Saturday, September 22, 2012
Welcome! Hey All!
My name Alex and this is my first time blogging! I'm not very social media savvy but I'm excited to see what this is all about. My passion is health! I believe there are many aspects of the American lifestyle that are not conducive to health but I feel our eating habits are having the largest negative effects. Food has a HUGE impact on our health and feel that there is an American food crisis. We don't know what to eat and tend to trust "food-like substances" instead of real, whole food. As the Western diet has been introduced around the world the same problems we're having are growing there; including a big one we're all familiar with - diabetes. Check out these alarming statistics.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
There is a lot of talk about people eating real nutritious food to have a better and healthier lifestyle; that eating out and especially eating fast foods is harmful to our health. There are real problems with addressing this issue. One, grocery stores are not in every neighborhood as they once were. Two, The price of food is rising.
ReplyDeleteTo be able to get healthy real foods, it may be that we start our own gardens as in the past. Gardening may have become a lost art in some cultures or areas of our nation. It may mean the skills needed for a return to gardening are re-taught. For many, this is already a solution.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/urban_america_is_nurturing_the_future_of_food.html
Eating nutritous food is hard for many Americans. For the elderly, this can be a lack of money. Many people on fixed incomes look for very inexpensive foods or food that can be stretched over a week and used in different ways. Typically, this does not include fresh fruits and vegetables.
ReplyDeleteAlex,
ReplyDeleteI too have chosen to address the topic of diabetes. The target population I selected is African Americans age 45-64. I based my selection on the fact that African Americans have 77% higher rates of diagnosed diabetes when compared to non-Hispanic whites, which is an important fact you chose to list in your statistics. The other alarming statistics you posted reinforces the importance of the role of health educators in the prevention of such devastating health conditions. I like that a lot of your focus will be on the nutritional factors that contribute to diabetes. I look forward to following your blog.