30 Minute Meals

Welcome ladies and gentlemen. I hope you will enjoy my presentation and hopefully you can save your questions to the end of the presentation. Sadly, in the next 18 minutes while doing presentation, four Americans that are alive will be dead from the food that they eat. That was a famous opening line in a speech once. And it is truth. America is the centre of an obesity epidemic. 1 in every 3 American adult is obese and 1 in every 6 child is obese. These are scary numbers. That is the same as…

settled down to eat. I ate in like thirty minutes and then thought: “I am gonna relax for a few minutes and then wash the dishes…” I turned up the music and continued listening to whatever the Migos were shouting between the beats even though I understood very little of it. After listening to my music for what seemed like ten minutes to me, I checked my watch because I was feeling sleepy as hell. Damn, I hadn’t been listening to the music for 10 minutes. It was already 23:07. I had to confirm…

Why bother opening your mouth? Why bother opening your mouth unless eating? Why bother opening your mouth unless eating or speaking? Why bother opening your mouth unless eating or speaking the truth? Why bother opening your mouth unless eating or speaking the truth or showing love? Why bother opening your mouth unless eating or speaking the truth or showing love to a loved one? Why bother opening your mouth unless eating or speaking the truth or showing love to a loved one or attempting to…

out. During this exchange, Olivia was still in the bathroom stall. What was taking her so long? The other lady came out of the stall. She had shoulder length wispy blonde hair and was very tall. I decided to call her Romilda. Romilda took a few minutes touching up her makeup, then turned to face me. “So,” she said sweetly, “how old are you?” I had been taught not to talk to strangers, especially not creepy ladies in the public restrooms, and I knew you weren’t supposed to tell people your…

last time, Marcus and I challenged again for the 'South Hedge Maze'. Marcus went in first, like always and a minute later I went in. Somehow, I managed to collide with Marcus about five times in the maze itself. I went in circles a few time before making my way out. When I came out of the maze, I was amazed to see that Marcus was not of the maze yet. I made the record of about three minutes and 12 seconds. Marcus was still going in circles inside the maze, bumping into families trying to find…

Marissa Fessenden, in her magazine “Do You Make Better Decisions When Hungry?” (October 27, 2014), looks at how hunger affect people’s decisions and actions. Although experience tells us that a growling stomach makes people impulsive therefore affected their decisions in a bad way, Fessenden says otherwise. She states that hunger actually causes people to make better decisions. To support this statement, Fessenden shows “three different experiments that paired fasting with a decision-making task…

A tradition in my family on thanksgiving, new years and Christmas eve would be my dad cooking pork for the family to eat. The recipe was taught to him by my paternal grandfather. Being Hispanic is a topic that comes up everyday of my life. For example, in scholarship applications, college applications, AP exam days. The questions is always there, “Are you Hispanic/Latino?” Being Hispanic is accompanied by a set of expectations from your family, go to school, get good grades, graduate college and…

instead of visiting a local food business for traditional meals. Paul Feine a director of innovation for the institute of human studies at George Mason University describes in an article that when he took a vacation with his family to Paris they had lunch at a McDonald’s fast food restaurant. Feine writes, “On a recent trip to Paris with my family, I was standing inside a McDonald’s restaurant gazing out at the street as my wife ordered Le Happy Meal for our two year old”(Feine). Although there…

Hispanic culture they consume four meals a day. For breakfast they consume a light meal. Lunch is considered the main meal. The family members come home and they eat a large meal. Around 6p.m small snacks are eaten to satisfy them until 8 or 9p.m when they eat dinner. Once in the United States, the Hispanics usually eat the traditional three meals a day (Understanding Cultural Diversity). Diet modifications, such as including more fruits and vegetables in meals, can be made to decrease the…

Huck As Nature “The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn” wrote by Mark Twain is a book which talked about Huck’s life in America. It also contained the conflicts between civilization and nature. Everybody knows that a civilization is an important way of life that’s used to improve people’s knowledge and behavior. Is that a good way for everyone to live ? My answer of this question is “no”, especially for Huckleberry Finn and the era he lived in. Civilization is a useless idea for the era of…