Topic: What We Eat is Killing Us Organization Strategy: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Introduction: I. Attention Getter: Imagine walking in the grocery store shopping for food. You pick up a pack of lunch meat and you look at the back of the ingredients list. As you continue to read, some of the ingredients are hard to pronounce or never heard of them before; Those are chemicals. Consumer items that lists the ingredients of strange chemical compounds are processed foods. II. Central Claim: The…
children’s advertising to continue efforts of healthy eating. A concern brought up with “healthy” advertisements has been that although fruits and vegetables are within the product, the product may contain other unhealthy ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup (Chambers, 2015). The advertisement attracts a child due to the actual fruits often shown off to the side of the screen, while fun characters or bright colors are the main focus in the middle (Chambers, 2015). The product may be…
The Seven Best Smoothie Cleanse Recipes for Your Liver What do you think about the words “detox” and “cleanse”? I know it makes some people roll their eyes. “You don’t need to detox,” they say, “your liver does it for you.” Actually, I always nod emphatically and agree! The purpose of a cleanse is to support the liver, the organ that purifies our body. And sure, a lot of detoxing happens without doing a thing. However, your lifestyle choices can directly impact how well your liver does its…
processing, it doesn 't mean they are unsafe. The real concern is with highly processed food. Those foods have been so processed that its substances don 't resemble the original aliment. They contain, besides added chemicals, high fructose corn syrup that is made from genetically modified corn. These are the kinds of food we should keep distance…
body mass, I do not smoke, and I try to have as much physical activity as possible. Realistically speaking, I try to maintain a healthy diet, but, I don’t eat as healthy as I should, and I have a sweet tooth. More importantly due to genetics I have high cholesterol, I have lowered it throughout the years by eating better and exercising. The first time I had my cholesterol read to myself when I was sixteen, my range was at 290 (the average is below 200). This year during my checkup it ranged at…
Many people struggle with weight problems, and there are a lot of reasons for it. In this article I will go over some small weighs to reduce the number of calories you intake or burn them off. Even the smallest amounts burn out. Cutting out a very small amount like 100 everyday can add up to about 1 pound every month! Don 't drink soda. Instead of drinking a Coke or Pepsi drink some water instead. If you drink one soda a day and replace it with water, you will lose one pound a month!…
Gout is a “disorder of metabolism that allows uric acid or urate to accumulated in the blood and tissues”(Rothschild, 2015, p. 3). It is more common in men than in women and has a higher incidence in 70 to 79 years of age. The gout syndrome is “ caused by alteration in purine metabolism, the end product which is uric acid. This results in hyperurecemia and in the deposition of urate crystals in various tissues (Woo & Wynne, 2011, p. 869). Hyperuricemia can occur due three mechanisms: 1.…
Fast food restaurants are now everywhere in this world. Fast food is a big culture in the U.S. It may be drive-thru or sit down fast food chain. Every day when people eat in fast food restaurants they have all their own motivations. Fast food restaurants became popular in many specific reasons. Fast food chains are very cheap when it comes to eating there food and that is exactly what the people are looking for. You can now find fast food restaurants everywhere in cities, fast food is so easy to…
children follow along with it so they end up eating it. “ Soul Food “ is another example because people think that just because it’s called soul food it’s supposed to literally be good for your soul. Soda is a huge ring leader of obesity. It’s very high in carbs and is just simply not healthy because all the non natural sugars and artificial flavors. Sometimes you can get stuck in the habit of having a soda a day and next thing you know you’ve gained fifteen pounds in a month. Also…
Is it commonly assumed that fast food is bad for your health, addictive and causes obesity? Junk food is any food that has little or no nutritional value with the least bit of preparation otherwise known as empty calories. The fast food industry is always been in the news and has been targeted for serving below human standard food just to fill their pockets and make no alterations to their food recipes to make it much healthier for the individual. Bottom line is that Fast food is to blame for…