Eating while working? Why it’s bad for your health – The Farm at San Benito doctor

MANILA, Philippines — In today’s modern world, eating while working has become the norm especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic that necessitated working from home – and perhaps, eating while working is partly to blame why obesity is on the rise and why sitting has been dubbed “the new smoking.”

According to doctor Michelle Domalaon of The Farm at San Benito, healthy food is not enough. To achieve one’s fitness goals, she said one should also change one’s attitude toward consuming food.

“Here at The Farm, our approach is body and mind. If what you eat is all right, then the next thing we look at is the process – do you chew your food well? Do you process your food well, because ideally, we should not be hurried when we eat. Because if we rush our eating, we don’t chew our food very well, if the food we take come in very big chunks, then our digestive system finds it difficult to process our food, and this leads to digestive stress,” she told Philstar.com in an exclusive interview last week.

Upon arrival at The Farm at San Benito, an eco-luxury, holistic medical wellness resort located in Lipa City, Batangas, guests are invited to try many scheduled health and wellness activities, including Cellular Health Screening, which can detect digestive stress.

Cellular Health Screening, said Dr. Domalaon, is “a different way of looking inside your body.”

“In hospitals, they all draw blood from here (arm) and then they will give you a paper (blood test results), and the paper is full of numbers and would say, for example, your cholesterol is this and that; your uric acid is this and that,” she said.

“But for the Cellular Health Screening, we would get one drop of blood from your finger. We will put the drop in a slide, and we will look at it under a microscope. We will look at the cells together, flash it on the TV screen and we will look for a pattern. We will not count the cells, but it’s more on we’re going to look for a pattern. So this is a different way at looking at your blood. For example, if we see a pattern that we need to help your liver or kidney because of parasites.”

Unlike usual hospital blood tests, Cellular Health Screening can be done anytime,