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It is often said that people in the past ate healthier food since there were less pollution which influences edible things. However, as far as I’m concerned, people living today are having better food to keep them healthy for two reasons: in the past, we had inferior preservation method, and a lot of people at that time didn’t concern about nutritious meal.
First of all, the level of preservation method was low. Freshness of food is very important element for healthy food. This is because as time goes by, not only would helpful materials like vitamin be destroyed, but also the number of harmful bacteria would grow up, and when we eat such food, we might suffer from disease such as food poisoning and gastroenteritis. Since there was lack of preservation technology, people had hard time to ingest lot of kinds of food. In case of blueberry, due to its easily spoiled nature, people living far from its farmlands hardly obtained it in spite of its usefulness for staying healthy. However, today, blueberry is sold almost in every market around the country because preservation method and technologies have been developed. In that we can buy healthy and fresh food near our home, people living today are eating healthier food.
Also, there were less concern about health in the past, and the food they ate was likely to not healthy food. Since there was lack of amount of food to eat, people were just satisfied with the food they could obtain whatever they get. Moreover, due to that condition, they had to find how they could enjoy their meal not from nutritious ingredients, but from like salty and pungent tastes. Such kinds of tastes are bad for health because it can cause or intensify high blood pressure, arthritis, and gastric cancer. My grandmother now 85 years old experienced Korean War and many years of hard time of Korea. She also had hard time economically as most other people had. Since she could not eat appropriate amount of protein and mineral, she is short while her sons and daughters are tall. Also, when she was young, what she could intake was nearly only rice, so to enjoy her meal, she had few choices but to use salty and sharp-tasting spices. Due to the eating habit, she has suffered from high blood pressure and arthritis. In this sense, people in the past did not have had healthier food than people living in modern society.
In summary, in the past, people had troubles to get fresh food in that the preservation technology was less developed, and most people didn’t have enough money to buy nutritious food; furthermore, most of them had bad habits for eating like preferring salty or pungent food. Therefore, the food people ate in the past could not be said as healthier food comparing to that of today.
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