An average American consumes one ton of food a year per the USDA. Multiply this by the number of US population, and witness the enormous number, more than 300 million tons of food being eaten in the US every year. Imagine what would happen if there was no one to monitor our food, or regulate it, and think how much work is needed to keep 300 million American safe from hundreds of millions of foods that comes from everywhere in America, and the world. Radley Balko, in his article, “What You Eat Is Your Business”, claims that the US government is to involve in US citizens’ eating habits. He shows how the excessive involvement of the government makes people lazy about their own health.…
Do you believe hunger is a problem in the world? What about right here in your local community? In New Hanover County alone, there are 32,350 people going hungry each day (Berener). Just think, thousands of people in your community not having the minimum nourishment requirements each day. These people could be sitting beside your children in the classroom or living on the streets you travel each day.…
How would you like to have your freedom stripped away? How would you like to wait over 30 minutes to get your lunch? How would you like to pay a full price for a meal, only having one item on your lunch plate because the cafeteria ran out of food? Do you like to be force fed highly processed GMO foods? Currently in Key West High School, these dilemmas are occurring to the students during lunch every day.…
In today 's society, new ideas for growing, and cultivating the land in new ways for food to be developed are spreading rampantly. With new technological processes, such as General Electric supported Vertical Farming, the future of food is a mystery, as well as how healthy this food will be to consume. However, according to Technomic’s recently released report, “Healthy Eating Consumer Trend Report”, stated that “eating healthy is a very much do-it-yourself concept for today’s American consumer.” According to this data, it shows increasing trends towards the healthy side, such as having a full serving of vegetables is being adopted by 80-90% of the population 18-35+ years of age. With new technology, comes many new problems, but if everyone…
I felt a vibration beneath my body, but I was too tired to get up. My legs were sore. My arms felt like they had been ripped from their sockets. Then I heard a voice. “Jess,” the voice said.…
Since obesity is on the rise, another form on bio-politics which regulates children’s lives is giving the example of what children should and should not have in their lunchboxes at school. In the article ‘Why it’s important for Kids to Eat Healthy Lunches’ (2015) written by Melissa Angela demonstrates why it is important for children to have a healthy lunchbox since ‘obesity in children is climbing… If lunch in school is promoting unhealthy habits and behaviours by having unhealthy choices, children are not learning to eat healthy. This can lead to making unhealthy choices in their future with regard to snacks and meals’ (Angela 2015). Thus, government put these guidelines into place providing children with a well-balanced diet, however children…
The Scarsdale diet is one of the oldest weight loss programs still followed by millions of dieters. In 1978 the book "The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet" had its first printing and is still available today. A cardiologist, Dr. Herman Tarnower, began promoting the Scarsdale diet back in the 1950's with a little 2-page handout to middle-to upper class patients in New York. Tarnower originally started out using the short guides for patients who were suffering from heath disease and to help manage the symptoms of congestive heart failure.…
Moroyoqui 1 Yoselin Moroyoqui Controlling Americans diet Should the government control Americans diet? Controlling Americans diet means lack of freedom, mental disorders, and waste of time. Controlling American diet can contribute to lack of freedom Governmental control of American diet is a lack of freedom in Americans which means communism. America claims to be communist free, but when it comes to a diet the government wants to control every inch of food the society eats.…
Among the African American communities, the high mortality from diet-related diseases, firmly suggest a need to implement diets lower in total fat, saturated fat, and sodium and higher in fiber. Nonetheless, such changes would be divergent to some traditional African American social and cultural practices. The discernment that African American diet habits were distinctively and characteristically adaptive to external conditions, advise that, for compelling dietary change in African-American communities, changes in food accessibility will need to precede or happen in parallel with changes suggested to individuals. Cultural insolences about where and with whom food is eaten risen as being equivalent in significance to attitudes about particular…
Ever since the mid 1900’s, the fast food industry has developed into something bigger than what it was when it started, this book, Fast Food Nation, was written by a man named Eric Schlosser. “McDonald’s French fries were once flavored with beef tallow, a processed form of hard white fat found on the kidneys and loins of cattle”. The fast food industry in this nation has grown fast and if it were not for the speedy service system, Automobiles, or teenagers then the fast food industry would not be so successful today. The McDonald’s brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonald, created the speedy service system in the year of 1937; they started out as a drive in restaurant. They had carhops and short order cooks, and at that time, they were serving food that involved using glass plates, glass cups, and silver ware.…
This report is a dietary analysis on foods consumed from the dates Friday, April 1 through Sunday April 3, 2016. All food items were entered into the online software application MyFitnessPal. The foods that were consumed are within a typical diet including two days from the weekend. Some foods were eaten at home and some at restaurants. The attached reports include total calories and a breakdown of foods by day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.…
In The American Way of Eating, there is a plausible reason why people find eating healthy so difficult. “If you want people to eat healthy, why make it so expensive”(5). Some may argue that the difficulty has to do with money and location while others argue that it may have to do with lack of motivation. Regardless of the speculations, Tracie McMillan conducts research and puts herself into situations and figures out what stops her from eating healthy. Unhealthy eating is an issue with the working class and the unmotivated batch.…
At first, I wanted to get out of that dark place.. then, I wanted light, I wanted to see where I am.. It started to get colder and colder, I needed a warm blanket to cover myself with.. After a while, noises have been coming from my stomach, obviously I wanted food.. My mouth became dry, I needed water so bad..…
I was not capable of processing what had just happened, I was stuck, I felt like everything and everyone around me just stopped and it was only me in this nightmare that seemed to have to…
In today’s society, eating out has become a way of life for most people, because they are busy with work and other things. People find it less stressful to eat out because they do not have to worry about cooking which can be time consuming to an already busy schedule. Luckily, everywhere you turn there is a restaurant offering something to eat. The struggle is that it becomes challenging to find the perfect place to eat, because these places offer unhealthy fast food, are too causal and noisy, or can be too expensive and elegant. One of the easiest places to get something to eat is a fast food restaurant, because they are quick and easy.…