To achieve wellness, the body needs nutrients from real food. Eating traditional foods helps to avoid many health issues including allergies, asthma, digestive and cardiovascular health issues, obesity, and auto-immune disorders like lupus, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, and even Diabetes.

People also connect to their cultural or ethnic group through food patterns. Food is often used as a means of retaining their cultural identity. People from different cultural backgrounds eat different foods. The areas in which families live and where their ancestors originated influence food like and dislikes.

Some factors that have an influence on a region’s cuisine include the area’s climate, the trade among different countries, religious or sumptuary laws and culinary culture exchange. For example, a tropical diet may be based more on fruits and vegetables, while a polar diet might rely more on meat and fish.

Culture is influenced by food through various ways such as tradition, religion and family. These aspects are what makes us different from others and created a whole new society, as food can influence the way people eat and their religious practices.

On a larger scale, food is an important part of culture. It also operates as an expression of cultural identity. Immigrants bring the food of their countries with them wherever they go and cooking traditional food is a way of preserving their culture when they move to new places.

Traditional foods are foods and dishes that are passed on through generations or which have been consumed for many generations. Traditional foods and dishes are traditional in nature, and may have a historic precedent in a national dish, regional cuisine or local cuisine.

“Traditional food system” is used to identify all food within a particular culture available from local natural resources and culturally accepted. It also includes the sociocultural meanings, acquisitiodprocessing techniques, use, composition, and nutritional consequences for the people using the food.

Traditional Foods Are: Foods that are simple and basic: meat and poultry, eggs, whole grains, fish, beans and legumes, vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds, dairy, fats.

The definition of traditional is something that is in keeping with long-standing tradition, style or custom. An example of traditional is the practice of eating turkey as the traditional or accepted Thanksgiving meal. An example of traditional is a formal style of furniture that doesn’t change with fads or the seasons.

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Tanabata festival food Takoyaki: Fried dough balls with small pieces of octopus inside. The dish is so popular in Japan that there are fast food chains dedicated to it. Yakisoba: Yakisoba is made from fried noodles mixed with pork and cabbage. It is garnished with yakisoba sauce and mayonnaise.

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Somen noodles

Jonathan Leack Thursday, April 20, 2017. On November 17th you will be asked, “Which of these is called a cochleoid, after its resemblance to a snail?”. The answer is B. Upon submitting the correct answer you will be awarded a point in Knowledge.

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The word talent is from an Old English word talente, from the Latin talenta, plural of talentum which means as a unit of weight. From Greek, it comes from the word talanton which means the name of a sum of currency.

On November 10th you will be asked, “Do you know what the line that’s in “bird” but not in “crow” represents? “. The answer is “An eye”. Upon submitting the correct answer you will be awarded a point in Knowledge.

The horizontal stroke represents the eye of the bird, which is easily visible when the bird is white or relatively pale in colour. However, the crow is jet black, making the eye hard to make out, and this is the reason why there is no horizontal line in the kanji for “crow”.

One suggested origin of the term is that before modern navigational methods were introduced, cages of crows were kept upon ships and a bird would be released from the crow’s nest when required to assist navigation, in the hope that it would fly directly towards land.

What hides its claws in English?”. The answer is A Cat.

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On September 24th you will be asked, “Do you know why they chose black and white?”. The answer is “So it shows up well on TV”.

1a : the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey. b : a finger or hand of a human being. 2 : a part or object shaped like or suggestive of a heel or claw: such as. a : an ogee molding.

A talon is a large, hooked claw. Although talons are usually associated with eagles, hawks and other birds of prey, you can also use the word to describe the flesh-tearing claws or fingernails of raptors, werewolves or even enraged preschoolers.

Bird Talons

All felines use their claws for hunting and fighting, and if you’re familiar with house cats or kittens, you know that feline claws are some of the sharpest on Earth.

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