Food

Food Stamped is a documentary film that informs its audience about food stamps. It follows a couple who are attempting to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget. Nutrition teacher, Shira Potash teaches nutrition cooking classes to elementary students in low-income neighborhoods. In order to put themselves in others shoes, Shira and her husband go on board on the food stamp challenge where they eat on about one dollar per meal. While they are doing the challenge, they seek a…

Nations Food Program, approximately 795 million people in the world are starving, and 3.1 million children a year, under the age of five, die from poor nutrition alone. These statistics make me feel guilty about my eating habits. I realized how often I resort to premade foods that are offered on every street corner, and at grocery stores. I have access to healthy organic nutritious food, but I passed that up in order to save time. I live a very busy fast paced life, and having premade food at…

12 Myths of food should no longer be trusted (2) Not all food myth circulating in society is right. We recommend that you check first the truth before you fall for the myth. Is it true that eating cheese before bed can incur a nightmare? Is it true that the new food fell 3 or 5 seconds is still secure because not consumed contaminated bacteria? Dietitian Juliette Kellow straightens these food myths along with other myths here. 7. Red meat is bad for your health Red meat is rich in protein,…

got off work between 5pm to 7pm. The two grocery stores I chose was: Super Foods: low end Earth Fare: high end I stay in a small city in Alabama, where the population is major over crowed. Just like any other city, the city is split into different selection like; North, East, South, West. From the luxury neighborhoods to the suburbs, to the nice neighborhoods to the “OK” neighborhoods to the low end neighborhoods. Super Foods is located, I would say at the low end or an ok neighborhood. The…

Healthy food choices can make a big difference in the life of a family, ensuring that babies, children and their families have the nutrition they need to learn and grow. Buncombe County Health and Human Services wants people to know that they may qualify for a program called WIC (Women, Infants and Children) which provides support to families to help make ends meet while buying healthy foods for their family. WIC is a comprehensive nutrition education program that helps pregnant mothers,…

Food is vital in our world because in order to live we need to eat. Modern food today is very diverse from the way we prepared and cooked dishes from back then, foods we ate in the past is the same foods we eat now but enhanced. We often use food as a way to be social or have social gatherings. Many families get together and bring food that has an importance to their culture. Food recipes are generally passed down from generation to generation. The recipes usually stay the same but people will…

Last weeks articles provided an introduction to food activism with examples of activist involvement while touching upon the problem of accessibility of healthy foods to urban areas. The readings for this week dived deeper than before into the flaws of food in urban areas along with a discussion of food accessibility during a communist regime. The problem with food access in urban areas became clearer through these articles as explanations were outlined in addition to personal input from…

regular resources to purchase food. This has largely to do with the fact that most areas are known as what we call a food desert. Food deserts are urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. Instead of supermarkets and grocery stores, these communities may have no food access or are served only by fast food restaurants and convenience stores that offer few healthy, affordable food options. How does one define where a food desert might be?…

At the beginning of the course we were asked to print off a 3 day food log and record what was eaten over the course of three days. Once the information was recorded we were to make a hypothesis about our diet. From there we were to create three goals for our diet in the future. I believe the food log was to bring our attention to what we ate in our daily lives. I know that personally I will grab whatever is available and does not need to be cooked when I’m working. In school kids used to tell…

plaguing our nation these days may put some issues, like food disparities and deserts, on the back burner. Many people, including myself, aren’t even sure of what these things are. Food Insecurity is the global crisis of households that are not able to attain food security, or, not enough food to satisfy the needs (Schroeder, 2015). There are 4 defining attributes of food insecurity as defined by Krista Schroeder. The first is that somehow who is food insecure doesn’t know where from, if at all,…