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SPY<br />
HOLLYWOOD<br />
BETWEEN<br />
FILM<br />
A P R 2 0 1 8 • I S S U E 9 • V O L 4<br />
COCOA<br />
• A S W E E T E A T S M A G A Z I N E •<br />
O W T O<br />
H<br />
N S L A V E<br />
E<br />
R A M A I N<br />
D<br />
H E H O U S E<br />
T<br />
O U R Y<br />
R U S H<br />
C<br />
TRUMP AND RUSSIA<br />
TIPS<br />
PSYCHOLOGIST'S<br />
MAKE THAT HOT CHIC<br />
TO<br />
TURN BACK<br />
Sugar<br />
Does<br />
really makes<br />
you<br />
FAT?<br />
5P H O T O G R A P H Y<br />
SECRETS<br />
BECOME RICH FOOD-BLOGGER<br />
ON SUPER LOW LOW BUDGET
T H E F I R S T E D I T I O N<br />
CONTENTS<br />
03<br />
F O O D P O R N 1 0 1<br />
Cheat that cheap food into million-dollars<br />
Michelin. An ultimate guide to become a rich<br />
food-blogger on low budget<br />
13<br />
E N S L A V E Y O U R C R U S H<br />
Psychology introduces you the 6 things you<br />
should be doing if you want your crush like You<br />
back<br />
17<br />
F O O D D E L I V E R Y K I L L S<br />
Lunch at your door or death at your face? How<br />
our lazy meal murders lives and home. Start<br />
packing your own lunch.<br />
23<br />
S U G A R M A K E S Y O U F A T ?<br />
Why we are so addicted to sugar and is it really<br />
the culprit behind the creeping number on your<br />
scale?
E D I T O R :<br />
L E S S O N<br />
M U S T - L E A R N<br />
FOODPORN<br />
101<br />
F O O D B L O G G E R ' S<br />
C L O R I S H U A N G<br />
Make Your<br />
Food Gloss<br />
H O W T O C H E A T T H A T C H E A P F O O D I N T O<br />
M I L L I O N - D O L L A R S M I C H E L I N
Bro, that Matsusaka and Caspian caviar ain’t<br />
04 ISSUE 1<br />
CONNOISSEUR<br />
PAGE<br />
Fat Taste, Skinny Purse<br />
CLORIS HUANG<br />
food-blogger even on low budget with only<br />
The aspiration to become luxurious deli foodblogger<br />
may be legit, but sometimes money<br />
single-digit-priced McDonald's or plastic<br />
counts. After all, the business of updating<br />
wrapped buns.<br />
fancy dishes really depends on how much<br />
budget you’ve got. If your taste is fat but that<br />
A lot of the time, the popularity of your photo<br />
wallet in your pocket is skinny AF, one day<br />
depends on the way you photograph it<br />
the reality will kick you hard on the derriere:<br />
instead of what is being photographed.<br />
Especially when it comes to food, people<br />
ever gonna fly onto your plate! Then, your<br />
more often click on lusciously provocative<br />
penniless palate begins to shake: “How am I<br />
shots of food taken with well consideration<br />
gonna get that million-clicks foodie if I can’t<br />
than one-second finished fluffs. This is how<br />
afford million-dollars Michelin?”<br />
ordinary food can go fancy, with the right<br />
The answer? Use your weapon: the camera.<br />
background, lighting, composition, and your<br />
camera. Sounds like a more lucrative deal?<br />
Every food blogger is equipped with a<br />
camera regardless of kind, and as long<br />
Let’s get straight into how to polish the<br />
as you’ve got one, you can become a celeb<br />
‘junks’.
true<br />
power<br />
lies<br />
in your<br />
hands,<br />
not your<br />
plate.
texture, movement, to the localized shapes of<br />
CONNOISSEUR<br />
FEATURE<br />
PAGE 06<br />
O N E<br />
DIVE & GO MACRO<br />
Masquerading lesson one: Only show the goodies of<br />
your food. How to do that? Use macro photography:<br />
zooming-in and getting real close-up with your food.<br />
Simply put: macro makes the food filling the frame.<br />
By zooming-in into your food, you can actually<br />
discover a wide range of intrigue, ranging from<br />
different parts of your food that would visually stretch<br />
on abstractism. Thus, you don’t really need to care if<br />
your food is brand-attractive enough to get the likes<br />
because you are engaging your viewers on the<br />
magnified intricacy of the dish, and fortunately every<br />
food offers touch, movement, and pattern highly<br />
individualized and unique to its own kind. If your take<br />
is executed properly, the shot would just be as eye-<br />
catching as those on GordonRamsay.com.<br />
So the bonus: You may feel like an ignoble vagrant<br />
snapping your hackneyed starbucks or humdrum<br />
grocery noodles, but if you zoom in, no one’s gonna<br />
know it! (Unless you caption it.)
