Why People Tend To Eat A Western Diet
“Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food” (425) Pollan states. This is one of the reason why Americans spend less time preparing meals because they are eating fast foods that are quick and cheap to buy. On the main street where I live there are 6 fast food restaurants just on one block. It is very easy to buy and takes about 5 minutes to go through a drive thru to get a full meal. Yes this is much more convenient and fast for them, but they don’t realize what is going into their body. Americans tend to eat a Western diet because of fast food products being available quickly anywhere and at a cheap price.
Pollan comes to the solution that people need to “Stop eating a Western Diet” (Pollan 421). The theories that are mentioned
are what continue the profit and revenue of food businesses and medical field. Pollan also argues against Gyorgy Scrinis, who used the term “nutritionism.” Scrinis suggests that “the most important fact about any food is not its nutrient content, but it’s degree of processing” (Pollan 423). Scrinis claims that processed foods should be avoided. Pollan argues against that statement by giving an example of the steak from feedlot steers. Pollan asks, “Is a steak from a feedlot steer that consumed a diet of corn, various industrial waste products, antibiotics, and hormones still a “whole food” (Pollan 424)? He uses this example to explain that the steer that is being raised is being fed with chemicals, corn, and waste products to argue that, the way the animals we eat are raised is unhealthy. The conclusion that Pollan reaches is that if Americans would follow his three rules, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” (Pollan 426) then the number of people affected by the Western diet would be lower.
Pollan comes to the solution that people need to “Stop eating a Western Diet” (Pollan 421). The theories that are mentioned
are what continue the profit and revenue of food businesses and medical field. Pollan also argues against Gyorgy Scrinis, who used the term “nutritionism.” Scrinis suggests that “the most important fact about any food is not its nutrient content, but it’s degree of processing” (Pollan 423). Scrinis claims that processed foods should be avoided. Pollan argues against that statement by giving an example of the steak from feedlot steers. Pollan asks, “Is a steak from a feedlot steer that consumed a diet of corn, various industrial waste products, antibiotics, and hormones still a “whole food” (Pollan 424)? He uses this example to explain that the steer that is being raised is being fed with chemicals, corn, and waste products to argue that, the way the animals we eat are raised is unhealthy. The conclusion that Pollan reaches is that if Americans would follow his three rules, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” (Pollan 426) then the number of people affected by the Western diet would be lower.