Government needs to do more

The one thing everyone can agree on is that we all love food.  No matter what kind of food you choose to eat, we all use food as a to socialize and connect.  When it comes to what we eat, however, our country is not making the best decisions that it can.  The government should do more to promote healthy eating and making smart dietary choices so that when we eat, we can eat smarter and healthier.  If the government does more to spread knowledge and information about the food we are eating now, we can still enjoy food and going out to eat, but we can benefit our bodies while enjoying food instead of damaging our bodies.

In my second post i talked about how going gluten free can reduce inflammation in our bodies and can lead to healthier diets.  With this information, the government should pass that knowledge on to all its people and not keep it a secret.  It is not fair to the people that have to still eat gluten filled foods that break their bodies down when there are healthier options out there.  If the government played a bigger role in the food industry, people like michelle obama whose main goal as the first lady was to reduce child obesity.  During her time when her husband was in office, she focused more on exercise than eating which is not good knowing that if we reduced the amount of gluten in our diet we could cut down on inflammation and the kids would not be as fluffy as they are now.

In my third blog post I talked about an article that addressed the government directly.  It talked about how the last thing that the government did to influence our dietary choices was in 2011.  Even when they do intervene in the food industry, it basically restates something or makes a law or act about something that has already been addressed in the a majority of restaurants and food manufacturers nationwide.  Things that restaurants and food manufacturers are not taking into consideration is the nutritional value of their food.  This is what the government should be focusing on because they are allowing our food industry to poison our bodies with the food that they are selling to us and advertising as healthy and good for our bodies.

In my fourth blog post I talked about how GM foods, which were introduced in 1994, have slowly made their way into all of our diets and has infiltrated our foods.  GM foods cause more problems than benefits for our bodies such as artificial allergies to some foods such as peanuts and soy.  GM foods are a way for manufacturers to grow things faster and cheaper, but that does not always mean healthier for the consumer.  These GM foods are slowly killing us and causing our dietary habits to evolve.  Our bodies are not used to all the GM foods that we now have in our diets and it is showing especially in younger generations.  The government should research GM foods and understand what they do to our bodies so that they can advertise against them or put in regulations for the food industry to follow.