Food for Today ©2010

Chapter 1: The Amazing World of Food

Chapter Summary

Food has the power to keep you alive and healthy, and to affect the quality of your life. Full of life-sustaining chemicals, food provides nutrients that promote wellness. Through science, we can understand more about food, including agriculture, food processing, and food safety. Food is recognized as a great source of pleasure around the world. It unifies friends and families, and provides comfort, entertainment, adventure, creativity, and career possibilities. Learning about food builds such personal skills as self-esteem, critical thinking, communication, leadership, and management. Food can influence virtually all areas of life.