Latino food recipes can help create a more healthier lifestyle than what the fast-food restaurants and processed foods offer. The lifestyle of Latinos in their homeland includes natural grown fruits, vegetables as well as other food ingredients from their own, or nearby, farmlands. They do not have to worry about their food being processed, as it is in the United States, and becoming obese, overweight or developing other health risks.
Because of the processed foods that the United States offers its residents, diabetes, cancer, stroke, and heart disease are some of these health risks that people tend to face. Esther Marshman, a Latino resident located in Salinas, California, mentioned having developed diabetes after moving down from Mexico. She has started her own restaurant in California, where not only Latinos can enjoy of their healthy diet, but Americans as well.
The healthy ingredients of a Latino recipe can be seen in the 1996 Latin American Diet Pyramid. This tells how many grains, fruits, and physical exercise, among other things, a person needs to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Esther mentions that changing diets from French-fries and greasy, processed foods to a Latino one would benefit in the long-run. Substituting certain foods to more natural flavored foods can reduce a person's health-related risks. Two recommendations are: switch corn tortillas to flour tortillas and fattier, refried beans to whole beans. And the common: switch from processed, artificial flavored ingredients to organic ones and begin enjoying a Latino dish!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
New Fast Food Restaurants, say ¡Adiós!
McDonald’s, say good-bye. Burger King, say good-bye. Fast-food restaurants, say good-bye. It has been proposed to have a two-year suspension on any new fast-food restaurants from opening up in South Los Angeles by city councilwoman Jan Perry. Her proposal is so the city could focus more on the existing problem between fast-food restaurants and health problems, and so the results could be a long-term plan to alleviate such a dilemma. Such health problems that south Los Angeles faces are high obesity rates among children and adults in comparison to the rest of the county, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, not to mention that this area contains the county’s highest concentration of fast-food restaurants. While some public health experts in the area seem to be happy about the proposal, there are others within the restaurant industry that criticize it by saying it will only permit full-service, sit-down restaurants to open.
Fast-food restaurants contain fatty foods, high calories, high cholesterol, and fat grams, among others, which causes a person to have health problems. This two-year suspension on opening up new fast-food restaurants in south Los Angeles could decrease such health problems and improve the type of “healthy” meals they offer. Burger King pledged on September 19, 2007 to have healthier meal plans to offer children under 12. Healthier food items include “flame-broiled Tenders, organic unsweetened applesauce…low-fat milk” and apples cut into pieces resembling French fries. The prospective year that children and parents can expect this to take effect is 2008.
Fast-food restaurants contain fatty foods, high calories, high cholesterol, and fat grams, among others, which causes a person to have health problems. This two-year suspension on opening up new fast-food restaurants in south Los Angeles could decrease such health problems and improve the type of “healthy” meals they offer. Burger King pledged on September 19, 2007 to have healthier meal plans to offer children under 12. Healthier food items include “flame-broiled Tenders, organic unsweetened applesauce…low-fat milk” and apples cut into pieces resembling French fries. The prospective year that children and parents can expect this to take effect is 2008.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Mrs. Obesity: Champion Thrice Again
Florida is the 34th obese state in the United States. Colorado is the leanest state of all 51, but Mississippi is the most obese state of them all.
It was Thursday, September 13th, that the 2007 Obesity Report had reported these findings, making an emphasis that Mississippi had been ranked with the highest amount of adult obesity in the nation three times in a row. Out of all 51 states; none faced a decrease in adult or child obesity.
In Mississippi's Breaking News Story, anesthesiologist Dr. John Turner said cardiovascular disease is found to be the highest health problem among its obesity residents, especially within its larger population of African-Americans. The ones who are to be EXTRA careful are women because they tend to take care of others, rather than of themselves, and they believe cancer is their biggest concern. Men have chest, arm, and neck pain as symptoms for a heart attack, but women only show fatigue as their #1 symptom. While cardiovascular disease may be decreasing in men, it is found to be increasing among the women living in the Mississippi Delta.
Exercising and eating just the right portions of food (eating healthy), can lower an individual's obesity problem. Being able to control the intake of food and not allowing the food to control the individual is just one of the obstacles one has to be determined to overcome.
It was Thursday, September 13th, that the 2007 Obesity Report had reported these findings, making an emphasis that Mississippi had been ranked with the highest amount of adult obesity in the nation three times in a row. Out of all 51 states; none faced a decrease in adult or child obesity.
In Mississippi's Breaking News Story, anesthesiologist Dr. John Turner said cardiovascular disease is found to be the highest health problem among its obesity residents, especially within its larger population of African-Americans. The ones who are to be EXTRA careful are women because they tend to take care of others, rather than of themselves, and they believe cancer is their biggest concern. Men have chest, arm, and neck pain as symptoms for a heart attack, but women only show fatigue as their #1 symptom. While cardiovascular disease may be decreasing in men, it is found to be increasing among the women living in the Mississippi Delta.
Exercising and eating just the right portions of food (eating healthy), can lower an individual's obesity problem. Being able to control the intake of food and not allowing the food to control the individual is just one of the obstacles one has to be determined to overcome.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Scale, Scale On The Floor...Again
One of the conflicting issues that a person, particularly a female, may go through is with the weight scale. Did I go down/up? How much do I weigh today? And the most intimidating question, “Should I go ahead and weigh myself, especially in a public area?”
The media is a huge factor influencing how much the weight scale is used, making it a constant resource for a person. Since television portrays a specific type of physically-fit female and muscular male figure, males and females tend to find those the “right” body to be. Therefore, both try to develop a similar physical body as those shown on magazines, T.V., movies, etc., making use of the weight scale more apparent. Because there are persons who may constantly check their weight on the scale, Tips of When to Use a Weight Scalecan help keep it at a minimum.
A person can appear to weigh more than usual because of any water that may be in the body system or, in a female's case, due to their monthly cycle. Fatty tissues in the body, such as in the buttocks and the chest area, could also increase the amount that a person weighs. If one attends the gym or works out by simply exercising, they might also get an increase in their weight due to the amount of muscle being developed. A person checking their weight status is not bad, it is only considered bad when it becomes a constant, daily check-up.
The media is a huge factor influencing how much the weight scale is used, making it a constant resource for a person. Since television portrays a specific type of physically-fit female and muscular male figure, males and females tend to find those the “right” body to be. Therefore, both try to develop a similar physical body as those shown on magazines, T.V., movies, etc., making use of the weight scale more apparent. Because there are persons who may constantly check their weight on the scale, Tips of When to Use a Weight Scalecan help keep it at a minimum.
A person can appear to weigh more than usual because of any water that may be in the body system or, in a female's case, due to their monthly cycle. Fatty tissues in the body, such as in the buttocks and the chest area, could also increase the amount that a person weighs. If one attends the gym or works out by simply exercising, they might also get an increase in their weight due to the amount of muscle being developed. A person checking their weight status is not bad, it is only considered bad when it becomes a constant, daily check-up.
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