Changes in Diet

When I was a child, I always expected Chinese New Year. Because it was a big day in my country, everyone wore new clothes and had an abundant meal. It included special meals which people did not get in general days. Mother would get up early and prepare ample food by herself during the holidays. Homemade dishes were different from restaurants. Family members could enjoy specific food, such as stewed pork ballin brown sauce and the vegetable of long lives, could not get in ordinary days at home. However, the diet is changing now. Due to environment changing, lifestyle alteration and globalization, people can get food easily and taste plentiful kinds of food from the world.

    In the past, people lived in the agricultural society. Planting crops was hard and unpredicted. However, as technology-advanced, the agriculture is industrialization and crop production is increased. Instead of having simple food, people get more kinds of vegetables and meats now. For example, in my grand-parents generation, they only ate seasonal vegetables and seldom meat. Also, there was less quantity of food in the dish. 

    According to a research, because of lifestyle changing, more and more people eat outside than at home. Modern society makes people work over time, have intense schedule and load pressure. After working, they do not have time and energy to cook by themselves. Every family member has their own schedule. It is more convenient to have a meal outside than at home. For instance, I always had a dinner outside when I was a high school student, because I studied too late at school to go home and have a dinner. Also, almost my classmates did.

    Globalization connects world closely. It is easy to experience new tastes from the other country. Even the distance is very far. In Taiwan, tourists not only eat Asian food but also Western food. There are varieties of restaurants in Taiwan. Therefore, teenagers can have a lot of choices instead of traditional food. People who never go aboard have a chance to know the exotic diet. Take MacDonald’s for example, it is one of the most famous chain companies in the world. It makes everyone knows what hamburger it is, especially Asians.

    It is undoubted that the diet is changing. Because of agricultural industrialization, lifestyle changing and globalization, people get varieties of food easily in general days and have opportunities to know foreigner food.