Do you live to eat or eat to live?
Attention-grabber to introduce any course in foods or nutrition.
Explore what role food plays in the lives of your students. Consider food as fuel, as convenience, as medicine, and as a social bond. Explore food and moods, the idea of food alienation, and future food.
Learn:
- Food as Fuel: To those who believe food is fuel, faster is better - instant is best. Why "waste time" preparing food?
- Food as Convenience: In the 1970's Americans spent over 3 hours daily preparing meals. By the 1990's the time dropped to 30 minutes. What about tomorrow?
- Food as Medicine: Is eating a battleground between "healthy" foods that are "good for you" and "bad foods" that cause disease?
- Food as a Social Bond: Do family meals have a future? What happens when "grazing" and meals-on-the-run become the norm?
- Foods and Moods: Does food influence your moods?
- Food Alienation: The nature of food today is hidden beneath layers of processing. Try telling a four-year-old at McDonald's he's eating cow meat!
- Future Food: What will we be eating in twenty years? A rich diet of fresh meats, grains, and produce? How about all our daily needs from a skin patch?