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Smart Food, Junk FoodFood for health and well-being is not a new idea. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans believed that certain foods were natural cure-alls. Poppy juice was used to kill pain, strawberry roots to treat mad-dog bites. Crocodile blood was recommended for failing eyesight. Here are some foods that are currently thought to be good for you.
You may want these junk foods, but try to stay away!
Fast Food: Quick Tips If You MustUntil recently, fast-food restaurants were a nutritional nightmare. Today you can eat well if you are careful to order the right dishes.
Food Facts
Are french fries from France? Is chop suey Chinese? Here are some common but mistaken beliefs about food and eating. French fries are not from France. They were first made in Belgium in 1876. The term “french” refers to the way of cutting the potatoes before cooking. Chop suey was created in America by a Chinese cook who worked in a California mining camp in the 1800s. He stir-fried a variety of vegetables, called it tsa sui, Mandarin Chinese for “various things,” so people called it chop suey. Almost everyone associates potatoes with Ireland. Although they are its main crop, the potato is a plant originally from Peru, and was brought to Europe by explorers. The next time someone says you “eat like a pig,” take it as a compliment! Pigs don't overeat, and their diet is the closest to the human diet of any other animal.
Cool off with ice cream? Wrong. Ice cream feels cool, but it is loaded with calories (units of heat) and actually makes your body warmer. “Eating like a bird” means not eating much. In fact, birds eat a lot, and they eat frequently because of their high metabolism (the body's way of making food into energy). If sandwiches were named after John Montagu, the fourth earl of Sandwich, why aren't they called Montagus? If melba toast and peach melba were named after Dame Nellie Melba, whose real name was Helen Porter Mitchell, why aren't they called Mitchell toast and Peach Mitchell? Fact Monster/Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
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