I chose Weight Watchers because it’s doesnt sound or look strict at all just a “healthy style” of living. Besides, it’s the opposite you can still eat anything you want from the menu and still lose pounds of fat. ● What is the basic premise of this diet/eating plan? Weight Watchers contains a balance of vegetables, fruit, dairy, exercise activity and multivitamins. ● What were two positive aspects of the diet?
Consuming the proper amount of macronutrients in your diet is essential for proper health and growth of your body. Proteins are needed to keep the body growing properly and cell growth. Eating too little will cause slow development and eating too many, the body will store the protein as fat. Carbohydrates give the body energy, like eating a snickers bar full of nuts will give the body a boost of energy. Eating the proper amount of carbohydrates will help the body to not store an excess amount of fat.
Spurlock travels around the states of America to see what school children are eating for lunch on a daily basis. ‘It’s For Kids’ Spurlock shoots the scene in Naperville, Illinois specifically he visited Maderison Junior High. His investigations proved that the students there were consuming more than 1000 calories per meal, which is accessibly high. Whether it was totally true or not Spurlock claimed that most kids either brought lunch from home or brought lunch from the canteen and shared. Basically the unhealthy choices from the canteen proved to be the biggest problem.
Three-Day Food Intake Christina Gates SCI/220 October 22, 2012 Vicki Clithero Three-Day Food Intake The food intake for the three days I wasn’t aware of the amount of lipids that I took in. I just ate and drank whatever to monitor my usual diet. Proteins mostly came from the meat like the chicken patty, country fried steak, teriyaki chicken, bratwursts, eggs, and bacon. Most of everything that I had consumed had some sort of protein in the nutrition facts such as my instant mash potatoes has 2g worth of protein. Carbohydrates were in the sodas, mash potatoes also, toast, green beans, potato salad, bake beans, soba noodles, macaroni salad, and fried rice.
There are over 14,000 McDonald’s locations in America alone and they made over 8.5 Billion dollars in 2013 alone. About 44% of Americans eat at McDonald’s weekly according to a survey done by StatistcBrain.com. So, he is definitely correct in the fact that when food is abundant and cheap people will eat more
Lower income families tend to buy the cheap unhealthy food over the healthier food due to the fact that it is less expensive. In the long run it is actually more expensive because of the medical issues that come with an unhealthy eating style. High blood pressure, diabetes and obesity are medical conditions that can literally take money out of our pockets. The Food Trust strives to make healthy food available to all. According to the founder of The Food Trust, she states “ Our goal is to work with neighborhoods, schools, grocers, farmers and policymakers, we've developed a comprehensive approach that combines nutrition education and greater availability of affordable, healthy food.
Vegetarianism is one of the healthiest diets, so it will boost your over all health. If you cut meat out of your diet then you eliminate the chances of food borne illnesses related to contaminated fish and meat products. Your chances of having heart disease and cancer are significantly lowered as well. Factory farming is an epidemic that is destroying our environment. Forget about buying a hybrid car to do your part.
No one should be in hunger in the United States. We have plenty of resources to feed anyone who needs to be fed here. There are different ways to go about getting food such as food stamps. There is injustice in hunger in the United States because with all of the resources available to us, the issue shouldn’t be present. There should be better and easier ways for people to access food when in need.
The manipulation doesn’t stop there. When you are old enough to go to school, the cafeteria of your safe and trustworthy environment will give you unhealthy treats and lunches that contain no nutritional value, yet feed it to you and simultaneously encourage you to do your best and make good choices. They also feed it to you without giving you a proper introduction of what it is you are actually consuming. This is where the lack of education of a healthy diet
English 102-1021 3 February 2014 Obesity in America There are more than 315 million people living in America, but only 3 percent are healthy. Everyday, people run through the streets of America to get in shape, but millions eat in fast food places around the country. One of the biggest problems is obesity. Even though government should not take over people’s freedom, the question still remains on whether the government should control someone’s diet or not. According to a “US News” article, over the past 30 years, obesity has increased from 13.4 percent to 34.3 percent.