| Any organism needs to be fed in order to grow and | | | | recently, the once healthy portions of food people |
| survive. Just like any animal, humans need food in | | | | used to eat have dramatically increased and due to |
| order to receive the necessary energy with which | | | | lack of time and focus people are now battling with |
| they will grow and continue to function properly. But | | | | their dietary habits against diseases and various types |
| food has lately been blamed as the cause of obesity, | | | | of illnesses.In particular, concerns about foodborne |
| and has been accused to be linked to a number of | | | | illnesses have long influenced the human diet. Dietary |
| diseases and eating abnormalities. Fortunately for | | | | habits play a significant role in the health and mortality |
| human beings, these accusations are far away from | | | | of all humans, and one needs only to consider that |
| the truth. In fact, what mistakenly people consider to | | | | eating disorders interfere with normal food |
| be the enemy is not. Food is not to be blamed | | | | consumption leading to excess weight or a skinny |
| because none of the food substances have a | | | | human silhouette. But food is not to be blamed for |
| negative outcome if people do not oversize their | | | | these dramatic results. The changes in nutrient |
| food portions or eat without any control. Thus it is | | | | content of diets in industrialized countries have come |
| important to understand what food is and what can | | | | to produce foods that contain more animal fat, sugar, |
| we do to balance our eating habits, without loosing in | | | | alcohol and less dietary fiber, carbohydrates and |
| taste or variety.Food is any substance, usually | | | | antioxidants. Today's working habits and family |
| comprised primarily of carbohydrates, fats and | | | | stress, alongside with reduced exercise patterns, |
| proteins that are consumed by all animals-including | | | | have caused considerable concerns to health |
| humans-for nutrition or pleasure. It is also widely | | | | practitioners who examine the traditional eating habits |
| known that almost all foods come from plants or | | | | and reveal negative results for humans.Thus, it is |
| animals-except water, salt, baking soda, fungi, and | | | | imperative for contemporary people to be informed |
| processes foods-and humans as omnivorous animals | | | | and educated from an early age in relation to the |
| are able to consume everything. After developing | | | | effects of adopting a healthy diet plan and |
| agriculture and becoming hunters, humans managed | | | | maintaining their weight constant and within a logical |
| to add to their dietary habits different tastes that | | | | range when they have reached adulthood. Food is |
| came from mixing and matching a variety of | | | | not the enemy in this issue; people's dietary habits |
| ingredients to improve the final culinary result. But | | | | are the cause of the health problems related to food. |