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Period: Nov 15, 1500 to
Health Timeline
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Jan 15, 1559
Tobacco
Tobacco introduced to Europe -
Coffee
Coffee brought to England -
Ice Cream
The first ice cream parlour opened in New York City -
Canned Food
The first canned food is sold in London -
Mass Sugar Manufacture
A factory in California was successfully able to manufacture sugar in a profitable manner -
Cigarette Machines
Machines are made that can mass produce cigarettes -
Coca Cola
Coca Cola invented -
Cancer
Cancer risk is 1 in 30 people -
Pasteurization
First compulsory pasteurization laws passed in Chicago -
Fast Food
First hamburger fast food chain "White Castle" -
The Frozen Dinner
The first pre cooked frozen meals sold by birds eye -
McDonald's
McDonald's opens their first restaurant in California -
Antibiotics
First use of antibiotics -
Plastic and Tuppeware
Earl Tupper invents plastic food containers and founds the TUppeware company -
Microvave
The first microvave oven "Radarange" is introduced -
Farm Raised
Grain fed farm raised fish is started -
Lung Cancer
Lung Caner is now the number 1 killer cancer in the western world -
Modified Food
First approval for field tests of modified food plants: virus resistant tomatoes -
Food Pyramid
The USDA introduces the food pyramid which tells us to eat 6-11 serves of carbohydrates (rice, bread, pasta) a day! -
FastFood
Americans spend more than $11o billion on fast foodm which is about 90% of all the money spent on food by Americans -
Overweight
Nearly 2 out of every 3 American adults are overweight -
Diabetes
There has been a 17 fold increase in type 1 diabetes from 1 in 7100 in 1950's to 1 in 400 now -
1 in less than every 2
Despite all of science and medical advances and discoveries, we are getting sicker. We have to change the way we do things. Ref: Deepak Chopra, M.D, Michael Murray, N.D., and the metagenics corp.
