food and mood

we ofthen eat to calm down or cheer up when we're feelings stressed or depressed.

now new research suggests there's a reason: food changes out brain chemistry.
these changes powerfully influence our moods, but can certain foods really make us feel better? nutrition  experts say yes,
 but what should we eat and what should we avoid? here are the foods that work the best, as well as those that can make a bad day worse.

food and mood - we ofthen eat to calm down or cheer up when we're feelings stressed or depressed. (you have to read this great article)

The American Food Network Rise

By Scott Nelson


This is a basic cable and satellite television channel that was operates both in the and other parts of the world airing food and cooking related programs . It was among the first international television channels that had programs related to cooking. The American Food Network has been having an increasing viewing and by 2015 America alone had over 96 million viewers.

With its formation in the early 90s, it had its original name changed from the TV Food Network to their current name. There are two groups which own this channel; Scripps Network Interactive, which owns 70% and being responsible for managing the day to day activities of the channel and 30% by Tribune Cable Venture.

In ensuring a maximum relevance to their audience, their programs are primarily categorized into two; Food Network in the kitchen always aired during the day dealing with cooking techniques and recipes and Night time show, which is a series of programs aired at night on food related entertainment.

The programs aired are very exciting and captivating ensuring there is an increasing audience. There are a series of programs that aired during the day as mentioned earlier. They are hosted by chefs who have a good reputation for their kitchen skills. They usually showcase their cooking skills for different foreign recipes and even the various ways of preparing the most common meals.

Also, there are programs that are hosted by special chefs who can showcase their skills in preparing the standard types of foods using different techniques. Since all the views are households, such programs have enabled them to make the ordinary food kinds that they eat to be more appetizing after eating them for long.

The majority of those watching these programs were observed and confirmed not to be cooking fanatics but had a soft spot for these cooking skills that they enjoyed watching. To enhance their like for the programs, the management opted to increase the number of food related entertainment channels. This move has improved the viewing of these programs.

Cooking competition programs have led the ranks of the entertainment programs on Food Network. These programs are very competitive with the winner receiving a grand prize. Several cooks are made to compete by preparing a meal using given ingredients over a given time span with the judges there ready to determine who is the best.

These competitive programs had managed to amerce large viewers including men who were represented by very few of their kind. This has been due to the fact that they introduced documentaries on the culinary arts and reality shows that showcase foods and cooking. Owing to this, the management opted to increase the number of such programs. Such programs included it, Star guy, Guys Grocery Games among many others and by 2015 they have 16 such programs compared to only 2 in 2005.

To add on their increase market demand, there are other realities shows that they schedule and also documentaries. Their increased demand has been increasing their annual revenues making them be among the leading television networks in the US. To add on to this, efforts have been made to tap into the young market which consist of a considerable number of their viewers by designing video games that attract them, and motivates them to watch their programs.




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