We had a trip to a green market. We learned new things and also reviewed stuff we all knew. But before going to the food/green market we did a chart about what we know and what we wanna. At the green market sarah was answering our questions and telling us the diffences between green markets nd super markets/other places. I feel like this helped us with our health.
What I learned at the food market was that the farmers come from miles away to do what they got to do. Another thing that I learned was that the farmers have to look at every fruit and veggie to take any bugs off and keep them fresh. This things are important especially the buds off the fruit and veggie because we eat them and in order for them to sell them they need to keep them fresh and good to eat. The farmers always like to have their fruits and vegetable fresh.
The thing that I like the best from the green market was the green sheet. We had to ask farmers questions and that was cool. The reason why it was the best thing from the green market its because we didnt know what the did when they w

green market

who: someone.
what: im going to talk about the trip to the green market.
when: february 16, 2011.
where: in class.
why: because i want people to know about green markets.

i learned so many things from the trip to the green market, and one thing i learned it
was about the apples and asian apples, and the other thing i learned is about how do they
make those brown eggs, i think they are important because they are useful in this
world like there healthy.

i like when we did the activity on the green market because it help me to better
understand about markets, and also when we were walking around the market to
see and to ask questions to the farmer's.

i feel that the market is a good idea for people who like to eat healthy that means
like if you want to eat healthy, you just go to a green market a you will find a lot of
healthy things to eat, this is your time.

My food manifesto is about what I would change and there's alot to change about our food in life. Like I would about my food life is to stop eating fast food and junk food. But to start eating healthy food more fruit and vegetable. Something else I would like to change is the school lunches because they don't give healthy food cause all they give is reheated food. Ooh yeah I really would like to change the fast food restaurants because there's to many of it and start putting healthy restaurants. The reason I would do this is because kids my age are over weight and so are adults.

food manifesto

Who: someone.
What: I'm going to talk about my food manifesto.
When: February 10, 2011.
Where: in class
Why: Because I want people to know what is a food manifesto.

Food manifesto: means to do a public declaration about foods.
My food manifesto is to eat less fast food, and to try to eat more healthy foods, so I cannot be in
risk to have a medical problem like obese, and also I didn't realize how much oil and fat I was
eating, but now I have to try to eat more healthy, I think that I eat more healthy in my
house than in school or in the street.

1. Ishould stop eating unhealthy foods like oil, and fat.
2. I should eat more in my house.
3. I should less fast foods.
4. I should encourage other people to eat healthy foods.
5. I should eat more healthy foods like salads, and more fruits.
6. I should stop eating McDonald's.

Our Food Future

A public declaration of the need to change our philosophical approach to food by Mark Bittman:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/a-food-manifesto-for-the-future/

fast food

who:Class 812
what: fast food
where: in class.
when: February 8, 2011.
why: Because I want people to know what is fast food, and how it effect the people.

Fast food is everywhere and everyplace. The fast food could affect your body, and also you have more chance to die if you eat fast food, so I recommend to you to not eat fast food no more and to save your life. Also you could get fat, so you got to be careful because the fast food is everywhere, and if somebody is giving you fast food you have the risk to die, and also you could get obese by eating fast food. So make a change in your life, try to eat more healthy food for your body, stop eating fast food and start to eat healthy food like salads. Also if you want to eat healthy food you have to eat fruits, so try it and you will see how good you feel about your body because you will lose weight and fat.

blog entry #1(the beginning)

In ELA class we're studying the good and the bad of fast food. So far we have watched a movie called "Super Size Me" where a man did an experiment where he had to eat McDonald's for a month for all three meals. He couldn't eat anything but the food that they serve from McDonald's. Before doing this experiment his healthy was was very good then at the end of his experiment his health was turning in all different directions. He got dizzy, was throwing up, and became very sick. Now were reading a book called Chew on This. So far we've learned about the people who've created McDonald, the people who've got McDonald's to the place to where they are now and how. We learned that just like today McDonald's was a teenage based hang out spot.The main idea of this unit is to teach us why we as students in the 8th grade should start eating more healthier foods over fast food.

