The Five Second Rules: Is It Really Good To Eat?

N TIO AL EN E FO CASE TUD EACHIN N IENCE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CASE STUDY TEACHING IN SCIENCE HIN

3) Waiting 5 minutes allowed the enzymatic reaction to proceed for sufficient time and break down the starch.

What will happen if you eat something that’s been on the ground for more than 5 seconds? If you did do that, then you will most likely get a disease from eating it because of all the bacteria infesting itthat must of got on it. But you never know when it’s a life or death situation.

In "What You Eat Is Your Business" I agree with Radley Balko that people should care more about what they eat, the authorities should not be involved in that at all. In my opinion is wrong that the government is also trying to make other people pay for obese people's mistake, or lifestyle. Someone else's weight should not be a public topic since is something so personal, but with the states not allowing insurance companies charge a higher wages on obese people what is going to drive them to lose the weight necessary? also with the authorities paying for their food and medication it is even harder for them to stop living the way they do. But I do agree with one thing in "What You Eat Is Your Business," which is that fast food companies and restaurants

The article Simple Rules for Healthy Eating by Aaron E. Carroll which mainly focuses on what you should and shouldn’t eat more of. It also mentions how putting salt, fats, butter, and oil into your food is a necessity. This article makes me think about how eating heavily processed foods may be causing the worst health outcomes. I agree with what is being said in this article because the author list most of the food products that may be causing you or a loved ones to have health problems. Also, it mentions when eating at a restaurant you should take into consideration that not all of your food may be unprocessed. It also mentions how you shouldn’t judge what other people are eating because everyone has the rights to do what they want no matter

When judging the authority of a document, it is important that individuals judge where the information is coming from. Not everyone is qualified to make certain claims or provide information on a topic. When judging the information that is found online, one must ensure that the author and publisher of the material is an expert in the field. It is critical to locate the author of a website’s article, although some not all credible articles carry an author’s name. When this is done, judging the authority of the article will be based on the publishers of the website. This article about healthy eating was taken from the HelpGuide website. The information in this article can be trusted because when judging the authority, all the necessary

Americans love to eat, but do we actually understand how to eat healthy? In today’s world, everyone wants to be healthy, nonetheless, it seems no one knows how. With the nutritional knowledge of present-day, society’s health should be getting better instead of worse. However, there are so many different ideas regarding food that the public may feel confused. Michael Pollan points out many worthy causes in his book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto; he tends to overuse quotes and research and uses unseemly portrayals, but he also implements excellent information to make a valid argument.

It is no surprise that with the increased popularity in fast food chains, America’s obesity rate has dramatically increased. In a survey done by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), obesity is the number two cause of preventable death, with approximately sixty-two percent of American adults overweight, up from thirty- two percent in 1994 (Profiling Food Consumption in America). In Susan Brink and Elizabeth Querna’s article “Eat This Now”, they discuss how this generation will be affected by increasing obesity rates. The increased rate of child and teen obesity shows that the average lifespan is predicted to drop from an average of 77 years to 71 years (“Eat This Now”). The way and what

As I sit and write this paper I am also munching on a bag of Popped Barbecue Potato Crisps. I wonder, what is a popped potato crisp? The package says popped, not baked or fried. How does one pop a potato? Is it similar to popcorn? Or is this even potato? Chips are usually from potatoes and the brand name has the word potato in it. Most of the food our generation eats comes in packages but, we really do not know what is inside of that package. In the book, Food Matters written by Holly Bauer, there is an article titled “Eat Food: Food defined” where Michael Pollan discusses the problems with our foods today. In another article, “Taking Local on the Road” Camille Kingsolver shares her family’s diet and what it was like leaving for college

Carbohydrate is a nutrient essential for energy production and the prevention of ketosis, a state where the production of ketones exceeds metabolism. Protein is a nutrient essential for its components, amino acids. Fat is a nutrient which provides insulation, protection and energy for the body.

After reviewing the Dietary Guidelines, the five behaviors I selected that can be improved in my diet are:

During the first week of class, four readings were assigned. One of the readings, “Food and Eating: Some Persisting Questions,” by Sidney Mintz, discusses the paradoxes of food. Although food seems like a straightforward concept, it is actually extremely complicated. According to Mintz, there are five paradoxes, including: the importance of food to one’s survival, yet we take it for granted, how people stick to their foodways, but are willing to change, whether the government should allow people to freely choose food or if they should protect the people through regulations, the difference in food meanings according to gender, and the morality of eating certain foods. All of these paradoxes give people questions to think about, making this an extremely philosophical look at food studies. It also mentions that food must be viewed through the cultural context that it is in, which became important in “The Old and New World Exchange”, by Mintz, and “Maize as a Culinary Mystery”, by Stanley Brandes. These discuss the diffusion of foods after 1492 in different ways. The Mintz reading gives an overview of all of the foods spread from the Americas to the Old World, and vice-a-versa, but does not go terribly in depth on the social changes and effects of specific foods. Brandes focuses on the cultural impact of specifically maize on the European diet, noticing that most Western Europeans shunned it. He studies the cultural implications of this, concluding that maize was not accepted

The Way We Eat discusses the ethical considerations of eating meat that has been raised through the process of factory farming. Singer and Mason both believe that factory farming is a unethical treatment of animals because the suffering and abuse that animals endure while being raised in order to eventually be slaughtered for human intake. Their main argument for supporting their opinion is that animals should receive the same awareness as humans receive, so when pain is being inflicted on an animal, there should be equal sympathy if the same pain was being performed on a human.

The way we eat food has changed drastically in the past few decades. When I think of the process of how our food is made and produced, I typically think of a farm with animals laying around, eating grass, content with everything. Also, I picture ripe red tomatoes, apples, and sweet smelling fruit being pick right when it is ripened so it can get to our grocery stores. This is typically how most people picture our food coming from a farm. It is how they want us to picture it, because it is a happy image: but, it is far from the reality of how things are.

​Food plays an important role in our daily life. Without food, we cannot survive. Food gives us all the required nutrients that our body needs in order to perform activities in our daily life. People usually find it difficult when choosing the right and effective diet for themselves. Its easy to get overwhelmed with all the dieting advice you get. Do you have to try out every type of diets without obtaining any result? Some people are unaware about how to have a proper diet and with those misleading advice, they may have to stop consuming the food they love, cutting down some portions and calories. Some people do survive this, nevertheless majority of people find it restrictive. In order to have a proper diet, the below information will give an idea about how nutrients plays a significant role in a proper diet. What helps the people to get a proper diet are the three types of diets involved, which are divided into three categories; balanced diet, diabetic diet and fitness diet.