ealistically, you only need 50mm lens for<br />
07 ISSUE 1<br />
CONNOISSEUR<br />
PAGE<br />
Because you are very close up to the food,<br />
Before you start, get yourself a decent<br />
camera and lens. You can technically just use<br />
tiny movement of the camera could ruin the<br />
picture. In this case, remember three points:<br />
your phone, but if your goal aims for a more<br />
striking impression, it’s really recommended<br />
shutter speed, ISO, and light. Fast speed<br />
to purchase a macro camera lens suitable for<br />
accompanied by higher ISO or brighter light<br />
your cause. Depending on your need, you<br />
will always enable you capture the shot with<br />
may choose from 35mm to 100mm, though<br />
less blurring and shifting. If possible, use a<br />
tripod to stabilize your camera; if not, make<br />
food photography, because lenses of 100mm<br />
use of your body! Right positioning of your<br />
or larger are generally for shooting subjects<br />
elbows on steady surface will help.<br />
like wilderness animals or insects that<br />
prohibit you to approach at near distance.<br />
Lenses such as Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DC DN C<br />
lens and Olympus Zuiko F/2.8 Macro lens are<br />
excellent options for your trolley, especially<br />
the Olympus, its offer of F/2.8 aperture really<br />
provide some captivating effect in macro<br />
frame.<br />
Also pay special attention to the adjustment<br />
of your camera
doesn’t necessarily need to be superfluously eyecatching,<br />
since you want your viewers essentially to<br />
2. Complementary color always work well with<br />
3. Light food subject on relative dark<br />
emphasis; same goes with the reverse. Toffee<br />
4. White and black go well with literally all sort<br />
Aperture, such as F2 or F1.8 will do the same trick<br />
CONNOISSEUR<br />
ISSUE 1W<br />
PAGE 08<br />
T W O<br />
PRETTY UP YOUR<br />
BACKGROUND<br />
If you can’t macro, don't do it. But be aware when<br />
you zoom out, find an attractive and suitable<br />
of food, just don’t do pure black on black, you<br />
don’t want power-cut on your post.<br />
background for your food subject. The background<br />
5. For table background, wood is a very<br />
effective surface, the texture will enhance<br />
focus on the food. While choosing the background,<br />
your photo.<br />
think about the following tips:<br />
1. Consider the color of your food matter.<br />
If you can’t find a satisfying background, try a smalldigit<br />
aperture and play with depth of field----You<br />
each other, find your food a complementary<br />
may call it a blurred background. A narrow depth of<br />
background (Red & green, black & white,<br />
field will help you to blur out all the messy things on<br />
blue & orange, yellow & purple).<br />
the back and concentrate the focus on your nearground<br />
food, and sometimes you can actually get a<br />
decent effect when those distractions are smudgy.<br />
background give a nice contrast and<br />
chocolate on milky marble? Yummy!<br />
just as well.
together, order a lot of cheap grease but arrange<br />
diagonals, and power of odds are good ways to<br />
draft, it’s helpful to increase the contrast and<br />
recommended, although it costs you $8, but the<br />
09 ISSUE 1<br />
CONNOISSEUR<br />
PAGE<br />
LIGHT IT UP<br />
T H R E E<br />
MAGIC TIME<br />
F I V E<br />
Good lighting is insanely crucial to the<br />
The ultimate thing you should do if you want to<br />
turn crap into gold is do the edit. Because the food<br />
presentation of your food. Whether it’s grocery<br />
store jerky or Hokkaido urchin, a good lighting will<br />
itself may be lackluster, applying attractive filters<br />
boost the level of your photography to another<br />
and just-right adjustment of color can strengthen<br />
your food photo. And depends on the original<br />
level.<br />
When you’re taking the shots, find a spot with<br />
exposure to create more dynamicity. You can even<br />
natural lighting. Remember it’s always better to<br />
avoid the jaundice-dripping electric lamp that<br />
use photoshop to fix unwanted details! Editing<br />
does increase the quality of your photo.<br />
make your food fifty shades older. Get a seat<br />
outside or simply take your food out on the street,<br />
Apps such as VSCO and PicsArt provide wide<br />
range of good filters for use, while Foodie Cam and<br />
and a tip for ya: street as background can also<br />
Gudak Cam are amazing food camera; if you want<br />
adds color to your photo. If it’s at night, make good<br />
a retro, film-roll effect, Gudak is highly<br />
use of the electric light, not for the overall tone but<br />
play with the shadows and contrast. You can also<br />
stunt you can get from it really worth the bill. All<br />
pull from other tips.<br />
these apps can be downloaded with Android and<br />
iSO. Why not try it out?<br />
GET IN SHAPE<br />
F O U R<br />
Now you know the ultimate secrets of what it takes<br />
to succeed in a food-blogger career even without<br />
big money patron, you can start thinga trying out!<br />
Heed that it’s totally fine to combine multiple tips<br />
A plate of sandwich on a dining table, boring!<br />
or use only one tip, as long as you have a passionate<br />
Make’em into arts! Find your friends and eat<br />
heart for food and a persevering mind to practice<br />
the techniques, who knows if you are the next<br />
them artistically. A good composition will not<br />
‘slumdog foodllionaire”?<br />
necessarily make the food itself seem more<br />
appealing but it would certainly elevate the<br />
aesthetics of your photo. If that everyday burger<br />
bores you, build a burger pyramid with your<br />
gourmand gangs! Rule of thirds, fill in the frame,<br />
compose your photo. Add those in, the one-cent<br />
bites become expensive arts.
