What Makes Up A Healthy Diet?

For many years now humans have been deceived that cow’s milk will provide many health benefits.

Got Milk? Well, Austin Powers, Tracy McGrady, Serena Williams, Britney Spears, and even Elvis all do. But, do they know what they are selling in this Got Milk? Advertisements? The Got Milk? campaign was based on a milk deprivation strategy that reminded consumers how inconvenient it was to be without milk. The advertisment made milk a very popular drink because of its attractiveness not because of the nutrients and health issues. It has been believed by many that milk is needed to have a strong and healthy body, when actually milk can be extremely harmful and the nutrients needed for a good body can be found in many other sources.

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

Throughout our lives we have been told that milk is good for our body and helps to toughen our bones. Drinking milk started when people domesticated animals for food, which happened around 7500 years ago in the central Balkans and central Europe. By that time consuming milk was not as common as it is today. It was only farmers in some specific regions that were using cow’s milk. Milk’s market grew the mass production of meat in the 15th century. Afterwards in the 17th century, the idea of eating out and going to restaurants was born and fast food industries, started using animal’s meat for producing their meals. The rate of milk users grew with the rate of meat users and milk’s market got bigger and bigger every day. Mothers

It is always displayed as a “Health food,” because of the supposed high amounts of calcium in it, but the truth is there is more calcium in a piece of broccoli. So why would the government advertise and support this product as a health food? This all ties in with blatant propaganda, the government puts more money into the milk industry every year than the amount of money that was put into the mars rover project. Even with this surplus of money there is still millions of dollars of surplus of milk that just goes to waste. While most wouldn’t consider all of this to be “evil,” it is still a negative way to propaganda is used. In this instance it’s just lining the pockets of billionaires.

Eat many fiber-rich foods is a healthy choice because dietary fiber includes all parts of plant foods that your body can't digest or absorb. The fiber helps moderate how your body digests and controls your blood sugar levels.

I have lived in Africa for five years, and I have come to believe that vegetables and fruits are necessary for good health. In Africa, many people believe in healthy eating, and their meals are nutritiously prepared. Vegetables form a large part of their meals since there are several vegetable options. I have come to realize that not many Africans suffer from lifestyle diseases since they consume unprocessed foods that are high in fiber and other vitamins that are necessary for the body to remain healthy.

Babies lives can be saved by using breast milk for other purposes. Breast milk is not only used for feeding an infant. Breast milk serves other purposes that are useful to babies. Breast milk can prevent some cardiovascular risk factors. Breast milk also contains hormones, complex molecules, and cellular material. All of these substances are necessary for babies to have. Babies’ neurodevelopment and cognitive outcome are improved when they are fed breast milk. Breast milk helps babies guts to grow. It also helps babies to have immunity. For example, when a mother goes into an environment her body will recognizes that there is a pathogen. As a result, the mother’s body will fight against that pathogen. Then, her baby will be immune to that pathogen

There are many researches that have been done by doctors that found out that general health protections for the infant and mother, which is good for both. Breastfeeding includes a lower risk of a lot of disease, whether in the future or the first year after born. Breastfeeding is the optimal form of infant feeding for the first months of an infant’s life. On other side of breastfeeding, some mothers are scared of breastfeeding because they are taking some, medical drug and that affects the milk. Even the majority of medications are considered to be compatible with breastfeeding. Mothers milk is specific, If there is something different than mother milk, it will differ markedly from it which will make mothers milk better for infant. Human milk,

Breast milk is vital particularly for the infant, it helps the infant to develop into their fullest physical, emotional and intellectual potential. Breast milk contains many nutrients that formula does not. These nutrients are easy for the infant to digest and automatically adjust to the infant’s needs.

Chapter 6 of Nestle, Marion, and Michael Pollan. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health is about American food companies using public relations to convince people that their products promote health and are harmless. Breast milk is at war with public relations because the company Nestle wants to promote infant formula as a substitute for breast-feeding. What Nestle is, marketing is not beneficial to the new mothers, but rather for themselves. It’s all competition and making profits for your company. In order for the company to make money off their products, they will have to provide false information to the public that their products are nutritious even if they are not. My class has learned in the beginning of the

The advertisements for these unhealthy food products are specifically aimed at children. They are colorful, have upbeat music and many have branded characters. The article states that the more young children are exposed to the food advertisements for unhealthy products the more they are going to believe that these products are what they should be eating. Unhealthy foods counts for 84% of all foods advertised (683). These commercials seen over and over again are going to be stuck in these children’s heads and when out shopping with adults they are likely to ask for these products. The responsibility does rely on the guardians, but they shouldn’t have to battle their child at the grocery store. When a young child sees these ads and is persuaded that they need these products it will more than likely cause a struggle while shopping or when these kids are not with their guardians they are more than likely going to choose these products and eat more of them if restricted at home. The point isn’t that adults should be able to deny their children these unhealthy products, it is that the media should not be brainwashing these children who are not old enough to even understand what persuasive advertising is. Not only are children exposed to the television ads, food ads are also in video games, youtube videos, and magazines. Many brand

Looking at the picture closely breastfeeding has been practiced for as long as our ancestors have been alive. It has been proven in many studies that breast milk contains the essential nutrients that a newborn needs in order to grow. In order to discuss what is truly in breast milk, it is important to remember that breast milk changes to meet the baby’s needs as it continues to grow.

Consumers choose to completely disregard health consequences. Knowing the truth would hurt and make the buyer feel bad. Why feel bad when it ignored? The consequences aren’t always necessarily on brought directly to attention. Though slowly making one’s body more porn to cancer is probably not a smart idea, but that can’t be seen, pretend it’s irrelevant. To mindlessly feed children food that weakens them saves money and time or as a popular argument, it saves the battle. The battle of teaching kids what proper nutrition is. Parents don’t want to have to argue, so yet again they make it easier on themselves.

“Breast milk is the perfect nutrition for infants, a result of millions of years of evolution, finely attuning it to the requirements of the infant. Breast milk contains many complex proteins, lipids and carbohydrates, the concentrations of which alter dramatically over a single feed, as well as over lactation, to reflect the infant’s needs.