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Running Head: HEALTHCARE AND NATURAL CALAMITIES.     1
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HEALTHCARE AND NATURAL CALAMITIES.
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Module 4:    3
Module 5:    5
Module 6:    7
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Module 4:
    Globalisation has brought a lot of changes in our lives. Earlier, there was culture specific food and religion specific food. Now, due to globalisation, as mentioned by Dermody, B. J., Sivapalan, M., Stehfest, E., Vuuren, D. P. V., Wassen, M. J., Bierkens, M. F., & Dekker, S. C. (2018) food systems are changing. Now the diversity that we see around is not only related to people or fashion. It’s now their food as well. Every culture or religion or community has something, more or less, to contribute in the food section. Most of the changes taking place in the food department is a result of urbanization, increasing incomes, market liberalization and foreign direct investment. The food marker, now a days, is becoming immensely competitive with the involvement of supermarkets and international dealers. The bigger it is, the safe we feel consuming their products. For example, getting some fast food from a local vendor is fine but when the same thing, or sometimes even worse, is provided to us by a supermarket or a big agent with a lot of advertisement or branding, we feel that it is safer to go with the later. What we forget here is that with the involvement of a huge amount of money, it is also very convenient for them to preserve those items with chemical so that they taste fine even when they are not appropriate to be consumed. The system has become so powerful now with all the dealing and agent and diversity and curiosity for food products, that it is the vendors and the local dealers of food that suffer the most. Many food items depend on natural vegetables and agricultural products that have a very short period of time before they expire, but dur to the high demand in market, big food dealers often temper those products with preservatives and chemicals so they the food, even after months, seem fresh and edible to the customers. Globalisation did make the world seem smaller and the people and their culture closer but the real and original form and taste of some food items that are naturally available only in some places will always be missed.
Now, as mentioned by Liu, X., Jones, P. J., Matuzeviciute, G. M., Hunt, H. V., Lister, D. L., An, T., ... & Jones, M. K. (2019) there is a reason for everything. In the ancient times, people used to have a certain kind of food and their bodies went through adaptation and evolution and they were comfortable having only that sort of food. Those food were naturally available to them and hence the most beneficial. Now, due to globalisation a person sitting in America can have typical Indian food. We need to understand that, although globalization is unstoppable now and is for the good, but that person’s body is not ready for globalisation. They moment he starts consuming food that his body is not meant for, he will instantly feel something wrong. This may not happen since this mixing up of food from cultures that are poles apart has been happening for a long time now and people have eventually developed enough immunity in themselves to deal with the changes. But not everyone is as strong and it is affecting their health. On another perspective, adaption of fast food through globalization has a major negative effect of health implications to both the developed and the developing countries. The main health complication that fast-food...