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bonuses: plastics. Your pizza in plastic box, your soda in plastic<br />
bottle, and plastic straws and plastic utensils, and they all end<br />
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P A C K Y O U R O W N L U N C H T O S A V E<br />
T H E W O R L D<br />
The following scenario cannot be more typical in a lazy, casual<br />
Saturday noon: We woke up by that annoying 12 o’clock alarm,<br />
slid our phone and check out what’s good on food delivery app<br />
since it’s too late for a homemade brunch, then place some<br />
fried chicken orders and wait in the couch like a starving dog.<br />
No more than 10 minutes and your scrumptious, delicious<br />
déjeuner will come at your doorway, ready to enjoy the feast,<br />
maybe with CDs of film or two! It’s a pretty common way to sort<br />
out your weekend lazy cravings. The weather’s goddamn<br />
don’t bother to go outside your AC-sufficient apartment. Who<br />
cares if I don’t put on my shoes, with food delivery APP you can<br />
literally get your favorite treats in less than no time.<br />
"But convenience often comes<br />
with a price."<br />
Maybe you haven’t notice it yet, but every time a delivery<br />
knocks on your door, you will always get a few pale and ashen<br />
up in a white screechy plastic bag! That’s hell lot of plastics, it<br />
may seem like a day-to-day trifle to be ignored, but the real<br />
matter is that you will have no idea just what nefarious deals<br />
they are doing to the place you are living in, right in this<br />
moment.<br />
1 7 | T A S T Y
non-biodegradable, which basically means nothing<br />
WHITE<br />
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CONNOISSEUR<br />
INTERVIEW<br />
PAGE 15<br />
credit: Susan White / U.S Fish & Wildlife Service / Ocean Conservancy<br />
Your lunch plastic survive on average about 25<br />
And think about this: 295 million Chinese has<br />
minutes before you trash them---maybe even lesser-<br />
ordered takeout via food delivery services in 7<br />
--but for that piece of light material to get<br />
months(more than Ariana Grande’s instagram<br />
decomposed it takes 450 up to a thousands years!<br />
followers!), and 12 million orders are placed every<br />
(You grand×10children may find the takeaway bag<br />
day via a major takeaway company(more than all<br />
you’re using right now) Another thing, plastics are<br />
the New Zealanders!); If each order is shipped with a<br />
plastic bag and a plastic lunchbox, that’s a insane 24<br />
organic can kill them! And it’s hella EW, because<br />
million plastic consumption ON A SINGLE DAY! And<br />
it’s ONLY in China. Can you imagine the number if<br />
your faeces are biodegradable and the nonbiodegradable<br />
plastics are literally like<br />
we add up the global total? ---- Absolute lunacy. And<br />
indestructible poop that stuck in the soil who break<br />
the absurdity will soar onto another level if we are<br />
down into bits and bits of toxic matter that poison<br />
calculating how long will all of these undeads go to<br />
the earth, the water, and all the cute animals you’re<br />
hell.<br />
ever gonna loved! I know you’re already pretty<br />
disgusted, but that’s not it.
