Cooking Can Save America

It’s kind of amazing when you think about how much we as people rely on food. Everyone needs to eat every day to survive, but not everyone can actually prepare healthy food for themselves. Critical skills like reading, writing, and basic math are taught to kids from a very young age, but kids barely learn about cooking and nutrition at all, unless they choose to pursue it themselves. This means that it’s completely possible for children to grow up in America, through the public school system, and emerge as 18 year old adults and not have a clue how to cook a healthy meal for themselves. So then this forces them to turn to fast food, and restaurants for food.

By learning to cook themselves they could not only save tons of money, but they could avoid the countless preservatives, and artificial chemicals that is in all processed foods that we see today. When people can’t cook themselves, they need to buy highly processed convenience foods that are extremely unhealthy. Too much of what we eat isn’t actually food. In reality, most of the quick, cheap, and “tasty” packaged foods that we are eating are made of some kind of artificial sweetener, like high fructose corn syrup, and some kind of highly processed starch, like wheat or rice that has been stripped of all its protein, fiber , vitamins, and minerals. When people cook from scratch at home, they can’t use artificial preservatives or fillers, they can use healthy all natural ingredients however, and if more people started to cook and eat like this, then things like obesity, heart disease, and diabetes would go down dramatically. When people are taught to cook from scratch, they are also given 100% control as to how they refuel their bodies. So the secret to a healthier, fitter, and better country, is nutritional and culinary education. If we as a nation, strive to eat healthier we can become, a healthier, stronger, and smarter America.

Vikram M