Final Presentation

CATEDRA BOGOTA PROJECT

During the last years people all over the world have been strarted eating more procesed food than organic food. This is unhealthy and unsustainable. Is unhealthy beacause all those products have passed trough different process in which chemicals are used to make the product last more time, make it taste better or change its color; those chemicals can cause renal insufficiency, different kinds of cancer, asthma, obesity and insuline dependence. And is unsustainable because this products most of the time are really expensive and damage the nature.

Some of the most common chemicals used are tartrazine (to give color), BHA (to make the food las more) and eritrozin B (used to make fruits look better)

      

• Diseases: http://www.salud180.com/salud-dia-dia/7-riesgos-de-los-quimicos-en-los-alimentos
• Chemicals: http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2014/06/20/7-quimicos-en-la-comida-que-preocupan-a-los-cientificos/ , http://abcarticulos.info/article/qu-sustancias-qumicas-se-inyecta-en-las-frutas-y-verduras-para-que-se-vean-frescos

Objectives

General Objective

To understand if students at ALS can start eating organic food by making the recipes that they know healthier.

Specific Objectives

• To make the recipes that students usually like organic and healthy by changing all those ingredients that are high on fat and carbohydrates.
• To make aware students to eat healthy food at festivals, carnivals and holidays by showing to them the modified recipes to make them understand that eating healthy is also delicious.

How can students on ALS start eating less junk food at festivals, carnivals and holidays?

Healthy eating, eco food, ecotourism... Those are some concepts that most of us do not know. In this blog you can find out some information, explanations and tips about this concepts.

All of this topics can help us in our daily life, and can help us to be healthier and better citizens.

  

SUSTAINABLE FOOD

Sustainable food is all that food that don't affects enviroment on its prodesure. Most of sustainable food is produced by farmers or organic factories. To a food be "sustainable" can't:

• Kill any kind of animal to get meat.
• Use any fertalizer to grow up plants.
• Process any aliment, cause procces contaminates.

What foods are sustainable???

• Soy meat
• Organic Vegetables
• Natural Cereals
• Soy milk

       

Taken from: https://www.sustainweb.org/sustainablefood/what_is_sustainable_food/

SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability has not an exact definition, but people an cientifics say sustainability is the concept of helping to keep every biogycal system safe, but the concept amplified and also started meaning an idea of a society that respects nature and enviroment,also sustainability means keeping a good economy by having a peaceful culture.

To reach sustainability we need to...

• Respect the enviroment and help species surviving by respecting their ecosystems.
• Be responsable of what happens in our society.
• Be fair with economy and respect everything in those terms.

        

Taken from: http://www.sustainabilitydegrees.com/what-is-sustainability/

BORYEONG MUD FESTIVAL:

It takes place in South Korea.Manufacturer Stores started this festival in 1998 because they can promote their product, and mud has lots benefits for the skin. People have fun in the mud. In this festival, you can find mud slides, mud pools, mud inflatables, mud skiing competition and a mud prison. The festival ends with a fireworks show.

If you don't want to play in the mud you can also take a mud massage or watch the mud parade. At night you can go to Daecheon beach mud square special stage; in this stage, you can find Hip Hop music and fireworks. This festival is celebrated between July 21st and July 30th, is located around all Boryeong. In this festival you can find different types of fair food, this food is delicious but isn't sustainable, eco and healthy at all. Some examples of food you can find there are hamburgers, sandwiches and hot dogs. 

LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL:

Is a festival held in Bunol, Spain. A truck arrives at the main street and throws tons of tomatoes. People start to step on the tomatoes and to throw them to other people. This festival is really fun, if you go to this festival you will get very dirty. No one exactly what is the origin of the festival but a popular legend is that the ancient people celebrate this festival because of the good crop of tomatoes.

BARRANQUILLA’S CARNIVAL:

In this festival, people dance with beautiful and colorful masks on. Everyone likes to see the parade on the street. The pet from this festival is called “marimonda”, is like a colorful elephant. This festival is celebrated on February. People on this festival eat “Bollo Limpio”, it is a mix of corn and yucca. Food from this festival isn’t sustainable, eco and healthy. Because it uses a lot of oil in its preparation and it has lots of flour.






