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Change Our Eating Habits
November 13, 2007 - 07:34 AM
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Have you ever wondered why African countries suffer from food shortages year in year out?Well,there are many reasons for this,but one is also clear here:bad eating habits.Most countries have staple foods which mostly are starch foods.For instance matoke in Uganda and maize in Kenya.Lets
take Kenya as a case study.Anybody living in kenya,particularly western province of kenya,will only call edible stuff "food" if it is maize related.For example,if it is not Ugali,the most favourite,then it's prridge.If this is not the case,then it's githeri.All these are a maize meals.
But we have other food stuffs that kenyans can comfortablly depend on:wheat(which unfortunately this year production went down due to bad weather,may be climate change!),millet,sorghum,rice,cassavas,potatoes,even milk,meat.t.c.But our people don't appreciate these as much.I think it is high time our people started diversifying the food they eat.Incase of a natural calamity,they will all starve.
Hope you help someone to see the truth in this.Decrust the few yu can.it can change them.M.D.G 1.alleviate hunger will be achieved.Who agrees with me?
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Re: Change Our Eating Habits
November 13, 2007 - 09:50 AM
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Your diet maybe why Kenyans are such fast endurance runners and win all marathons!!!
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November 13, 2007 - 12:11 PM
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Well mere looking at food eating habits in such perspective, it's some how related to culture and it is not possible to instantly start feeding an African man who has been fed and even preffering strong foods than licking chocolates
Eating many kinds of food is nice, then people again still has their favourities
This post was edited on: 2007-11-13 at 12:17 PM by: Owulezi
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November 14, 2007 - 11:48 PM
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i think that a lot of what is good and healthy has been forgotten. people want foods to be easy to grow and uniform so unique species are forgotten. it's amazing how many different plants people can eat, but we tend to wipe them all out and plant "food sources" that cannot be supported as well, have fewer nutrients, are less resistant to pests, and are more likley to be harmful to the environment. nature can provide much more if used right.
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Re: Change Our Eating Habits
December 14, 2007 - 06:23 PM
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I was writing about this in another forum about the MDGs and hunger. I agree that starchy food stuffs are not enough.
Yet I think one reason for the "food divide" or shortage is not only due to allocation and culture but a matter of expense. The food stuffs that are more affordable are usually the ones that contain less nutrients are more filling. In regions where the majority is living below the global poverty line, evidently there will be a shortage. Likewise, the upper echelons of society, government officials included, enjoy the variety -- the food stuffs that provide nourishment and promise a more constant energy level. So those individuals who are willing to put aside cultural tradition in terms of their diet for more nourishing foods, are probably unable to because they haven't got the opportunitty to access them financially. Of course, the government cannot tax anyone in this situation, it is a matter of food and frankly, taxation will make the market less efficient.
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January 13, 2008 - 08:54 PM
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hi there. 
eating habits are an interesting phenomenon. i've always wondered at the gross excess consumed by western societies (personal experience/observation) as a common norm. For instance, eating three solid diverse meals perday when more than a third of the worlds population starve to death i find abhorrent.
i often wonder about the irish patatoe famine and will shortly begin reserach on how this one 'starchy' staple can be so sustaining. A bit of salt, cayeene pepper and a touch of butter, Yummy.
I wonder about the veracity of reports of supposed produce wastages in portugal, where piles of bananas are left to rot on the sides of roads because they do not have the shipping capabilities to distribute beyond thier boundaries? How much would it cost to set up and run a globally funded banana processing/drying facility?
i wonder how much other produce is undistributable because of boundary issues, which i believe are most commonly attributable to infrastructual differences and lack of active /or misappropriated economic resources.
An exploration of each LPA (local/provinical areas) economic and nutritional pattern (within already designated impoverished zones) would help assist allocations of "surplus" produce from around the world.
I appreciate that giving each 'registered person 7 packets of indo flavoured 2 minute noodles and 8 litres of clean water (300ml per packet/the rest for drinking/washing) per week would be an expensive logistical exersise.
Everyone' is always telling me it's all been done before, i can't think of anything anyone else hasn't already done, thought of or put into practice. i know of the KISS (keep it simple stupid)philosophy, i've been living, breathing and being it for soooo long i'm bored.
I want to DO SOMETHING POSITIVE FOR HUMANITY, I want to find the right solutions, to assist in generating global harmony. i want, i want, i want.
I have a lot of work to do.
Although, it's a never ending story. citoac.
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