Gluten

It’s common to feel sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner: This sleepiness is typically caused by the amino acid tryptophan, which is found in turkey. Tryptophan increases the production of serotonin: Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that can affect a variety of things, including your mood, memory and sleep. When a food containing tryptophan is consumed with carbohydrates, even more serotonin is created, which is why sleepiness is common following dinner. While eating turkey and some kind of…

The Ebola outbreak in the United States is one of the most frightening outbreaks, for many reasons. One being that, few people knew how to combat the disease. For example, how does it travel and how do we protect ourselves? These questions are important in all diseases, yet the simple fact is, that we don’t know exactly know all the answers. As Americans, that’s frightening. How do we as the general public protect ourselves from this terrible disease? Better yet, how do we protect our children?…

5 Nutrition Rules to Live By Daily We’re fully aware that nutrition plays an important role in our health and lives in general simply because health troubles automatically constitutes to a lower quality of life. The choices we make when it comes to the food we eat shape how the body functions, which in turn, directly affect our overall well-being. For decades, people’s eating habits have been the subject of several studies. Though nutritional research has helped form nutritional recommendations…

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these chemicals into the body it can cause allergic reactions, when the immune system doesn't recognize the flavoring it goes into hyper drive. The body tries to fight it off which can mess with the so called signal and causes dairy, peanut, wheat, or gluten, allergic reactions to normal foods, a peanut could be eaten one day, the next time the body doesn't recognize the extras added in and reacts by trying to fighting it off. Not only is it the chemicals being added it goes along with the…

Logos, What the World Needs More of Science is based in logos. Research and experiments are attempts to establish facts, and to draw correct conclusions based on those facts. While all of science is based on this, I am a personal trainer, so I’m most familiar with the health sciences and research. When discussing health, it would seem obvious that it should be a factual process. If I do A, B will happen. However, since health involves behavior, hence psychology, it is never that straightforward…

Strengths. DiGiorno had great success with their promotion “It’s Not Delivery, It’s DiGiorno”. They have risen to become an easily recognized brand in the frozen pizza industry and viewed as the top frozen pizza in the US (Crawford, 2016). DiGiorno uses high quality ingredients, which has a major impact on the fresh taste that they promote. With Nestle at the helm of DiGiorno, they push to innovate the product to be competitive with delivery pizza. While all these innovations may not have…

Literary analysis When you go out to the supermarket, how often do you look at the ingredients of your product? Do you ever ask if Tyson and Perdue treat their chickens with care or if big companies take care of their workers? In the analysis of this documentary there are noticeable terms within the first few moments of the video. The first being allegory, this shows how the food world is on the brink of being controlled by 4 companies and no one can really see how big the problem of mass…

Scientists claim to have found a connection between GMOs and allergies, especially those such as gluten intolerance (10 scientific studies, 2014). As the graph shows, food allergies in American children have steadily increased over the past decades. However, although the number of reported allergies has increased there is not proof that the elevation…

sauces, and soups. Corn starch thickens things because of the starch molecules inside it. These molecules swell when they’re heated. The thickening occurs because of the swelling. Corn starch is the perfect alternative for flour if you’re trying to eat gluten free. It is used as a caking agent. Corn starch is dusted over cheese in packaging to prevent the cheese from…