final question #1

Food is the key of survival for all man and species. Its development is the essence of life and an everyday requirement. The growth of food has evolved from early ages to future; the adaptation and consumption of food has also grown. Food is found everywhere possible; it is convenience to our needs and the environments. The way we have grown to adapt food over time is astonishing. It is rather a pleasurable satisfying task than a value of devouring minerals and proteins.
From the start of human existence gathering fruits and hunting down animals collected food for many. Species at that time adapted to the food that was presented to their accessibility. Food has grown with the evolution of humans and animals, making it possible to adapt to new foods. From then on human has embraced the process by adding value to food; giving food limited excess for those who could not afford it.
As the population of human increased so has the demand of food. Food was once a pure substance that was easily assembled; now food is part of a whole industry. This changed of food can also be tagged along with the social structure of society. The industrial food system has corrupted many minds of deciding which food is right or bad to consume. Technology and fossil fuels also has a lot to do with food today. The development of technology would not be functionally without fossil fuel. Creating a system where artificial flavors overrule wholesomeness is not faithful to our bodies. Adding chemicals to enhance natural growth of animals and food is the way food industry process.
Today the obsession of less for more is highly aroused and apparent in our everyday lives. The idea of consuming more for less is what many advertising products launch. The most decisive part of this whole industrial chain is the way the animals are treated. The animals that provide our bodies with nutrients and proteins supplements that helps us to survive. The payback that we give to them is by feeding them corn and injecting steroids to grow faster so the food industries can make money. Continuing this process of consuming food today would leave us to a non-sustainable life. A life where convenience package food would not be available for us to lavish upon but rather growing and nurturing the earth with it’s fine supplements to survive. Which would bring us back to the original way of life.

the idustrial food system

Faith Calizare

Industrial food system

Intro:

Americans are obsessed by convenience, saving time and buying cheap. The pursuit of these goals is apparent as we get our daily menus from drive-up windows, carryout meals and sealed products. The industrial food system is a structure where an amount of food is produced by highly developed technology and is packaged to many supermarkets. The system engages the fabrication of stocks and crops. Farmers are the caretakers of many of these stocks; which includes pigs, cows, and chickens.

Health and safety also are essential measures of a food system. Meals away from home contain more calories and fat and less fiber. One third of Americans are obese, up from one quarter a decade ago. Obesity is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. With the production of many factories overproducing their stocks and crops disease spread. When the industrial size of farms raise too many animals producing manure on such little land, we must, question the industrial concentration of our food system. Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, argues that fast and cheap food has helped transform our diet, landscape, economy, workforce and pop culture.

The majority of citizen doesn’t know where their meals came from or who made it. The richer you are the healthier you eat, since the rich likes to keep to them selves, most of the food production is fast food for the common people. The common people would be ranked as middle class who works a 9 to 5 job. This may seem not fair but this is the way our food system is functioning. The sizes mixed with value are defiantly out of proportion. An American dollar today can buy someone a burger, which holds 879 calories. According to the book Fast Food Nation, one in every four hamburgers contains cow shit. Most of the food made in these factories is distributed to fast food restaurants like Mc Donald’s, Wendy’s, and Burger king. These major corporations are doing major damage to our population growth matter. The obesity in our country is way more discreditable than any other countries in the world. When scientists from around the world tell us the vitamin and mineral content of our food has fallen significantly over the past 60 years, we need to question our reliance on the corporate food system.

The way our culture is distributing food is disgusting, to think that the high tech, high production, industrialized agriculture is the way to feed the world. It seems not, millions still starve, the U.S. is obese and we still have tainted food. What does that tell you about our food system? We as consumers have allowed this to happen. We have become complacent and dependent on this industrial food system. We must remember that the vast majority of contaminated food has come directly out of the industrial food system, not local markets.

Asking to change the way eat is very rigid, because the use of eating an over size proportion as a meal is something we have grown accustom to. Getting an over size meal for 5 dollars is something most people could afford than the good quality stuff.

