Food Industry
Organic foods as well as any other healthy food choices have made huge impact on the market. Organic food has pushed through to one trillion dollars (Organic Food Wholesalers, 2007). The customer market for organic food has flourished because people want to eat better food. Customers are noted to have an interest in organic foods and the way these foods prevent illnesses. According to Organic food whole sales researchers, organic production helps to reduce health risks (2007). Across the world there is about 43 million hectares of land. All of this land is devoted to organic agriculture, and the interest and demand for this produce is continuing to grow stronger each year (McCarthy, 2015). McCarthy shows that in 2013 the sales …show more content…
Centuries ago different cultures explored the medical properties of the food that they ate to prevent infections and diseases (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p7.) In the book The Very Best Healing Foods, it proves that the Chinese are one of the cultures that adopted the idea of using food for medicine (p.7). The Chinese would use broad combinations of food and diets to combat illness and eventually the Chinese became world known for this type of discovery (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p.7). By the end of the 20th Century nutritionist, doctors, and pharmacists focused on the properties of food and how it could act as natural medicine (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p.7). Recent studies show that there is a link between the longevity of people and what they ate. It almost invariably consists of diets containing fresh healthy foods with minimal processing (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p.7). Research also shows that people constantly ignore these facts passed down for centuries and still resulting in recurring health problems (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p.7). Hippocrates, a famous Greek founder of Medicine, states that no doctor should ignore the importance of a healthy diet (‘Greek Medicine’, n.d.). This only proves further, that way back even in 480 BC that the knowledge of healthy diets existed (‘Greek Medicine’,
Organic foods as well as any other healthy food choices have made huge impact on the market. Organic food has pushed through to one trillion dollars (Organic Food Wholesalers, 2007). The customer market for organic food has flourished because people want to eat better food. Customers are noted to have an interest in organic foods and the way these foods prevent illnesses. According to Organic food whole sales researchers, organic production helps to reduce health risks (2007). Across the world there is about 43 million hectares of land. All of this land is devoted to organic agriculture, and the interest and demand for this produce is continuing to grow stronger each year (McCarthy, 2015). McCarthy shows that in 2013 the sales …show more content…
Centuries ago different cultures explored the medical properties of the food that they ate to prevent infections and diseases (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p7.) In the book The Very Best Healing Foods, it proves that the Chinese are one of the cultures that adopted the idea of using food for medicine (p.7). The Chinese would use broad combinations of food and diets to combat illness and eventually the Chinese became world known for this type of discovery (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p.7). By the end of the 20th Century nutritionist, doctors, and pharmacists focused on the properties of food and how it could act as natural medicine (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p.7). Recent studies show that there is a link between the longevity of people and what they ate. It almost invariably consists of diets containing fresh healthy foods with minimal processing (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p.7). Research also shows that people constantly ignore these facts passed down for centuries and still resulting in recurring health problems (Fontaine, English, & Williams, 2014, p.7). Hippocrates, a famous Greek founder of Medicine, states that no doctor should ignore the importance of a healthy diet (‘Greek Medicine’, n.d.). This only proves further, that way back even in 480 BC that the knowledge of healthy diets existed (‘Greek Medicine’,