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Nutrition Blog #2 Plant Based versus Animal Based Diets

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Nutrition Blog #2 Plant Based versus Animal Based Diets https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjW4OTVgfXbAhVM7YMKHdfiDlsQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F289919294746443929%2F&psig=AOvVaw0AiiGSohg6cVC4PFfKTObT&ust=1530229021175240 The definition of a plant based diet is that the food is comes from plants, it includes the following Vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes. It has no or little animal products there is the vegan diet which is has no animal products, or the Vegetarian diet which consists of some animal product like eggs or dairy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant-based_diet Plant based diets can help with a lot of different health issue. Some of these benefits that a plant based diet can help with is. Other health benefits that these can help minus the three I choose are weight loss, anxiety, and stress, can h...

Fermentation and Preserving Blog 4

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Blog #4 Fermentation and Preserving The chosen raw food product that I decided on was baby Zucchini and Cherries. I decided on these 2 food products is because when I went to St. Jacobs Market I bought different kinds of fruits and produce, that is how I decided on what fruit and produce I wanted to use. After I am done with this blog I know that I am defiantly going to keep doing some pickling, fermentation and preserving, I had a lot of fun doing this blog there so many different ways to do these kinds of techniques with food. I decided on doing fermentation method and preserving method. The documentation that I use to for my research was Google and my neighbor he done picking, fermenting, and preserving before. While I was doing my research there were so many ideas to choose from for fermentation method after about one hour looking at different ways to do fermentation of produce. The other ideas I found while doing the research were quick sweet pickles, pickled pe...

fruit hunters

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The Market that I decided to take a journey to was the St. Jacobs Farmers Market. While I was exploring the market, there were a lot of choices of fruit to choose from there was around like 5 different vendors selling fruit. Most of the fruit that I explore at the first 4 vendors selling fruit were fruit I was really familiar with. I choose to go to this market because it’s most well-known market around Guelph it like 30 minute drive. I was really please with market layout while I was there exploring. I explore market for like an hour before I made my decision on what fruit I bought. When I got to last fruit vendor I saw while exploring the whole market I bought Cactus Pear and. Here is a link to St. Jacobs Farmers Market if anyone reading my blogs wants to check out their website www.stjacobs.com I made my decision to buy these 2 kinds of fruit because the fruit that I was seeing before I notice the following that I bought were that I had those other fruits before so I didn’t want...

nutrition blog 1

My name is David Ceccato. In my third year of chef apprentice at the University of Guelph. There are so many topics on nutrition, but that one that has interest me probably has to be Diabetes. I have been around diabetes all of life, my nonno and mom have batter with diabetes most of their lives. I see all of what diabetes has done to my nonno and mom. Diabetes has two types 1 and 2. Diabetes type one is autoimmune disorder, which means it destroy the beta cells in the pancreas Result of type 1 diabetes is autoimmune disorder. With diabetes type 2 there are only couple reasons Why diabetes happens. 1st reason body can still produce insulin but it doesn’t work properly, this means the body is resistance of insulin The 2nd reason for type 2 is that insulin in pancreas can’t produce that good it decreases. Which means insulin deficiency? The biggest reason that I made sure to do a lot of history of learning about diabetes was to help my nonno and mom, they both had been ...