Food Basics

Is cooking really better overall than fast food? I would like to think so. So why don’t all Americans cook instead of going out? Maybe it’s the convenience, or the taste, or just the lack of knowing the benefits of a home cooked meal. Maybe it’s the pricing? Maybe a McDouble really more than a head of lettuce, I think it’s an overall lack of knowledge. Many Americans suffer from a multitude of health issues due to poor choices. One of which is poor diet. In order to fix the problem it needs to…

Interest in alternative food options is spreading rapidly throughout America. With readily available information about the health concerns surrounding processed foods, people are returning to organic and locally grown foods as well as other means of attaining more health conscious foods. But that isn’t the only reason for the growth of interest in this area. With growing problems like climate change and deforestation, people are looking for new and better ways to reverse these issues and create…

Americans’ diets are extremely diverse and consist of food ranging from the healthy nourishment of nature’s bounty to unwholesome sweets such as the Twinkie. The variety of food choices have increased over time with the implementation of the industrial food chain in which farmers tend to one crop on large amounts of land through irrigation and the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. However, the industrial food chain has put our personal health and the health of the environment at risk…

healthy foods. Here 's our tips for developing healthy eaters for life. What to Eat: Turning Your Picky Eaters into Healthy Eaters Foods are constantly changing. What is trendy and in-season is going to be constantly changing. However, what is going to be nutritional is always going to be the same. As a parent, it is important to stick to family mealtimes and teach your children the importance of consuming whole, real and when possible, organic foods. How to teach your children what whole…

definition of being healthy is keeping your body in the best shape you possibly can. A few things that I think are important when it comes to being healthy are; eating the right foods, being physically active, and being hygienic and proactive. I do not always eat the healthiest of foods, but I do limit the unhealthier foods. I also bicycle down my road whenever I can, as well as walking in the Tennessee parks with my friends. Physical activity comes in many shapes and forms, and I choose to…

has created a controversial topic among the consumers and food industries. After careful review of evidence from credible groups and members, it is strongly recommended that this rule should not be established without an in depth analysis of the problem. In the proposed rule titled, ‘Use of the Term "Natural" in the Labeling of Human Food Products. 2015-32471’, the FDA is reexamining the current definition of the term “natural” on food products in aiming to make the term clearer for consumers…

Meals from the Heartland fights three types of hunger: food insecurity, malnutrition, and starvation. This is a problem found all across the nation and world. Poor nutrition is a serious problem that has been playing a role in countless child deaths every year. According to the World Hunger Education Service (n.d.), 10.9 million children are killed every year, and poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of those deaths. The World Hunger Education Service has been working for the past 40…

Food is a means through which tensions over the conflict between global and local identities and practices are expressed, food is often used to define cultural boundaries including national identity. Food can be used as a means to separate groups of people into classes food also has the ability to bring people together under one identity. The article Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics, by Mary Norton depicted how food was a means of separating…

recover. Lee Harding was eating some beef patties from Hudson Foods. The Pueblo officials even tested the beef patties and found they had the same virulent E. coli strain. A month later Hudson Foods had to recall their products a month later. It was too late because about 25 million pounds of ground beef has already been consumed. Schlosser wanted to focus on the safety of food next. He noted that it is quite difficult to track the source of food-borne pathogens in the United States because…

the toilet and make sure they make it into the trash bin. Food An important thing to remember while living in the residence halls is that university food is not always the best. We all dream that one day we will wake up and the Salem State dining halls have learned to how to season food, but that 's not happening anytime soon. So, students have to learn to work with and around the food provided by the university. 1. Dining Hall While the food in the dining halls often lacks seasoning, there is…