my mum's food, which is more Colombian than Spanish, but sometimes, at weekends, my dad cooks and his food is more like a mix of flavours.

And focusing on types of food that people eat in different countries, I would like to show you two dishes that have caught my attention.

In Alaska for example:

There is a dish called:"Oogruk flippers and fresh whale blubber". They put the flippers in the fresh blubber and leave them for two weeks, then they get the loose skin of the flippers out and then they eat the meat that's left.
(the oogruk is a kind of walrus).

And in Guatemala, there's a dish called: "Cockerel in chicha".
(chicha is a type of drink that contains corn and alcohol)

However I don't need to go so far away to find weird food, because when we go to Colombia, my dad usually buys and then eats roasted ants. I've never tasted them because I think they're disgusting, but he says that they taste like peanuts.