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I went to visit these two stores on a Wednesday when I 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…

take steps to provide healthy foods in schools. School food suppliers are taking important steps to help meet the U.S. goals. Major school suppliers are working together to meet the recommendations within five years to reduce the amount of sugar, fat, and salt in school meals. The suppliers are also going to increase whole grains and double the amount of produce they use within ten years. The School Nutrition Association (SNA) has also joined the Let’s Move Campaign. They are working towards…

Nutrition Perspectives I chose to do my project on the book "Why We Get Fat and What to do about it" by Gary Taubes. In all honesty I choose this book by narrowing the list down to what looked interesting and finding which one was readily available at the library. That said, I am always interested in new perspectives on weight and weight loss. I enjoy learning what other views are in regards to this topic. Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the…

Transgender Fighting in MMA Enraged Mixed Martial Arts Fighter Matt Mitrione used harsh words to describe Fallon Fox by saying, “That is a lying, sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak [...]” (Gregory 2). Mixed Martial Artist (MMA) Fallon Fox “the Queen of Swords,” formally known as Boyd Burton, has made headlines for being the first openly transgender in MMA. In 2006, Fox underwent gender reassignment (Fallon 2). It is estimated that 2-5% of the population identify themselves as transgender.…

Nutrition plays a vital role on sports performance. All 3 macronutrients; fats, proteins and carbohydrates provide the body with fuel and energy to maintain when exercising (Burke, 2007). Having a good balanced diet leads to improved health and well-being for a young athlete as well as reduced risk of injury and improved recovery time (Bagchi, Nair and Sen, 2013) resulting to them having a longevity/lifelong within physical activity. Appendix 1 documents the athlete’s meals consumed for one week…

This burger seems to be very healthy overall. Strengths include the calories, fat, cholesterol, and fiber. One burger contains 84 calories compared to 100-200 calories per burger. The sweet mama burger has only 1% total fat and has no saturated fat, trans fat or cholesterol. A downfall in the recipe is the sodium content, the burger contains 508.0mg of sodium in only one burger which is very high. The sodium content in the sweet mama burger can be limited by the amount of salt and Worcestershire…

Diet has long been a topic of debate in America. For the last fifty years, the standard recommended diet in the United States has been a low-calorie, low-fat diet. Low carbohydrate diets began to appear in the 1970’s, but have been viewed negatively by the majority of the population. Recently, the low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, South Beach diet, and Paleo diet have been gaining popularity. Studies show that these types of diets can be used to lose weight healthily and quickly. However, the most…

longer use of specific carbohydrate, instead of it, they recommend the patients to have “dietary pattern that includes carbohydrate from fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes,and low-fat milk” (Kramer and Chang, 2013). Additionally, the patient should decrease the intake of sodium, saturated fat and trans fat and on other hand increasing fish consumption (Kramer and Chang, 2013). According to the United States news, the dietary approach to stop hypertension (DASH) diet considered the best…

Super Size Me After watching Super Size Me it 's made me think twice about my diet, and how much good fat as well as bad fat I am consuming. The largest contributor to the obesity epidemic is fast food. When the FDA evaluates the growing number of obese people in the United States the finger is pointed at the fast food restaurants, such as McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy 's, etc... The epidemic is so severe over 60 % of all Americans are either overweight or obese, now thats a lot of people.…

Mexico’s environment faces many issues, Mexico has a host of environmental problems, including significant chemical pollution from factory discharges and waste dumping, but the main threat to its biodiversity probably stems from deforestation and other natural habitat losses. Mexico’s main religion is Roman Catholic. 88 percent of the population is Roman Catholic. Mexican diet contains relatively high intakes of legumes and dietary fiber; it also was high in cholesterol. Contrary to our…