Diary: Father had a stomach flu

My father is a biased health buff, he does not want to eat cholesterol rich foods but eats them anyway and uses fish sauces and oyster sauces as a dipping sauce but it is forbidden to him because of his hypertension, it was also the cause of his hypertension. He says that he does not want to quit eating salty foods because there are persons like him that is immune to salty foods. He is somewhat exempted but restricts others from the said forbidden foods.

He once worked as a heavy equipment mechanic in Saudi Arabia many years ago and the company is always managed by American companies so the program for the employees like him includes recreational as well as improvements for health like seminars for maintaining a good health. That is why he learned to be health conscious and it sometimes or more often than not annoys us his family members.

When there are occasions when there are good food on the table or even when we ate at restaurant, he will then start to indoctrinate us with the food we are eating. He will say that when we eat that fried chicken often we will die "sooner." He will tell us not to eat this or that food until you will look at your food and then will make you think to throw it away. Sometimes when I eat a sweet ham, the thing with nitrates, he will start to say about this person died because he ate a lot of the sweet ham I am eating. He does that each and everytime and it really is annoying.

Sometimes I would be the one to say what he would tell us before he say it, just to make fun of it and my mother notices it to because she is also annoyed by my father's constant indoctrinations about how delicious foods could kill us, it just like putting a kerosene on the foods when we have gathering and family events.

Now often, he makes some cooking, almost everyday he cooks this collection of vegetable leaves with some squash which is supposedly stir-fried but he puts water in it to make a soup. Now, there is nothing wrong with the dish except he makes it almost everyday and the vegetable dish is just like that, a vegetable that you have to eat and not enjoy. In turn he got overdosaged with vegetables so he had a stomach flu.

We got worried because it was on my dialysis day yesterday and he was the one accompanying me to the dialysis center everytime, but thank goodness he recovered fast enough and in the late afternoon we made it able to go to the center with him without symptoms anymore of stomach flu, apparently from those vegetable overeating. Even with vegetables we should practice moderation too, I don't trust much of them being laced with pesticides that can also harm us and not only the weeds and insects they intend to kill.