... when you go back to your normal eating habits you gain weight again. The top fad diets include high protien diets, liquid diets, the hollywod diet, fasting, food combining and soup diets. High protien diets were originally followed but experienced atheletes and bodybuilders. This is because they believe that too mant carbs will prevent your body from burning fat. This is ... have time to go to your hips. Women low this diet because the weight loss happens earlier than most. The last fad diet that I read about is the Soup diet. You would eat cabbage soup for one week. all that this diet ...

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... which the people were living with before. By December 1845, the price of potatoes had doubled, and by the summer of 1847, over 3 million people were being fed by government soup kitchens and those organized by Quakers (TGF). The people were so starved that many resorted to "Bleeding", which was draining a little bit of cows blood and mixing it with rotten ... potatoes and cabbage to make soup (TFI). Between 1845 and 1850, over 1 million Irish starved to death, 500,000 were evicted and 500,000 emigrated to America, Britain, or Australia on rotting, overcrowded "Coffin Ships" (VOG ... , o...

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... to eastern cultures is how food is served and eaten, in a traditional restaurant setting. Each person is expected to order an entrée for himself, along with any appetizer, salad, soup, or desserts he wishes to have. Over the course of the meal each dish is served sequentially, usually at a rectangular table, and everybody concentrates on his own dish with sharing ... keep off messy stains and loud eating noise is usually considered bad form. On the other hand, a traditional Chinese meal would involve a collection of different dishes of meats and vegetables, soup, all served together wi...

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... , and parents had to alternate days on when they could eat because money and food were so scarce. Thousands of people lined up around the neighborhood to get free soup and donuts from soup kitchens. The economic problems were already hard enough on people they would be faced with another disaster the dust bowl. The dust bowl was a drought that caused severe ... ...

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... be served from Mc Donalds, the next day Pizza Hut, then KFC, and etc. When parents use to pack their children's lunches fifty years ago, they would pack a thermos of soup, a piece of fruit, and a sandwich probably made of meat from last night's dinner instead of processed meat. Then along came this evolution of foods, commonly called convenient foods that made ... it easier and less time consuming for parents to prepare their children's lunches. Instead of soup in thermos, juice boxes were created, then chocolate milk started to come in little bottles for school lunches, and as time wen...

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... better. Few women may be preparing the Korean stew with small rice pastry, shreds of beef, and dried seaweed. One or two ladies may be working on the side egg soup. And finally, as the clock ticks closer to dinnertime, they start cooking the vegetable fried rice, and sometimes sausage as well. Slowly around 6 to 7 pm, the early birds start to ... their kids into the kitchen to take their own big bowls of stew. When everyone is settled down in their sits, they bring out the trays full of fried rice, soup, and sometimes sausage. In one side of the fellowship room, the elders and older men...

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... low-income families are provided with bags of food each Friday, which they take home. The bags weigh about 6 pounds and are filled with items such as canned tuna, chicken, soup, Rice a Roni, oatmeal, granola, fruit drinks, fruit and pudding cups and much more." This program helps around fifty different families throughout this one school. It may not be as ... ...

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... a bigger cause. Donating to different charities would be a good start, or even taking it a step further and helping to build schools or educational facilities around the country. Helping out in soup kitchens and homeless shelters or donating to help with disaster relief is another way to help. Business owners and companies also need to stop discriminating against different races, ethnicities, or ... ...

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... ) The players from the Kues were greatly admired by all other Chinese people during their tours across America. "For example, a local Chinese American family in Amarillo, Texas made wonton soup for them." (Yep 58) Kind gestures like these truly resonated with the Kues and always made them understand that they were doing this "barnstorming" tour, which was ... ...

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... voyage from their homelands to Ellis Island, many immigrants suffered. Traveling by steamships, voyages lasted anywhere between seven days to a month. Many immigrants ate off of tin plates with only soup or bread to choose from. To alleviate themselves from the unpleasant smells on the steamships, immigrants went on deck for some fresh air. At times many of the immigrants prayed ... ...

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... children were under weight and malnourished, made it clear immediate action was necessary. In the first two years, the New Deal was concerned mainly with relief, setting up shelters and soup kitchens to feed the millions of unemployed. However as time progressed, the focus shifted towards recovery. In order to accomplish this monumental task, several agencies were created. The National Recovery ... ...

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... voyage from their homelands to Ellis Island, many immigrants suffered. Traveling by steamships, voyages lasted anywhere between seven days to a month. Many immigrants ate off of tin plates with only soup or bread to choose from. To alleviate themselves from the unpleasant smells on the steamships, immigrants went on deck for some fresh air. At times many of the immigrants prayed ... ...

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... could have even worse effects than children's shows. In one documented case, a Californian boy that was seven years old watched a movie one night. In the movie, a man put glass into soup that a colleague of his was to eat. The very next night, the boy put crushed glass into the stew that his family was to eat for supper. He said that ... ...

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... to the poor quality of meatpacking houses. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle exposed the poor conditions of meatpacking houses: "They advertised potted chicken?--and it was like the boarding-hose soup of the comic papers, through which a chicken had walked with rubbers on. Perhaps the had a secret process for making chickens chemically "who knows? Said Jurgis's friends; the thing that ... ...

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... rather than as a vagrant. Also, my personality changed from introverted to sociable. I developed a strong yen to know and learn about each person and their culture. I read a great poem in Chicken Soup for the Christian's Soul. It goes, "One day I was walking down the street and saw this poor girl. She was wearing rags. I asked God, How come you aren't helping this ... ...

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... , such as, The Second Harvest and The NCCP. Major cities all around the world have programs to help poor people. Communities also participate in serving those who are less fortunate. Soup kitchens provide food, homeless shelters provide housing and organizations like the goodwill and the Salvation Army provide cheap clothing. Child poverty affects a large number of people, about sixteen million.(Second ... ...

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