Industrial Food

I watched the Meatrix and I thought it was very entertaining while educational. I thought it was a good idea how they made it because it informed people while also pertaining to they're interest because of its relation to the movie "The Matrix". What these short movies show is that the American culture treats food and animals as nothing more then a business and they would sacrifice the peoples good health just to make money. What that tells me is that American puts money before anything else; that is something I already knew but this just helped solidify the assumption because if these business men are making food the way they are now and if we keep eating it we are eventually going to die in my opinion because its horrible, it really is horrible. The fact that we can't take the time to make sure that something so simple as food is clean enough and healthy enough for us to eat then whats going to happen with the more complicated things later on in the future? Just a thought. I watched some of the animal cruelty video and I thought that video just helped prove the above statement because the way the people treated these animals were completely outrageous and I just wonder if they even think of these animals of living, breathing creatures. I was just very very disgusted.

Recipie Experience -- LATE

Will try and make it tonight when I get home, but these are restauraunt style chicken nachos:

INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 6 green onions, sliced, white parts and tops separated
• 3 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 shredded, cooked, whole chicken breast
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 cup salsa
• 1/2 (12 ounce) package tortilla chips
• 1 (8 ounce) package shredded Cheddar/Monterey Jack cheese blend
• 1/2 large tomato, diced

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a 12 inch skillet over medium heat, cook and stir the garlic and white parts of the green onions in canola oil until tender. Mix in shredded chicken, salt and pepper. Toss until well coated with oil. Stir in the salsa.
3. Arrange tortilla chips on a large baking sheet. Spoon the chicken mixture over tortilla chips. Top with Cheddar/Monterey Jack cheese blend and tomato. Bake in the preheated oven 10 minutes, or until cheese has melted. Remove from heat and sprinkle with green onion tops before serving.

Taken from: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Restaurant-Style-Chicken-Nachos/Detail.aspx

Here is how mine looked when I made it, note: I did have all of the materials

Internet Research

QUESTION: What Else Causes Obesity (besides the general eating to much)



According to the website http://www.obesityinamerica.org/, Obesity, while unhealthy diets and not excersicing are major contributers, hormones not working properly can also be a reason. Hormone disorders are those like - thyroid disorders, adrenal glands not working properly, pituatary glands and ovaries are all contributers.



According to the website

http://www.stvincent.org/ourservices/bariatrics/about/causes/default.htm

Obesity can be caused by a persons genetics, culture, emotional and psychological aspects of a person. The genetic aspects of it can basically be if a childs parents are overweight then the child will also tend to be overwieght. Also if your family has a history of obesity then you will have a 25-30% chance of being overwieght.

Food Journal

Dinner (Night Before): For dinner the night before me and my family had shrimp, rice, chicken (for those who didn't want the shrimp), mixed vegitables, and salmon. We ate at the kitchen table and we all talked. After dinner I did the dishes. I enjoyed what I was eating.

Breakfast (Today): For breakfast I had cookie crisp cereal. While eating the cereal I was watching TV because I was eating by myself while others were getting themselves together. I enjoyed what I was eating but I am not so much a fan of milk and that threw off the satisfaction a bit.

Lunch: For lunch today I had some chinease-mexican food. I ate 2 chicken soft tacos and had some pepsi to go along with it. I started getting hungry (prior to lunch) around 12 and I thought that was mainly because of the fact that I ate breakfast in the morning, if I had not eaten breakfast I most likely would have started getting hungrier earlier; maybe around 10 or 11.

Dinner: Tonight for dinner we are having ground turkey, mixed vegitables and V8 Juice, and Rice. We most likely will be eating together as a family and I will be doing the dishes as I do every night.

Grocery Store and Habitual food

My family and I go grocery shopping about once every two weeks. When we go shopping we usually buy the same stuff, which is usually a variety of things. As for fruits and vegetables we buy a lot of strawberries, bananas, grapes and oranges. We buy plums and other things not as often; my father loves peanuts so we always buy at least a jar of peanuts. My family does not eat red meat so when we go shopping we buy a lot of fish, turkey and chicken. When I go to grocery stores I notice that the first thing I see are cans of sodas and bags of chips, always. Then what I see next are the fruits and vegetable section and that confuses me because its like do they want us to eat a lot of junk food or be healthy?

My favorite meals are anything breakfast because I feel as though whenever I have a good breakfast I feel much better during the day. My family and I don't eat red meat as stated before and that I think allows us to eat a variety of foods more often then other people because we try and see what we can eat to substitute for the red meat (beef and pork). My usual diet pattern is usually what my family eats, like I don't drink a lot of soda because I grew up not being allowed to drink a lot of soda.