Blog Entry#1

The things you should know about fast food is that its not good for you because it can make you become obese or can give you diabetes. In class we watched "Super size Me" and we are now reading "Chew on This". In "Super size Me", Morgan is going to try an experiment and try to eat McDonald's for a whole month! After living a life of only vegan food, since his wife is a vegan chef, Morgan will try and eat fast food everyday for a month. The night before his big experiment his wife cooks him all the vegan and healthy things she can possibly think of and he has that. In the end of the movie he survives long enough to have all the McDonald's any kid would want, and he only suffered from physical and emotional pain and almost getting diabetes. In "Chew on This", we are reading about who made what restaurant. The people who made McDonald's were the Macdonald brothers, they became rich off the idea and then there came along Ray Kroc who was only in love with money and himself. He decided to become apart of their corporation and once they let him in, it became bad. When they kept making more McDonald's, Ray Kroc told them that they should change one of the names of the McDonald's restaurants and once they did it,not considering what the impact was, they lost business and McDonald's became Ray Kroc's. We finished reading about people thinking Disney got less publicity than McDonald's. Our class didn't think so because everyone knows who Mickey Mouse is rather than Ronald McDonald's. The way it was proven was that Disney came out with its own park and for they grand opening there wasn't a McDonald's in site, and no one complained because they were at the place where dreams came true, Because of this McDonald's and Disney got into a clash but they became friends again and then finally McDonald's was in Disney's theme park.

What is a food desert, a food desert is a place with limited healthy food choices. The problem with food desert are that not everyone has the same kind of food. For example,some people only eat fast food and junk food. Other people eat healthy food. What food desert sometimes do is help, but other times it doesn't. The communities has a lot of fast food and if you go to get a healthy food is not going to be the same as if you do it at home.But for the healthy food like salad in a fast food restaurant has calories is because of the dressing you add on. I try to eat healthy for the most and try to stop eating junk food, but I cant because is a habit. But I do love fruits like melon,watermelon, strawberry and much more. Well, if I think my neighborhood is a food desert, then I'm right. In my neighborhood all you could find is fast food no healthy food.

Food Deserts!

Food deserts are communities that are running out of fresh food supply and their fresh food market is turning into a desert, a food desert. The problem with food deserts are that people won't have any food supply for their families, and if the food is not fresh then they will get sick. They also tear communities apart. When I eat I kinda make a effort and sometimes I just do both, I don't believe you should make an extra effort to watch what you eat unless you need to, Either than that go with the flow.! Well I can't really tell if my neighborhood is a food desert because I live in Queens, Cambria Heights. I can tell you about my last address at Park Place. At Park Place there are a variety of places to stop to get your grocceries or food on the go, and it's fresh.! You can choose from places like: Vegetarian Palace, Key Food, and Back To The Land. Park Place resides in Park Slope and that's kinda like the place to be because you can get everything in Park Slope so I don't think it's a food desert. It's a very good community

Food Desserts

Food Desserts are places that don't really have access to fresh food. Food desserts have alot of fast food resturants and not alot of fresh foods. They have stores with food like vegtables and fruit but they are not all fresh. They might be old or somewhat fresh. They could be from last week or there may not be any stores in your neigborhood because of all the fast food resturant they're are. This could be very baqd for people 'cause people who grow up in food desserts might grow up to be fat or not even like eating vegtables and fruits. But by keeping stores that supply fresh food (vegtables and fruits) people might tend to like them more and might make healtheir choices. Even though fast food tastes good, it isnt so good for you. It doesnt hel[p you lose weight, it helps you gain it. As we look around, neigborhoods everyday are slowly turning into food deserts.