plastics, cuz well, you WOULDN’t want that thing in<br />
dementor, once the animals mistakenly ingest it, it’s<br />
BUTCHERS<br />
THESEA<br />
ON<br />
Dolphins are cute, turtles are adorable, but with<br />
Perhaps you should consider boycotting the<br />
plastic pollution, you’re just gonna see thousands of<br />
floating corpses in horror aesthetic. Believe it or not,<br />
your stomach, and here’s what happen when the<br />
animals are on the rollercoaster of massive<br />
animals eat plastic. Because plastic is like unkillable<br />
holocaust dying thanks to of human’s massive<br />
addiction to plastic packaging, and hey, your<br />
gonna stay in the gut. The digestion will be<br />
delivery takeaways proudly counted as one. We<br />
interfered and food cannot be broken down, and<br />
can’t blame the evolution, but animals cannot really<br />
instead of instant death which eases on the mind,<br />
differentiate crusts of food from plastic snippets,<br />
the animals are suffering from a long and<br />
they are going to eat those plastic left by you, and<br />
excruciating process. If you don’t want to<br />
the scale of that population is about 100,000 a year,<br />
experience that yourself, don’t do it to the cute<br />
accompanied by 100,000 death a year.<br />
seals.
PAGE 2 | COMIDA<br />
PACK YOUR<br />
OWN<br />
can’t obviously save the world or ditch<br />
You<br />
the plastic at once, that’s just impossible.<br />
all<br />
you do can start from small bits, such as<br />
But<br />
the food delivery orders and pack<br />
quitting<br />
own lunch with your own box. And you<br />
your<br />
love it for these reasons: it’s more<br />
will<br />
friendly, it’s healthier, and<br />
environmental<br />
actually save more money in long term.<br />
you<br />
out some lunch box ideas you can<br />
Check<br />
on your own to brighten up the planet<br />
make<br />
a little bit more.<br />
just
Tamagoyaki: Japanese omelette serves you<br />
Dorasik” literally mean “lunch box”, with<br />
palatable. And of course, some korean healthy<br />
Kimchi: this is a must for Koreans<br />
good. And here are some Indian dishes you<br />
#1 Japanese Bento in Purple Geisha Bento Box<br />
Creative Lunchbox Ideas That<br />
Japanese has got some real aesthetic and<br />
ingenuity with their lunches. One creative<br />
lunch bento you can take from the anime-<br />
lovers is Geisha bento box. The bento box has<br />
the shape of traditional Japanese figure, the<br />
three-tiers container allow you to prepare<br />
Will Save Your Tomorrow<br />
delicious sushi even to miso soup----the lid of<br />
Even if the policy don’t change, you can<br />
the bento is an inverted bowl for liquid or rice.<br />
Some Japanese food you should try in bento<br />
change to save the world. So here’s a challenge:<br />
set:<br />
this weekend, ditch that lethargy go getting up<br />
and kick yourself into the kitchen to make your<br />
own delicious, healthy, and new lunch!<br />
the daily protein<br />
Apple rabbit: apple slices cut in rabbit shape, a<br />
boost in Vitamin and ultimate cuteness<br />
Onigiri: triangle rice ball with nori seaweed,<br />
yummy carbs.<br />
#2 Korean Dorasik in Stainless steel Lunchbox<br />
stainless steel lunchbox, you can skip the<br />
plastic and go pretty Asian old-school like<br />
with your lunch. Although not watertight, the<br />
steel box will keep you food fresh and<br />
noon delights:<br />
Braised Lotus roots: Get your veggies ready<br />
Ojingeochae Muchim: Literally means spicy<br />
dried squid, super tasty<br />
Brown rice kimbap: he Korean version of<br />
“sushi”, you can get things like crab meat,<br />
cucumber, and carrots in the fillings.<br />
#3 The Indian Tiffin<br />
If you want that super-size castle-like box,<br />
Indian tiffin is your best choice. It’s also made<br />
from steel but with multiple tiers layer on top<br />
of each other. And it’s not plastic, no plastic is<br />
must not miss in the carrier:<br />
Kathi rolls: Paratha flatbread rolling chicken<br />
and veggie for a savory bite.<br />
Dal Makhani: Fibers-up with lentils, beans, and<br />
corianders!<br />
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ugar!<br />
E N E M Y<br />
O R<br />
F R I E N D ?<br />
“Sugar” is literally hitlerized in the modern<br />
weight-loss campaign. And agree if you dare, we all<br />
have heard the famous media portrayal of “sugar<br />
makes you fat”. Google online, and you will be<br />
bombed by harangues written by health experts<br />
and bodybuilders on just how bad sugar is for you:<br />
“It’s evil”, “It’s heinous”, and most terrifyingly, “it’s<br />
fattening!” Then, humanity’s alarmed innovativity<br />
creates surges of dietary laws like “you can’t eat<br />
any sugar if you wanna be fit,” “carbs are bad cuz<br />
they contain sugar”, or “go paleo if you want to<br />
cut”, and so on and so on.<br />
I S S U G A R T H E R E A L C U L P R I T<br />
B E H I N D Y O U R C R E E P I N G<br />
W E I G H T G A I N ?<br />
3 2 | T A S T Y<br />
And as self-conscious and mating-driven as<br />
humans are considered, we all have struggled with<br />
our weight at some point in life. And almost<br />
immediately we started doing this--at least in the<br />
beginning----cutting off every single grams of<br />
sugar from our diet.
