A person can pay bills online, receive bills via email, shop online, look up recipes online, and spy on friends with help of Facebook.
However, everyone has also been introduced to a new age of media, and with the click of a button, can access news from as nearby as Gander, to as far away as the Middle East.
However, with more options comes more news — both good and bad — as there’s a plethora of sites that focus on specific types of news.
Yahoo, for example, has an ever-revolving carousel of news on its homepage. Items include everything from odd news, breaking news, sports news, and the latest on food. It’s the later that can be bothersome.
Everyone should be aware that Newfoundland and Labrador doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to obesity reports. When you look online, to Yahoo, for example, it’s a wonder that the world isn’t a gigantic mess of carbs, sugar and ever-increasing waistlines.
It seems that every other day the Yahoo carousel of stories stems around food — more specifically, what isn’t good for you.
Recently, a CBC Radio journalist talked to people who believe Canada’s Food Guide is misleading.
The question is, besides fresh vegetables and white rice, what can a person eat that’s good for them? If people are questioning Canada’s Food Guide, what can everyone rely on?
Everyday there seems to be a new report on unhealthy foods — even news about ingredients that can be found in foods that were thought to be healthy, that actually do more harm than good.
"The Internet is sure entertaining, but eating healthy has never been so complicated." -
From fast food, to eating out, there are numerous articles that give tips about eating. However, if there are 10 articles that give 20 tips about how to eat healthy, that’s 200 tips, and who has the time to read that? More importantly, what can people rely on as truth?
It’s Aug. 12, 2010, and the world is in an age where technology continually changes, and media markets have the means of relaying messages quicker than ever before. The 9/11 attacks made headlines everywhere, especially on the Internet, and the backlash left us dumping toothpaste in the garbage before we boarded an airplane.
Now, after reading articles telling people what not to eat, what ingredients to avoid, and why bottled water is bad, when will everyone start growing their own vegetables, or digging their own wells?
Lettuce is good, but putting ranch dressing on it eliminates the healthy benefits it has. Serving big rations is bad, and too little keeps needed nutrients out of a person’s body.
The Internet is sure entertaining, but eating healthy has never been so complicated.
info@ganderbeacon.ca
.jpg)
.jpg)
