Ecofoods

Source: Depostiphotos

Ecofood is not only the food but the process of the food, it is grown without chemical, it reduces the use of dangerous pesticides and synthetic substances.

The ecofood has advantages for the consumers taking care of their health and giving them cleaner food choices.

The growers look out about the impact of production on the planet, if they get along with the land, animals and plants, they will help to improve local food in their own countries.

Source: Diabeticpick

The ecofood gives to the people all the information about the origin, process and selling of the food. Ecofood is not only vegetables and fruits but meats too, when we buy ecofood we have the certain that everything is done in the possible cleanest way.   

References

Important and Health benefits. Diabeticpick. Recovered from https://www.diabeticpick.com

15 advantages from organic food. Sustainable baby steps. Recovered from http://www.sustainablebabysteps.com

FOOD HABITS

Source: Be healthy today; be healthy for life

Good food habits serve to be in shape, for feeling better, to know what you should eat and shouldn't. When we are eating we have to know how to eat and what to eat in order to obtain the best part from the food. 

Some food habits are:

1. Always eat breakfast

Breakfast is the most important food of the day because we haven't eaten for a long time so it gives us energy enough to start the day. 

2. Eat your fruit and vegetables

Eating fruits and vegetables everyday gives us nutrients. They are the best way to get proteins, calcium and fiber.

3. Plan your healthy shopping

It serves because with a plan we can know what we must eat and helps our body. If we don't have a healthy plan shopping we will buy food that won't help our body.

4. Pay attention to portion size and ingredients 

Source: American Diabetes Association

If we take care about the ingredients we can know if the food has any chemicals or bad components that affects our body. The correct portion size is important because sometimes we eat so much something that we shouldn't (even when it is healthy food), portions give us the exact quantity of food.

5. Keep hydrated

Source: Homeopathy Positive

The water is the 60% of our body so that we must care the levels of water that we drink. 

6. Take the time to eat 

We should take the time to eat because we have to chew good the food to avoid we choke on with it, and sometimes we don't get all the nutrients from the food if we don't pay attention to this. Also when we are eating we must stop doing other activities at the same time like watching TV or something like this. 

7. Don't forget eat at time

The body is like a clock that tells us the time we should eat, we have to eat 5 times a day so if we don't eat at time we forget some meals thus we feel bad. 

 8. Change to healthy cooking methods

Sometimes the food is very spicy so if we look for other methods to cook we can change the seasoning for another that won't be bad for our body. Change to healthy cooking methods means to change the way we cook. For example it is better to cook chicken in the oven than in fryer.

 9. Buying local food

When the food is imported we don't know what can that have, it could have chemicals that can produce illness that are bad for our health. Local food is more natural and clean from bad chemicals. 

 10. Keep away from fast-food and soft-drinks 

Source: Health Diet Advice

This kind of food has a lot of fats that are bad for our heart and body. The fast-food and soft-drinks have ingredients that make our body addicted to them, so then we can stop to eat these. 

References

Be Healthy Today; Be Healthy For Life. American Diabetes Association. Recovered from http://main.diabetes.org

Eating habits and behaviors. Medline Plus. Recovered from https://medlineplus.gov

10 Healthy food habits, the yoga way! The art of living. Recovered from https://www.artofliving.org

ECOTOURISM

Source: Panguil River Eco-park

The main idea of ecotourism is conservation, education and traveler responsibility. 

What is Ecotourism?

• The relationship between tourist and the community. 
• Touristic activities respectful with the natural, cultural and social environment. 
• Enjoy a positive exchange between residents and visitors. 

Which are the negative impacts from the tourism?

• Damage of the natural environment.
• Water and air pollution
• Disappearance of traditional economic activities
• Modification of ecosystems

This new term was born because of the lack of awareness of the tourist and tourism. In the past the touristic activities involves only the profits for the visitors and nothing for the residents, because of that many societies suffered bad changes 

Source: Green Global Travel

References

Eco-Trips and Travel. The Nature Conservancy. Recovered from https://www.nature.org

What is ecotourism. The International Ecotourism Society. Recovered from http://www.ecotourism.org

SUSTAINABLE FOOD

Source: Cambridge sustainable food

The sustainability in the food is a complex process with specific characteristics. The cycle of production, processing and trade of food involves many consequences on the society, economy and environment.  

1. Efficiency

Improve the use of the resources because it helps us to take care of the environment and prevent the climate change and other problems. 

2. Resources

Protect and avoid the waste or damage of the natural resources because it is important to think in our planet.

3. Social benefits

Improve social well-being with quality food because the are good things that will give us a better life. 

References

What is sustainable food? Cambridge sustainable food. Recovered from https://www.cambridgesustainablefood.org

Sustainable food and agriculture. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Recovered from http://www.fao.org

SUSTAINABILITY

Source: Youth Thinkers' Society

After some many years without thinking about the planet, today people is realizing that their actions have an impact on the world. This impact it is not only on the environment but on another aspects from our society such socially and economic aspects. 

Sustainability means that is it sustainable, that something can be done for a long-term period and can sustain by itself. 

There are 3 pillars from sustainability:

Source: Huffpost

1. Environment

Sustainability on the environment is to have conscious about that every action will have an impact on the environment. We must look out about the natural resources, animals, prevent pollution, plants, etc. For example some many action will help to look out about this as riding cycle, buying organic food and use green energy.

2. Economy

The pillar of economy means to keep in mind that production will focus on some important aspects as using the incomes in the correct form for investing on infrastructure and care the internal economy. Another main point is to fight against the corruption. 

3. Society

The central motor of processes is the society, more specific people. Today we have to keep an eye on how people is getting affected with the processes. Every activity must ensure the human rights, products with more benefits, good conditions at work and respect people. 

References

Types of sustainability. Youth Thinkers' Society. Recovered from http://ytsnepal.org

What is sustainability. Global footprints. Recovered from http://www.globalfootprints.org

HEALTHY FOOD

Source: Salon

Through the years the concepts of the people have changed, one of them is what food means. In the beginning of the story, the first human beings used to see the food as an element of survival, but the time has passed, and now the food is not as simple as thing. People don't eat whatever they can, now people want to go deeper about what they are consuming. 

The concept of food has expanded itself with so many paths that can be taken, the healthy food is one of them and today is not only a concept but a hole tendency that families and markets have adopted. 

Healthy food are things good for the body that gives nutrients to us and doesn't produce diseases such diabetes, stroke, heart attacks and obesity. When a person starts to eat healthy food the results feel during the days, energy, emotional state, health, physical appearance and appetite chance in a good way.   

Sometimes we listen about healthy food but we don't know really what healthy food is. There are some tips in order people can know how and what to eat. There is one method that helps to get the right food.

Food Pyramid

Source: Viral Rang

The food pyramid make easy to eat healthy food based on the nutrients the body needs. This is a tool that gives the correct balance of a daily meeting. 

References

Food pyramid. Viral rang. Recovered from https://viralrang.com

What does healthy food mean? Barilla center for food & nutrition. Recovered from https://www.barillacfn.com