Tropical Smoothie is Public Health
[Group members from left to right: Kameal, Victor, Lizbeth, Amber, Victor]
The overall health of an individual is strongly influenced by lifestyle decisions where one of the key factors is diet. At Tropical Smoothie, people are able to consume nutritional meals such as real fruit smoothies and salads. The restaurant is placed within a convenience store/ gas station on the busy street corner of Fowler and Bruce B. Downs, meaning it is at a highly convenient location for people to access during their commute as well as daily interactions. As a group, we chose Tropical Smoothie because we felt that nutritional value is a key portion to maintaining health in our community especially to that of college students who constantly make poor eating decisions. By stressing nutritional health via this blog, we hope to inform our peers in class as well as the community who see our sticker that this is a viable source of nutrition for daily habits.
With the new food pyramid, we can see the value in moderation and the spacing of the aspects of nutrition. In popular culture, we have seen advocates of proper food consumption pointed towards the youth of our nation such as First Lady Michelle Obama and the Disney Channel. These advocates stress the importance of nutrition, in relation to preventing diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. They even pose the idea that we can live longer, healthier lives if we change our diets and include exercise. Public health stresses the importance of preventing illnesses and through health education informs our community of healthy eating habits. Healthy eating habits lead to healthy people and overall a healthy community.
I enjoyed this post. I honestly have never been to Tropical smoothie, but instead of buying chips and Arizona iced tea next time, I will try one of their smoothies instead. I think it is a great idea that it is placed within the gas station because gas stations are known for having junk food that you can quickly pick up as you are on the road. This is a great alternative and a great way to allow people to choose between a healthy or unhealthy snack. As you stated, the overall health of an individual is influenced by our personal lifestyle choices such as the foods we choose to eat. I will now think twice I go to a gas station. Thank you and great work!
ReplyDeleteReading this was very interesting and very informative to me especially of the fact that I have not ever been to Tropical Smoothie. I have recently been trying to make better eating decisions by going on a high protein diet because all I ever eat is just junk and fast food. I won't even be surprised if I was struck with diabetes by the age of 25. Reading this gave me an insight that I could also have a smoothie and worry about the sugar taking over my body. Awesome blog you guys!
ReplyDeleteThis is very interesting. I've personally never been to Tropical Smoothie before, but it looks like it's worth the visit. As far as the nutrition and the new food pyramid goes, we- as Public Health students- should all look up the China Study. It talks about the plant based diet being far superior to our current diet. You will also learn that through the lobbying of the grain, dairy, and meat industry the food pyramid was actually changed to show their products in a more positive light. They found in the study that those parts of China that consumed little to no protein from meat or dairy had almost no cancer. It's something to think about. Great blog post guys.
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