2014年7月9日水曜日

American's diets


Now, Americans spend 41% of their food dollars on foods eaten outside the home, up from 26% in 1970. Adults and children consume an average of one-third of their calories from eating out. And more than 25% of Americans eat fast food at least twice a week. However fast food restaurants in USA have failed to improve the nutritional value of their menu. I think Americans should reconsider about their diets. I have three points to support this motion. I will explain all these points.

First, fast food is bad for health. Now, over 50% of adults in the US fit into the category that adults who are overweight. According to a study released today, people who are obese in middle age are at almost four times greater risk of developing dementias in later life than people of normal weight. The obesity crisis and rising levels of chronic diseases have put pressure on fast food restaurants to cut salt, fat and sugar content of their menus. A researcher suggests offering more fruit and vegetables, making them default side dishes with meals, and using containers no bigger than 450ml for sugar-sweetened beverages and removing them from children's menus because there could be many possible mechanisms over weight can influence the degradation of the brain. Therefore, fast foods have a bad effect on our health.

     Second is cooking and food education for children is important. In US, Steven Gerrard who is England football international is teaming up with medical experts and academics to demand cooking and food education should remain compulsory for all children aged 5 to 14to help fight obesity. They make clear obesity would be a disaster for the health of young people if the schools downgrade curriculum now under way allowed and food education. In the school many children are being given packed lunches by their parents containing crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks. The experts say that this prevents children from improving nutritional standards for school food. Cooking is part of design and technology in the national curriculum, which is compulsory in all schools. However, all national curriculum are under review. Food preparation and education activities are removed as required subjects. A spokesman for education insists that individual schools are entrusted with these decisions. Although Academies have greater freedom to decide what to teach, they don’t have to follow the curriculum. However, these academies must provide a broad and balance education. Gerrard worries about nutrition and lack of physical activity in young people, especially he is potentially denying Great Britain many future sports stars. Therefore, the academies in America have to adopt cooking and food educations.

     Third, American should consider about slow food. Slow food is that promote local foods and centuries-old traditions of gastronomy and food production. Conversely this means an opposition to fast food, industrial food production and globalization. Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that people who live in areas, there are a lot of fast food shops, are heathy less able to slow down and enjoy the simple things in life such as appreciate images of natural beauty. Urban workers who force to work longer and longer hours don’t have the time to spend times on cooking. Fast food is the symbolic product of maturing and recent capitalism. I think it is important that people preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. The slow food movements, which started in the 1980s in Italy, uses the snail as its symbol. The founder find out modern people who too rush to remember what they have eaten, and felt the snail’s habit of slowness provided an important message for modern people. The slow food groups have spread to countries on five continents around the world, and they have over 80,000 members. I think in a world that seems to continually race faster and faster, the ideas of the slow food movements help us retrieve a healthier attitude toward food, culture, time, and the world around us. Therefore, slow food gives Americans chances to think over their traditional habits.

     In conclusion, I wrote about fast food is bad for health, cooking and food education for children is important, and American should consider about slow food.  For all these reasons, it clearly show that Americans should reconsider about their diets for their health, education of children, and traditional habits. If the diet was changed, people are more activity, and can keep an open mind. It is true that fast food is useful, easy. However, they prevent us from healthy, cultural and making good use of our lives. Soren Kierkegaard said that “life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards”. We don’t change the past. So we should make the future a better one for us.




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