The last time I stepped on a weight scale was back in 2011 when I weighed one hundred and twenty pounds. I joined the track team and was interested in javelin and shot put. I did not know to compete in such events I had to weigh more to be able to stay my ground and gain more muscle over fat to prevent me from being obese. Months after training with the track team, the athletic trainer informed me that I can not compete in javelin with that kind of body. I looked for ways to gain fat; in my mind
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Imagine going to work every morning and eating any type of delicious candy in the world! Eating the newest candy and the newest flavors are the main parts of this Job. Traveling around the world and flying everywhere are perks of this outstanding job. Devouring all the candy in the world and flying around like Superman makes candy tasting the best in the world. The best taste is biting into a juicy, sweet, and creamy candy. It is so satisfying to eat the most breathtaking candy in the world. Consuming
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an unhealthy life. It’s not only bad for you but it is also bad for the turkey because many people get a turkey for thanksgiving each year and 46 million turkeys around the United States are killed just so we could eat them. My first reason is that eating turkey can give you diseases and can possibly kill you. Whenever they use a dose of antibiotics on a turkey to stimulate their growth and to keep them alive from diseases it can pose a risk to anyone who eats that turkey. Even though dark meat turkey
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Food and Drug Administration Almost Everyday grocery stores all around the world are filled with many customers looking to buy goods. Is the FDA administering food unhealthy to humans? The answer to this question varies among so many people, as all of us have different views on how the FDA system works. The FDA is allowing these foods to be sold. In my opinion, the food is very unhealthy. Although, many people like anything they can get their hands on and sometimes that is always not
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In today’s era, the consumer demand for minimally processed vegetables and fruits has been dramatically increased and the food processing industries mainly utilizes the edible portions for canning, juice processing, and manufacturing other products. The discarded outer skin of these fruits and vegetables as byproducts often degrades and contributes to the environmental waste. However, several epidemiological studies have shown that peels of natural sources are enriched with health related benefits
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I came across this article in the U.S.News website titled “McDonald’s Kale Salad Has More Calories Than a Big Mac.” I few things caught my attention the first thing was that it was in Canada, my homeland, a country known for healthy living and eating. I eat kale on a daily bases and know it is a power food. Fresh kale is rich in minerals and vitamins. So how can this fall from grace be possible? On a closer look the things that are added to the salad are what creates its demise. I think it is a
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Essay Do you know what really happens in the factories that produce your food? Do you know how much corn is put into your food, and fed to the animals that become your food? The claim “Most of what we eat is made of corn in one way or another” from the book Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan is true because if you read the back of your cereal box and the back of canned food what is the main ingredient that you see, corn the main ingredient is corn. Corn is in places you would never think to
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Scrutinizing the ethical factors concerning the “eating of animals,” Michael Pollan asserts that “most domesticated animals cannot survive the wild” (Pollan 310) and “without us eating them, they simply wouldn’t exist at all.” (Pollan 310) Furthermore, he makes an attempt to refute Peter Singer’s cultural and philosophical affirmations about the “exploitation of non-humans,” (Pollan 309) especially when Singer endeavors to show the “speciest”
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Cultural Perspective Paper Nutrition plays an important role in our lives. Many of us have failed to recognize God at what we do especially when it comes to what we eat. In a few verses, we will see how nutrition and the word of God are related. The passages are Romans 12:1–2, 1 Corinthians 10:31, 1 John 2:16–17, Revelation 18, Proverbs 22:1–12, Proverbs 23:19–21, and Ecclesiastes 5:18–20. These passages apply to nutrition because we were created in God’s image, so we should try to glorify God in
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Hunger is an inevitable aspect of every living being’s life, but how does self-defined hunger impact the way we think, feel, and act towards other people and certain situations? Hunger’s effect psychology lacks empirical research, however, according to Al-Shawaf (2016), hunger has the potential to affect regulating emotional mechanisms within the body including perception, attention, and memory. If this is the case, hunger plays an important role in maintaining emotional homeostasis. Al-Shawaf (2016)
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