Watch What You Eat
“Because of the damaging nature that our fast paced lifestyle has on our food consumption, I believe that as a country we need to slow down our pacing in order to research our habits and the ways food companies exploit our speedy way of life that makes us constantly indulge in eating in unhealthy manners.”
In the United states, our fast paced lifestyle can cause many oversights in our activities. Maybe it's forgetting to bring your charger while rushing to school, maybe it's responding to an important email or turning off the lights in your home.
However, a major thing we forget is how we manage our consumption of food. Even though what we eat is one of the most important aspects needed to survive in the world, our fast paced lifestyle causes us to start having unhealthy eating habits leading to our high obesity rate. Not only that but if we don’t pause and realize the nature of our food consumption it could possibly damage our performance not only in our individual lives but as a nation as a whole.
Because of the damaging nature that our fast paced lifestyle has on our food consumption, I believe that as a country we need to slow down our pacing in order to research our habits and the ways food companies exploit our speedy way of life that makes us constantly indulge in eating in unhealthy manners.
In our food, there are many ingredients added that make it taste and feel less natural. Here’s an example from an article published by the University of Michigan:
"I love watermelon, it's delicious, but nobody sits down and eats the whole watermelon," Gearhardt observed. The difference between a watermelon and something processed by a large company is that, for the latter, those foods are altered in ways to make them literally irresistible. This happens when companies use a combination of salt, sugar and fat to create foods that overstimulate the taste buds — and yet are designed to never quite leave you feeling satisfied.
A slower paced lifestyle might look like cooking meals more often. According to a blog on Harvard’s website, “We already know that the more people cook at home, the healthier their diet, the fewer calories they consume, and the less likely they are to be obese or develop type 2 diabetes. A growing body of scientific evidence supports teaching patients how to cook meals at home as an effective medical intervention for improving diet quality, weight loss, and diabetes prevention.”
Preparing fresh foods will put necessary nutrition into your diet and increase your energy and quality of health in the short and long run. You will learn proper planning and preparation skills to see a task through while contributing in a positive way to the health of your family and friends.
This is important because if we don’t slow down our lifestyle and really analyze our food intake, then it can lead to negative effects not only on our physical and mental health but on our a country as a whole.