Essays on Feasting

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a lifelong metabolic disorder which is caused by the abnormal level of sugar in the blood. The information technology is playing an important role in the seamless data collection of the diabetic patient’s glucose and insulin level, heart rate, and weight and transfer through different devices and made it available to the health practitioner for their observation. This helps the diabetic patient in self management of their health based on the data processed by the apps present in the phone or devices. This paper reviews the information technologies role and benefits in the management ...

Part 1: Social Behavior Media

The biggest loser is the show I have chosen to comment on. It is a competition whereby participants are rewards each week for losing the most weight. The ones whom loose the least are eliminated each week and the winner becomes the person who loses the most during the competition.

Do you feel these shows help or hurt public health?

These shows in my opinion have nothing to do with a public health agenda. They are pure entertainment, but producers feel that they have a moral, obligation to the public to indulge in popular issue. Obesity is popular whether from a public health perspective or not. Beauty perception is consistent a particular weight, shape ...

Boiled Chicken Feet and Hundred –Year-Old Eggs: Poor Chinese Feasting speaks about a person’s journey to and from places that have made an impact in her life as an adult. The narrative touches on several aspects of the culture of the Malaysian-Chinese. The reader is convinced of the authenticity of the descriptions because the author of this piece is from Malacca, Malaysia. In the narrative, the main character talks about staying in the US and here, the author would again draw from her own experience as she has come to the US for graduate studies and have opted to ...

Rituals, traditions and ceremonies play a central role in the development of group identity. Performance, body and sense actions define the ritual processes undertaken by a group. Rituals are accompanied by ceremonies and these include rites of passage, marriages, and worship and purification rites. Invariance, sacral-symbolism, performance and traditionalism characterize rituals. Traditions, rituals and ceremonies vary from group to group hence the association with specific groups. Various religions have different practices and rituals that accompany the religious experience. Christmas is a day celebrated by Christians on 25th day of December. They celebrate birth of Jesus Christ in a ceremony involving family gatherings, purchase ...

The history of Asian Americans can be understood in various perspectives. There is a claim in the US that the Asian American students are so many in learning institutions. The enrollment of Asian American students has been on the rise and this is what has caused the notion. Such notions are over-exaggerated. It narrows down to one perspective of higher education. It is also not clear whether these claims include the students from Asia or it is only referring to students of Asian origin but are Americans by citizenship. We aim at getting to the root statistics of the issue ...

Introduction

Traditionally, Thanksgiving is an occasion, mainly celebrated in the US and Canada, to offer special thanks to the almighty in appreciation of the abundance of food and happiness blessing our lives. In celebration of Thanksgiving, people get together with their friends and family over gourmet food and feasting meal comprised of delicacies including roasted turkey, potatoes, stuffing, dainty vegetables and pumpkin pies. A national holiday Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November in the US. Thanksgiving is a popular time of the year when people meet their families, travel extensively and indulge in a binge of shopping. Since there are ...

The Pokot is a tribe in Africa living in both Kenya and Uganda. However, most Pokots live in the Northern part of Kenyan Rift-Valley which lies along the Kenya /Uganda border. An interview with Daniel Lotodo, a 78 year old man from the community revealed a lot about the ethnography of the community The Pokot for a long time are predominantly pastoralists’. Their occupations of cattle keeping has been necessitated by environment factors. The area is semi arid and agricultural produce can hardly do well. However, through barter trade with neighboring communities such as the Samburu and the Marakwet, the society would ...