Kenia Bush

HLTH 1020
November 7, 2017
Food and Culture

I have always believed that Colonists often use food as a

means of retaining their cultural identity. Basically, persons from different cultural

backgrounds eat different nutrients. The ingredients, procedures of preparation,

conservation techniques, and kinds of food eaten at different meals vary between

cultures. My own view it is that food opens the door to our cultural and way of

living.

I grew up in Venezuela and over there with eat a lot of rice, beans, chicken,

fruits and vegetables. My mom house we found a mango tree, avocados, papaya,

fresh cilantro, tomatoes and differences vegetables. I mention this because when

you travel to another country you can see the dissimilar style in food, people

drinking soda, instead of natural juices, others kind the things that is not nutrition

for their body. My mom used to say that we need to respect another people

tradition. This is the reason I choose this article about diet and culture.

I found this book in the internet web that said, that everyone eats, but rarely

do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do to we love spices, sweets, coffee?

How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia?
Everyone eats studies the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and

provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat what they

do, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. E. N.

Anderson explains the economics of food in the globalization era; foods relationship

to religion, medicine, and ethnicity; and offers suggestions on how to end hunger,

starvation, and malnutrition.

The points are that we all want to find a reason and want to know the

different kind of food, around, to identity people way of eating habits discussion in

their country.

Anderson states, knowing about food is fun, but there are more cogent

reasons to worry about understanding foodways. At least 15% of the worlds

population does not have enough to eat (Farley 2002). The figure rises to 18% of

those in developing regions. UNICEF (2002) reports that almost 30% of children are

undernourished. Most of the hungry are in areas of war and unrest or of massive

disease epidemics, especially AIDS epidemics.

In making this comment, Anderson urges us to understand how many people

need food, our future children are dying for malnutrition.

In her book, Everybody Eat, Anderson maintains that Conversely, many

people have too much, or at least too much of the wrong things. A far larger

percentage of the worlds people has too little iron, or too little vitamin A, or folic

acid deficiency (a common cause of horrible birth defects). Even iodine, easily added

to salt, is deficient in some areas (UNICEF 2002). The problems of hunger, of

obesity, and of malnutrition are among the worlds most serious concerns. Diabetes,

heart disease, cancer, and other diseases owe much of their prevalence to poor

eating habits.

Basically, is that we need to include more vegetables and fruits, in our

regular habits, because our body is getting fat, but not nutrition.

Many people who should be eating fruits and vegetables are living largely on

highly processed foods, especially bulk starch, oil, and sugar. In all these matters,

we need better understanding so that we can provide better food and encourage

better use of it (Brown 1995, 1996; Smil 2000). Environment can modify our needs

somewhat but cannot change our basic biology; we all need protein, vitamin C, and

so on, no matter what we think or believe.

A complex relationship exists between food and emotional wellbeing. Eating a

meal can alter mood and emotional predisposition, typically reducing arousal and

irritability and increasing calmness and positive affect. However, positive effects

depend upon the meal size and composition meeting the consumers habits,

expectations and needs. Individuals may have entrenched attitudes towards the

preparation, timing and consumption frequency of preferred and avoided foods and

drinks.
 The upshot of all this is that we all have different kind the food that with

like, and differ from other people, and the reason sometime is your cultural

background. We need to be balance, moderate and variable with our eating

behaviors.

Your first relationship as a human being is about food, says Richard Wilk,

anthropology professor at the University of Indiana and head of its food studies

program. The first social experience we have is being put to the breast or bottle.

The social act of eating, is part of how we become human, as much as speaking and

taking care of ourselves. Learning to eat is learning to become human. Basically,

we need good nutrition in our body to function.

We need to open our eyes for the food and culture different, because here in

United States, we are in the melting pot, we can find variety of food.

I just want to approach that we are what we eat, if you want to be healthy

and live longer, start with preparing you food at home, if you want to eat in the fast

food places try to do it one a month or every three months, try other food from other

country could be you like it. This is sometime accurate for our health and nutrition.

Food make people happy, but we need to moderate our habits and there may

be inbound elements from other cultures, but you will always eat things that mean

something to you.
 Works Cited

Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture

By E. N. Anderson, Nov. 04, 2017.

Kenny, Belinda. "Food Culture, Preferences and Ethics in Dysphagia

Management." Bioethics, vol. 29, no. 9, Nov. 2015, pp. 646-652.

EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/bioe.12189.

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