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    081-831-1059 Implement Measure to Reduce Combat Stress Conditions: You are a leader of a group of Soldiers preparing to enter or already in a combat situation. Standards: Recognize stress-related behaviors and implement appropriate leader actions that offset and control combat and operational stress reaction risk factors. Performance Steps Recognize stress-related behaviors. a. Positive combat stress behaviors. Positive combat stress behaviors include the heightened alertness

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    Unhappy meals summary Michael Pollan opens his New York Times article “Unhappy Meals“with a rather ambiguous statement‚ “Eat food‚ Not too much‚ Mostly Plants”. Pollan gives the “average Joe” a new perspective on what food really is in this article. But in reality it’s not a new spin rather a throwback on a time trusted take on food‚ but I’m getting ahead of myself now. He does this starting off‚ by giving his rule of thumb‚ “if you’re concerned about your health‚ you should probably avoid food

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    dream. Most people work long hours and eat on the fly with very little thought to what‚ or where‚ the food they have purchased came from. The reason food is so inexpensive has not been a concern to the average American‚ but the article written by Michael Pollan “The Food Movement Rising” attempts to convince the people that it is time to remove the blinders and take an accounting of the situation that America finds itself in. With obesity at epic proportions‚ and preventable diseases like diabetes on

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    books about food also to be about bigger ideas like oppression‚ spirituality‚ and freedom‚ yet Pollan defies expectations. Pollan begins with an exploration of the food-production system from which the vast majority of American meals are derived. This industrial food chain is mainly based on corn‚ whether it is eaten directly‚ fed to livestock‚ or processed into chemicals such as glucose and ethanol. Pollan discusses how the humble corn plant came to dominate the American diet through a combination

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    Food Rules by Michael Pollan 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

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    the final section of the book‚ author Michael Pollan attempts to prepare a meal by gathering all of the ingredients himself. In the chapter called Forager‚ Michael talks about how he wants his meal to feature all three edible kingdoms: animal‚ vegetable‚ and fungi. He will hunt‚ gather‚ or grow all the ingredients needed for his final meal. In the end he makes a salad out of the greens from his own garden‚ and makes bread using wild yeast. He feels that this meal will help us to “reconnect us with the

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    farm to my dinner table. When I found The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan‚ its description captivated my interest and I immediately picked it up and read the first page. I realized then that this book

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    Michael Pollan in 2006‚ published a work that has to some degree changed the way that people eat‚ or at the very least attempted to change the way that we think about the food we eat. (Shea 54) Pollan demonstrates through fundamentally modern rhetoric the relationship that people‚ and more specifically American’s have with food and how very distant we are from it. ("History‚ Old Favorites in" B08) To some degree Pollan‚ others like him and internationally challenging food shortages and even worse

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    In the article‚ “An Animal’s Place” Michael Pollan explains to the reader that people should eat animals as long as they give them the respect animals deserve when they have life. Initially‚ Pollan agrees with a book that he is reading called‚ “Animal Liberation” which talks about moral consideration for animals. Pollan feels humans and animals have a built a mutual relationship‚ because humans take care of the animals then the animals feed humans. The author argues even though‚ animals and humans

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    food as a necessity to survive‚ yet are we slowly killing ourselves by doing so? Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser both offer us information that assists in answering the questions at hand. Each journalist offers us their views on how food modification affect our lives. As each discusses issues that pertain to the food we eat they both connect on their overall concern as to what American’s are consuming. Michael Pollan’s article focuses on the food we see on our shelves and the food-like substitutes

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