Food Deserts

Food deserts. They can be anywhere and everywhere you look, and you don't even realize it! A food desert is when an area has little or no choices of healthy foods. For example, a food desert can be

an area where there are nothing but fast food restaurants for miles of the place! Take at look on the picture to the left and tell me, do you see a healthy place to eat here? The problem about this, is that the people in this neighborhood don't have a choice but to eat fast food if they want to eat anything! To top it off, I'd bet that this neighborhood, like most food deserts, has no organic food in their super markets, and can only get their hands on sugary cereals and fatty foods. The people in this neighborhood are most likely to be obese and have health problems like diabetes, heart disease, and more.
Think about what you ate yesterday from the minute you woke up to when you fell asleep at night. What did you eat? Now think. Are you going out of your way to eat healthy? Or are you just "going with the flow?" I'll admit, I do not go out of my way to eat healthy. Everything I eat everyday, may not be horrible choices, some are actually very healthy, but then some are unhealthy. From when I wake up, here is one of my food schedules. healthy is in green. unhealthy is in red. in the middle is in pink.

• breakfast: cheerio's w/ milk, hot chocolate on my way to school.
• in school: I sneak a chocolate bar into class, I eat school pizza (its food packed in a box and re-heated :x), a small bag of sliced apples.
• after school: *McDonald's (a double cheese burger (plain), small fries, a small high-c orange drink (no ice))
• when i get home: a bowl of macaroni and cheese
• snack: 2 jello chocolate fat free puddings, a banana, Capri sport drinks
• dinner: fried chicken, rice, pink beans, Pepsi or Fanta soda.

So what do you think? Is your diet similar? I don't know how healthy this is, but most things are pink and red.

Food Deserts

WHO~ everyone

WHAT~ Food Deserts & people that do/dont eat healthy

WHERE~Communities that dont have/ have healthy food

WHEN~ everyday



In class on Friday we read an article about "Can America's Urban Food Deserts Bloom?" & also watched a video called "Food Deserts". The video talked about supermarkets in neighborhoods where people dont have access to fresh & healthy food. A food desert is a supermarket that sell's freash food in an area that people dont have access to close/ freash food. Obesity among Americans overall increased to 16.3% in 2006 because Americans arent eating the right things. Some 28% of non-Hospanic black females between the ages 12 & 19 are obese because there arent people around to show them how to eat right & because kids of those ages crave sugar. The problem with food deserts is that people are becoming obese and unhealthy because they arent making the right food choices.

food desert

who: someone.
what: im going to talk about the food desert.
where: in class.
when: february 5, 2011.
why: because i want everybody to know what is food desert.

food desert is when you are in a place and then you want something but you can't eat it, is like if you are in mcdonald's and you want a happy meal but you can't eat the happy meal, that's food desert, the problem with food desert is that people can't eat what they want to eat, they caused a lots of problems in the comunities because if they don't eat what they want, so they might have the change to die, you make a lot of extra effort to eat healthy because like when you eat something over and over again that's not healthy you could get addictive to that food, so that's why people put a lot of effort to eat healthy, my neighborhood is not food desert because i could eat whatever i want, and also if i want something from mcdonald i could eat it because my neighborhood is not a food desert, so if you are one of those people who can't eat what they want so you could make a transformation in your life and visit others place to see if you find something that you want, this is your time and take advantage of it.

In class 812 we have to write about our food journal. Well in my food journal I would say that I need to eat more healthy. These days that had passed I would eat chicken fingers for lunch.When I look at my food journal I see what I eat and all the things we go over in class. Also how we are reading "Chew on This" and how the original Ronald McDonald wore a tray on his head and a cup on his nose, but also how he would do anything the boys and girls do. A long time ago McDonalds would give the boys and girls lollipops to eat at McDonald's. Something I could do is eat less junk food to be healthy. If you didn't know junk food is like McDonald's and you gain weight because of that. In class 812 we also talked about how McDonald's was competing with Disney a long time ago and that now Disney World/Land have McDonald's in them.
Who: "The Bite Blog"
What: writing a food journal
Where: In class, at home, in our notebooks
When: Everyday
Why: Because Damon told us, to spread the word about food/justice,etc.

Food Journals

In our class we are doing something called a food journal. Food journals are a way to keep track of what you eat and notice patterns. These patterns could be that some days you could eat more while on other days you could eat less. This could also show if you are eating healthy or not. You are suppose to log in everyday. But sometime you forget to log it and that's okay. As long as you log it in often then that's okay.