Changes in Diet

Around 1920, food processing become the most large manufacturing industry in The United States, leaving behind long hours in each home for food preparing and serving. With both parents at work, and a increasing pre - modern family dynamic, headed by the speed of becoming days, the prepackage and freezed food comes to the american tables to stay for a long time becoming more a meal than a food.

Could one of the most powerful nations in the world suffering of hunger, having one the most largest industry of food processing?

According to Feeding America, 1 in 4 children in the US is leaving without inconsistent access to a properly diet, as a result, they don´t have enough nutritious food for living a healthy live or healthy diet. For nobody it´s a secret that a diet equally enrichment with animal protein, vegetables, fruits and fiber is the ideal balance for growing kids and adults, however, American families are far to reach all the components of this balance.

With a Fast food, pre package and frozen food Industry which revenues are around of $10 billion (According to Dun & Bradstreet, 2010), it turns that the healthy food become expensive that “non healthy food”, reason why American´s are struggling with the dilemma between pay bills or buy healthy food; this regardless the almost inexistent marketing industry for fruit and vegetables.

As a result of all this “ingredients” together in nowadays american´s diet, there´s an increase diseases associated with hunger and diet, being headed by two of the most important chronic diseases such as Diabetes and Obesity, however, the longest term consequence of this is that hunger slows physical and mental development in children and leaves them more vulnerable to illness and anaemia.

More than a simple fact or component from a changing diet, hunger could be one of the most dreaded effect in all this chain of events, because the scope could be, by far, the one who stay physically, mentally and psychologist present for the next 40 years.

While, now 49 million American families are in risk for hunger, 30% of people more likely to be hospitalized and 50% children more likely to repeat a grade, are we in presence of the next America´s biggest epidemic?