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I start the day with breakfast, take meal at lunch and dinner, eat snacks at evening, enjoy eating when I see movies and drama series, watch cooking shows in you tube. A huge lot of time I spend everyday dealing with food. My mother become very angry to see how obsessed I am on cooking shows like "Masterchef" or "Hells Kitchen". He asked me to concentrate on studying and spending less time to watch TV. I do not pay hide much of her advice, rather then that I spend most of my time after returning home from office just watching movies, Tv shows and lots of cooking shows. Though I hardly could cook a meal, I love to see anything related to cooking. recently a question aroused on my mind, "Is it worth to love cooking as much I do?" "Is it really important?"

Today, I have read a book named "Sapience: A Brief History of Humankind" written by Yuval Noah Harari which help me to understand how important cooking is for humankind. Even evolution of modern humankind is rarely possible without cooking. Cooking played an important roll to cognitive movement of mankind. Earlier, to learn how to cook, human like other wild animals ate raw food. To process raw food, animals required a long intestine and more energy compared to modern humankind. Cooking helped human to chewing and digesting faster and devoting less energy to digestion. Consequently, human intestine become shorter and more energy used for brain development. Modern human brain use nearly 25% of its total body energy even in sleep which is considerably more compared to other animals.

It's clearly indicating that evolution of Homo Sapiens is widely depends on the ability of cooking. So don't worry, just enjoy food and watch cooking shows, it will definitely improve the cognitive power. Hopefully eating easily digestible food will indirectly help me to learn English.