Letter of Gratitude: EGGS

Dear Eggs,



You have always been a great source of energy. When first wake up and trip down the stairs half asleep, i remember that you are waiting there waiting for me ready to be served up in any way i please. The things you bring to the table, literally and figuratively, always please me. Whether its proteins that fuel me before every soccer game, or the vitamin A that helps me see. Without it, my retinas would not be able to absorb light, therefore taking away my vision. Your  vitamin A also strengthens my bones and my teeth. When I am at my house i never run out of you because of my chickens. I will always be thankful for you and your freshness, because a healthy breakfast is just a walk to my chicken coop and back.

Show Your Food Some Gratitude

Dear Turkey,

It’s the time of the year when we see eachother again, yay! Well I am so thankful that you exist! I don’t cook you too much, sorry! It’s just you take way too much time but I finally made some arrangements to cook you again! You don’t always turn out so well, sometimes I burn you or something happens that you taste.. differently. Anyways you have so much calcium that helps me grow fast and strong! You even have less calories than chicken! Also you’re low on cholesterol less fat on my body. And you’re filled with protein which fills me up with energy. You also give me the right amount of sodium not too much not too little just the right amount. Thank you for giving me stay healthy around this time of the year!

Thanks again,
Patricia

Dear, Cranberries

Dear Cranberries,

     I know I only eat you once a year, but that dose not mean I do not value all the things you do for me. For as long as I can remember you have been those colorful berries on my dining room table. I used to role you on the floor when I was little and let the dog eat you. However, now that I am older I really do appreciate all the things you do for my body I do. I love how you have moderate levels of Vitamin C, dietary fiber and the essential dietary mineral, manganese, as well as a balanced profile of other essential micronutrients. Not to mention antioxidant that you provide for my cells. Anyhow I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you. I know I won't see you again till next year, but i'll be thinking of you. 

                  From, 

                              

                                 Lauren

Should access to healthy food be a right for everyone?

Lauren Woolner

Period 4

11-19-12

Should Everyone Be Have Access To Healthy Food

 Each year more and more Americans are diagnosed with type two diabetes. People not having access to the foods their bodies need to survive causes this life threatening disease. Diabetes and obesity are becoming more common with children born after the year 2000. Making healthy food accessible to all Americans no matter their position in society can solve this problem. Being able to provide families with healthy food is a pressing issue in our generation. Healthy food should be accessible by all Americans because it can help prevent type two diabetes and childhood obesity.

    American’s right to a healthy diet has become more of a controversial topic in this generation due to the limited accessibility of nutritional foods. Leading experts at Food Inc. said children born after the year 2000 are at an all time risk for diabetes. Type 2 diabetes used to be common in adults, but since the increase in the fast food industry children are consuming more of the fats and starch (white potatoes) than ever. Parents that cannot afford healthy food or do not have time to get healthy produce, should not have to choose between giving their children healthy food or enough food.
   America announced obesity as a medical condition in 2004. Obesity used to be a measurement on a medial scale now it is a disability. Since 73.9 million Americans make a minimum wage they cannot afford to buy fresh produce at farmers markets they are forced to by cheap unhealthy foods. Obesity leads to heart disease due to plaque buildup in the arteries, which is caused by hydrogenated oils and saturated fats in high sugar diets. About 17% of adolescents are obese in the United States alone. This percent increases with the amount of fast food chains that are created.
   Even though Americans should have access to healthy foods because it leads to cholesterol, heart, and blood sugar problems, others might think that eating these foods are a good thing because its a cheap quick easy way to feed their families. For example, if your on a road trip and cannot stop to eat, having a quick and easy drive through can make your trip go a lot quicker. However, these foods are causing Americans to have type two diabetes and become morbidly obese. For these reasons, having access to a healthy diet should be a right for all Americans.
    All in all, since middle class people cannot afford healthy diets and are forced to buy cheap fast foods it should be made available to them. Fast food restaurants trying to provide healthier choices to their menu could easily do this.

