Junk Food

While food in America has been held to a high standard of cleanliness and our water supply one of the safest in the world, the government and research groups have found that nearly 48 million cases of food born illnesses occur annually. That’s a ratio of up to 1 in 6 Americans each year. These…

The keto diet is a weight loss plan that involves using lipids rather than carbohydrates as immediate sources of energy (Chodosh and Maldarelli). In a typical ketogenic diet, an individual takes in ninety percent of his or her calories as fats, seven percent as proteins, and three percent as carbs. Carbohydrates are the body’s immediate…

Food triggers and alters people’s brains much more than people realize. Eating has become much more than a way of nourishing one’s body, it has become part of people’s emotional and cultural identity throughout the world. For centuries now, it has gotten to the point where the majority of the things that man did and…

Part I, Criteria #1: Excess Fat & Carbs Patient J.W is eating an excess number of calories, fat, and carbs in his diet. J.W has been eating fast-food three meals per day. According to US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Prospectively, “Greater weight gain is observed among frequent fast-food consumers compared with…

With the current global population growing with a rate of over 1% [1] the population is at the highest it has ever been. This new population calls for a need of new agricultural strategies and practices to meet the growing nutritional demand of developed and developing countries. The solution proposed has been to use genetically…