Food Essays
Posted: August 21st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Diet, Digestive System, Food | Comments Off
Coeliac disease is a genetic condition that is caused by an inability to digest gluten. Hence the reason that this disease is also known as gluten intolerance. It appears that genetics predispose some people to coeliac disease. For these people, some of the constituents of proteins found in wheat, in gluten and gliadin, become toxic [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Overpopulation, Social Issues | Tags: Deforestation, Farming, Food, Food Production, Genetically Modified Foods, Green Revolution, Harvest | Comments Off
With the rapid growth of our global population pouring into the next millennium, we will witness an ever-growing hunger rate around the world. That is unless we call for a revolution on the global scale. The Green Revolution which already sprouted in the early part of the century only need to add a bit more [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Social Issues | Tags: Food, Nutrition, Vegetarian | Comments Off
The choice of eating meat or not has been a debated issue for a continued number of years. There have long since been two sides: the proponents and opponents of meat consumption. More and more debates of its value and effect on the world have risen. Many claim it is wrong, while others think of [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History | Tags: Culture, Food, Jamaica | Comments Off
Jamaica is a beautiful island south of Cuba, between North and South America. The island has a great deal of “rich agricultural land, and although much of the mountainous are is not very fertile, here and there in the hills are pockets of land which can bear abundantly” (Buisseret, 1969, i). Jamaica’s uniformities and diversities [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History | Tags: Food, Greek History | Comments Off
Greek cuisine:
The Greeks usually eat 3 meals a day. The first meal of the day is Breakfast. A typical Greek breakfast consists of a piece of bread, some goat milk and strong Turkish coffee. The Greeks do not eat a large breakfast typically. Their next meal of the day is Lunch it is usually eaten [...]
