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Find out what it all means at the end of this podcast. When I was a little girl growing up in Bangkok, my grandma and my mom used to get up very early in the morning to cook food for the local Buddhist monks.

When the food was ready, they would lay it neatly on a trail with other offerings like flowers and money.

And then, before the monks arrived, my mom had a very tough job to do.

She had to get me and my brother out of bed

to stand barefoot on the road in front of our house

to give the food and other offerings

to the monks who were collecting arms.

So the belief and the culture is that the devoted Buddhist in Thailand,

when they offer food, they think about making merit for their deceased family members.

They have to think about whether their family members like which food, and those you know are very you know unhealthy food

normally I offer the monks curries and stir-fried food like stir-fried bamboo shoots and stir-fried pineapple.

This morning I offered a lot of sticky rice balls in sugary coconut milk. I choose food which looks delicious.

The skiffing and receiving of arms has been part of daily life in Thailand for centuries. The Thai people are meant to

look after the monk's physical health by giving them food and in return the

monks take care of the spiritual health of the nation. But now this age is all tradition

has become corrupted by modern life and there is now an obesity crisis in Thai temples. My name is Shihra I McGuire and I'm in Thailand for the BBC World Service

to find out why the Buddhist monks in this country are now more obvious and more unhealthy

than the people who feed them.

It's half past six in the morning and here I am on a small street in Thailand's capital city in Bangkok.

It's still quite dark around here. I can tell that the sun is not fully awake yet and neither am I.

I find myself by a pop-up store on the pavement. It's selling all sort of food that people will give to the

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