Now, let’s share a second of rapport:<br />
We all have dropped that chocolate<br />
bar or ice cream for a bowl of plainbitter<br />
salad, sometimes even shoving<br />
the bread and pasta away for the fear<br />
of simple sugar, only in venture to<br />
shed a few pounds off. Yet it sounds<br />
pretty convincing, Eh? All that<br />
decadent sweetness and guilty<br />
pleasure entailed sure does<br />
something as screwed-up as weight<br />
gain. And plus you’ve seen all these<br />
obese kids munching on Reese’s and<br />
oreos, there got to be a cause-andeffect<br />
between the word “sugar” and<br />
“being fat”.<br />
But is sugar the real culprit behind<br />
your lurking weight gain? Well, the<br />
truth is: Sugar does not cause you to<br />
gain weight. Okay. Hold on. If your<br />
reaction is ‘BS’ or ‘F**k No!’, I can<br />
totally relate. But let’s just be a little<br />
bit more skeptical than just the plain<br />
old “sugar makes you fat”. Before you<br />
ditch all sugar and go paleo, read the<br />
following, and you will be<br />
overwhelmed to be enlightened that<br />
sugar is not that EVIL after all, and<br />
eating the correct sugar as part of<br />
your diet will not hinder the weight<br />
loss----it's totally Okay.<br />
IT'S EVERYWHERE<br />
Sugar is a pretty abstract. You may<br />
think of it as Haagen Dazs or<br />
Cheesecake factory, but it’s way<br />
more complex. The term “sugar” is<br />
like a big-ass family surname, and<br />
under that there are three big-ass<br />
headmasters: monosaccharides,<br />
oligosaccharides, and<br />
polysaccharides. Simply put,<br />
monosaccharides are simple sugar<br />
found in food like doughnut and even<br />
fruits; oligosaccharides and<br />
polysaccharides are found in veggie<br />
and starches. So basically with<br />
exception to raw meat and water,<br />
EVERYTHING contains some form of<br />
sugars, even the healthiest stuffs like<br />
avocado.<br />
EAT OR DIE<br />
There is a legitimate reason behind<br />
why you crave for sugar so much<br />
after staying away from it for a long<br />
time, and that is, you need sugar to<br />
survive. Without sugar, your brain<br />
goes ‘dead’, that clumps of neurons<br />
and brain cells inside your head need<br />
sugar to fuel your thinking and<br />
creativity. If you ever had a brain fog,<br />
you know now that was probably<br />
because of low glucose level.<br />
And that sugar-lust gene is also in<br />
your DNA. Where ancient times held<br />
fullness unaccountable, your Stone-<br />
Age millenarian grandfather grabbed<br />
on sugar and fat whenever he could<br />
to survive the ‘Hunger Game’. Who<br />
knows when’s the next meal? We love<br />
sugar, and we need it, because<br />
evolution says it help us stay ALIVE.<br />
You wouldn’t want to torture your<br />
body by dumping the main source of<br />
energy you need. So chill-out, you’re<br />
allowed to eat sugar.<br />
GOOD N BAD<br />
I bet 100 dollars that most of you<br />
would somewhat arrive to the<br />
resolution to eat only the “good<br />
sugar” or “good carbs” and not the<br />
“bad ones.” But bro, what do you<br />
really mean by “good and bad”?<br />
Because the truth is, there isn’t really<br />
a “Good N Bad” distinction!<br />
Let’s kick in with some shocking<br />
chemistry.<br />
First call for all the healthyorthodox:<br />
Pineapple, cashews, and<br />
sweet potatoes contain sucrose, a<br />
type of simple sugar that’s got a<br />
fructose and glucose; Second call to<br />
the dessert-slaves: That corn syrup<br />
contains the same sugar but only<br />
breaks down faster.<br />
Now the picture is clearer.<br />
Chemically speaking, the “good” n<br />
“bad” are just as similar. Whether<br />
they are naturally occurring or<br />
artificially made, they all end up in<br />
glucose and absorbed by your body.<br />
Now looking at it, they’re pretty<br />
similar right?<br />
But it certainly doesn’t mean that<br />
cakes = fruits, and you should quit<br />
the nuts for muffins. Occasional<br />
dessert in moderation is fine. Eating<br />
sugar is not problematic, the real<br />
deal is how much you’re eating it.
