Picky Dieters Who Came To Dinner Analysis
Picky eating and dieting essentially are the same concepts with different point of views. Over the decades, fads and dieting trends have existed such as Weight Watchers, South Beach, and Raw diet just to name a few in which were once on trend or are still trending amongst communities and groups. Deciding to be choosy about the food you consume is beneficial if you are choosing a diet which is right for you and your body type. Yet most diet fads today are chosen based on a diet's popularity amongst fellow social media influencers and to gain a sense of self-identification. Author Jessica Bruder of the article “The Picky Eater Who Came to Dinner,” sheds light on this conflict between choosy dieters who live amongst non-choosy dieters.
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the option of being a choosy dieter is a luxury that most people can not afford. Given the choice of what foods you wish to consume means that you live in a place where there is easy access to an abundance of a variety of foods. Here in the United States, most people have access to a variety of dietary options, and given this opportunity, they are allowed to be choosy. You can walk into a supermarket and find whole sections and aisles dedicated to one food group. You can even find entire grocery stores dedicated to a specific diet, such as a grocery store that sells vegan and vegetarian options only. This plays a large-scale economic role within America's food industry. With an increase in diet fads, there is a higher demand for the selected food options, and American wholesalers will supply. This results in a negative and damaging effect on local farms. Food that is sold in grocery stores is almost always imported from thousands, if not hundreds-of-thousands of miles away. Towns are more commonly encouraged to buy locally grown produce because making an effort to buy locally does support the small farmers and helps to protect their business from the big corporations like Monsanto. This corporation owns more than sixty-eight processed food brands that take up space on most supermarket shelves with products like “soy-meat” to substitute as a meatless substance or processed and frozen ready-to-go meals.
Wanting to be choosey about what foods that your body consumes will have great benefits to your health if you are knowledgeable about what your body needs and how to feed your body right. Many people who follow social media icons decide that they too want to try a “meatless” diet, yet they don't initially realize the harmful effects of cutting out key nutrients. When changing your diet, some people will add it up to being lazy or too busy to choose the healthier options that are available within their chosen diet. For example, if you decided to become a vegetarian do you know where to start? Most people need to do some research before making a significant dietary change. When cutting out all meat from your diet, proteins need to be substituted in place of that meat. Nuts, quinoa, and soy all contain healthy proportions of protein. Most people commonly do not realize that by cutting out one food item, you need to replace that with another food which will fill and satisfy the same nutrition group. This is where deciding to be a choosy eater can go all wrong. Some people have had negative experiences and have gotten themselves hospitalized. Some choose to be a picky eater because it will affect their overall appearance. Those who want to stay thin for themselves or often their chosen career strictly choose what they consume. Counting and keeping track of every calorie consumed and burned. Others can decide that they don’t want to cut out unfit and unhealthy foods from their diets because they enjoy the tastes of these junk foods. Yet they want to stay fit, this way of dieting often leads to purging. And this diet turns into an eating disorder where you choose what foods you want to eat, but not accept the consequences of the high calorie and sugar levels. Both of these eating disorders are forms of being a picky eater with severely dangerous consequences.
Today in 2017 people love how convenient life has been made out to be and are willing to pay for these conveniences.
I too am guilty of loving the convenient lifestyle and having easily accessible foods. Those of us who are amongst this group tend to disagree with those picky eaters when it comes to social gatherings. To have a group of a dozen or more is challenging to feed. And having common allergies to certain nuts and soy that can easily be cut out of the meals that are to be prepared. If some are lactose intolerant, there will often be lactose-free options or the cheeses can be kept on the side of a dish. Gluten-intolerance is a serious health effect and that can easily be avoided at meal gatherings. When these dietary restrictions are made to be dietary-choices, making meals for large groups can be challenging. You can have guests that have gluten-free, vegan, sugar-free, low sodium, and no carb diets which will become and challenge to find foods that will satisfy everyone's diet. When it comes to large meal gatherings amongst common people, the best idea is to bring a dish that you can consume. Bring a dish that will allow for your own dietary needs and choosing and allow for others with similar dietary choices to choose amongst that common dish. There is no need to fuss and create a mess between picky dieters and non-picky
dieters.
Bad attitudes of picky eaters who leave the responsibility of meeting their own dietary needs to the hostess is setting bad examples for future potlucks and gatherings.
Self-imposed dietary limitations or a pick-and-choose lifestyle can lead to an unhealthy and inconvenient lifestyle. When done right and with the research to back up the dietary choices, being a picky eater can then become a positive lifestyle choice. For now, it serves no role except for one in which the picky dieter is seeking an identity out of their restricted diet. Bruder states, “Consumers seem to be building self through sustenance, adjusting their appetites to reflect independence and moral character.” Online communities that double as support groups for specific diets and blogs both help to this ongoing idea of your diet is your identity. Careers as bloggers launch from creating recipes for their pages specific diet restrictions, thus allowing for these restricted diets to be on trend and take off in popularity. With most parties involved that are unaware of the dangerous health effects of having a poorly researched restricted diet will continue to leave a bad name for those who find their identities with their diets.
