What does eating “Good Food” really mean? Are today’s foods less healthy than our ancestors? Did they live longer than us because they consumed more nutritional food?
Thousands of products on the supermarket shelf today are largely consumed by people without knowledge of what fake ingredients are in them. I believe this is largely due to the fast-paced lives we lead. No one takes the time any longer to make a meal from scratch like our great grandmother did. Many of the foods they consumed were grown on the farm, picked cooked and eaten immediately. There was no need for preservatives to sustain a long shelf life. Ingredients to preserve food did not exist. “Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”; The longer the shelf life the more processed it's been, the less healthy it is, and the less whole(real) it is. …show more content…
More bang for their buck so to say. But according to Pollan “shopping this way takes more money and effort, but as soon as you begin to treat that expenditure not just as shopping but also a kind of vote --a vote for health in the largest sense -- food no longer seems like the smartest place to economize.” Suggesting that food is not a place to cut back spending more so to put more in because healthier foods cost is higher but is worth the expense.
Pollan consistently tries to convince the reader to shop whole foods rather than processed foods. In today’s fast paced society, where long workdays, after school commitments and just plain laziness have all contributed to these factors most people just look for affordable and convenient. The food industry has capitalized with millions of dollars a year in revenue. Instant gratification and just eat to fill our stomach, the food industry has capitalized on this problem. Processed food makes up 70% of all food consumed in the United States diet today. These processed foods have made us obese and
Thousands of products on the supermarket shelf today are largely consumed by people without knowledge of what fake ingredients are in them. I believe this is largely due to the fast-paced lives we lead. No one takes the time any longer to make a meal from scratch like our great grandmother did. Many of the foods they consumed were grown on the farm, picked cooked and eaten immediately. There was no need for preservatives to sustain a long shelf life. Ingredients to preserve food did not exist. “Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”; The longer the shelf life the more processed it's been, the less healthy it is, and the less whole(real) it is. …show more content…
More bang for their buck so to say. But according to Pollan “shopping this way takes more money and effort, but as soon as you begin to treat that expenditure not just as shopping but also a kind of vote --a vote for health in the largest sense -- food no longer seems like the smartest place to economize.” Suggesting that food is not a place to cut back spending more so to put more in because healthier foods cost is higher but is worth the expense.
Pollan consistently tries to convince the reader to shop whole foods rather than processed foods. In today’s fast paced society, where long workdays, after school commitments and just plain laziness have all contributed to these factors most people just look for affordable and convenient. The food industry has capitalized with millions of dollars a year in revenue. Instant gratification and just eat to fill our stomach, the food industry has capitalized on this problem. Processed food makes up 70% of all food consumed in the United States diet today. These processed foods have made us obese and