THE<br />
REAL<br />
Killer<br />
Dessert doesn’t make you fat, but lots of<br />
dessert certainly does-----overeating is<br />
what makes weigh heavier than<br />
yesterday.<br />
Famous dude from the Yale University<br />
Prevention Research Center called David<br />
Katz says that "we actually need sugar;<br />
it's our body's preferred fuel, but we eat<br />
too damn much of it." He is right:<br />
American heart experts (AHA) tells us not<br />
to eat more than 24 grams of sugar if<br />
you’re a female, but in reality, we crush<br />
ourself an average of 18 tablespoons. You<br />
should still eat the sugars, but you’re<br />
eating way too much. What’s overeating?<br />
Feeding yourself with too much energy<br />
from regardless types of food, whether<br />
it’s protein, sugar, fats, or even fruits.<br />
Consider this scenario and guess<br />
who’s gonna gain more weight: a<br />
person who eats one cookie but<br />
followed with a balanced, nutritious<br />
diet, or a person who eats just 20<br />
plates of 18 oz steak with absolutely<br />
no sugar? The answer is obvious.<br />
Taking from research conclusion from<br />
University of Hawaii, what you should<br />
take away is that: “It is important to<br />
state at the outset that there is no<br />
direct connection between added<br />
sugars intake and obesity unless<br />
excessive consumption of sugarcontaining<br />
beverages and foods leads<br />
to energy imbalance and the resultant<br />
weight gain.”
NOW<br />
what to do<br />
Get A Bowl<br />
Do you find it hard to count how much your stomach has embraced in<br />
your family dinner, where everything just lay out and you can take<br />
whatever you want? In weight-loss or even for the sake of health,<br />
portion control is the key. Use a small bowl or a plate with divider to<br />
limit the amount of food you are supposed to eat, this way, you know<br />
how much you’ve consumed and you would not try to fork more.<br />
Go Natural<br />
You know you can’t skip carbs nor the sugar, but you can decide which<br />
sugar to eat. Natural sugar found in unprocessed food such as fruit<br />
and grains are okay to eat. Not only provide you the necessary energy<br />
to work, but they also provide you nutritions to boost your health. You<br />
can also choose slow-releasing sugars like complex carbs or starches<br />
to keep yourself fuller throughout the day.<br />
Remember, natural dietary sugar is entirely<br />
legal to be added onto your plate, they<br />
won’t build a bulge on your abs.<br />
Eat Like A Strategically<br />
Get a phone app that helps you to track<br />
what you eat throughout the day. If you<br />
want to track your calories to ensure<br />
you’re not feeding yourself more than you<br />
needed, app like MyFitnessPal is perfect<br />
for you. They provide caloric and<br />
nutritional value for almost all the food<br />
you can possibly find, it’s always good to<br />
know how much energy, sugar, and sodium<br />
you’re delivering into your body, too. If you<br />
occasionally get one piece of dark<br />
chocolate, DON’T FREAK OUT, it’s okay, as<br />
long as moderation guards your mouth.<br />
Learn up these tricks and tips, and you<br />
are taking one more step to a healthier<br />
and much more manageable progress<br />
towards your weight.<br />
And don’t blame the sugar, humans need<br />
sugar, we are genetically and<br />
evolutionarily predisposed to live<br />
dependent upon it. Even if you look around<br />
the fit and thin people, they still eat that<br />
swiss rolls and drink that frappuccino. It’s<br />
the amount of sugar you consume every<br />
day that you need to heed upon. Don’t let<br />
the sugar overwhelm you, but let yourself<br />
take control of that cravings and sweets,<br />
that way, you can safely satiate dessert<br />
once in awhile without worrying up that<br />
number creeping on the scale.
WEET<br />
¿<br />
çomes<br />
truë<br />
?
