Food is essential to life, throughout the last five weeks we have focused on the importance of food choices on the many aspects of our lives. Food plays an integral role in our physical health, intellectual-thereby financial, environmental and occupational wellness. Physical health relies heavily on the nutrients we receive from food. According to In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Pollan, 2008) the age of nutritionism has complicated American and Western culture diets. Pollan reveals that nutritionism makes recommendations to adjust dietary intake of foods based on the nutrients rather than focusing on the significance those foods play in the human diet and that this has led to a significant increase in obesity, illness (diabetes, hypertension, cancer).
Food Matters expresses that the food we eat is nutritional depleted due to the soil it is grown in, time it takes the food to get to market and the cooking of the food. …show more content…
Eaton published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine arguing “that human genes coevolved with their surrounding nutritional environment” making “our genes…dependent on nutrients in those foods” (Challem, 2013). In Defense of Food Pollan (2008) suggests that we need to “eat food,” natural food, not processed or filled with unrecognizable chemicals. Farmageddon indicates that many well educated, well informed, affluent citizens that have done the research know the benefits of “real,” unprocessed foods but are meeting with resistance from the federal government for their right to choose the source of their food. In Farmageddon those interviewed recounted the health benefits, including decreased or resolved issues with allergies and asthma with the use of locally produced organic foods and milk. The documentary also details the expense the small producers must incur to meet the regulations and paperwork of the USDA and FDA, forcing the costs of locally produced food out of reach for some individuals and
Food Matters expresses that the food we eat is nutritional depleted due to the soil it is grown in, time it takes the food to get to market and the cooking of the food. …show more content…
Eaton published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine arguing “that human genes coevolved with their surrounding nutritional environment” making “our genes…dependent on nutrients in those foods” (Challem, 2013). In Defense of Food Pollan (2008) suggests that we need to “eat food,” natural food, not processed or filled with unrecognizable chemicals. Farmageddon indicates that many well educated, well informed, affluent citizens that have done the research know the benefits of “real,” unprocessed foods but are meeting with resistance from the federal government for their right to choose the source of their food. In Farmageddon those interviewed recounted the health benefits, including decreased or resolved issues with allergies and asthma with the use of locally produced organic foods and milk. The documentary also details the expense the small producers must incur to meet the regulations and paperwork of the USDA and FDA, forcing the costs of locally produced food out of reach for some individuals and