Blog Entry #2: Our Love Must Part

                                                           

                    Food was always been my first love. I could not go two hours without eating, it just did not feel right. Ever since i was a young girl i have had a huge appetite and as the years pass it was just increasing.
                   As i mentioned before it was hard to not eat every 2-3 hours faithfully. From big meals to a bowl of cereal, I was satisfied. Lately i have been trying to slow down my food intake only because the summer is quickly approaching. We all want that "Summer Body". It is a difficult task but it is basically mind over matter, well mind over food in this case.
                   My mom does not make my goal for losing weight any easier. In addition to our special dinners on major holidays, she creates her own " food holidays", for example, "Breakfast For Dinner day" and " Thanksgiving just not in November Day". It is hard to resist the smell of yam and potato salad when your eating a salad with light dressing. But when i get the erg to cheat on my diet or have a pancake at 9 o'clock at night, i just work out. She will not get the best of me!
                    I remember in high school eating McDonalds every day. My friends thought i had a serious problem. They made me watch a documentary about how horrible and unhealthy McDonalds actually was. But that still did not make me turn my cheek to my second home. My mom use to tell me to apply there because i probably know how to make every sanwhich on the menu (i think i can). But thank God i work retail because if i ever was blessed to work at a restaurant (I have applied many of times) losing weight would not be a factor. Forget about that summer body I would be sporting my fat with no care in the world. But this is not the case so Food my dear, WE MUST PART!

                                                      

                                        BLOG ENTRY #1: DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR EATING?




                         Many Americans are skeptical about the food they consume. Many questions have arisen since the recent outbreak of E coli in spinach. According to Dr. David Acheson, " Americans have one of the safest food supply in the world". But can we honestly agree with him?
                        Dr. Acheson claims "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) works very hard to keep our food safe from bacterial, viral, and chemical contamination"so then how did the e coli outbreak in spinach and the salmonella in peanut butter get past those "625 investigators"? So do we really have one of the safest food supply in the world?  Acheson stresses that the FDA does everything in its power to ensure we have a good supply of food but we also have to do our part as consumers. Cooking food at its appropriate temperature, keeping it refrigerated and properly handling raw meat, seafood and poultry was some of the important steps we should take to avoid any diseases. This just makes me wonder how safe the food is prior to consuming it. 
                         I honestly believe the FDA does everything in its power to keep us away from contaminated food but i believe they should work a little harder. The e coli outbreak that occurred in 2006 claimed many innocent people, and i believe if the FDA had paid more attention those innocent people would still be alive.