And how does food make you feel?

Like I've said before, my family eats dinner at home more often than not. In the past few weeks, our oven has been broken. If you didn't know, which you probably didn't, most of our meals depend on our oven. We rarely fry things because most of the people in the house aren't crazy about fried foods. My mom and I don't like to stand over the hot grease either. Anyway, for dinner, we resulted to fried food and fast food. The air conditioner in the kitchen/den was broken and the temperature was pretty high, which added to the heat that would be created by frying food. We ended up eating more fast food in a three week period than ever before.

I noticed that I was very tired and lazy in the past three weeks than before. The only thing that had really changed was my dinner. Eating out all that time really put a strain on us too because that was money that could have been going other places. We got our oven fixed sometime last week, and we've already been doing better. I've been cleaning a lot more often, mainly because I had more energy. I know that the food is related to how I feel because today, after our field trip, we went to the mail to eat where I had Chinese food. I am completely exhausted. It makes me not want to eat out again for a while.

"McNasty"

This, my friends, is not ice cream, but is instead what lies beneath the golden, crispy, confides of your McDonald's Chicken McNugget.

...Oh yes, this image surfaced earlier this week. It is what we call "mechanically separtated chicken meat", and McDonald's loves this stuff. If you watch the movie "Supersize Me", the creator goes into a segment on exactly how a chicken nugget is made and what goes inside of it. It's not pretty. In fact, the question should be what DOESN'T go into the McNugget. And so, I leave you with one question, "Who's ready to go to McDonalds?!?!"

Shocked!!

I was looking through my Google Alerts, and I came across something that shocked me. The first thing I wanted to do was call everyone in my life who has diabetes and tell them what I had learned.

What I learned is that research out the of Children's Hospital of Boston shows people living in areas where air quality levels were near, but still below the acceptable EPA safety limits had more than 20 percent higher diabetes prevalence than those exposed to fewer air pollutants.That includes exposure to car exhaust, industrial smoke and other types of fine particulate air pollution.

"There were some theories that breathing high level of particulates in the air creates an inflammatory response and that that in fact can affect your insulin levels and blood levels." says Wayne Tormala with the Arizona Department of Health.

Tormala also said, "Certainly if you live in a highly urbanized area or where there are a lot of particulates in the air, then that should be a reminder to you that you really need to get those annual screenings, get your blood tested, you know - catch things early."

Researchers say the study doesn't prove one causes the other, but it is the first large scale national study to explore a possible link.

testing

While the seafood industry had taken a downfall after the oil spill, there is still fish to be consumed. Alabama can now say that they are one of the states that has the most tested seafood and is completely safe to eat. While most of the google alerts have been pretty repetitive about how yes, there has been less seafood to be taken from the gulf coast, but yes, all the seafood that are in the restaurants in the South are safe to eat. Prices have risen not only from the lack of all the seafood but also from the extra testing. While this is repetitive news, I hope soon that it will get better since all the news is pretty bad and continuing to frown on the oil spill (not that anyone could be happy about it) and the issues with seafood seem not to be improving much.

That Hit the Spot!

Today well this evening, my family and I decided to try a new fast food resturannt instead of our same one. Today, we went to Ci Ci's pizza. The pizza was satisfying to the "T". Since you can eat all you want at a buffet, my family and I really did eat all we can eat. We started off with a toss salad. Each one of us had two small bowls of salad, then we went for the big meal, the pizza. I think I took down about five pieces of pizza and a cinnoman roll. It was very good. My dad had several pieces of pizza. It was so many unitl I couldn't keep up . My momma and sister had about seven pieces each. So as you can see we really can put down on some food. After we left, my dad who ate the most amount of pizza, was the first one to go to sleep when we got home. Thats the effect that eating out have on you. It makes you lazy and tired. I would take a picture of him sleep, but he would kil me !:)

It's All About Color!

So not much new this week... not much variety. Oh speaking of variety, apparently there is a LOT of variety in fruits and veggies compared to the organic stuff you get in chain supermarkets. Everyone can buy yellow sweetcorn ears, but how often do you see blue corn? Cherry tomatoes are common, but what about heirloom tomatoes? These differences in produce offer a more colorful dinner plate and a more natural existence; These foods only grow in a certain season, and buying them only a certain time each year keeps you in sync with the flow of seasons. The local varieties are also supposed to be healthier or more beneficial in vitamins and minerals, but I can't find any solid statistics, just a lot of people saying, "Local food tastes better!" So there is pretty much a chance for a new experience and a more colorful meal, but that's all I can find on it... And if you're reading this Mr. Dickson, Google Alerts suck mud.

Continuing

As a result of the oil spill Alabama lawyers have been haired to support the restaurants of Alabama as they have been losing money due to this incident. The Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, and Portis & Miles, P.C. is working to help local restaurants with their revenue lost as the availability of fish has decreased. This is to help the businesses that depend on fish as there main meal and service to the public. Especially down at the beach there is the tourist season during the summer months in which local seafood restaurants depend on for their money. This year though, they missed out as the seafood was not here for customers, therefore these people are working to help out these restaurants to stay open so in there future they can continue to provide seafood service to Alabamians.