100 Simple things you take for granted: #3 Food
3# Food
By Africanlegend.
The only things humans NEED to survive are food, water and shelter. Nobody, not even the most distinguished, food averse suburban white woman can deny the fact that we all need food to live. If you eat the wrong amounts or types of food you can pay the price. You can either get the fat ass ailments of the west like cancer and high blood pressure or you can get the malnutrition related diseases of the third world like, scurvy, rickets and a plethora of other diseases that sound like board games.
The purpose of Food:
1.Food is broken down to provide us with energy (fuel)
2.Food also provides minerals and nutrients for basic body functions and growth.
3.It can also be used to make yourself feel better if someone dumps you.
The greatest irony about food is that in most instances humans can't quite get the idea of balancing just how much they need to eat. You have those who eat too much by choice and those that eat too little through no design of their own. To illustrate my point I have created an extremely complex, in depth illustration.
Essentially, you have the 3rd World, developing nations inhabitants who are often too busy fighting civil wars, building their nations and being too populated to feed themselves adequately. Then you have the developed countries inhabitants who won't hestitate to mercilessly shove down buckets of food down their throats with no restraint like a gold fish about to eat itself to the border of its own demise. To simplify this further, you basically have a bunch of weathly fat asses who are sitting on a pedestal laughing at a bunch of poor people that have to ration out one chicken between a family of nine over a two week period. (ok fine you have people in between as well but there is nothing funny about eating healthy)
As in many cases you will always have outliers. You get people with an abundance of food that choose not to eat it. They conjure up elaborate diets, eliminating entire food groups just so they can fit into a pair of jeans only they believed they'd ever fit into. Then you get the random fat dude flourishing in a land of famine and scarcity and you look at him and can't help thinking whether he alone is responsible for the food shortage.
This topic does not lend itself to my “imagine if we didn't have this” guilt trip because I am sure we all know that if we didn't have food we'd die, in about 4 to 6 weeks. However, next time you are shoving food down your esophagus, spare a thought for the food-less people out there and really savor your meal.
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