...to do anymore. Between fast food and television people are becoming more and more lazy and relying on cheap foods to satisfy them both mentally and hunger wise. In this essay I will explain the importance of eating right and how your eating habit can affect your health in the long run. There are many reasons to eat healthy; one of those reasons is to support your immune system. Our body’s blood cells decide what’s good and what’s bad for us. If you’re constantly eating fruits and vegetables yr body will extract all the nutrients inside the fruits and vegetables to help support your immune system and help it fight against any bacteria that can cause illness. Now if you’re mostly eating junk foods, your body will not have any natural nutrients to extract and will not be able to support your immune system to ward off any bacteria that can/will cause illness. By not feeding your body right, eventually your body will start to shut down. Most people don’t see it as a problem since they feel medication can basically fix any kind of illness they encounter, but in the long run medication winds up damaging your body and the only other solution to cure the body that relied on the medication that was suppose to cure it is give it either a stronger dosage of medication or something different that will eventually cause another side affect. Now personally I don’t think my health is worth going through all that when all you had to do was change your eating habits. All these healthy foods (fruits...
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...In the article The Pleasures of Eating by Wendell Berry,his argument is saying if you don't know what you are eating then you are not free.We cannot simply be free if our food and the food sources are controlled by someone else like a big company.His way of saying to eat responsibly is to eat and live free.I agree with Wendell because the food that is processed by big companies can to lead to many health problems like diabetes,cholesterol,heart problems,and obesity in which many people might already have. Wendell Berry argues that to eat responsibly is to eat free.He has my vote for that because first we should know where our food comes from,how was the food treated before it became food,or what type of chemicals does it have and are they...
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...Do you ever like something so much that is bad for your health? Well, I know it sucks. But that is life, ladies and gentlemen. After reading this article, I’m sure you wouldn’t want to touch gum for at least a little while. I know what you are going to say. "Now you're taking away my gum, too?!" After all, chewing gum seems like such a harmless—habit. You want something sweet? Pop a stick of gum for less than 5 calories Stressed? Chew a couple sticks of gum. Feeling hungry? Chomp some gum while you think about your options. What’s not to like? Well today I’ll be telling you what’s there not to like. People in general want to be fit. Even though some of us might adore junk food, we still try to avoid it as much as possible. Some of you might think that gum is a good method of losing weight, since you are...
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...Weight Loss: Eat To Live - Not Live To Eat By Mary ShomonJanuary 7, 2004 Wendy Hearn has some thoughts about why we eat... "Do you find yourself eating food when you're not even hungry? I've noticed that others, myself included, often eat food without even stopping to assess whether we're hungry or not. I encourage you to get in touch with your body and eat only when you need to. This entails being aware of your body's needs and not eating food if you're not hungry. When I speak to people who maintain a healthy weight level without any real effort, I find one of the keys for them is they only eat when they're hungry. If they're not hungry they don't eat. This group of people generally find it hard to understand how the rest of us can eat food if we're not hungry. As most of you know, when we eat food when we're not hungry, this is usually being triggered by something else which is going on in our lives. One of the first steps to identifying these triggers and dealing with them is for you to be aware of the times when you're hungry and the times when you're not. This will take some time and effort to start with, but as with any habit, it becomes easier over time. Eventually, you will unconsciously go through the process of determining when you're really hungry. First, you need to start thinking consciously about your hunger levels. I would suggest that in your mind or on paper you create a ladder with 10 rungs and label each rung with a level of hunger, according...
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...using diet pills that only work when a person is taking them, the healthiest and safest way to lose weight is with diet and exercise. The most important thing is how these things can make life healthier for anyone who wants to lose weight. When trying to lose weight on diet plans and pills can be very pricey when there are other people around to help you. One main thing when concerning these two is the cost of them. Diet and exercise is something anyone can do that is less costly than if you were to purchase diet pills every month. You can change your diet and find healthier food for you to eat instead of sugar and carbohydrates which aren’t good for you. Also starting a daily exercise routine that doesn’t cost a thing if you are doing it at home will make your mind and body feel and act so much better. When concerning diet pills they can be very costly without knowing if they’re going to work or not. It can end up costing you an arm and a leg buying diet pills every month. Spending all of this money on something that might work will be stressful and that is something that is also bad for your health. Another difference between the two of them is something you have to take time out and plan to do each day. You have to make time and find a way to fit it into your daily schedule to get in your workout which is hard for some people to do. Also taking time out of your day to make and plan healthier...
