...Many years ago, the buzz-phrase “You are what you eat” appeared everywhere. The saying reminded us that the foods we eat break down into elements that our bodies absorb. What we eat becomes part of us. This premise rings true in our non-physical selves as well—the reading, listening, and viewing material we ingest becomes a part of our being. Our physical health requires consistent nourishment of foods and drink; likewise successful living depends on constant nourishment. The quality of what we ingest affects the quality of our health. Each healthy food has a purpose: some improve our immune systems and help us fight off potential illnesses; some foods boost our energy levels; others build muscles, bones, improve eyesight, and even keep us regular (if you know what I mean). If we plan to hike several miles on a weekend, we can prepare by eating foods that will prolong our energy. If a virus spreads at our workplace, or more seriously, our grandkids are coming to visit, we can boost our immune systems by eating certain foods or taking certain herbs. In times of high activity and stress, we can adjust our food intake to better handle the strain. Fad diet proponents teach their adherents to concentrate intensely on a narrow selection of foods (i.e. grapefruit, high carbs, low carbs, pineapple). Yet nutritionists encourage the balanced eating of foods from each food group. If we need to lose weight, we moderately adjust our food balance in favor of foods low in calories...
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...What we put into our bodies is our choice. However, have you ever stopped to think about where the food you buy at the local supermarket comes from? When we think we are eating healthy are we really making the right choices? What about where does the food from the supermarket comes from? How did it get to the supermarket before it made its way into your shopping cart? These are all questions we want to think about when we make food choices. Not only do we want to make right choices but we also want our choices to have a positive outcome on our community. Supermarkets are usually stocked via grocery suppliers or grocery wholesalers. One of my local chain supermarkets, Shaw’s, has different vendors that they use. Their website does not list the different vendors but it has access to their policies and how they choose their vendors. A Consumers International report from July 2012 says that supermarkets buy from suppliers and then sell to consumers. Supermarkets have both retailer and buyer power which means they have influence on both suppliers and consumers. “The more supermarkets buy, the better terms they get. The better terms they get, the more they sell.” (Nicholson, C. & Young, B., 2012). If I were to purchase all the items for my meal, chicken, lemon, rice, mushrooms, greens, almonds, wheat roll, butter, milk, and apple crisp, from Shaw’s Supermarket I would not know where any of my items were being sourced from. I would not know how long...
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...In the article, “We Are What We Eat: We Are a Nation of Immigrants!” by David Rosengarten, he examines how different cultural cuisines have been combined to produce American food. Rosengarten suggests that the American cuisine is built around eating to live rather than living to eat. We have certainly led the planet in the development of “convenience” foods (Rosengarten 218). He mentions how rice cooks in a minute, and soup only needs a minute in the microwave (Rosengarten 218). Rosengarten argues that convenience food is not going to play a role in the development of American haute cuisine. He goes into detail stating how numerous influences have affected the development of cuisine in the United States. Rosengarten realizes people who are...
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...Cameron Russell´s purpose is to inform her audience how beauty is not as significant as society makes it out to be. Russell stresses how winning the genetic lottery would not cause one to feel more confident or become genuinely happy. However, the author herself is someone who is considered beautiful in the eyes of most people, yet she asserts that her lifestyle has been altered due to her appearance. Cameron Russell attempts to persuade her audience by reason and logic. This can be seen when she states that in 2007 when an inspired NYU PH student counted all the models on the runway, out of 677 models only 27 or 4% were non white. Russell also provides additional statistics and facts to support her claim of how beauty should not be idolized. She states ¨53% of 13 year old American girls are unhappy with their bodies, this grows to 78% by the time they are 17 (Maine,2011),¨ The author's intended audience are young girls who are insecure about their body image. Cameron Russell tries to reach out to her audience by showing them how looks are not important, and that one's physical appearance will not make them more fortunate than others. She attempts to show her audience how being in the modeling universe has forced her to grow up and act more maturely at an early age. The author's main argument is to focus on not conforming to the unreachable standards that the media has falsely constructed. Cameron Russell's Ted Talk is able to reach her audience due to the author's use of rhetorical...