The origin of this carnival comes from a Spain carnival that came to America. This festival is celebrated to pass a really good time before Easter. They celebrated because those days are the last days which in they can get crazy before entering to the lent. 

Hot Dog

original recipe

*bread

*sausage

*ketchup
*Mayonaise
            

modified recipe

*integral bread

*vegetarian sausage

*home made ketchup

*home made mayonaise

Arepa de Huevo

Original Recipe                                      

• Egg
• Sunflower Oil                 
• Sugar
• Salt
• Margarine
• Corn flour

Modified Recipe 

• Egg
• Sunflower oil with water
• Integral rice flour
• Sugar
• Salt
• Cheese
• Vegetables

Why did we change the ingredients?

• We changed the pure oil to canola oil with water. Bacause we realized that we could also fry with a mix of water and oil instead of only oil. Like this we can reduce the number of calories and fat that we use while frying.

• We changed the corn flour to integral rice flour because based on some studies integral rice flour aports more nutrients and proteins in each 100k than any other kind of flour. It has some escential vitamins just like B2, E, B1 and B3, also its also rich in aminoacids that help digesting the food (this flour is the richest in aminoacids) 

http://nutricionycocina.es/

• We changed margarine to cheese because margarine has a lot more fat than cheese, margarine has 88g of fat p.each 100g and cheese has 33g of fat p.each 100g.

https://eldietista.es/blog/alimentos/queso-valor-nutricional

The benefits of the modified recipe are that:

• It can help with the cholesterol and diabetes because this new ingredients have less fat, this prevents veins from pluging.
• It can reduce stomach ache because of its high content of aminoacids.
• It can make us be more active, because of the fiber and vitamins.

JULIAN'S SPEECH

An expert went to the school and explained to us some things about organic farming, also he showed to us the step by step for doing our own organic farm.

First he explained the difference between organic and non-organic wastes. Organic wastes are the ones that can decompose easyly, so we can make compost with it. And non-organic wastes are the ones that are very difficult to decompose, so we can recycle them

Then he told to us what compost was. Compost  s like an organic fertilizer, it consists in putting organic wastes in a little bag for about 3 months and letting them decompose, then you can mix the soil with this compost.

 He also told to us the differences between organic farming and conventional farming. In conventional farming lots of fertilizers are used to grow the plants, and in organic farming natural compost is used. 

Then he explained how do insects ara taken away in conventional farming and in organic farming. In conventional.f they use pestizides to kill insects, but they also kill some insects that are vital for the plant to grow, so they need to put more fertilizer on the plant. Otherwise, in organic.f what they do is to plant different kinds of plants, what happens is that one plant helps the other to kill the bad insects, so the bad insects die and the good ones still alive and helping the plant to grow.

 Finally he explained the step by step of compost making. First you need to clasify your wastes, the organic ones in one place the non-organic ones in another. Then you need to put the organic ones in a little bag. You need to wait for around 3 months. Finally whent the 3 months have passed take it out and mix it with soil. Your compost must be ready!!!

ORGANIC FOOD SPEECH

We had an speech related to how to grow our own vegtables, organic food and the benefits of home vegetable growing.

 First they explained us that organic food was all that food that doesn't have any kind of chemical. This food is better than normal vegetables because normal veggies iclude lots of pesztisides and other chemicals.

 Then they told us that organic food has lots of benefits, some of the benefits are:

• Is really healthy
• Doesn't has chemicals
• It promoves group work
• Is really useful

 They said to us that we need to have a grow plan, wich includes... Selecting organic seeds, how many plants will we grow and at what time will we do it.

 They also recomended us some things that we need to do to for growing our vegetables.

Result Analysis

We interview luis agusto hernandez that is a teacher expert in biorganic food, eco food  and those stuff. Here it is the interview:

we can conclude that luis A. H. preffer eating organic food instead processed food but he also said that organic food is to expensive so when he have the opportunity he eat organic. also he told us that schools are wrong in the way that they promote coke candy and all those things.he said that organic farming doesnt affect enviroment conditions.