Meals In The 1950's Essay

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After our crazy scare with Ebola, new food nutrition label rules, and the debate about the right to die was all over the news headlines every morning so much it literally made me sick to my stomach. Americas eating habits have changed within the last 50 years. We are at an age where it doesn’t matter what we eat as long as it’s good and make us feel better, but we are not caring about the after effects.
Meals in the 1950’s were very simple and easy and eating outside of the household was a huge deal in the family. Eating out once a week was like hitting the lottery for most families. Even our beverage habits have changed for the worst from what I can personally see. When I go to get together and parties. 50 years ago having a soda use to
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More times than others when juicing it requires you to absolutely not eat anything for a long time and your body get its fruits and veggies another way witch is from organic and or regular grown fruits and veggies. As far as regular fruits are concerned that is typically what we all go for when eating them. Regular fruits and veggies grown normally have mostly been sprayed with chemicals to actually protect the fruit from bugs and animals and sprays are sprayed through the whole acres. Organic fruits and veggies are not prayed with any chemicals, and areas around the tree are not cut in any way. In other words weeds that grow around the tree are not cut and in most cases on organic acres you will see that the whole land looks like an over grown acres of just complete disasters sometimes. What you get is a piece of fruit that has been grown organically with not any alteration of the tree and around the tree itself. So the question is…should we go to eating organic? Or regular grown fruits? I would have to say it’s entirely up to you. For me both taste the exact the same and have some slight differences in color and appearance, but for the most part have the same things for vitamins. If you have the money to spend 7 bucks for small organic bundle of bananas instead of non-organic for 2 bucks than go

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