“You cannot control everything in your life but you can control what goes into your Body. “Man is truly capable of many things. However we often tend to ignore and neglect some things in our life that we are capable of controlling. We are all aware of the fact that a man is what a man eats. Yet we fail to control how to define ourselves. We prefer choosing wrong dietary practices. Sometimes we don’t eat to quench our hungers but to quench our gluttony and greed. Most of the times we make food the only purpose of our life. People live to eat and they don’t eat to live. Whichever way you choose to live it is important to keep in mind that food is very important as it fulfills our nutritional requirements, impacts our health and lifestyle. In the olden days most people died due to starvation and in availability of food. With the onset of this century, more people die due to unhealthy, contaminated and hazardous food. Food has given rise to disease such as obesity, blood pressure, coronary diseases. Whereas some food and their processing techniques have proved to be carcinogenic.
This course will explore the concepts and issues regarding Food & Nutrition in this era. Several important and significant questions that are a hot debate these days shall be tackled.
Such as:
What is organic diet and why are has the trend of organic diet skyrocketed?
Why is there an increased awareness of reading and knowing Food labels before buying the food?
How preservation and processing techniques can be hazardous to health?
How some food can cause cancer and other diseases?
How to decrease the global food shortage?
To Eat is a necessity but to eat intelligently is an art
Audience:
· A large target audience.
· Cooks & Cooking Experts.
· Health & Diet conscious individuals.
· People who want to eat fresh and healthy.
· Food and nutrition researchers.
Summary:
If you want to have a healthy lifestyle for that you must eat healthy and clean. This requires you to eat organic, mostly plant-based food, less packaged and processed foods. A knowledge and understanding of food labels is useful in eating clean and healthy. Good Nutrition can help you live a quality lifestyle with reduced chances of disease. Food has the potential to cause and treat many diseases. Unhealthy dietary practices result in obesity, hypertensions, and chronic diseases. Teaching our children how to eat healthy and fresh is importan.Food items like microwave popcorn, processed meat, carbonated drinks are potent carcinogens. On the other hand, there are some foods that can help you combat cancer. Garlic, Mushrooms, Broccoli, Spinach, Green tea are the super foods with powers to destruct cancer cells. The world is also facing a food crisis because of the unequal distribution of food. Researches by Natural Resources Defense Council show that only Americans are wasting up to 40 percent of the food supply each year, along with all the resources used to produce food that never gets eaten. Food wastage is a common sight at home, on the farm, and in supermarkets. The solution to the problem of food crisis is to reassess our behavior as consumers. We must change the way we buy, plan and cook our meals.