FOOD! at home and food from outside.

How do you do food at home? How do people in the U.S. mainstream do food - as shown in TV and movies? Please write a one page comparison of your family's foodways, your foodways, and mainstream corporate US food ways.

At home my mother cooks mostly everyday. its only a couple times a month that we take out. maybe 3 or 4 times in a month. my mother cooks with no salt or butter & uses alot of low fat meat because shes a health freak. we cook alot of food thats from our culture which is spanish. it consist of alot of rice & beans and rich flavors. we have big portions because we both eat alot of food. were big snackers so the food that takes up most of the kitchen are snacks.

I think people in U.S mainstream do food unhealthy. there thousands of fast food places which makes it really hard to make good decisions about what we eat. On TV there are constantly commercials for Taco bell, Wendys, KFC, McDonalds and Popeyes and when it looks really good it makes us want to go there and get some food. You have movies like Herald & Kumar go to white castle and Super Size me that are for and against unhealthy food.

Comparing my way of food & my familys way of food to Mainstream U.S. its very different. in my house everything is made from scracth and is made with healthier ingrediants then wat the U.S uses now. no preservatives and added ingrediants like coloring and sugar. my family like to cook authentic spanish food and the kind of food thats being sold now isnt very authentic. for example Taco Bell, its supposed to be mexican food but it isnt really because its fast food, its been modified to fit the american way of mexican. another example can be the Olive garden, its the fast food version of italian food, it isnt made in italy & served to you. My mom doesnt use commericals and advertisments to get me to eat dinner, knowing that its made fresh makes me want to eat it. thats why were the fattest nation in thw world.

Question about Food.

Why is it easier for americans to buy food thats not good for us then to buy food thats good for us?

I wondered Why was it easier to go to a fast food place and get an entire meal for about six dollars. A meal meaning ur main item, a side dish and something to drink, but not be able to take that same amount of money and get something much healthier. it makes it seams like america doesnt want us to be healthier. the main argument would be that we have the choice weather or not we have to get the fast food making it our fault. but when theres almost atleast 1 fast food place on every block on new york city, its cheaper and it the taste is very satisfying how are we expected to really make the better decision when there isnt a fair option.

My answer to this question would be that its much cheaper for fast food companies to make more of man made products that cost much less and add hundreds of ingediants and chemicals to it so that it taste really good and make us want to keep buying it because its cheap and taste good. i also think its a mental thing, that because we keep the memory in our heads that we enjoyed it and it didnt cost alot of money it will always stay an option for us. This point is also made in the Movie Super Size me Directed by & featured Morgan Spurlock showing how living on an all fast food diet is deadly to someones life & also showing how easy it was for him to become unhealthy very quickly.

In internets answer for why this is "Although many people find it hard to afford fresh fruits and vegetables for their family, the U.S. government can help by supplying Food Stamps and coupons that are redeemable at farmers markets to those in need."
The key word in that sentence being "MANY"

Whats in my refrigerator?

So i went into my refrigerator and what i found inside is that i have...
#1-Milk
#2-water
#3-V8 Splash Juice
#4-Butter
#5-Grapes
#6-Bread Pudding
#7-Pound Cake
#8-Yohgurt
#9-Syrup
#10-BBQ sauce
#11-Minced garlic
#12-Recaito/Sofrito
#13-mayo
#14-caramel Sauce
#15- french Onion Dip
#16-Tomato Sauce
#17-Cheese

And for my freezer there is...
#1-Garlic bread
#2-PIzzas (5)
#3- Ice Cream
#4-Chicken
#5-ice cubes

What i think about whats in my refrigerator shows me that mine isnt really different from alot of other peoples. what this list shows about food is that us as americans are too lazy to make the food our selfs so we buy food thats already been made for us and we dont really kno whats been put into it but because it taste good we figure its not hurting us and to keep buying it. it shows us that its easier to buy food thats cheaper in larger quantities because all the ingrediants in it are artifical and man made so its easier to make more of it for cheaper.

My Emotional Health

Please pay attention to your emotions over this break. At what points do you feel emotionally healthiest? Least healthy? What's going on that affects your emotional health? What actions can you take to support your own emotional well-being?

Is emotionally healthy the same thing as "constantly happy"? If not, what is it, to you?

How do the theories of the therapies we researched connect to your ideas about emotional health?

-Through out this break i have been paying attention to my emotional health. What ive noticed about my own emotional health is that if im sitting at home doing nothing my emotional health isnt good because im bored. Im the type of person that always likes to be doing something because it makes me happy, to be interacting with people or doing something constructive, cleaning, cooking, going out and having fun.

A point in my break when i felt emotionally healthiest was at night because i knew that i didnt have to go to school the next day so i could stay out as late as i wanted to. The least healthiest would be when i woke up in the morrning becuase ive been sick all spring break so i really felt it when i woke up.

if it wasent spring break and we were in school i would proably feel emotionally healthiest at lunch because its a rest for my mind and i get to eat and interact with people that i like. least emotioanlly healthiest would be any point in the day that isnt lunch because im tired from getting up so early.

In my everyday life things that effect my emmotional health are people, school, the weather, how my body is reacting to all this (if im sick)things in my house like the TV and my X-Box. if one of those breaks i wouldnt be emotinally happy anymore.

