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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, but from like salty and tart tastes. Such kinds
of tastes are bad for health because it can cause or intensify like high blood
pressure, arthritis, and gastric cancer. Let me take my experience for example.
My grandmother is 85 years old. She experienced Korean War, and many years of
hard time of Korea, and 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, what she could intake was
nearly only rice, and to enjoy her meal, she
had less choice but to use salty and sharp-tasting spices. Due to the
eating habit, she has suffered from high blood pressure, 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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