The World In My Eyes

      When you’re feeling too lazy or don’t have enough time to make food, what do you do? Many people would answer this question with the solution of buying fast food. While fast food can be tasty and convenient, it’s horrible for your overall health.     To begin, it can cause many negative effects to your digestive and cardiovascular systems. According to Healthline , when your digestive system breaks down the fast food you ate, it turns it into sugar which can increase your blood sugar. Your pancreas can then lower it to normal by releasing insulin. Eating too much fast food can cause multiple insulin spikes, meaning at one point, your normal insulin response can start to falter. This can also increase risks for insulin resistance, type-2 diabetes, and weight gain. Many fast food items contain trans fat and sodium. Trans fat can increase bad cholesterol while lowering good cholesterol, and increase risk of type-2 diabetes and heart diseases. Sodium can increase your blood pressure

  Picture     Good afternoon bloggers! However, is it really a good afternoon with all of the recent economic inflation? Currently, the prices for everything is increasing and people have been struggling to pay for their needs. This image represents people all over America who are paying loads of money of food that they need.     More specifically, in this image we see a man feeding his plate money. His facial expressions tells us he’s upset by this, maybe even worried. This is how many people feel when they decide to go shopping. They look at the price for their NEEDS and end up disappointed or furious by the price they see.  According to  NBC News , since a year ago, the cost of eggs has increased by 60%; bread and lunch meat increased by 15%; milk and cheese increased by 12%. For those who make such a low income, they might struggle to buy groceries due to the high prices. According to  Yahoo Finance , a consumer research group stated 59% of Americans struggle to buy groceries. Due

                                                                                        Mental Floss      When you think of Thanksgiving, the first thing that comes to mind is the food. Whether it’s the turkey, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, or pumpkin pie.  The thought of Thanksgiving came from the Pilgrims of Plymouth in 1621, but there wasn’t exactly a whole menu describing the feast. By saying this, have you ever thought why we eat the food we eat on this holiday?     Let us begin with the turkey. According to  Mental Floss , a colonist who wrote a journal about the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Edward Winslow, wrote about the Thanksgiving feast they had. Although it didn’t exactly say they ate turkey, it mentioned they ate some type of bird. However, he did write about how they hunted turkey in the autumn of 1621, which was around the time they had the feast. People also believed it was turkey they ate, because turkey’s are mainly in North America. After Ab

    Good afternoon fellow bloggers! Did you know industrialized farming causes food contamination, depletes natural resources, uses unsafe chemicals and fertilizers, and much more. A lot of the food we eat comes from industrialized farming, and many people don’t realize how bad it actually is. However, in the documentary  Fresh , it shows the farmers and businesses who use sustainable farming to better the environment and food we consume.     My favorite part of this documentary is the segment of Joel Salatin’s sustainable farm in Virginia. Instead of using unnatural chemicals on his crops and land, he lets nature run its course. He allows his cows to graze on the field, and lets them to their business (manure). The dung and manure is left to work as a natural fertilizer. That might sound gross, but I would rather that than ingesting chemicals! After the fact, he then lets his chickens peck at the bugs and larvae to somewhat “sanitize” the manure in order for it to continuing fertiliz