To have …show more content…
the option of being a choosy dieter is a luxury that most people can not afford. Given the choice of what foods you wish to consume means that you live in a place where there is easy access to an abundance of a variety of foods. Here in the United States, most people have access to a variety of dietary options, and given this opportunity, they are allowed to be choosy. You can walk into a supermarket and find whole sections and aisles dedicated to one food group. You can even find entire grocery stores dedicated to a specific diet, such as a grocery store that sells vegan and vegetarian options only. This plays a large-scale economic role within America's food industry. With an increase in diet fads, there is a higher demand for the selected food options, and American wholesalers will supply. This results in a negative and damaging effect on local farms. Food that is sold in grocery stores is almost always imported from thousands, if not hundreds-of-thousands of miles away. Towns are more commonly encouraged to buy locally grown produce because making an effort to buy locally does support the small farmers and helps to protect their business from the big corporations like Monsanto. This corporation owns more than sixty-eight processed food brands that take up space on most supermarket shelves with products like “soy-meat” to substitute as a meatless substance or processed and frozen ready-to-go meals.
Wanting to be choosey about what foods that your body consumes will have great benefits to your health if you are knowledgeable about what your body needs and how to feed your body right. Many people who follow social media icons decide that they too want to try a “meatless” diet, yet they don't initially realize the harmful effects of cutting out key nutrients. When changing your diet, some people will add it up to being lazy or too busy to choose the healthier options that are available within their chosen diet. For example, if you decided to become a vegetarian do you know where to start? Most people need to do some research before making a significant dietary change. When cutting out all meat from your diet, proteins need to be substituted in place of that meat. Nuts, quinoa, and soy all contain healthy proportions of protein. Most people commonly do not realize that by cutting out one food item, you need to replace that with another food which will fill and satisfy the same nutrition group. This is where deciding to be a choosy eater can go all wrong. Some people have had negative experiences and have gotten themselves hospitalized. Some choose to be a picky eater because it will affect their overall appearance. Those who want to stay thin for themselves or often their chosen career strictly choose what they consume. Counting and keeping track of every calorie consumed and burned. Others can decide that they don’t want to cut out unfit and unhealthy foods from their diets because they enjoy the tastes of these junk foods. Yet they want to stay fit, this way of dieting often leads to purging. And this diet turns into an eating disorder where you choose what foods you want to eat, but not accept the consequences of the high calorie and sugar levels. Both of these eating disorders are forms of being a picky eater with severely dangerous consequences.
Today in 2017 people love how convenient life has been made out to be and are willing to pay for these conveniences.
I too am guilty of loving the convenient lifestyle and having easily accessible foods. Those of us who are amongst this group tend to disagree with those picky eaters when it comes to social gatherings. To have a group of a dozen or more is challenging to feed. And having common allergies to certain nuts and soy that can easily be cut out of the meals that are to be prepared. If some are lactose intolerant, there will often be lactose-free options or the cheeses can be kept on the side of a dish. Gluten-intolerance is a serious health effect and that can easily be avoided at meal gatherings. When these dietary restrictions are made to be dietary-choices, making meals for large groups can be challenging. You can have guests that have gluten-free, vegan, sugar-free, low sodium, and no carb diets which will become and challenge to find foods that will satisfy everyone's diet. When it comes to large meal gatherings amongst common people, the best idea is to bring a dish that you can consume. Bring a dish that will allow for your own dietary needs and choosing and allow for others with similar dietary choices to choose amongst that common dish. There is no need to fuss and create a mess between picky dieters and non-picky
dieters.
Bad attitudes of picky eaters who leave the responsibility of meeting their own dietary needs to the hostess is setting bad examples for future potlucks and gatherings.
Self-imposed dietary limitations or a pick-and-choose lifestyle can lead to an unhealthy and inconvenient lifestyle. When done right and with the research to back up the dietary choices, being a picky eater can then become a positive lifestyle choice. For now, it serves no role except for one in which the picky dieter is seeking an identity out of their restricted diet. Bruder states, “Consumers seem to be building self through sustenance, adjusting their appetites to reflect independence and moral character.” Online communities that double as support groups for specific diets and blogs both help to this ongoing idea of your diet is your identity. Careers as bloggers launch from creating recipes for their pages specific diet restrictions, thus allowing for these restricted diets to be on trend and take off in popularity. With most parties involved that are unaware of the dangerous health effects of having a poorly researched restricted diet will continue to leave a bad name for those who find their identities with their diets.