Topic: How food preservation affects your health

Purpose:  To show people how food preservation, while it does have detrimental affects, is overall positive towards our health, as long as we consider how the food is preserved.

Thesis statement:  Food preservation is an essential part of our daily lives.  However, before consuming something, you should consider both the positive and negative health benefits.

Intro

Attention strategy:  Talk about how life would be without food preservation.  Maybe say something about how many people

Orienting Material: PowerPoint

Body

Main idea: A brief history of food preservation.

• necessary for civilization
• food and drug act of 1906
• rise of restaurants?
• Main Idea: How too much preserved food can hinder your health.
  • obesity epidemic
  • artificial preservation compounds

Main Idea: How food preservation can improves your overall health.

• prevents bacterial growth and molds
  • why is this bad
• maybe talk about oxidization and how this can make food go bad
  • possibly include this with the previous topic
• how food preservation can save us during things like drought and war
  • famines

Conclusion

While yes, the way we preserve our food can sometimes contain things that can be detrimental to our health, we wouldn’t be here without it.