It is imperative to introduce our children to healthy eating habits, nutritional foods, and an active lifestyle. During the progression of this course, I have become captivated with how substantially the goods we ingest affect our overall existence. I always had a deep interest in synthetic hormones and byproducts. I decided to write my paper on how synthetic hormones and improper nutrition upset our children’s health. I decided to research the bad products our food companies place in our food without our proper and complete knowledge. We all have to eat to live, yet it is important to know what we are eating. Kimura, A. believes that “the use of steroid hormones for growth promotion in food producing animals has been widely controversial”. (2005). To begin, I will take us back to the beginning. My research brought me all the way back to the 1930s, when farmers and scientists started experimenting with the first animal growth hormone Bovine or (bGH). By injecting a dairy cow with this hormone, it would begin producing more milk. Technology was not as well advanced to mass produce this hormone for the enormous demand until the after World War II. The advanced form of (bGH) is (rbGH), and scientists have acknowledged that (rbGH) is not recognized by human cells. At that point the advancement of serving the hormone Estrogen to cattle was introduced. These steroids are still used to speed up the young mammal’s growth time and increasing weight while reducing the amount of feed the animal needs to consume. Then in 1948, Monosodium Glutamate or (MSG) was introduced to the United States through the Japanese Army, when they noticed they could feed the soldiers smaller rations. Satter, E. sadly stated that “the United States ...
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Hormone steroids used in food can have many effects on the people who eat them. Steroids in animals make the meat taste better and become lean. Even though the steroids they put in animals are edible, it does not mean they do not have an effect on those who partake of the food. The steroids in animals have a large amount of sex hormones. These steroids sometimes can contribute to cancer. They also may make girls develop early and cause them to hit puberty faster. It has been found that girls who eat foods with steroids have a higher chance of having breast cancer. People who eat dairy products that have steroids in them are increasing the risk of breast cancer. Those who eat meat products may have effects on children w...
The children range in age from 12-15 and their issues from simple obesity to needing gastric-bypass surgery. The children are fed fast food in school cafeterias, with government labeling of pizza, fries and tomato paste as vegetables. Stores have candies and snacks at children’s eye level, and at home they eat the standard offerings of processed foods. One of the other things this film shows is the complete lack of support for these families in the area of proper diet education. A couple of the parents talked about the doctors encouraging them to seek help with nutrition, the doctors did not have any useful advice on where to get this
To help out with my research on childhood obesity I am creating this annotated bibliography. I am researching the health issues related to childhood obesity as well as the long term effects.
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Since 1916, the United States Department of Agriculture (the government agency responsible for all U.S. policy regarding agriculture, food, and farming) has revised their recommendations several times. Unfortunately, money talks and the USDA’s recommendations are based on outdated science and are influenced by people with business interest. Even so, its recommendations are considered almost “holy” by physicians, nutritionists, and dieters, but in reality, they are the root cause of the problem. A single visit to our local public school cafeteria and it will become clear that they do not have the best interests of the children at heart. What they are feeding our innocent children is preposterous. Doctors, the people we trust and expect to be “the experts”, do not know much about the subject of nutrition. A vast majority of medical schools in the U.S. require just 25-30 hours or less of nutrition training, and some do not require at all. So doctors must rely on the ...
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