Conclusion:

Since the United States is not collectively a whole, many citizens lack the qualities of deliberation of others. This shortage trait is often over looked by benefiting oneself and family. The way of living is not agreeable because as time pass the greed of an individual is just going to expand. Ignorance and less compassion is the resulting matter at the end of this problem. The awareness of this topic should be spreaded to many so something can be done to benefit our future of humanity.

how calories work article

calories is a unit of energy that help us burn fat. ,ost of us relate calorie to food but it is the amount of energy or heat processed. one calorie equals to 484 joules, which is used in physical science. the amount of calories taken in is the measure of how much potential energy that food taken in contains. our bodies often burn calories by sweat the process of losing energy. calories can also be burned with the help of excersing. many people believe that calories is the fact nutrienent to avoiod but it actually good to ingest calories, the prblem woulf be carborhydrates. this is often broken by enzymes, it attacts sugar and other fatty acids.

summary on article #1

When reading the article, i thought that eeverything was waht we learned in class, so it seems like i knew everything that was being discussed. it's pretty intresting to know that people's stastitics were accurate at such early time. at some piont oil will each it's maximuim piont of being axcessable to our daily lives. the peak of oil is running out and many scienstist believe that our crisses will come soon, and the awareness of people would come about. the appliances today are verey much dependent on oil and and are very little knowledge on it is weak.

post comment on gary

your paper is at a good start....i think you should go within dept of explaning about the animals being killed for making fries and hamburgers.since you mentioned so much about that...other than that i think it is good!!!

March 30, 2007 10:49 AM

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FAITH said...
this is a good paper....however i think u should let it flow more. your idea are presented like it in bullet pionts. try to plug in the topiccs to make it flow and its clear that your opionions are strong and thats good...ooHH yeaaaa

March 30, 2007 10:33 AM

food first draft

Faith Calizare 1-22-07
Food


The Atkins Diet


The Atkins diet is what is best for many American citizens. Most people follow the Atkins diet for weight maintenance, good health, and disease prevention. The progress to a better heart health and memory function, as well as other wellness benefits is also rewarded when doing the Atkins diet. The accessibility of going on the Atkins diet is convenience to many due to the normal food rituals accustomed and affordability is highly suitable. The Atkins diet plan allows food to eaten that are fresh and rich complement of dietary foods. The animals are not exploded in any harmful way because purity of proteins and fat is being taken in. The development of foods in farms can be non-intoxicated with steroids and rather be purely grown as fresh foods.
The Atkins diet is preferred because it is a low-carbohydrate diet, which will burn fat for energy. Atkins diet is better because most likely a better heart health and memory function, as well as other wellness benefits will happen rather to those who do not use this diet. The diet is based on the theory that overweight people eat too many carbohydrates. Our bodies burn both fat and carbohydrates for energy, but carbohydrates are used first (Dr. Atkins). Drastically reducing carbs and eating more protein and fat, our bodies naturally lose weight by burning stored body fat more efficiently. Unlike many other diets, carbohydrates is not targeted; but rather the calories, saturated fat and sodium are more focused on. Instead of limiting the amount of food you eat strictly restrictions are made to what you eat. The likeliness of starvation to loss weight would not transpire due to the claims of reducing your appetite. On the Atkins diet, you're eating almost pure protein and fat. You can consume red meat, fish, shellfish, fowl, and regular cheese (not "diet" cheese, cheese spreads, or whey cheeses). You can cook with butter, have mayo with your tuna, and put olive oil on your salads. On the other hand, carbs are restricted about 20 grams of net carbs per day, meaning total carbs minus fiber (Dr. Atkins).

The accessibility of going on the Atkins diet is convenience to many due to the normal food rituals accustomed and affordability is highly suitable. The diet does allow addition to fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain, which can be affordable. Until recently, you could only get whole-grain products in organic or non-traditional stores. Today they are popping up in more and more mainstream grocery stores.


