Food

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Food
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• Lecture 5

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Foodwhat kind?

• Fresh or frozen
• Hot or cold
• Raw or cooked
• Boiled or braised
• Roast or grilled
• Fried or poached
• Sautéed or chipped
• Alive or dead
• Meat or vegetable
• Mild or spicy
• Sweet or sour
• Wholemeal or white
• Raised or sourdough
• .confusing or what?

• Organic or commercial
• Tinned or pickled
• Free range or battery
• Cured or salted
• Boneless or on the bone
• Peeled or skin on
• Shelled or whole
• Baked or micro waved
• Surf or turf
• Wild or farmed
• Dehydrated or
• Skimmed or semi-skimmed
• GM or natural

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Food. is the miracle breakthrough drug of the
21st century

• THE ISSUES
• Vegetarian
• Vegan
• Meat eating
• Genetically modified
• Organic
• Locally produced
• Supermarket produce
• Wild
• Farmed
• Battery
• Open reared
• Food Your Miracle Medicine by Jean Carper.
  HarperCollins
• Food-Your Miracle Medicine

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Food.

• Health and nutritional issues
• Fast food
• Convenience food
• Ready made meals
• e numbers
• Pesticides
• Good fats
• Bad fats
• Cholesterol
• Diets
• Eating disorders
• Obesity
• Allergies

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Food..our bodies need

• Protein for muscle and tissue regeneration
• Carbohydrate for energy
• Fat for nerve function
• Vitamins for hormonal and body regulation
  activities
• Minerals for various essential functions
• OUR BODY IS A FINELY TUNED MACHINE WHICH REQUIRES
  REGULAR FUELLING
• Different activities require different ratios of
  the above
• COMPARE sports and sedentary activities
• COMPARE youth and the aged
• COMPARE pregnancy and studying
• COMPARE babies and patients
• What is your lifestyle and what does your body
  need?

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Food.

• the basics
• 3 meals a day
• Remember to feed your brain and your body
• 2 litres of water a day
• 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day
• 20 grammes of protein a day
• Oily fish 3 times a week
• Unrefined carbohydrate

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Food a little more specific for good health

• Extra virgin olive oil instead of vegetable oil
• Locally purchased instead of supermarket
• Organic instead of commercial
• Wholemeal instead of refined/white
• Eat more fish and chicken relative to red meat
• Grilled instead of fried
• Fresh instead of ready made
• Butter instead of margarine (small amounts)
• Brown rice instead of white rice
• Steamed instead of boiled
• Pulses and beans instead of chips
• Fruit instead of cake biscuits and sweets
• Fromage frais instead of cream
• Skimmed instead of whole milk

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Food for students

• Beyond baked beans (1)
• Nosh 4 Students - A Fun Student cookbook (2)
• Recipe Web (3)
• Student Grub (4)
• The Essential Student Cookbook (5)
• Money Saving Tips for food and other areas (6)
• food/drink advice from the lazy student site
  (7)
• BBC - Food - News and events - Student survival
  kit (8)
• Healthy alternatives to takeaways (9)
• http//www.foodfitness.org.uk/ (10)
• Nutrition (11)
• www.deliaonline.co.uk (12)
• Cooking By Numbers (13)

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Foodwhere do I buy and how far has food
travelled?

• Supermarkets, local shops, convenience stores,
  farmers markets, organic suppliers, on-line?
• UK Shopping Guide - online shops in the UK (14)
• www.british-shopping.com (15)
• FOOD MILES
• Global food transport causes climate change, road
  congestion, accidents and noise pollution
  Government counts cost of food miles (16)
• Food transport costs the environment an estimated
  9 billion per year Environmental impact of food
  miles (17)
• SUSTAINABLE FOOD CHAINS What you can do (18)
• BBC - Food - Food matters - Food miles (19)

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External References

• Beyond Baked Beans (2005). Home Page. Available
  at http//www.beyondbakedbeans.com/. Accessed
  29/09/05.
• Nosh 4 Students (No date). Available to buy from
  http//www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/095431790
  4/universitiesnet/026-8213903-9714069. Accessed
  29/09/05.
• Recipe Web (2000). Home page. Available at
  http//www.recipeweb.co.uk/. Accessed 29/09/05.
• Student Grub (No date). Available to buy from
  http//www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/184024185
  3/universitiesnet/026-8213903-9714069 Accessed
  29/09/05.
• The Essential Student Cookbook (No date).
  Available to buy from http//www.amazon.co.uk/exec
  /obidos/ASIN/075531056X/universitiesnet/026-821390
  3-9714069 Accessed 29/09/05.
• Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
  (2005). Money saving tips. Available at
  http//www.bcuc.ac.uk/main.asp?page2368.
  Accessed 29/09/05.
• Lazy Student (No date). Shopping Food / Drink.
  Available at http//www.lazystudent.co.uk/browse.p
  hp?cat210. Accessed 29/09/05.
• BBC (2005). Food Student survival kit.
  Available at http//www.bbc.co.uk/food/news_and_ev
  ents/events_student1.shtml. Accessed 29/09/05.
• BBC (2005). Live healthy Healthy alternatives
  to take aways. Available at http//www.bbc.co.uk/b
  igchallenge/changinghabits/takeaways.shtml
  Accessed 29/09/05.
• Food fitness (No date). Home page. Available at
  http//www.foodfitness.org.uk/. Accessed
  29/09/05.
• BBC (2005). Nutrition. Available at
  http//www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/nutriti
  on/. Accessed 29/09/05.
• Delia Online (2005). Home Page. Available at
  http//www.deliaonline.com/. Accessed 29/05/05.

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Further reading
External References

• Cooking by numbers (No date). Available at
  http//www.cookingbynumbers.com/. Accessed
  29/09/05.
• UK Shopping Guide (2005). Home Page. Available at
  http//www.uk-shopping-guide.com/. Accessed
  29/09/05.
• Btitish Shopping.Com (No date). Home Page.
  Available at http//www.british-shopping.com/.
  Accessed 29/09/05.
• 10 Downing Street (2005). Government counts cost
  of food miles. Available at http//www.number-10.
  gov.uk/output/Page7937.asp. Accessed 29/05/05.
• Countryside (2005). Environmental Impact of Food
  Miles. Available at http//www.nfucountryside.or
  g.uk/news-1628.htm. Accessed 29/09/05.
• Sustain (2005). What you can do to reduce food
  miles and help sustainable food economies.
  Available at http//www.sustainweb.org/chain_help.
  asp. Accessed 29/09/05.
• BBC (2005). Food matters. Available at
  http//www.bbc.co.uk/food/food_matters/foodmiles.s
  html. Accessed 29/09/05.
• http//www.fao.org/ Food and Agriculture
• http//www.ukagriculture.com/index.html
• http//www.ukfg.org.uk/
• http//www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/articles/bi
  otech-art/index.html