Video clip related to food book

Hello! How are you guys doing? The temperature is getting colder and colder! Keep warm!
And you now what?! It's already December! It is the last month of the year! Do you guys have any planing for this winter break? Well, I do! I going on a vacation with my family. Where I'm going? Well i will tell you that later... Moving on to my main topic for today's postings... :)

Well for today, I would like to talk about my food-related book. In one of my earlier postings, I talked about my book that I was reading, which was Bailey’s Café. However I decided to change my book because I wanted to read more facts about food rather than reading about fiction novel talking about food. I chose the book called Food Wars by Tim Lang and Michael Heasman. This book talks about how the future of food is to be shaped and discusses how the food policy should it be. It also shows how the way food is produced affects our own health, environment, and the national economies.  Here is the picture of this book:

Right now, I am reading the chapter about diet and health and talks about how foods could affected to our own health and turn into to heavy diseases. They also show the evidence to support of the framework as it relates to health, food policy and the dynamics of the food systems. They started researching by looking at the evidence of how the world’s diet is changing and facing the problems that each country has. They found out that rich countries suffer with heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, while poor countries suffer with hunger. As newer concerns, they found out that obesity and diabetes are rising, which they think that policies are not doing well on addressing about it.
Here’s a short video clip talking about increasing numbers of overweight children in developing counties. I was really surprised when I heard that the number of obese children is two times as high it was 20 years ago and 43 million children who are under the age of five were overweight in 2011.

 

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc8-eWeyU8s)

Don’t you think it’s terrible?? I think we should take-care our own health and choose our food wisely and carefully in order to have well balanced-diet...

Thanks for reading! :)

Never Seconds

Hi! And thanks for stopping by!

It is already November and the year 2014 is almost over! Time flies by so fast...

Anyways, today I would like to introduce another amazing food blog called “Never Seconds”. But this time, it is written by a little girl! Her name is Martha Payne and lives in Scotland.

In the first place, she started her blog to tell her negative opinions and complaints about eating school meals at her elementary school. However, this blog were in national news headlines and became a big issue. Her school bans her to post some photos of her school meals on her blogs and, she had to shut down her blog. However, because of the many supports from all over the world, she continues to write her food blog and, she even gets school meal pictures from other countries, including Japan! She tries to share them in her blog so that many people from all over the world could read it.
Those pictures reminded me the lunches I had in elementary school. I didn't like the way they forced us to eat them all but I thought those lunches were somewhat healthy and well balanced.  About the dining in my school I go right now, I think they are doing okay on serving the meal. I can see that they are trying to serve different kinds of meal so that the students could enjoy eating their lunch. However I think the cafeteria is too crowded everyday and every student cannot sit down and eat. So in my opinion, they should make it bigger. 

Right now, she is also doing a charity called “Mary’s Meal” to help the children who are having trouble getting food every day because of the poverty. She says that this fundraising is feeding many children and helping their lives a lot. She continues to try to have some more supports from all over the world.

I remember that this was broadcasting on a Japanese TV program and thought it was amazing. I didn’t know that a very young girl could also change and help other people lives and influence many other people in the world. Although she started her blog with her tiny personal reason, this could become a big issue and help change other people’s lives. I am very glad that I could know this is happening and I would also like to join and support her program sometime soon and do some donations…

Thanks for reading! 
See you guys later!