Technological Innovations
Essay by xiao • May 4, 2012 • Essay • 478 Words (2 Pages) • 1,677 Views
By technological innovations and advances, most people have enough food to eat, and try to eat well. However, one of the most challenging problems of today's society is the question about what relationship between food and health. It is not only a problem with money but also a question of the health diet attitude that we want ourselves to have.
First of all,it is common to know that the term health food is generally used to describe foods that are considered to be beneficial to health, get a normal healthy diet required for human nutrition. It is two different kinds of style food between Chinese food and America food. In contrast,American food is oily. For example, America people always eat ' junk food' and 'fast food' .And as what we know,'junk food' is always proven to be directly linked with unhealthy food choices that children make and impacts greatly on the habits and attitudes from food."Our children deserve to be protected against aggressive marketing of junk food"-----CFAC
But Chinese people centers around four major cooking styles and most of them are cooked with little oil.Take Cantonese food as an example, it takes rare ingredients and is cooked with polished skills and in a dainty style.
Chinese dishes are connected tightly to vegetables.Chinese people eat various vegetables which are up to 600 kinds in number,6 times as many as the western people do.As a matter of fact,in Chinese diet, vegetables are always on the table,especially more and more Chinese people pay attention to their health.
The western people is different,they are descendant of nomadic tribes and navigation people in their cultural origin.Their ancestor lived mainly by fishing,hunting and feeding domestic animals and sometimes also by collecting and cultivation.So they eat more meat in their diet. As a result,the western people like to persue individuality and like adventure and exploration.
Thirdly, vegetarian and carnivorous.Gillian MacLeish is 52 years old. She is TV health guru, advocating a health, promoting exercise, a vegetarian diet high in organic fruits and vegetables. She recommends deter diets, colonic irrigation and supplements.
However, Nigel lea Lawson is 52 years old, too. She is Nigel lea Lawson a TV cooks show, who eats meat, butter and desserts. And then Nigel lea Lawson looks much prettier than Gillian MacLeish.
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Lastly,Is that different generations has different food and health attitude?
a survey from the journal Obesity,Relationship of Attitudes Toward Fast Food and Frequency of Fast-food Intake in Adults, found that knowing fast food is unhealthy is not stopping us from eating it.
What kinds of food problems are happening in the world?
In the last decade, food safety has emerged as a significant global issue
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