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It seems that obesity will always be a problem with no solution. For once it would be merely impossible to find a solution that everyone likes or even one that the majority will support. There are different points of view in which someone could try to figure something out to at least help with the matter of obesity. ABC News is trying to tackle the problem and inform people on obesity by having a summit with Time magazine and discuss on various ways that would lower obesity in this country. Radley Balko mainly discusses the government point of view in his essay “What You Eat Is Your Business.” I agree with Balko’s essay since government needs to visualize the situation from different directions.…
In his book "Fast Food Nation", Eric Schlosser shows how the fast food industry has infiltrated every corner of American Society. He tells of the disturbing reality that is American life today; almost every aspect of American life has been franchised or chained. Beginning in California and spreading throughout the entire country, Schlosser gives the history of the fast food industry and the evils and changes that developed with it.…
In a passage from his essay “The Battle Against Fast Food Begins In the Home,’ Daniel Weintraub, discusses how parents are the one’s to blame for their child’s health, particularly in the obesity epidemic. Weintraub wants parents to take responsibility for the health of their kids. I agree with Weintraub’s passage because neither food corporations nor the government are forcing your child to eat anything. The public likes to blame big food corporations for their bad health decisions.…
“Full of Beans: How a Classically Trained Chef Reinvented Fast Food,” Knowledge@Wharton Leadership and Change Research Article, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2415.…
In Chapter 1 of “In Defense of Food” the author, Michael Pollan, refers to what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. First, Liebig the father of modern nutritional sciencea German chemist that proposes a theory of metabolism, explained life strictly in terms of chemical nutrients such as vitalism. Consequently, Pollan concocted the first baby formula based in vitamins, essential fats and amino acids; as a result, in January 1977, the committee and the Senator George McGovern, established a set of dietary guidelines pretending to reduce all kind of diseases like, cancer, heart disease, obesity and diabetes, just cutting down the consumption of red meat and dairy products, but at the same time they was sending warnings to…
"Sweet and Low" is the story of those ubiquitous little pink packets of sugar substitute that you see in restaurants and diners and coffee shops — the story of the role saccharine played in the diet revolution that began sweeping America in the 1950's and the story of the artificial sweetener wars that raged in the 80's and 90's. The story is about the family that invented first the sugar packet and then Sweet'N Low, capitalizing on Americans' diet madness to build a company that by 1996 was producing 50 million packets of artificial sweetener a day at a factory in Brooklyn. In this book, the author (Richard Cohen) plays multiple roles of narrator, stage manager and chorus. The rest of the characters in the book are Benjamin Eisenstadts: the eldest in the family, whose inventiveness and drive made the family's millions, but who basically "wanted a simple life", "A piece of grapefruit. Something sweet in his tea." Ben's wife, Betty, "the power behind the throne," a woman who wanted "a pile of money to protect her from shame and disaster," a woman who believed that "love is finite" and must be allocated among family members, with some getting more than others. The…
People don 't have to go pick their fruits and vegetables from the dirt weekly.…
Michael Pollan informs us that the Western diet of highly processed foods, fast foods, loads of added fat, sugar, salt, and tons of refined grains is not good for our bodies and detrimental to our overall health and well being. Our bodies need many more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains than most people are eating. The overall message of this book is that anyone can nourish their bodies and become healthy if they stay away from the Western diet. Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are linked to this exact diet. In this eater’s manual, Pollan strives to aid Americans in the simplest way possible. He creates a manual that instructs people how to make small changes in their everyday life and eat a more traditional diet. Those who abandon Western-eating habits often experience significant improvements in their overall health.…
Robert Kenner’s documentary, Food Inc., gives insight into operations in the food industry. The documentary depicts the people’s desire for money, with resultant implications characterized by mass production through varying approaches. Indeed, Kenner seeks to sensitize the society on the manner in which animals are exposed to inhumane conditions, severe health conditions that result from mass production in the food industry, and unmoral circumstances under which farmers operate. Whereas various flaws are depicted in the movie, it remains important in relation to societal operations and development. This positional essay provides a critique of Robert…
In Defense of Food was quite shocking at first. In all honesty, it made me think I was going to die within the next week due to a heart attack triggered by all the junk I eat. Considering I myself indulge in processed cookies from the aisles of Stop and Shop, and steak tips that have been marinating in salt for two days, the film hit close to home. But in all honesty, I don’t eat that bad; in comparison to the Seventh-Day Adventists I do, but I think I’m doing alright.…
“Self reliance” has a fantastic central idea that is easily relatable to a life situation today in 2016. This central idea is “to believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men --that is genius.” (Emerson) In other words a person must must trust their own thoughts and to put them into actions because that is what they think is right. This holds true today in situations like poverty. The rates of people in poverty are only increasing as time goes on. Luckily, There are multiple non-profit organizations and charities that are trying to minimize the homeless and impoverished people. Feeding America is one of the top foundations for helping the poverty of America. These members have…
The slow food movement implies a mindset of living to eat rather than eating to live. The slow food movement began in 1989 as a protest against McDonald's and stands for the same. This movement signifies a push against fast food and strives to reconnect people to what they are eating. Michael Pollan writes of the slow food movement in The Omnivore's Dilemma. Pollan wishes to reform the lost connection that humans once had with their food in the aspect of farmers, crops, plants, and animals. The slow food movement opposes any convenient means of eating which includes, fast food, processed foods and pre-made meals. Overall, the slow food movement offers an alternative to the conventional food system that our society so closely relies on, however,…
Food is an important cultural and economic subject for communication studies. American food narratives communicate far past the nutritional value of what you see on a plate. There are deep connections to food discourse as it relates to the political, social and economic impacts of the America’s food history. Analyzing the discourse of food is important because it helps us look at the societal level communication of a system integral to everyday life. The longtime commercialization of the American food system has created unimaginable choice and convenience in our systems, choices that sometimes cloud our consciousness for the innumerable ways food connects us to one another.…
In the past, the phrase “food insecurity” meant enough to me to donate canned goods to a local food drive, to donate time to bringing awareness to the phrase on my alma mater’s campus, and to donate manpower to help provide low-income members of the community valuable staples. I never thought it would come to mean the same to me as it did to the people I helped. I never imagined that for the last half of 2015, it would be my family for which the phrase “food insecurity” would describe. However, as schedules needed rearranging in order to fit pantry giveaway times, the phrase “food insecurity” became an ever-present force in my life. The phrase no longer represented a terrible aspect of society that needed to be eradicated—some abstract idea, something outside of my everyday life. Instead, “food insecurity” dominated my world, taking time, energy, and health into its grasp.…
I would have never expected how working in a food kitchen could teach me so much about the world around me. How easily his mood was effected by a deed I found so simple moved me. My heart weighed heavy with happiness. Giving back to the community in this way, I found, wasn’t just about the required hours I needed for National Honor Society. It changed a man’s life. My family is in a comfortable living situation, therefore, worrying about where my next meal is coming from is never an issue. I learned that what you think may be a little thing can have a huge effect. You may not know the specific role you have in your communtiy until you venture outside of your spot within the social hierarchy. This is what I would like to do at Michigan State…