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The Fight Against GMO’s; Education is Key! Yes, it may be cool to buy a tomato that is the size of your head, a grape that tastes like cotton candy, or an apple that never turns brown… or is it? Corn, canola oil, soy, zucchini, cotton, alfalfa, sugar beet, and papaya. These eight food are the top genetically modified foods in the United States. That being said 70 percent of foods in American grocery stores have been genetically altered in some shape or form. Surprised by this?…

So you've talked about clean eating and you've thought about doing it, but something stops you from moving forward. Perhaps you've been a victim of these Top Seven Clean Eating Myths. Myth 1: I don't have time to fit clean eating into my lifestyle. What would you think if you were told that with 15 minutes extra a day you could easily get your act together to change your lifestyle over to clean eating? Well, it's almost that simple. You're going to need one weekend to take every single…

The Fight that Broke Me "Pow!" Knocked out cold! "What an intense fight." No, not that kind of fight but a more internal fight. Kids are injured in fights today more than ever before. Not speaking physically injured but internally and mentally. Over the past several years kids ages 6-18 have been hurt after being in a fight with their best friend or any friend or that matter. "It's okay, you'll make up eventually," they all say. However, here is one fight that still hasn't met its final…

Education; Americans are GMO Lab Rats Genetic modification during infancy, animal testing, and vaccines all very controversial and talked about biomedical health issues. Recently the American public has heard a great deal about these topic during the presidential election (Despin). Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) directly affect every American citizen daily. So why is it that the controversial topic of food modification and gene manipulation not discussed more? Twenty-six countries around…

What does that thing mean? Why is it this thing so important? When looking at art or trying to find meaning within oneself one is often driven by, either a curiosity for understanding or by their desire to uncover a meaning, and to explore their own personal analyses and theories. Sigmund Freud 's theories often bank heavily upon the interpretation of dreams. What do they mean? What is their purpose? What do they say about us? Using his interpretation to pull psychoanalytical significance from…

Did you know that more than two-thirds (68.8 percent) of adults are considered to be overweight or obese in America (Overweight)? According to the Oxford English Dictionary to be obese is to be very fat or fleshy; extremely overweight (Discover). This is an extremely high number of obese Americans. The culture of everyday people has changed into a more sedentary life style. To combat the fact that people have become obese they will make excuses and blame their weight on the food. Fast food is…

kind of character they will be. One character that she names is Fat Butt. From the name, the reader knows right away that this will be a fat kid who probably eats a lot. Bambara supports this by writing, "Fat Butt was already wasting his peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich like the pig he is" (Bambara…

Emergency Food: What to Buy Many times, there is little to no warning before a natural disaster hits. Whether a hurricane, flood, tornado, earthquake or blizzard threatens you, having an emergency preparedness kit full of nonperishable food items can help ease your mind. Any of these disasters can leave you without electricity for an extended length of time. Because you will most likely be using more energy during an emergency, you need to eat high-protein foods. A limited food supply means that…

According to Albert Einstein, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” People chose their diets for a variety of reasons. We eat to nourish the body. Many interrelated factors influence our food choices. The main initiation for eating is of course hunger and satiety, but what we choose to eat is not determined solely by physiological or nutritional needs. Other factors like the sensory properties of…

Reading Stacy Lee’s article was very eye opening to me. Being a minority myself, I was no stranger to many of the things she spoke about. The biggest thing I took away from the article was the idea of being categorized and boxed in; separated on different levels with whites being at the top of the scale and everyone else falls below that; some lower than others but always lesser than whites. Based on how you look, people will assume different things about you and that all originates from back in…