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| CONTEMPORY ISSUES The Need of Organic Foods Kev toob kas noj zaub mov tseem tseem Food Why do we need organic food? The reasons are mainly medical because organic foods are healthier. Non-organic foods have fertilizers, genetically modified genes, chemical toxicity and/or growth hormones. Instead, organic food is all-natural. You may find other people eat organic for philosophical purpose. For me, it is more a question of "cuisine". Of course, having working with a health program, I am aware of health problems related to nutrition such as breast cancer or diabetes. No one wants to have cancer or cardiovascular diseases. We need to change our eating habits. I personally came to organic foods after a serious awareness. Here is my story: Each time, when I travelled back in California after staying in France, I found food very poor in taste and meat is too fat if I compare American food with French food. The boiling chicken soup has more oil then good juice for example. I have to boil the chicken in two times, the first time to withdraw all the oil, then the second time to keep the juice that doesn't taste good anymore. In fact, meat or fruits do not sound like meat or fruit I ate in France or in Southeast Asia. An apple doesn't smell "apple". Beautiful and round peaches are just good for eyes, but not for mouth. Could eyes only eat, and stomach starve? Certain not, but it is difficult to digest! I want true meat from animals that take time to grow up, smelling fruits that come to maturity according to season, milk that smells freshness, ... like I used to have in France. I always remembered my meeting with an apple that smelt so good in the train that took me to my hometown in the South of France. Next to me, there was a neighbour eating that apple. And I envied him a lot. This scene haunted me lot. It helped me to find a best way to eat healthier and with better tastes too. Months passed during my first years in the US, and I gained more than 40 pounds that I cannot lose at all even if I ate less. I did exercise but it was impossible to go below the first loss 10 pounds. If I stop exercising, in two to weeks, I just regained these 10 pounds. Life was very miserable. When I go back home in France, in the space of two months, I always lose about 20 pounds very easily without doing exercise. That made aware that food in the US is somehow wrong. Too much growth hormones rBST for animals? Too much toxic products? Thus, eating healthier food becomes a necessity. If you don't know how to find organic food, you may find only expensive products. After searching through different places, I found out that I could get organic food in some well-know place. For example, I buy my milk at Food Max. I purchase my butter and other things at "Trade Joe's" where there are mostly organic foods (and some of the good bread too). For more difficult products hard to find, I do not have other choices than to go to "Whole Food" which is a quite expensive place. Since my decision to try to eat the most in organic foods, my health is improving; my weight goes down, and my cuisine smells truly better. I feel at home in France. I do advise you all to eat "organic". It is not more expensive than others if you know the good place to find products. TOP Copyrights © 2005 Kao-Ly Yang All rights reserved. |
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| TOPICS OF 2005 February 21, 2005 "4 sab phab ntsa": Randy Travis "4 murs" Randy Travis 4 Walls",Randy Travis March 9, 2005: Guest writer: Chris Lee Kev txo yus tus kheej txoj sia: tub ntxhais hluas kev nyuab siab Essai sur les causes de suicide chez les adolescents hmong Essay on Hmong teenagers' suicide March 27, 2005 Kho Hmoob kev tsim karaoke Critique sur le karaoke hmong Criticism on Hmong Karaoke March 28, 2005 Koom Haum Hmoob Thaib Association de développement chez les Hmong en Thailand Hmong Association for Developement in Thailand March 28. 2005 Huab tais Nplog tus Tub Xeeb Ntxwv Kev Npau Suav Les espoirts du petit-fils du roi du Laos Laotian Prince Soulivong Savang's Hope March 28, 2005 Huab Tais tus Tub xeev ntxwv ua "Phibthi" rau cov tub rog tuag La commémoration des soldats et civils mort durant la guerre secrète au Laos The Commemoration of deaths during the "Secret War" in Laos March 29, 2005 Kev toob kas noj mov zaub tseem tseem Le besoin de manger organic The need of organic food April 4, 2005 Ua li cas ib tug zaj thiaj plhis tau mus ua Huab Tais ntxhais nkauj ntxawm La peur des adolescents: comment un dragon peut-il devenir une princesse? Teenager's fear: How could a dragon become a princess? April 9, 2005: Guest writer: Paj Nyiag Xyooj Nws yog pes tsawg ne ... Hmoob tus me nqi tshoob Essai sur la problématique du prix de fiancée Voicing the Bride Price in Hmong Weddings April 25, 2005 Nkag siab rau lub neej laus nyob teb chaws vam meej Comprendre le 3ième age chez les Hmong Understanding the New Old Age in Hmong Community May 7, 2005 Txheej txheem tshawb fawb Méthodes de recherche: la contribution des recherches issues du groupe. L'expérience d'un ethnologue d'origine hmong Research Methods: the contribution of native researchers. The experiences of an Ethnologist of Hmong origin August 8, 2005 Kev thim xav txog tus nqi tshoob Critique sur le prix de fiancée Criticism on the Bride Price Sij Hawm liv xwv keeb kwm ua neej Chronologie historique des Hmong Hmong American Timeline December 18, 2005 Tus tsov: yog tsiaj los sis yog dab. Le tigre: est-ce un animal ou un mauvais esprit? The Tiger: is it an animal or a bad spirit? |