Food is what all living things on the Earth use as the fuel to keep them alive through their metabolism, which is the fundamental action that sustains life. What you eat, what goes into your digestive system, and what it gets turned into by your body can solely decide how healthy you will stay, how well you can live and how much your body and mind can perform.

Processed Food

Everywhere in the world now we can see signs of awareness among the various populations about the role food and nutrition can play in staying healthy. There is a major threat posed by what we term “junk food” – processed food with little or no nutritional value, often harmful to the body with regular consumption.

There exist many authorities and organizations that work towards creating a healthy world, teaching how to avoid the harm that can be caused by inappropriate amounts of certain chemicals in our bodies. This is a good step, but it is not the last; the true path to a health-aware population lies inside the consumers’ attitude towards eating and nutrition.

General Health Awareness

Awareness varies in the population depending upon various factors such as gender, age and educational background. Women are generally more concerned about the nutritional value of food than men. This is due to a woman’s involvement in the preparing of food for her children, husband and family, and the buying of food, and the various factors such as price and nutritional value of the food bought. In Australia, for instance, a majority (80%) of the shoppers in the food section turn out to be women.

Similarly, younger people tend to be less aware than older people when it comes to the value of food for good health. Today’s educated youth have expressed their concerns about issues such as the lucrative advertisement of junk food on television and street-side hoardings and the impact this has on children. Older people have a larger field of concern, exploring the cleaning of food (like food that has been sprayed with pesticides), possibilities of bacterial presence, and other safety issues.

People with a repertoire of good education seem to know better what they should or shouldn’t eat to stay healthy; they are also the one’s who can afford proper nutrition. Poorer people, due to a lack of this education, deviate more towards a cheap, tasty, yet harmful diet. Thus, they are seen to face more health problems related to inappropriate nutrition than the more educated, richer section of the population.

Conclusion

In the days of the first man, man ate the flesh of the animals and the plants that helped him survive and stay healthy, and things were simple. In time, though, the intake of food was developed in terms of taste and culture, and with the Industrial Revolution, the birth of new technology allowed man to alter and process food into forms that offered longer durability and greater taste. Though this has benefited man in many ways, it has also spawned the virus of inappropriate nutrition and consequent health problems in the less aware sections of the population.

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