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...How to Eat to Live Book 1 "There is no way for us to learn the right way to eat in order to live a long life, except through the guidance and teachings of Allah, Who came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad." The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, How to Eat to Live...Book one Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Right Way to Eat Vegetables Food God Suggests Why They Urge You to Eat the Swine The Pig...Swine Fasting One Meal A Day Beware of Starchy Foods and Sweets How Allah's Way Prolongs Life How To Keep Food from Hurting Us The Proper Food and the Proper Time to Eat it The Right Food and the Proper Time to Eat it is becoming a "MUST" Fruit is digested better when eaten Raw Overindulgence, The Enemy Our Biggest Problem is Eating too Much and too Often Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Why and How we Fast in December The Food and It's Eater Food Can be Life or Death How to Live More than 100 Years Proper Food for Body and Mind Equals Good Health The Benefits of Eating Once a Day A List of Foods We Must Not Eat You Don't Need Numerous Diets; Just Eat Once Daily Feeding Babies Meat, Part 1 Know the Truth About the Flesh of The Swine Live a Thousand Years Train Yourself to Eat as Allah has Prescribed...
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... What are three main factors we should consider when making our food choices? Food choice? What decides what we eat? Some people think that taste alone is the deciding factor for what they eat. Is this so? In reality, there are a lot of things to consider first, for example a persons religion, is it healthy, and can I afford it. So really “what to eat” is more of a cautious and conscious decision than a random one. Let us talk a little bit more about the choices that we make consciously and subconsciously regarding our food. The first factor we are going to consider is religion. When deciding food possibilities, Religion, along with culture, plays a big role in making the decision for what people are allowed to eat. In some countries and for some people it’s alright to eat beef, but for other people eating meat from a cow is a sin. Cultural and religious beliefs differ from one religion to another depending on the belief structure. Take Christianity for example, some Christians, have several feast and fast days during a year, and may fast from meat on particular days. Another example is the jewish religion, which has very structured dietary obligations. During the Passover feast every year jews are not allowed to eat bread containing yeast (leven) amongst other restrictions. In the Islamic religion all meat must be “HALAL” in other words, meat slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah. This is a small example of how religion can influence what we eat...
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...America’s Dilemma According to Michael Pollan in the year 2009 in the novel Omnivore’s Dilemma, chapter 8 “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” we don’t know what to eat because we don’t have a food culture to fall back on. We question what to eat because we have never built a culture of food. “We have never had a national food culture in the United States. There’s really no such thing as ‘American Food’”(92). Since America is very diverse, and full of different people from all over the world, nothing has ever been established as to what to eat, what is healthy, and what the average human really needs. Thus, creating what we now know as The Omnivore’s Dilemma. “We have few rules, about what to eat, when to eat, and how to eat, we don’t have any strong food...
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...Holland To Eat or Not to Eat PSY/240 Chantell Hines June 28, 2012 2 Good afternoon. My name is Christina Holland, you can call me Chris. Today’s session will explain to you all some physiological factors that cause people to ea or not eat. We will also discuss some myths about hunger and satiety. Please feel free to ask questions about anything during and after our discussion. I would like to begin by covering what a few of the physiological factors are that can cause people to eat or not eat and then move on to specific eating disorders and some of the biopsychological views on them. It is important to understand the concept of hunger and fullness from physiological research and what it has shown us. Let us begin with things that have been discovered to be untrue. A common belief is that our blood glucose levels affect our hunger and satiety. However, research has shown that this is untrue; glucose levels remain fairly stable and do not fluctuate often. You may be wondering what glucose has to do with hunger. The belief was that when our energy levels dropped so would our blood glucose, this would then trigger our hunger; we would then eat restoring our levels back up to a certain energy level. If this were true then people would maintain a relatively stable amount of weight because we would only eat for the amount of energy we needed. Another...
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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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...Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating” by Mary Maxfield. There are a few things in order to lose weight, go on a diet, being healthy and also eating healthy. We continue to believe what is the right way or by being healthy in the way we view foods that involves eating less and more differently as we should by eating the right way. There are a few key things to understand in order to fulfill our basic needs such as, being able to differentiate between the good and bad cravings our body has, knowing what nutrition facts are showing that certain foods put into our bodies, and most importantly how to read and comprehend nutrition facts and how to live a healthy lifestyle. And although nutrition may seem of concern...
