Do You Eat Healthy?

      Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods that give you the nutrients that you need to maintain your health, feel good, and have energy. I cannot say that I eat healthy but I try my best to in norms. First, I don’t like eat fruit and whole grain. Second, I prefer eat meat than anything. One thing I notice of me is that when I got to America I have become “Americanized” specially my eating habits which it is fast food. I love pizza, until my brother’s give me name: “Madame pizza”. If I remember back home in Togo where I am from, all the farmer products are organics and those farmer product are delicious when you cook them. Therefore they are good for your health. My parents are so selective on the type food we cooked home, and they don’t allow me to go buy food outside. As I got to United Sates, things changed. I have tried to keep up with what my parents have taught me, but I failed just because buying organics food here in America are really expensive. One of my favorite African foods is “Fufu”, and it is a lot of calories. It is made of yam flour and it just like mash potatoes. You made the fufu and eat it with a meat or fish soup. I try to keep my health intact by trying to eating healthy food, so that I won’t get sick. I have one of my cousin’s that I work with, and he loves to eat fruits. Therefore, most of the time now, my cousin forces me to eat fruit. Nothing feels good than eating healthy to prevent diseases like Thomas A. Edison states that:” The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” None of the foods we eat are healthy because the farming products are not organics and they are just chemical products.

            In the reading “The Unhealthy Meat Market” by Nicholas D. Kristof says that:                            “Poultry science journal has calculated that if humans grew at the same rate as modern chickens, a human by the age of two months would weigh 660 pounds.” Through this quote Nicholas is trying to explain how much chickens grow faster and weigh high. It is not normal the way the industrial farmer bred the poultry now. One things it is that farmers inject chemical products to the chickens so that could grow fast and weigh” high”.