Nutrition and Mental Health Research Paper

America’s Food Today

Nutrition and Mental Health

Today’s world is a technologically advanced society. No longer do we really on blood, sweat, and good old-fashioned elbow grease for our survival. The human species has evolved into a technologically driven society far removed from its humble caveman origins. Today food is gathered at the grocery store, high-rises and pre-fabricated mobile homes provide ready-made shelter, the wild horses grazing on the plains have been replaced by automobiles pumped full of gasoline by attendants at the local service station down the block. Children are delivered in hospitals by Drs., and then bussed to schools where they learn how to use a computer almost before they learn how to write. Many of the traditions originally born out of the necessity of reliance on family and community members for mere survival have become distant memories often spoken of nostalgically. People no longer rely on word of mouth to be informed of the goings on across the state, country, or even the world. Newspapers, radios, televisions, and the internet allow readily available, up-to-the-minute broadcasts from every corner of the globe. Modern medicine with all of its million dollar diagnostic machinery can cure and even prevent many of the epidemics that once killed entire populations. While all of these so-called advances have undeniably made our lives easier in many ways, they have also taken away from the quality of our lives by replacing many of the things that gave us a personal sense of purpose, hope and spiritual fulfillment. People today seem to have less time than their ancestors did despite the many technological advancements that allow us to do so many more things so much faster and so much easier.

The industrial revolution that began with advances in how we grew our food has now come full circle so that the production of our food supply has itself evolved far from its natural, whole-grain beginnings into an industrialized process...