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...Huangr Hungary and food Contents I. Geographic and History ................................................................................... 1 I. Food culture ..................................................................................................... 2 I. Service styles and table etiquette and food taboos ....................................... 4 I. Therapeutic uses of food and wine & traditional therapies involving food and herbs ................................................................................... 5 I. Food and wine within the main religion of the group ....................................... 5 I. Food and holidays .......................................................................................... 6 I. References .................................................................................................. 7 I. Geographic and History Have you been Hungary? Have you tried Hungarian food and wine? If you are not, we will show you everything that related to Hungarian food and wine as much as we can in this study. Hungary is a...
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...Fast Food Approachability I have spent quarter of my life in a miserable condition. I really feel distressed when I remember my past days. When I was in a refugee camp, one of the organizations distributed rice as a main food. Being a refugee, I did not have proper clothes to wear, a house to live in, and food to eat. I did not have any other options than to eat rice. I ate rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Because of rice, I was able to survive. Therefore, the need of rice has become my want and desire. It does not matter what I eat, I don’t feel I am full until I eat rice. Rice can only make me satisfied, happy, and satiated; after coming to the U.S the environment change and I felt like now I get everything that I didn’t have when I was in my country. But as time pass I learned, America is the fastest moving country in fast food eating. People tend to eat outside of the house. This is one of the main factors that cause obesity. There are lots of reasons that people choose to eat processed foods. Today in our society, time is one of the biggest issues on their schedules because the people in here are always busy working or engaging in some sort of activities. For example, work, college and their personal time consume a lot of time on a daily basis. Besides those activities, all these fast food restaurants, good taste of fast or processed food, and less time to prepare processed food are making people lazy and they ignore to cook at home. It will even be better if at...
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...When you go out to eat do you actually know what’s in your food or how it’s being made? Eating fast food isn’t always the answer in the long run even if your running late. Why not cook yourself a home cooked meal and create less problems for not only you but our country? First, we will drive through the problems fast food causes. Next, we will make a “quick stop” at the causes of fast food. Finally, we will throw away the problems and find solutions for fast food. First, we will drive through the problems fast food causes. As we have probably all heard one or more times in our lives that fast food isn’t healthy for you; that’s old news. Now the question is, do you really know what it does to your body and what problems it can cause. Eating...
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...S.? People cannot blame the food because the food doesn’t walk into our mouths. There are so many foods that are claimed to taste unbelievably good, they can’t be avoided. It is the foods that are unhealthy for our bodies that we choose to eat. Americans want to eat what we want then at the end of the day complain about how it made us gain weight or become obese. Obesity affects both adults and young children all over the U.S. and it’s become a huge problem over the years. People choose not to eat unhealthy after they find out they’re having heart trouble or breathing problems caused by obesity. Why wait until the last minute or until you’ve reached your last breath? To overcome obesity diet changes have to take place. Government data shows that in 2012 about 34.9% of the adults in the U.S. country were obese, which is about 35 pounds over a healthy weight. The obese percentage was about the same in 2010. Since 1960 the obesity rates are continuing to grow as decades go by. If nothing is done about obesity more death causes will happen each year because of obesity. There are ways to lose weight. Most people just refuse to take action. Exercising is the number one way to produce weight lost. Some believe you have to go to the gym to lose weight, but you don’t you can simply take walks each day and shed pounds. Setting a weight loss goal would be a good start for most people who would like to lose weight. Motivation is another start you must motivate yourself to do what’s best...
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...Did you parents ever say this to you “Finish your food, there’s starving people that would love to get what you do?” Or “There’s starving people in Africa!” When I had kids, I vowed not to say those things to them if they refused to eat. However, as time passed and my oldest became a picky eater, I felt those same words on the tip of my tongue. I’m pretty relaxed about dinner time at my house. The rule is with my kids is that you have to try it. If you don’t like it, fine, but that’s what’s for dinner and nothing else. I’m not fond of wasting food and watching my kids waste food really bothered me. My kids don’t know what if feels like to miss a meal. I wasn’t sure how to address food waste with them without using the dreaded phrase “there are people starving”. It turns out that having a bumper crop of lettuce was all I needed....
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...Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser “He classifies juvenile nagging tactics into 7 major categories” (pg. 44)- All kids have a way of getting what they want, but it surprised me to know that marketers, such as James U. McNeal, have taken into great consideration their various tactics. The 7 ways of nagging are pleading, persistent, forceful, demonstrative, sugar-coated, threatening, and pity. At first, I thought that it was a bit ridiculous that they were able to analyze how kids were able to get their parents to actually buy them something they wanted, but after thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense. I'm positive that over the years, I have nagged my parents with at least 5 of those tactics so that they could buy me something I wanted. Its clear that kids will always have some kind of way of getting what they want, but to marketers, kids are just a major part of their business. Without these seven categories, children wouldn't be able to have as much fast food as they would like, which would mean a decrease in sales for numerous chains of fast food restaurants. “In 1978,the typical teenage boy in the United states drank about seven ounces of soda everyday; he drinks nearly three times that amount...” (pg. 54)- Its sickening to know that boys and girls of all ages tend to consume soda more than any other drink. It's not healthy at all, and most of the consumption is to blame on fast food chains. With every meal ordered, a customer always has the option of buying a drink...