probably dying to know just HOW those<br />
You’re<br />
and cute couples who always show off their<br />
sweet<br />
of love’ on Snapchat got together,<br />
‘moment<br />
in the end, aren’t most of us---including<br />
because<br />
stuck in an endless lane of<br />
yourself----always<br />
one-side crush? And ‘ouch’, that part of<br />
miserable<br />
story always hurt the most: You really, really<br />
the<br />
someone, you’d always peek at them and pay<br />
like<br />
attention when their names are mentioned;<br />
extra<br />
they’re ten meters away walking towards<br />
when<br />
direction your breath get defenestrated by<br />
your<br />
nutty heart rate; and all you ever long for is to<br />
your<br />
that one special person to be part of your life!<br />
let<br />
bitter truth, they don’t even give a damn<br />
But,<br />
you! (*silent heartbreaks*) And that’s the<br />
about<br />
ending for a sad high-school crush<br />
classic<br />
How To<br />
Your<br />
Enslave<br />
Crush<br />
tell y’all, as long as your crush is not being<br />
But<br />
or hospitalized for fatal illness, there is<br />
deported<br />
no reason you should give up now<br />
absolutely<br />
be the Éponine who could only watch that<br />
and<br />
Cosette snatch away Marius. It’s<br />
thin-skinned<br />
possible to reverse the swampy dilemma<br />
totally<br />
your unrequited love. In fact, if you’re sharp<br />
of<br />
to manipulate what you’ve got well,<br />
enough<br />
could even make your crush to have a crush<br />
you<br />
you! And don’t ever allow yourself to be<br />
on<br />
by the assumption that just because<br />
defeated<br />
not the hottest girl or guy around the<br />
you’re<br />
you’re never gonna get the<br />
neighbourhood,<br />
spot in your heart(because it’s only one<br />
sweet<br />
of it, there are other chances). After reading<br />
part<br />
you will obtain the full manual to get the<br />
this,<br />
FOOD NOTES | SEPTEMBER 2020 19<br />
recollection.<br />
hottest heartthrob fall head over heels over you!
your crush doesn’t even know you exist, how do you suppose<br />
If<br />
will be your BF or GF, ever? In contrary to our daunted<br />
they<br />
the must-take step is to get close and spam your<br />
self-instinct,<br />
on your crush’s face: “Hey, It’s me.” Whether it’s<br />
presence<br />
on a group project together or attend the same<br />
working<br />
you should let your bae know that the<br />
extracurricular,<br />
between you two is not far away, because proximity,<br />
distance<br />
geographic nearness, is the very most powerful indicator of<br />
or<br />
and relationship. Think about this, if your crush is<br />
friendship<br />
a major heachache and in urgency of asking someone<br />
having<br />
help, would he more likely to run himself towards his math<br />
for<br />
tablemate or someone he’d come across in hallway<br />
class<br />
once per month? The answer: no one would bother to<br />
roughly<br />
a faraway stranger.<br />
trouble<br />
the science and chemistry aside, “opposite attracts” is a<br />
Throw<br />
lie. You might think the girls who will like whatever the<br />
big-fat<br />
lead finds interesting stupid, but similarity actually<br />
male<br />
the people together. Look your besties circles: you and<br />
brings<br />
friends share the same passion, gossip over the same<br />
your<br />
and enjoy the same desserts. All these things you guys<br />
celebs,<br />
in common build up the close relationship. If you<br />
have<br />
to find the same interest as your crush, go for it, don’t<br />
happen<br />
you purchase an expensive but highly risky plastic<br />
Unless<br />
it’s very unlikely your face will change. But you can<br />
surgery,<br />
yourself more attractive by dressing your smart, clean,<br />
make<br />
chic. If makeup makes you look better, do it! Don’t hesitate<br />
and<br />
unnatural”, because the more attractive your impression is<br />
“it’s<br />
other people, they will perceive you as healthier, happier,<br />
on<br />
even more successful. And that’s all due to the Halo Effect,<br />
and<br />
tend to think pretty creatures more positive. So make<br />
people<br />
beautiful, make yourself fashionable, sometimes it’s<br />
yourself<br />
to be a little extra with your style.<br />
okay<br />
want really want your crush to hit on you even faster, go do<br />
If<br />
exercise, because the same logic with physical appeal<br />
some<br />
apply to fitness. But do not mistaken that you have to be<br />
also<br />
Cristiano Ronaldo if you’re a guy or Miranda Kerr if you’re a<br />
like<br />
Get some muscle training to get the curves and lines and<br />
girl.<br />
we like fitter people, and your crush surely does too.<br />
muscles,<br />
secret weapon you are going to learn from here is<br />
Another<br />
through association”. And in human language, it<br />
“liking<br />
means the following scenario: If your crush really like<br />
basically<br />
you’d better show up whenever she eats Godiva. And<br />
Godiva,<br />
these principles are derived from Behaviorist Ivan Pavlov's<br />
