Hello! This is Vanessa, and welcome to my blog!
I'm a baking student at George Brown college with a bunch of things to share with you! However, other than talking about my adventures here at GBC, I also need to answer some questions that have recently come up...all pertaining to nutrition.
So! Let's begin!
1. State one topic in nutrition that interests you and one that you would like to learn more about.
You want me to be honest? Fad diets.
No, no, no...hear me out! What I'm interested in is the way they work.
- What makes people try them in the first place?
- What do they do?
- And what are the scientific processes that are involved in said diets?
The variety of diets that people create to have a "healthy" body intrigues me, and thus, I think it would be a topic that merits more researching into.
Another topic that really interests me is nutrition in a variety of cuisine. For instance, how different countries supplement their nutritional needs through their country's national cuisine.
2. Do you feel, currently and in the future, nutrition will play a more important role in the culinary industry? Explain why or why not?
Yes! Absolutely!
Want to know why? Because now that people are becoming more and more informed on possible health disorders, they will also be becoming more informed on how to prevent it; namely, through lifestyle changes. The biggest change: diet.
For example, we now have credible resources that give us tips on how to eat more healthy on a limited budget. There are even tips on how to get meat alternatives on a budget, having "dried or canned beans and lentils, tofu, eggs, and peanut butter 1 or 2 times a week" (HealthLink BC 2018). As we become more informed about food and health related issues, the more the culinary world will be directly impacted through these changes.
3. Choose a credible nutrition website (from the list provided below) and a website that may not be credible (from your own research) and compare 2 ways how you can determine the credibility of the website. (Hint: who wrote the website, what are the qualifications of the author(s), how do the author(s) reference the information in the website?, is the research provided anecdotal or research based?)
One of the sites I chose was from a fashion/lifestyle magazine called Elle. Elle pontificates some diets as gospel with anecdotal evidence, such as saying "Turns out dropping acid is as much a stop-feeling-like-crap life change as it is a weight-loss strategy. Three weeks in, I feel peppy and look debloated." (Elle 2018). Since it is anecdotal evidence, it cannot be considered as credible as a site such as unlockfood.ca, where it mentions that an uncredible source is one that "Gives you nutrition advice that is based on testimonials rather than scientific evidence"(Unlock food 2018). Since the second site uses scientific evidence corroborated by several dieticians, it is much more credible.
Furthermore, Elle is a fashion/lifestyle magazine that is not written by a medical or health professional. Unlockfood.ca, on the other hand, is a website directed and written by professional dieticians who are certified to give health advice based on nutritional needs. Thus, unlockfood.ca is more credible than Elle in this aspect.
Works Cited
“Eating Well on a Limited Income.” HealthLink BC, 14 Aug. 2018, Web.
Dieting. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/132_1251233/1/132_1251233/cite. Accessed 9 Oct 2018.
ELLE. “The Biggest Losers: Battle of the Fad Diets.” ELLE, ELLE, 10 Oct. 2017, www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/advice/g8691/most-popular-fad-diets/.
“Get the Facts on Fad Diets.” Get the Facts on Fad Diets - Unlock Food, www.unlockfood.ca/en/Articles/Weight-Loss/Get-the-Facts-on-Fad-Diets.aspx.
Using pestle to pound basil leaves and garlic in mortar. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/118_795789/1/118_795789/cite. Accessed 10 Oct 2018.