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...Out of those 616,008 restaurants, 50,000 of them are fast food chains. The average wait time for a fast food restaurant is 219 seconds, which is about three minutes and 39 seconds. No wonder one out of four americans eat fast food every day, it’s so convenient! Not only is fast and convenient, it’s also very cheap. Most fast food restaurants have a dollar menu. But do you ever wonder what could possibly be in those hamburgers that make it only a dollar versus the average sit-down restaurant hamburger that charge you nine dollars and take about 20 minutes to create? Spam. Glycerin. Mechianchally separated meat. Propylene glycol. Silicon dioxide. Just to name a few. Some of these chemicals are used very heavily in soaps and sexual lubricants. So why are they in our foods? They make cheap preservatives and help the food look fresh. But are they healthy for you? There has been roughly 96,000 reports of e. coli and 3,643 of salmonella from 1973 to 2011 from ground beef. Unfortunately, several fast food companies and restaurants don’t properly cook their meat at 160 degrees, which is the lowest your food can be cooked at so bacteria gets killed. Food can be sitting out under infrared lamps for hours, losing heat and growing all different types of bacteria, much worse than e. coli. If your delicious McDonald’s hamburger doesn’t stay at least 140 degrees, it could be growing more and more bacteria. And you want to know what’s worse than bacteria? Maggots and flies in your yummy delicious...
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...There’s no secret that Caribbean women love to cook, and not just love but can actually put great things together in the kitchen. Her mother and I often argue about who is the better cook but to be honest, her mother is a very good cook. From the spices she uses to presentation. As a matter of fact, she has a catering company---she being the mother. Trinidad cuisine is known for a number of dishes that has contributed to the culinary world. I believe it’s the spices that create these dishes to come to life like no other culture; roti, doubles, curries and more---Trinidad's best foods are loaded with flavor. “Food is diverse breakfasts, cultural and traditional in many cases,” my wife informs me. Trinidad cuisine is influenced by many different styles, such as East Indian, Spanish, African, Chinese and more. Over time it has been adapted and changed to what is known as Trinidadian food today. As I sat down with my wife, I threw a series of questions at her. I was a bit surprise...
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...Who is to blame for the more than 40 million obese people that currently reside in the United States? Who is to blame for all the fast food restaurants that nearly everybody criticizes, yet makes millions and millions of dollars every year? Why is America considered one of the laziest countries in the world? It is not fair to point a finger at the soda and candy industries, the fast food restaurants, or the grocery stores because they are not the ones at fault. The United States is a free country. Living in this free country, we are allowed to pick and choose what restaurants we eat at, what we order at those restaurants, how much food we buy at the grocery store, the kind of food we buy at the grocery store, etc. The blame cannot be put where it is easy to put it. The only people we, Americans as a whole, can blame for the obesity problem, the successful soda and candy industries, the wealthy fast food restaurants, and the laziness of our nation, is ourselves. Over the years, numerous lawsuits have been filed against soda and candy companies, blaming them for the overweight children in our country. For example, the article “Lawyers Ready Suit Over Soda” written by Caroline E. Mayer on the Washington Post website, explains a lawsuit that a group of lawyers created in 2005. They compiled the lawsuit against soft-drink companies that sell sugared soda in schools, and are aiming to have soda machines removed from all schools. Richard A. Daynard, an associate dean at...
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..."Fooooood fight!" These two words launched one of the best known cafeteria food fights ever filmed—it’s a scene from Animal House, a 1978 campus comedy. While this food fight still makes people laugh, the film footage unfortunately solidified many of the negative stereotypes about college food and students’ unhealthy eating habits that we still hold today. Students are labeled as mindless overeaters who load up on junk food and unhealthy snacks and are believed to be clueless when it comes to healthy eating. Since Animal House was filmed, we continue to be bombarded with images and messages that students are hopeless eaters. It’s true that many students have difficulty moderating their eating, even those without clinical eating disorders. Studies on "normal" college eating habits highlight the unhealthy nature of many college students’ diets.1 Studies suggest between 30 to 70 percent of college students engage in "disordered eating habits." Disordered eating among college students can include weight preoccupation, binge eating, body dissatisfaction, obsessive focus on calories and fat, unhealthy eating, and compensatory behavior such as obsessive exercise and vomiting. While some eating problems don’t meet the full diagnostic criteria for anorexia and bulimia, they are a concern and warrant attention. "Disordered eating" and subclinical eating disorders/dieting can be distressing enough to interfere with academic work, health, relationships, and social life. Concerns...
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