all<br />
of conditioning. Because when your crush will have a<br />
theory<br />
mood when she enjoys her favorite dessert, if you’d<br />
happy<br />
up every time, she will naturally associate you with the<br />
show<br />
mood. So find out what your crush like, and prepare to<br />
good<br />
off a lucky coincidence out of it.<br />
pull<br />
you have come as far as good friend, it’s time to let your<br />
If<br />
know your feeling. You may feel like ‘Wow what?! That<br />
crush<br />
just make the whole thing awkward AF and we will just<br />
will<br />
to square one’, but psychology says otherwise. The reward<br />
back<br />
of attraction will do the explaining: we like things that<br />
theory<br />
us feel rewarded, and it’s the same with relationship.<br />
make<br />
you voice out your affection, they are gonna feel good<br />
When<br />
and in turn they are more likely to keep going back to<br />
about,<br />
and treat you better because of that sentimental<br />
you<br />
So when the time is ripe, let it out!<br />
satisfaction.<br />
ways to make that<br />
hot chic turn to you<br />
S T E P 1 : T A K E T H E ‘ N E X T - D O O R ’ S E A T<br />
S T E P 4 : G E T A S W E A T Y W O R K O U T<br />
S T E P 5 : L I K I N G T H R O U G H A S S O C I A T I O N<br />
S T E P 2 : ‘ S A M E H E R E ! ’<br />
make yourself ‘unique and special’ by voting for the different.<br />
S T E P 3 : G O S H O P P I N G<br />
S T E P 6 : S A Y I T O U T L O U D
THE HOUSE<br />
Week-long crap food binge is over! So, do you<br />
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HOLLYWOOD DRAMA<br />
indulge yourself with a little bit of decadence<br />
with luxurious taste? Well, BLT Steak may do the<br />
favor for you. With variety of western delicacy<br />
you are served well in the brunch buffet session,<br />
and the oozing rich beef taste of the tender<br />
Australian medium rare steak at your dinner<br />
table. But that’s not the point of us going to BLT.<br />
Do you know you could accidentally meet a man<br />
in his 60s who happens exactly to be the lawyer<br />
of Mr. Donald Trump and bleats about White<br />
House top secret? That actually happened.<br />
This Monday, report from the Washington Post<br />
dropped an almost theatrical anecdote: Trump’s<br />
special counsel Ty Cobb along with the<br />
president’s lawyer have recently been spotted<br />
together engaging in a full-earshot gossip about<br />
Mueller’s Russian probe, at an actual BLT<br />
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steakhouse near Washington.
controversy of “Trump-Russia collusion” has<br />
The<br />
lurking around in the political scene for some<br />
been<br />
it is like a huge mist that shadows the White<br />
while,<br />
and as President Trump leaves a chain of<br />
House,<br />
one more ridiculous than another, it<br />
messes<br />
leads the guys sitting in the US<br />
eventually<br />
Community decided one day: Hey, let’s<br />
Intelligence<br />
someone to clear this fog away.<br />
get<br />
there’s Mr. Robert Mueller with his “Russian<br />
Then,<br />
searching for “any links and/or coordination<br />
probe”<br />
the Russian government and individuals<br />
between<br />
with the campaign of President Donald<br />
associated<br />
in particular to the matter of Russia’s<br />
Trump”,<br />
on 2016’s US presidential election. Yet,<br />
interference<br />
expected, the Trump gang and the president<br />
as<br />
have been busily denying the matter of<br />
himself<br />
if you follow the news till now, certain<br />
However,<br />
and rumors regarding to president Trump<br />
events<br />
jump to mind as high suspicious and<br />
may<br />
Could there be a potential drama inside<br />
irrational.<br />
political opaqueness between Trump and<br />
the<br />
Russia.<br />
Firing FBI Executive James Comey<br />
Trump<br />
you could have the power of a president, would<br />
If<br />
did, apparently he fired the FBI director<br />
Trump<br />
Comey for the “Russian thing”, and the<br />
James<br />
within his perfunctory explanation<br />
ambiguity<br />
skepticism towards his motive. According to<br />
leaves<br />
Flynn investigation which searches for the<br />
stop<br />
connection between Trump’s security<br />
possible<br />
and the Russian hackers. Comey also<br />
adviser<br />
that Trump has “put pressure on him to<br />
claims<br />
the investigation”, but obviously Comey did<br />
drop<br />
succumb to the president’s threat, which got<br />
not<br />
fired. This poses a question: Why would Trump<br />
him<br />
Comey to drop the investigation with Flynn?<br />
want<br />
SPY?<br />
COLLUSION?<br />
convenience.<br />
WE HELP<br />
YOU GET<br />
WHAT<br />
YOU NEED<br />
IN LIFE.<br />
you randomly fire a FBI executive?<br />
Comey’s testimony from The Guardian,<br />
James<br />
fired the former FBI director in attempt to<br />
Trump<br />
there’s absolutely nothing behind the scene,<br />
If<br />
might still have his position in FBI.<br />
Comey<br />
.<br />
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