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...Eating Styles GREECE In Greece, we eat three times a day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For breakfast, most people drink coffee or milk with cereal when they wake up and a croissant or tyropita (it is like a cheese pie one of our favorite). Later, we eat lunch around 14-15 but it is a warm full meal. And then, at night we eat around 9-10 pm maybe something small like a salad or a sandwich but it could be the case that someone will eat again a warm meal or something like pizza, crepe, or pitagyros. NETHERLANDS In the Netherlands, most people eat a sandwich, cereal, yoghurt or fruit, and coffee or tea as breakfast before going to work or school. Most people eat sandwiches or a salad as lunch (mostly between 12.00 and 13.00 o’clock) and for dinner they mostly have a warm meal. This warm meal is mostly eaten between 17.00 and 19.00 o’clock. The warm meal varies per day but mostly we eat potatoes with vegetables and meat. Old(er) people mostly eat a warm meal for lunch and sandwiches in the evening. INDONESIA In Indonesia, we eat three times a day. Normally we eat rice not only in lunch time but also for breakfast and dinner. For breakfast, some people eat rice and some other eat bread. We eat rice with side dishes in the morning. We eat many varies of rice like white rice (normal), red rice, yellow rice (usually in some events), green rice, and fried rice (the popular one beside white rice) but the normal one is white rice. Our breakfast time is started from 6 or 7 am (weekdays) and...
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...Kimball DeVry University THE RIGHT VS. THE WRONG The battle of determining what is right and what is wrong is one that we all face. The depth of that battle is one that varies across a wide array of topics, ranging from a moral dilemma that has consequences to a simple decision like what to wear that day. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan explores this battle as it relates to determining what is right and what is wrong for our dietary needs. Society has drastically changed over the years in the U.S. especially when it comes to our eating habits and the frequency in which we eat out at restaurants and fast food chains more regularly than ever before. The increased volume by which we eat out is not what has caused what many are calling an epidemic as it relates to our country’s obesity but rather it’s the decisions we make about what we eat when we eat out. The ability to eat out and still eat healthy is quite alive but it’s up to you. The act of eating out whether it be for a special occasion or simply because we can has become far more frequent than it ever was even ten or twenty years ago. In fact, at some point not too long ago, the notion that you were not sitting down at the dining room table and having dinner with the family was considered absurd. The evolution of our society and the need to always be on the go has drastically changed our way of thinking about what a “family dinner” means. In the 1950s a “family dinner” was considered to be when everyone...
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...The Omnivore's Dilemma According to Pollan, the omnivore’s dilemma is that we don’t know what to eat because Americans have no food culture. One way to prove we have no food culture is in chapter 8 when Pollan states “There are still lots of countries where people eat the old fashioned way. They eat traditional foods, following customs that haven’t changed for hundreds of years. And amazingly, in those countries where people pick food based on custom and taste, the people are actually healthier than we are”(94). Other countries eat foods that they and their ancestors have been eating for hundreds of years. Americans however, have no food culture, so when dinner comes the Chinese have chicken, Japanese have fish, Mexicans have tacos, and...
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...for them not for their kids. They think “Let’s buy this, it’s a good for an anytime snack.” Most snacks aren’t like that, but CHEEZ-ITs are the opposite; they're a real snack. They have real cheese and use natural spices to make the flavor and coloring just right. Not only do they have natural flavoring, but they offer vitamins for healthy eating. Along with these great ingredients, CHEEZ-ITs are also baked not fried, which lets you enjoy all the ingredients put together without the extra fat added into it. The way the world works is that we buy processed food that has all these added preservatives that are supposed to make the food good. Sure they may make it look, taste, and smell good, but that doesn’t mean that they are good for our health. The truth is we don’t care about what we eat and how much of it we eat, only that it tastes good. We need to watch what we put into our bodies, no matter what it is. With CHEEZ-ITs, we can get our thiamin mononitrate (Vitamin B1), our small salt intake, and our dairy from the cheese using the skim milk. These ingredients aren’t used to substitute for the daily serving of milk, regular food intake with the right amount of sodium, or our daily dose of vitamins, but the makers of CHEEZ-ITs use these to reassure us that they are a healthy snack. Now if your...
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...having on our health and well-being. Also, in many cases we are well aware of the health risks of diets rich in certain foods. Fast foods, heavily processed food-like products and convenience foods have been proven to cause obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancers. Even food products that claim to be “fat free” or “diet” contain artificial ingredients that can cause health problems such as migraine headaches. Our food may very well be killing us and yet we, as a nation, are not changing our eating habits. The intention was to find out why we choose to continue on the unhealthy paths that we are on. Information found in many articles and documentaries, including doctors’ and scientists’ statements, as well as nutritional information found on nearly every food label in the grocery store, explained what was in the foods we are eating, what it does to our bodies and what were our reasons for not making healthier choices. Factors such as food addiction, convenience, commercialism, false claims and income are some examples of why we may continue to eat poorly. This paper will examine all of these topics and some others. Maybe the information that will be revealed here will be just what you need to modify your own diets and begin a road to a healthier body! Table of Contents Abstract Table of Contents Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Literature Review - “You are what you eat” - “Destroying our Bodies” - “A matter of convenience” ...
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