One day not long ago I talked to an aging grandma looking very sad watching her 2-year old grandson eating boiled young sweet corn. I said "Hello Lola." "Ano ga?" she quipped. Ay siya Batanginya e. I said to myself. "In my younger days when my teeth were all in good shape a baby like him could finish eating regular sizeboiled young corn, easy." she bragged "Really Lola! how was it done? I countered "I chewed the boiled corn first and when I felt it was ground fine I fed it to them so that all they do was swallow." Ha ha was my corny laugh. Lola it was very kind of you but it was not good,very unsanitary and unhealthy. "Ala ay bakit ga? I tell you I did this to all my seven children. And where are they now? my eldest son is a doctor and the second, my only daughter is a nurse now working in a US hospital, the third is the parish priest in your local church the other two are engineers and the youngest is just contented playing basketball all his life." She practically scolded me. "Unhealthy? Ay siya wag kang gagayan gay an gamitin mo utak mo kabayan." she added.
When I told the story to my friends who are health buffs it was real fun. But after the bruhaha I thought it deeper within myself that what the old grandmother told me may have some sense. Her saliva, the enzyme much needed to aid digestion mixed well with the ground food almost synthetically that when swallowed by the young tot actually help in the fast and easy digestion of the ground corn grits. I remember this story because I am sure my own Lola did this to me when I saw her did the same to her other younger grandchildren. What da ya say young doctors?
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