While everyone loves to go out for take-out instead of preparing meals at home, the amount of families and household inhabitants who prepare homemade meals are beginning to rise. Why go through with the trouble, though, when it is so much simpler and less time consuming to just order through the drive-thru or stop by a local fast food restaurant and just order off the menu filled with choices? The answer is obvious. People are worried about their health.

It’s obvious to see this when you suddenly see all of your favorite fast food restaurants are convincing their customers over advertising that their food is not just delicious, but nutritious as well. Obviously, this isn’t true, because that Double Whopper didn’t lose hundreds of calories overnight. It’s not the food that’s changing, just the advertising.

People are becoming aware, not just of the take-out they eat, but of their overall choices. They want to know what they are eating these days, so they make their own meals at home with healthier foods they are familiar with. It’s not just the consumers who are becoming more conscious. Businesses are realizing the importance of healthier foods and doing something about it. Menus of restaurants are changing completely and varieties of new, healthier restaurants are opening. A local restaurant such as Tabuleh Cafe of Planet Ozone in Stuart, Florida (Directions) sells gluten free options and only serves meat that is antibiotic, hormone free, and certified halal is one such store.  Local farmers’ markets are becoming more popular because of their fresh, local options. Homemade methods such as canning or curing are becoming more popular as well because people feel much more comfortable eating foods they prepared and opening a can of beans without seeing a list of chemicals and preservatives after the necessary ingredients.

    Locally grown foods are becoming more popular, and people are becoming healthier without even realizing it by eating so. Fruits and veggies are so easy to grow, and so easy to prepare into a delicious dish that people are beginning to grow them into their backyards and gardens.

Many diseases are hereditary and found in your genes, and health concerns such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol are diseases that are affected by the foods we eat. It is so easy to activate these genes in us simply by our poor choices. The best and most natural option for treating a medical condition is to simply eat healthier. People are realizing how simple and easy it is to just modify our diet and the foods we eat, and all around the globe, change is obvious. In the aforementioned Planet Ozone, there are unique groceries from around the world that can’t just be bought at your local grocery store such as organic and natural. Already in the UK, sales of healthier foods such as whole wheat breads, nuts, fruits, vegetables, yogurts, and cheeses are rising at a rapid rate, and by simply making better choices, we too can change for the better, one family at a time.