Thing things in do to maintain my emotional happiness is makin sure i always have my ipod in the morning so that i have something to listen to when i walk to school, it relaxes me. my sidekick, because when i feel like im not able to keep in contact with people it makes me really mad. So when teachers take it away from me i get angry because there taking away my source of contact and it makes my emotional health not good because im angry. Also buying stuff that makes me happy like food i like for lunch, going shopping, watch my favorite shows.

The type of phycology i chose was "humanistic Phycology" and from what i read i have the idea that it means a persons behavior has to do with there emotional health and i do agree with that on some level. because i can be very angry but i might not show it.

Humanistic Phychology

I chose to do Human Phychology because it sounded the most intresting to me because it had the word humanistic in it and i wondered what kind of therapy was that.

"Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that emerged in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. It is explicitly concerned with the human dimension of psychology and the human context for the development of psychological theory."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_psychology

from the definition they gave i dont completly understand what kind of phychology this is but what i think its means is anyalizing someones behavior and there mental state. and how it connects together.

Question & Answers about health

#1-What is the definition google gives us for healthy?

a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease; "physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients"
the general condition of body and mind; "his delicate health"; "in poor health".

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

#2-What does it mean to be mentally ill?

suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

#3-What is the Average Body mass Index for a healthy person?

"18.5 - 24.9 is the Body Mass Index for a Normal person" anything below is underweight and anything above is over weight.

http://www.consumer.gov/weightloss/bmi.htm

#4- what is the average life span of a healthy person?

The current U.S. life expectancy is 77.5 years.

http://longevity.about.com/od/longevity101/p/life_expect.htm

#5-What is the fatest state in the United States?

According to a major study conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Mississippi is the fattestfattestfattest statestatestate in the United States.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-fattest-american-state.htm

#6-What percentage of people exersive at all?

What percentage of people (aged 15 years and older) who live in the United States participated in sports and exercise activities on an average day in recent years? About 16 percent.

http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2008/sports/

Animal Unit paper

Explain and analyse the most important of the 6 cultural obstacles to seeing ourselves as animals - explain and analyse the most important of the 4 benefits of seeing ourselves as animals for living a good and meaningful life. Conclude with your perspective, perhaps including additional obstacles and/or benefits.

For millions of years Humans and animals have Co-Existed. We are seperated by different parts of the world and in most cases we are sepertaed by man made things like cages and inclosed habitats. Between Humans and Animals our main goal is survival. We both live off the same basics of shelter, food and water. We also depend on companionship in order to reproduce and to feel happy that we arent alone. Obstacles for knowing that we are animals is that we cannot change we follow a system. There is a certain way we need to act around one another especially in school. Us as students dont have the option of running around and interacting with each other the way we want to because there are rules. Having to contain being ureself as an animal is fustrating when you want to go outside and be active with other people/animals.
The suck part about us being animals is that we cant really communicate with other animals that arent human like us. We can try to decode what other animals forms of communications mean but we can never really know exactly what there thinking or what they are talking about with other animals like themselfs. Being animals we need a way to eat and survive. the downfall is us Humans eat animals. So us being animals we are really eating each other.
The major downfall of being an animal is that we cant really show that we are animals at all. its alright when were little kids because were not really aware of the world and our intensions are just to be free and have fun, doing things that make us happy. No system yet to follow.

If it ever came down to where animals and Humans had to live together and survive together i think the animals would eat us all. animals seam to be very aware of us being around them and become teritorial of there space. we would end up getting eaten and killed. I think animals live on the principle of natural selection, that only the strongest will survive. survival of the fittest. so in the case that we all hade to survive together the animals arent going to worried about us they are going to worried about themselfs and alot of animals are natural predators that will kill us in a minute. it isnt really a fair fight.

Im totally taking this from andy but like he said if other animals can go extinct so can we. Humans have seamed to out live alot of animals that have lived on this earth and died out so we have a good chance of living on alot longer but theres always the possibility something will happen and all humans/animals will be gone. what will be left on our planet?. the cockroches because they always seam to adapt to all living situation(lol)

-A benefit of being an animal is that we all have the same intensions and instincts. Our intensions are to surivive and be happy. we want to be active with each other and interact. we learn from each other when we interact and it makes us happy to be natural instead of conforming ourselfs to be uptight people at school. sitting in a chair for hours everyday isnt very stimulating. getting up and moving our bodies seams to always makes us happy because it naturally what we want to do.

The first activity we did in class was play a game called "rabbit". choosing 3 people as the rabbits and we had to run around and catch them. it made everyone feel atleast one point higher on there happy scale because we had a goal and we used our natural animalistic behaviors to do so and it was better then sitting in a chair learning about stuff that wasent stimulating our minds in a fun way.

The second activity we did was rolling people over our bodies trying to get them from one point to another. that activity was really fun because we all had to work as a team in order to get the person from A to B and we were moving our bodies and had to use our minds to think about how we were going to this.

My own perspective on the animal unit is that it really has me thinking alot more about how we are really animals. we may do things differently but in ways its exactly the same. when an animal becomes agressive because another animal is invading its space they warm the aother another animal or fight and kill them. when someone is invading our space we get mad as well we just do it in such a violent way. i wonder if animals are looking at us the same way we are looking at them. wondering how we communicate.