The 900 Pound man !!!

Sooooo i was watching TV with my dad couple days ago and we came across the TV show called "the 900 pound man" s obviously that caught our attention and we started watching it. This man was HUGE i mean hugeeee. He spent his whole life in bed he couldn't get up to go shower he couldn't get up to walk or anything. His wide would bath him with some clothes while he laid in bed. One of the reasons why this man was still huge is because his wife would feed him anything he wanted. She said that she would give in and would just give him whatever he wanted. One of the meals she would do is like boil 3 chickens in this huge pot and add salt and once it was done she would give it to him. To me that is so unhealthy because she knows that her husband is in bad conditions. She has most of fault on why her husband is in bad conditions because she just keeps feeding him unhealthy stuff when she can be minimizing his portions and feeding him more fruits and vegetables. This man got scheduled to go through surgery to take off a little of his fat and he later went home and one day he had trouble breathing i believe and died. I think that we need to start eating healthy and being fit because one day that could be you. It was sad watching this because this man spent his life just in bed and eating. He couldn't even get up. This makes me sad. 

Why grow a garden?

Since i was a little girl i always wondered how to start a garden. Every time i try to start and plant one they never grow. I think that the people of this world should start growing little gardens in there backyards. I believe that people should grow garden because it is beneficial in many ways. One of the ways that benefits of growing a garden is saving money. Saving money can cut the cost of the grocery bills. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars a month at the store you can spend half of that money buying seeds for your garden and also spending time nourishing your garden. Another reason is it protects our future generations. Studies say the average child receives 4 times the more exposure than an adult to at least eight widely used cancer causing pesticides in food. The decisions you make will make an impact on our children s future. Another good reason why to grow a garden is to save energy. Farmers use more petroleum than any other single industry.Energy is more used to produce synthetic fertilizers than to till, cultivate and harvest all the crops in the US. If we grow our own garden we are cutting down on transportation and population cost. Another reason we should start growing gardens is because we will keep chemicals off our food. Most of the fruits and vegetables are sprayed with pesticides. Some pesticides are implicated in birth defects, nerve damage and genetic mutations. When growing your own food you have control over what does, or doesn't go into it. I say lets all build gardens so we can be more healthier and save money.    . 

Look how pretty this is :)

"When a crop becomes king"

In the article, "When a crop becomes king" Michael Pollan explains how corn is the most produced crop and is only going to continue expanding because of over production. It has a huge impact on us because we consume corn and then the animals we eat also consume just as much corn; the reason animals who should probably not be eating corn, are eating corn is also because of the tremendous amount of left over corn is passed down so it wont be put to waste. Another explaination for the reasons to why we consume as much corn as we do is because corn can be used as two different kinds of food, a healthy vegetable or a tastey meal. It doest help that this crop is very cheap, another result from corn being over produced. Corn is not only harmful to us, but also to our environment considering all the pollution being caused by the cornfields. It is the crop that requires more pesticides than any other food crop. By providing chemicals to the corn fields to keep way predators allowing us to waste water amd depending on our oil, we are letting corn control our land. This act is being called "cornification".

TV Dinner

While writing my research paper I was able to connect the dots on the development of appliances and food over the last 50 years or so, and its crazy how directly connected they are. One of the biggest examples of the correlation between food and appliances was when televisions became common in households. As soon as this happened, people were eating and watching TV at the same time; thus, paying less and less attention to their food. When I read about this, I immediately thought about Wendell Berry's article where he discusses how our respect for food leads us to want to eat better and respect produce for what it was meant to do. When we do not acknowledge our food, we are confirming our roles as mindless consumers of a corporate food industry. Have you ever noticed how unhealthy tv dinner are? How many of us really do sit down and heat our food without something else in front of us whether its a book or a screen? I can't remember the last time I have, but I believe that once and a while eating without any distractions and simply paying attention to eat bite would be a good way to acknowledge the role of the meal.

Are Food Trucks Not Getting Inspected

      I was watching the news the other day and it was a story about food trucks and the amount of  inspection they have per year. The reporter from ABC new said that these food truck inspection only get inspected one to none at all , but the law requires that  inspection are supposed  to occur  twice a year or more. This had my mind thinking , aren't  people who have jobs in construction or any other jobs that require hard physical labor relying on these food trucks to feed them.How can these trucks not get inspected ; yes there not a major contributor to the economy ,but there a major contributor to a person heath. Why do inspectors take so little pride in these sources of food ? when the reporter question the food inspectors company , they replied saying ," we have very few employes " . When i heard that i stared to chuckle , if the population growing wouldn't the food industry be growing , and therefore the business growing. I fell that this is a growing problem and needs to be watch over the next few years.            

I want to be like you

I don't know if I'm the only person that does this, but I always imitate people and quote lines from movies and TV shows. I'm a freaking copy cat. The point is, I have a cousin that is a pescetarian, and I've always wanted to try to be just like her by giving up meat and substituting fish and seafood. But I've never really gone about it. I don't really ever plan on it, but it is an attractive idea...

There are many benefits of deleting meat from a diet. Firstly, it'll help prevent diseases like high cholesterol or heart disease since fat is being substituted for fiber and antioxidants, and weight loss is a possible outcome. Meats contain extra fat from animals that sometimes just hang out in your intestines years. Eww, that's gross. In addition, it'll keep all our cute four-legged friends alive. From "Why go veg?" featured on the Vegetarian Times, "Ten billion animals are slaughtered for human consumption each year. And, unlike the farms of yesteryear where animals roamed freely, today most animals are factory farmed: —crammed into cages where they can barely move and fed a diet tainted with pesticides and antibiotics. These animals spend their entire lives in crates or stalls so small that they can’’t even turn around. Farmed animals are not protected from cruelty under the law——in fact, the majority of state anticruelty laws specifically exempt farm animals from basic humane protection." And my last reason is that it'll save you a little bit of money here and there. Which do you think is more pricey, 200 pounds of beef or 200 pounds of tomatoes?

Honestly, I'd never become a full-time vegetarian, pescetarian, or vegan, but I am willing to imitate one of those diets for like a day or two to save the lives of my furry friends. I mean, I am a copy cat. It should be easy.

The title of the post has no relevance. I was watching random videos on YouTube, and I came across the song from The Jungle Book, giving me inspiration to blog.

Cooking Is Hard..

I have recently tried cooking a meal for the family and completely failed. The dish that I was trying to prepare was the famous Mexican food that most people love, Carne Asada with red rice and beans with a salad on the side. I was talking to my mom one day when I told her cooking was easy and bet her that I would be able to cook a better meal than her. BIG MISTAKE. I began with the salad because it is the easiest thing to make, and it keeps the family happy while the meal is being prepared. I finished the salad, the rice and the beans. I even made some homemade salsa that goes perfect with the meat. Everything I had prepared up to this point was perfect and was running smoothly as I had planned. Felling confident I  began to gloat and tell my family that cooking is a piece of cake and I didn't understand why people say cooking is hard. Well I quickly found out why they say that. As I was preparing the meat and began too cook it on the grill, I wasn't able to figure out why the meat was burning or why it was coming out almost raw. My family began to grow impatient with how long I was making them wait so I gave up and asked my mom to do it for me, and told her I am never going to cook again.