The animals are not exploded in any harmful way because purity of proteins and fat is being taken in. The development of foods in farms can be non-intoxicated with steroids and rather be purely grown as fresh foods.






Sources:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/index.html
http://www.webmd.com/diet/atkins-diet-how-it-works

food first draft

Faith Calizare 1-22-07
Food


The Atkins Diet


The Atkins diet is what is best for many American citizens. Most people follow the Atkins diet for weight maintenance, good health, and disease prevention. The progress to a better heart health and memory function, as well as other wellness benefits is also rewarded when doing the Atkins diet. The accessibility of going on the Atkins diet is convenience to many due to the normal food rituals accustomed and affordability is highly suitable. The Atkins diet plan allows food to eaten that are fresh and rich complement of dietary foods. The animals are not exploded in any harmful way because purity of proteins and fat is being taken in. The development of foods in farms can be non-intoxicated with steroids and rather be purely grown as fresh foods.
The Atkins diet is preferred because it is a low-carbohydrate diet, which will burn fat for energy. Atkins diet is better because most likely a better heart health and memory function, as well as other wellness benefits will happen rather to those who do not use this diet. The diet is based on the theory that overweight people eat too many carbohydrates. Our bodies burn both fat and carbohydrates for energy, but carbohydrates are used first (Dr. Atkins). Drastically reducing carbs and eating more protein and fat, our bodies naturally lose weight by burning stored body fat more efficiently. Unlike many other diets, carbohydrates is not targeted; but rather the calories, saturated fat and sodium are more focused on. Instead of limiting the amount of food you eat strictly restrictions are made to what you eat. The likeliness of starvation to loss weight would not transpire due to the claims of reducing your appetite. On the Atkins diet, you're eating almost pure protein and fat. You can consume red meat, fish, shellfish, fowl, and regular cheese (not "diet" cheese, cheese spreads, or whey cheeses). You can cook with butter, have mayo with your tuna, and put olive oil on your salads. On the other hand, carbs are restricted about 20 grams of net carbs per day, meaning total carbs minus fiber (Dr. Atkins).

The accessibility of going on the Atkins diet is convenience to many due to the normal food rituals accustomed and affordability is highly suitable. The diet does allow addition to fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain, which can be affordable. Until recently, you could only get whole-grain products in organic or non-traditional stores. Today they are popping up in more and more mainstream grocery stores.


The animals are not exploded in any harmful way because purity of proteins and fat is being taken in. The development of foods in farms can be non-intoxicated with steroids and rather be purely grown as fresh foods.






Sources:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/index.html
http://www.webmd.com/diet/atkins-diet-how-it-works

class question

1. which foods seems healtiest to you? if you had unlimited time, skills and money what would your 3 day main menu?

The kind of foods that seem healthiest to me would be organc foods. natrual and non steroed injected foods.

breakfast- oatmeal, apples, healthy cearel, organic milk
lunch- dry nuts, grilled chicken, pasta, salad
dinner- salad, berries, boiled chicken,

2. what should people eat?

people should be allowed to eat whatever they desire, although i do believe that it should be limited to a certain size and portion.

meal

Food

Ravioli and cranberry juice

On a Saturday night at 7:30, I toke a picture of a meal I had eaten. I made the ravioli by myself and enjoyed it. It is not an often meal but it is favored. Opened from a can and cooked on a stove in a pan, it was ready in 15 minutes. The savor of the sauce was so fulfilling as it traveled down my throat to be mashed inside my intestine. The meat wrapped around the saucy dough was appetizing. I could taste the tomato sauce and butter that’s being absorbed by the dough. Cranberry juice was then gulped down to finish my simple meal of that night. The sweet red drink was so pure and cold that it made me want to go for seconds, but I was too complete.
The ingredient that was made to make ravioli was flour for the dough and beef. The sauce is a mixture of tomato paste and water. The cranberry juice is contained with concentrated cranberry and sugar. With that meal I could have said I was pretty much done eating for the night.