The Meaning of Food to Us and Others
Introduction
Every human being is subjected to some form of eating food due to the physical needs. If you cannot eat, then means you are either medically ill or you have made a choice to die. The body needs to grow and for it to grow it needs nutrients. The nutrient aspect here is of importance because somebody can be eating food without the nutrients the body requires and hence that will be futile work. However, with time there are a lot of dynamics surrounding the topic of food. Food now speaks different things in different settings and to different people. In fact, you can learn about somebody just by observing the kind of food such a person is taking. Plenty of literature on food seems to focus mostly …show more content…
People do not eat certain foods because of health issues. Some of these issues might be physician generated or from a personal conviction that they should not be eaten. Mostly in homes, people try their best to cook balanced diets. However, there are instances or types of people who cooking a balanced diet is quite difficult for them. For example, consider a young man who is not married. Most of those in group tend not even to cook. They prefer takeaways from fast food restaurants. The reason is that cooking is time consuming. They do not want to cook anything that exceeds fifteen minutes in the cooking oven. As result, it is very easy to identify unmarried career youngsters by observing the kind of food they eat or cook. Besides the like of fast foods, they are very irregular in their eating habits and survive by the grace of the divinity. However, organized people are very aware of what they eat. Besides the organization, availability of resources to afford what this group of people would want to eat is not an issue. This is because organized people mostly plan well and in advance on what they are going to eat and when they are going to it. With the resources they have, they plan for each of it and everything falls in place. This guarantees them of the nutritional aspect of the food. People who can afford what they want often eat highly …show more content…
Some Indians from the native India do not take cow and cow products due to the religious believes. However, for the case of Pima Indian community, the reason for avoiding milk is quite different, but is closely related the belief in India. The context under discussion here is not from a religious perspective, but rather is from a biological perspective. This community is deficient of lactase, responsible for digestion of milk. It is a genetic aspect associated with early nomads and this speaks of the Pima Indian community being originally nomads. It is important to understand the digestive malfunctioning of different people around the world and their genes. This involves knowing what they eat and what they do not eat. As Deborah Lupton had mentioned in her work that people learn matters of food from their parents or place of birth, technology and power of information flow has transformed everything. The knowledge base has been widened. The aspect of lactase deficiency is genetically based and can be used to explain what kind of people eat and what they do not eat. With the world becoming a small village, it is always important to have the information because you do not know who is going to be your next client, marriage partner (for those who are unmarried) or boss. Understanding people help you relate with them and avoid what happened to Gabriel in Nabhan’s
Introduction
Every human being is subjected to some form of eating food due to the physical needs. If you cannot eat, then means you are either medically ill or you have made a choice to die. The body needs to grow and for it to grow it needs nutrients. The nutrient aspect here is of importance because somebody can be eating food without the nutrients the body requires and hence that will be futile work. However, with time there are a lot of dynamics surrounding the topic of food. Food now speaks different things in different settings and to different people. In fact, you can learn about somebody just by observing the kind of food such a person is taking. Plenty of literature on food seems to focus mostly …show more content…
People do not eat certain foods because of health issues. Some of these issues might be physician generated or from a personal conviction that they should not be eaten. Mostly in homes, people try their best to cook balanced diets. However, there are instances or types of people who cooking a balanced diet is quite difficult for them. For example, consider a young man who is not married. Most of those in group tend not even to cook. They prefer takeaways from fast food restaurants. The reason is that cooking is time consuming. They do not want to cook anything that exceeds fifteen minutes in the cooking oven. As result, it is very easy to identify unmarried career youngsters by observing the kind of food they eat or cook. Besides the like of fast foods, they are very irregular in their eating habits and survive by the grace of the divinity. However, organized people are very aware of what they eat. Besides the organization, availability of resources to afford what this group of people would want to eat is not an issue. This is because organized people mostly plan well and in advance on what they are going to eat and when they are going to it. With the resources they have, they plan for each of it and everything falls in place. This guarantees them of the nutritional aspect of the food. People who can afford what they want often eat highly …show more content…
Some Indians from the native India do not take cow and cow products due to the religious believes. However, for the case of Pima Indian community, the reason for avoiding milk is quite different, but is closely related the belief in India. The context under discussion here is not from a religious perspective, but rather is from a biological perspective. This community is deficient of lactase, responsible for digestion of milk. It is a genetic aspect associated with early nomads and this speaks of the Pima Indian community being originally nomads. It is important to understand the digestive malfunctioning of different people around the world and their genes. This involves knowing what they eat and what they do not eat. As Deborah Lupton had mentioned in her work that people learn matters of food from their parents or place of birth, technology and power of information flow has transformed everything. The knowledge base has been widened. The aspect of lactase deficiency is genetically based and can be used to explain what kind of people eat and what they do not eat. With the world becoming a small village, it is always important to have the information because you do not know who is going to be your next client, marriage partner (for those who are unmarried) or boss. Understanding people help you relate with them and avoid what happened to Gabriel in Nabhan’s