Summary Of Food For Thought By Jennifer Grossman

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The essay “Food for Thought (and for Credit)” by Jennifer Grossman was able to convey the relationship between obesity and fast food of today and the importance of home economics in schools. The definition of nutrition is the process of providing the food necessary for health and growth. This includes healthy and unhealthy food choices. Simplicity and convenience led to the rise of fast food restaurants in America, which led to an increase in poor nutrition. Grossmans argument was that nutrition education needs to change.
My belief is home economics was introduced to teach Americans about healthy nutrition around the time of WWII. Home economics is much more than teaching “Susie” how to be a homemaker. Susie also learned healthy nutrition, how to buy and prepare foods, how to budget the household finances and much more. While young women who intended to go to college were not encouraged to take home economics classes as early as the 1960’s because form that time forward many women were not expected to be housewives. It was then thought that women who were in a career track who were not expected to be homemakers would have little need for the skill set taught in home economies classes. …show more content…

Grossman touches on the idea of a low income family learning how to spend $100 for a weeks’ worth of food. This made me think of all of the low income families who receive hundreds of dollars in food stamps each month and spend it on frozen entrees, soda pop, snack foods and other less healthy nutritious choices who could benefit from healthy nutrition education, not just for them, but to teach their children healthy eating

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