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Activity 1

All living things must intake nutrients to survive, but for human beings consuming food is much more than that, all around the world people from different cultural backgrounds and traditions have different behavior in consuming the food. Every community has different preferences when it comes to consuming the food according to their religious beliefs and surroundings.

Islam Hinduism
Permissible and
non- permissible
food

While comparing the food consumption in two
vast religious groups Islam and Hinduism there
is a concept of halal and haram. Halal category
refers to the food that is allowed to eat whereas
Haram refers to the food which is not allowed
for Muslims to consume such as pork, alcohol.

These rules in the Islamic religion is given by the
divine God (Allah(Jallad, 2009)

Hindus generally are allowed to eat anything but meat. 

They believe that humans and animals co-exist, so they must respect them. 

But in a few Hindu communities, it is permissible to Chicken in their meal.

 

Consumption of meat

Consumption of the meat of cow, goat, and
chicken is completely allowed in Islam if they
are slaughtered in the name of Allah (God)
only otherwise the meat of dead animals is not
allowed in Islam.

Muslims even have a holy day on which they
slaughter cow, goat, camel on 10
th Zilhaj of
Islamic year as part of their faith to reflect the
act of their Prophet Hazrat Ibrahim A.S.
(Shipman & Durmus, 2017)

In Hinduism, the cow is considered to be a holy animal so they don’t support its slaughter. 

 

Vegetarian  There are no such restrictions on eating vegetables. 

The majority of Hindus only consume vegetables in their diet and refer to themselves as vegetarians.

Activity 2

Nowadays children aged between 8-18 years old spend most of their day watching TV or using different platforms of social media, they don’t have many extracurricular activities to participate in. They are heavily influenced by the social media marketing of fast food which only encourages them to consume fast food now and then rather than healthy nutrients that results in many health diseases in youth. Research by (Kelly, Freeman, & Smith, New Media but Same Old Tricks: Food Marketing to Children, 2015) shows that there’s a strong connection between the advertisements of unhealthy food and increasing rates of childhood obesity.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that childhood obesity has now become very common in youth and increasing with the rate 5%-13% in children aged less than ten years old and 7%-17% prevalence rate has been found in teens. (Kelly, MPsy, Mnd, & Boyland, 2015) discovered that children who watch more commercials of candies and junk food are more interested in trying these things out rather than children who have no access to these types of brand marketing. Further (Tarabashkina, Roberts, & Chapman, 2013) stated that children’s diet and eating habits have been strongly influenced by these ads in the short run. Therefore, research concludes that this is an alarming situation it is necessary to take precautionary steps to encourage children to eat healthy such as in schools which promotes physical activities and the benefits of a healthy diet further parents can contact the local government to construct play grounds and request them to restrict the availability of fast foods around the suburbs.

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