Cost of your diet

Costs of your diet Choices we make as individuals define the lifestyle that we live. Some of the associated costs of our lifestyle are a reflection of what we consume on a daily basis. Today, America is plagued with a lack of fundamental ethic surrounding food production and food consumption. Our insatiable appetite for gluttony in the western world has become a way of life for us. Alienation from the food system has blinded many …

…beans, and vegetables. Foods like fats (butter, margarine, oils, dressing and gravy), sweeteners (sugar, syrup, candy and soda), desserts (cookies, cakes, pastries, ice cream and pudding), salty snacks (potato, corn, or tortilla chips) and other miscellaneous foods (coffee and tea). One third of Americans consume an average of 45 percent of energy from these foods. Literature and Sources Cited: Consumer Health Interactive 2001 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Internet Source: www.vegsource.com/milk_pyramid.htm