Spam: Healthy to Eat?

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Spam is a brand name for a canned meat product containing ham, pork, salt, flavourings, and preservatives that are mixed and cooked under vacuum pressure. The product was made in 1937 and it became popular around WWII where it was recognized by the United States and Russian soldiers. After the war, the product became popular and well known around the world. Over the years consumers wondered about the product, and if it was healthy because of the simple ingredients. This issue made a big difference on the popularly of the product. In today’s society, canned food has become a big issue whether it is healthy or not because of the chemicals and preparation. There are many reasons why Spam is not healthy, and some main reasons are the ingredients, the processed meat, and the amount of chemicals used. There are many bad chemicals in spam to harm a human being.

First of all, Spam is not healthy to eat because the human body is not designed to consume highly processed food, our body can not break down processed food properly. This can cause bad side affects to humans. Furthermore, another reason why humans cannot eat highly processed food is the fact that it contains fats and sodium. All the fats and sodium clog our arteries which can harm and wreak our entire system. There are many ways that we can get proteins, and not only from meat but also from vegetables. Moreover, the amount of chemicals they put in Spam to make it have the good taste is not healthy, because the product does not contain a lot of meat. It contains mostly fat and salt that is what people are consuming. Although the product contains protein, it is not nutritious as other meat products sold in our grocery store.

Second, the taste of Spam is described to be very...

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... now we cannot consider it “natural” because of how it was made. I believe that products like Spam shows how much we humans have become so lazy that things are now made precooked where technology like microwaves, which it has radiation that can cause cancer to cook our food. Thus the fact that our food now contains some sort of chemicals, I consider that most food that we have now today is not healthy to eat.

Works Cited

http://www.sixwise.com/Newsletters/2008/October/1/Are-Canned-Foods-Safe.htm

http://www.indianfoodforever.com/food-guide/canned-food-storage.html

http://www.epinions.com/review/Hormel_Spam_Lite_12oz/content_442022268548

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-carcinogen.htm

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/spam-food1.htm

http://onemom.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/spam-the-poor-mans-meat/

http://www.eatsmartagesmart.com/spam-meat-sales-on-the-rise/

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