Introduction (Nutrition)

I have always been interested in how Vitamins and Minerals affect the body and how they play a major or minor part through our lives. I would love to know more about how different a person would have to change their diet if they were going through a certain illness like diabetes or going through dialysis due to kidney failure.

 

I think nutrition will pay a major role in the culinary world as the public is wanting more natural products and produce in their food, as well as transparency in the nutritional facts as well the wanting for “natural” tasting products.

A credible nutrition fact website like http://www.unlockfood.ca is made with nutrition experts as well as backed with current trends in health and made to help better ones self.  However I have seen that there are some sites that don’t use the new information that is being given and just taking the words of a dietitian and spreading their words like its the law. The best way to differentiate if a blog or website is a credible source is to check if the website or post has a alias, as this is a very easy was to see if the post is made by someone that is posting just to post or someone that is wanting to help others in their nutritional problems. Another way to tell if the blog or website is credible is to check the about me tab on any blog or website, this will allow for easy access to basic information about the writer.

Introduction (Theory of Food)

Hello everyone my name is Leonel Matthias Rivera Alegre, but I just shorten the name to just Leonel Rivera.

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I have wanted to become a chef ever since I was exposed to the business when I was 13 years old. I have a cousin that has a Latin American Restaurant that really allowed me to be exposed to the restaurant industry as I was able to help out for a day. Also I was fortunate enough to help out at a Hotel for a couple of months through Co-operative education that was offered at my high school. I was able to work along side the chefs of the Sheraton Parkway North Hotel gaining the confidence to want to pressure a career in the field of Culinary Arts.

I am not working in the industry yet, but I hope that once I am done my education at George Brown College I can find a job at a hotel or work as a private chef making meal plans for people that have no time to cook.

I believe that good food and good friends mix well together, as I feel good food cannot be present unless it is paired with good friends to experience the tastes that can be created. I also believe that food can bring people together as food is a common  thread that can be sown into good friendships.

As I am blogging I hope to gain feed back to improve myself and get to connect with others as this blog continues.