Part I Chapter 1: This chapter discusses how our food industry has changed of over the course of the years, and how we are now more concerned about nutrients than the foods we eat. He discusses how the science in our food has created food our ancestors wouldn’t recognize, and it is due to bad policies pushed by lobbyists. Chapter 2: This chapter discuss how trends in our nutrition are made up by scientists and journalist. He claims companies and marketers have done a great job pinning macro-nutrients against each other as one being…
In the article, “Diet Supplements and Recent Controversy” by Dick Benson, it talks about the controversy over the bad and good of dietary supplements Dietary supplements can be dangerous if people don’t pay enough attention to the products. Consumers should always careful and do research on the products before they consider to buy them. Practitioners advise that people should take dietary supplements if they need fulfill their nutritional. They work with a lot of compete people like researchers, practitioners, supplement manufacturers, and ingredient manufacturers to research on dietary supplements. They are all believed that dietary supplements can a healthy lifestyle for someone if individual carefully research for the supplement before he…
Often, Pollan critiques, food is broken down and judged solely on the nutrients as if they were individual components that acted the same way in any situation. This is not the case Pollan argues. Food cannot be broken up into micronutrients because the whole picture of what the food is becomes lost. Those micronutrients, which interact with one another cannot be adequately understood if they are standing alone. Furthermore, Pollan suggests that if these micronutrients are taken out of context, people trying to eat healthily will be misguided as they indulge in low-fat foods, which are “good,” but packed high with high-fructose corn syrup, which heavily processed and unhealthy.…
Health and nutrition, particularly my own, is something I have taken special interest in lately as I’ve come to realize I’m rapidly approaching the second half of my life and want it to be as good as, or even better than, the first half. If I were to be asked eight weeks ago if I was a healthy person, my answer would be a resounding, “Yes;” my regular physicals and blood work confirming my response. And while I still believe that to be true, what an eye opener the Diet Analysis project was, as far as understanding my actual nutritional intake in comparison to the Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) of nutrients recommended for optimal health and well-being. The following paragraphs not only detail the Diet Analysis PLUS program used for this project,…
My response to Michael Pollan’s “Escape from the Western Diet” In Michael Pollan’s argument “Escape from the Western Diet” he claims that the western diet is the cause of western diseases. Pollan also thinks that the food industry and health care industry are working together. This can be concluded by the evidence provided and personal experience. Pollan provided great evidence that can be seen but hasn’t been noticed because it is something that may seem normal now.…
Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and,increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that fish,” (Pollan 18). On a cultural and societal level Pollan was hoping to make people really look at what they are putting into their bodies and potentially have most readers change their diets. Pollan’s intended audience is anyone who wants to know more about what they are putting in their body and how to be healthier. Pollan’s audience would be appalled by some of the things he mentions in the book, but would overall be grateful that they know those things now. They would also have an accepting attitude toward Pollan and be thankful to him for writing about the things he did and informing them.…
This strong bias inhibits the reader’s ability to realize that poor health is not solely due to the government but also the Canadians themselves. Although the government can regulate foods, Canadians should be aware of what they, and their children, are consuming as well. Even though the bias is understandable when being expressed through the view of health care professionals, it becomes slightly too overwhelming when read by the general…
He explains that milk does not fit his standards of a healthy food through different classifications. Knopf believes that, “if you define ‘health food’ based on science … and if you include in your definition of health food concerns for the planet as well as individual bodies, then milk might not fit the category of health food at all.” He establishes this claim by pointing out the problems with; the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s way of presenting dairy, promotional campaigns for unhealthy dairy products, and negative environmental impacts of raising cows. Knopf acknowledges the need for nonfat dairy, but also warns people that not all dairy is healthy. Overall, Arthur provides evidence that dairy is only healthy if it is nonfat, and that raising cattle leads to environmental…
The Correlation Between Health and Diet & How Our Surroundings Have an Impact Mary Maxfield, author of the article Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating and graduate of Fontbonne University, advocates the neutrality and meaninglessness of moral labels on the food we consume. Mary complicates matters further as she writes, “When we attempt to rise above our animalistic nature through the moralization of food, we unnecessarily complicate the practice of eating,” (Maxfield, p. 444). In making this comment, she urges us to comprehend that our knowledge of foods considered healthy should not be founded by customs, but rather by scientific evidence. My attitude towards the issue that there is no relationship between diets and health…
I was being naïve, like hundred of other people who read the article, started to change our diet to be more healthy. Since I am not the one who cook the food, I told my mother that we should change out diet. She first refuses in the first few weeks, but then decided that we should all try it out. For the first few weeks, I was getting used to the food that is considered to be healthy. But the more I eat the duller it gets.…
The dying topic, the decision that families or designated surrogates are left to make when a loved one is in a vegetative state and is being kept alive on life support. This decision is made after considering discussions with the attending physician, priest, and family or friend. There is also the consideration of a physician-assisted suicide, which provides a mean for the terminally ill patients to take their own life. Some may argue this physician-assisted suicide is a form of killing and is wrong in the eyes of many people, (Kaebnick, G. 2017). Physician-assisted suicide is legal in some state such as Oregon and Washington.…
There’s a lot of propositions that we could have written about so we had to narrow them down. We chose to do our ballot proposition analysis on proposition 161 which is physician-assisted suicide. We chose to do this proposition because we both remembered being interested in it. We both agreed that it should have passed in more states. We both mentioned remembering from 2014 when a girl named Brittany Maynard shared her story of having inoperable brain cancer.…
Although this research failed to prove their hypothesis, it gave further information about trying to improve diets by orienting improvements towards socio-cultural attitudes towards…
This past week, we had the International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition. During this congress, there were many different topics discussed relating the benefits that plant based diets have upon health, either to decrease overall mortality rate, improve longevity, improve the gut microbiome, decrease cancer rates (colorectal, prostate, and breast), and much more. For the first symposium, they discussed the topic of epidemiological studies of vegetarians, finding different cohorts studies and how it could affect health in the future. The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) it a long and extensive cohort study evaluating and comparing health outcomes amongst Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) vegetarian and non-SDA meat-based diets. There was a 60% mortality…
Professor Tim Noakes is one of South Africa’s top sport scientists. He is the author of the much publicised book: ‘The Real Meal Revolution” which includes a controversial weight loss technic which employs a low carbohydrate, high fat diet. Professor Noakes’s book sold over 200 000 copies in South Africa alone which resulted in a large number of followers who all had specific questions on this new dieting technic. Many took to social media platforms such as Twitter to find answers to these questions by contacting the Professor himself. One of these people, Pippa Linstra was a mother of a new-born and asked if the banting diet could be adapted for babies.…