Food Inc. Persuasive Essay

   

Patrica Silva

Period 4

11/21/11

Food Inc. Persuasive Essay

Half of the people that eat their foods don't know what they eat. People eating hamburgers, pizza, and fries just see it as a tasty meal, but what they don't know is that meal they are eating has tons of fat. Everyone should have the right to access healthy foods because the people eat this food should be aware of the bad outcome of it.

I don't get the fact, why people don't have the knowledge food consequences, we eat these foods ourselves. Hamburgers have about 10-20 grams of fat, tacos have about 10-15 grams of fat. All these fats are not good fats, these are the unhealthy fats. People don't care what they eat as long as its good and cheap. Like the dollar menus, a hamburger, soda, and fries are all initially less than $5. All of that contains about 50 grams of fats. Some people can't afford to buy the fresh and expensive produce at their local supermarket.
Another food miscommunication is the lack of food education. If half the people of our nation don’t know that french fries are over 100 calories, what will stop them from eating them? Maybe if these people actually knew what they were putting in their body, they would think twice about taking a bowl full of that triple chocolate sundae supreme... Personally if I knew that my food was flooded in calories, fats, and processed oil, I would definitely change my meal plan.
My opponent might say that companies and food producers really don’t care about the amount of food quality and nutrition that contains their products. They really just care about their profit, or how much money they will make off you as you purchase their items at the Grocery Store. For example, Tyson is one of the biggest selling food brands and they are also one of the most unhealthiest! Yet our people still buy Tyson products regardless. I say that the amount of food quality does matter. Our world isn’t doing so well with the idea of obesity and other food disorders. My point is that food nutrition is a big factor which holds the way our bodies will the function. “You are what you eat.” Eat healthy and be healthy...

Thank You Turkey

Dear Turkey,

I am so sorry you had to sacrifice yourself for my last thanksgiving dinner, but you were so delicious and helped keep my body healthy.  The calcium in you that helped me maintain strong bones. The protein in you that helped my body tissues grow, resisting common diseases, and giving me energy.   Not to mention all vitamins like Vitamin A, RAE, Vitamin B-12, Vitamin C, and Vitamin D. All these vitamins helped boost my immune system.  There are also many other ingredients in you that helped me stay strong and healthy. And I am sorry that this year maybe one of your family members might have to sacrifice their life in order to help me stay healthy as well. So maybe I will right them a thank you letter also.  Again I am so sorry that you had to sacrifice your life, but at least you helped me stay healthy. Thank you.

From,

Abbie

Should Access to Healthy Food be a Right for Everyone?

With a growing population, the U.S. has a shortage of jobs. Families are low on money and take whatever measures they need to support their family. One of the list toppers for a family's budget is food. Food is what you work for, food gives you energy, and food keeps you healthy if you eat the right kind. Yet, how can you eat right if eating right means going over budget? This is why obesity is so abundant. Families are forced to eat cheap and processed food instead of vegetables and fruit, which your body needs, because a head of broccoli costs more than three burgers off the dollar menu. In my opinion, all people should have the choice to buy and consume healthy foods.
Primarily, we need to give an option of healthy food for everyone because of obesity. A study shows that 1 out of 10 kids in the U.S. will have diabetes. It is increased to 1 out of 5 kids in minorities. There are thousands of fast food restaurants, everywhere you go. Part of obesity is ignorance and also temptation. When you're surrounded by fast food and sugar, some people can’t fight it. Sugar is addicting and it’s in everything unhealthy. It is a basically a drug, and people are eating it as if they were addicted to nicotine. Even schools are now feeding kids sugar-filled foods that are cheap, filling, and fattening.
I believe we should also cut down on the amount of restaurants in any town or city. If we were to instead just have a bunch of healthy restaurants that serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner and replace the old fast food ones with them, then I think the people of America would be a lot different. Many stores and restaurant are beginning to add more fruits and vegetables to their menus, but it is a very slow reform. When someone goes to Starbucks and there are a couple of bananas  on a shelf next to donuts and scones and other delicious yet sugary things, ¾ of Americans will most likely choose the fat and sugar-based product.
Some people might argue these products are affordable, filling, and tasty. But these are the people who don’t understand where it comes from, how its made, or what it does to your body. The products they believe to be cheap and good are animals being fed chemicals to make them fatter in, while living in small pens with limited walking space knee deep in their own crap. Then they are slaughtered carelessly and basically shoved on a conveyer belt and grinded. There are up a thousand of different cows in one burger at a fast food restaurant.
The fast food industries are taking food to a new, industrialized level that is fueling the population obesity in America. Healthy food should be available to all people. We need to see that we the people are being tricked into eating unhealthy and inhumane food processed in factories. Either we stand up to these companies now or we could end up eating these terrible foods forever.

