Essay On Western Diet

Americans always obsess on what they need to eat. Most Americans eat what some call The Western Diet which consist of mostly meat and others things we Americans eat everyday. Some say you need to eat this and that. Others think we should focus on how much we eat. I also have my own opinion. What some call the western diet think its bad and others think its not as bad as we make it out to be. Today we will go over my opinion and two other authors opinions. Like Pollan he thinks that scientist are making healthier foods and That we should Eat mostly vegetables and fruits to maintain a diet. On the other hand Maxfield believes that we just need a normal eating habitant and that getting on a diet isn’t as complicated as you think. Pollan states in His article “Escape from the Western Diet,” “Much nutrition science qualifies as reductionist science, focusing as it does (such as certain fats or carbohydrates or antioxidants) rather than on whole foods or dietary patterns. . . . But using this sort of science to try to figure out whats wrong with the Western diet is probably unavoidable.”(P#1 PG: 420) He shows us that most foods we eat within the supermarket is unhealthy and that we need to eat less processed foods and focus more on fruits and vegetables on farms instead of the …show more content…
Maxfield states, “That BMI was originally developed by mathematician as a purely statistical tool, the BMI has become medicine’s go-to means for predicting heart disease and other maladies, despite research that suggests a low BMI presents a greater mortality risk than a high one and that, in general, BMI cannot accurately predict one’s health.” I agree with both Pollan and Maxfield to an extent I think the Western Diet is good in some ways and bad in