Essay On Food Ethnography

Comfortably Unaware: Food Ethnography
Eating is one of the foundations of our hierarchy of needs along with water, air, warmth, and rest. In a society that is busy, stressed, and in a hurry all the time, food can become a big health problem. Choosing the foods we eat is a powerful decision that many are unaware of being taking. Eating well does not only mean eating enough food for survival, but it also means to consume foods that are nourishing, diverse, and ethically produced. A healthy lifestyle is essential to build, reinforce, and maintain all the cells of the body working well and keep providing the energy needed for keeping all the body running, and living life at its fullest. A healthy diet for example, during the child development is tied to a normal development of the body, learning abilities, and in adulthood is linked to sound physical and …show more content…
As he once said: “let thy food be thy medicine and the medicine, be thy food.” My grandparents are the so called sons and daughters of the WW2. They grew up in extreme poverty and hunger, therefore when the war ended and there the economy was re-established, hey finally had for food they that because of both the physical and mental starvation they were put through, over ate and consequently suffered from diabetes, cardiac diseases, and more. My parents, who grew up seeing their own family getting sicker and sicker throughout the years because of their over abundant and unhealthy diet, when they got married and started our family, they decided to make a change in their diets, become healthier, and grow their own food. They bought a land where they built a house and grew a garden that they still take care of. Because of that, my brother and I were raised mostly vegetarian, eating plenty of healthy foods. Eating healthy is not more expensive than eating unhealthy, in fact, in the long run by earthing healthy a person will prevent himself from diseases that would require constant