Food Labeling Abbie Meyer per.4

Should People Have The Right to Truly Know What Is In The Food They Purchase and Eat?

Many companies around america are processing foods in factories.  Even animals are being treated unfairly  in order to give their american consumers what they want in a short amount of time.  All of this is done, without their consumers knowing it.  They say it comes straight from a farm, but the truth is that it is coming straight from a factory.  I believe that american citizens should have the right to truly know what is in the food they purchase and consume.

If all american citizens knew what was truly in their food, most of the factories that do not process and deliver their food carefully and safely, would be gone.  And instead of those factories, there would be all natural and fresh humane farms (maybe factories) that are organic and treat their products with care.  The reason why producers of big and successful producing companies do not want to their consumers to have the right to know, is because if they do know they wouldn’t be such a big production since they are producing in an un humanely way of making the food. In the ways of meat production, they force their animals to be cooped up in small, tightly packed areas.  Then forced into these machines that kill them.  Not only is this inhumane, but unsanitary.  Many workers in these meat factories catch diseases and get very sick from them.  Giving the right for american citizens to know what is in the food they purchase and consume, can help stop these factories that process foods un humanely, and instead help flourish the farms (and maybe factories) that are organic and treat their products with care.

America is one of the countries with the highest rate of obesity, this is because of the factories that produce products of high content of unknown sugar.  Not to mention cheap substances they use on order to produce the product, so they can sell it at a low price to consumers.  When the organic, all-natural producing companies use higher value, more expensive substances in order to create their products for their consumers.  Round all that information into all the unhealthy products are cheaper than the healthy products.  Most american citizens want to pay as less as they can, so they purchase the unhealthy products instead of the healthy products. This creates more factories that will make cheap and unhealthy products for their consumers and will go faster with high-tech machines in order to produce more food.  Farmers want to have more humane, safe, and caring ways to produce their foods, but big money producing companies are forcing them to make the food inhumanely in order to make more money, and if the farmers do not follow the directions given to them, their farm is practically taken away.  So farmers are producing unhealthy products for their customers, in order to make money.  So if companies start to put on their food’s food labels telling everyone every product and where it came from, then more american citizens will become healthier since they truly know what is in the food they consume.

Although big producing companies (like Tyson, Coca-cola, and Monsanto), may say that their products would not sell as well as other healthier products.  And if they put more sugar, corn syrup, and starch without consumers knowing, then the product would sell more, and the consumers would think it is healthy.  Well, if big money making food companies are hiding all these secret unhealthy ingredients then they are considered to be untrustworthy.  Then they are putting a name out to for america, saying that you shouldn’t trust what is in non-organic foods.  Giving the right for american citizens to truly know what is in the foods they consume, so it would force the production of unhealthy foods into healthy foods.

Many products of unhealthy, non-organic foods that are being  produced today in america, can abuse animals by shoving them in small spaces until they have to die and workers by working hard long hours for minimum wages.  So give the right to american citizens to be able to know what truly is in foods, so that it can help stop the abuse, create trust in our food, and become a healthier america.