Since I came back to the US in September, I have gained over 10 pounds. I can’t control myself, and I keep eating fast food. Because of this, I did some research. A question jumps out of my mind, how can people eat right, and healthy? According to the website Public Health, high-calorie food can lead to obesity. In the research article “Obesity in American—What Are the Consequences?”, it explains “Obesity is linked to rising U.S. rates of dozens of chronic illnesses and conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer” (Publichealth.org). In America, occurrences of diabetes have risen 70% since 1995, one-quarter of American deaths are due to heart disease, and there are 20% of new cancer diagnoses because of obesity. However, Americans
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When I was young, I gave my own definition of a Western diet, which is all food except Asia 's. There are a lot of kinds of Western food, such as fast food, pasta, salads, and all kinds of pies. I also assume that the Western diet has more much healthy food, for example, its salads are made of raw vegetables. Processing vegetables without high temperatures can save most of their nutritive values. However, in Americans’ mind, Western diet seems to be becoming worse than I thought. In the article “Escape from the Western Diet” written by Michael Pollan, he describes “[And] many of the scientific theories put forward to account for exactly what in the Western diet is responsible for Western diseases conflict with one another” (Pollan 420). The author asserts that the Western diet leads to some illnesses and diseases. There are some more reasons causing Americans to consider only fast food as the Western diet. In the 60s, McDonald’s was the first fast food restaurant opened in the USA, at the same time the popularity of television boomed. McDonald’s advertisements showed up frequently on TV. The first impressions of Americans on fast food, are cheap, fast, and it could be a representative of the Western diet. Since McDonald’s first appeared in America, Americans have chosen fast food as their diets; it could have led to Pollan’s view, that this western diet leads to …show more content…
Maybe over 90% of people will say that I should blame myself; In fact, I agree with this answer because all food nutritive values are shown on the food packaging or menus. However, eating what kinds of food, and how much food were my decisions. I made wrong decisions that affected my weight to increase so much. Can anyone envision what would happen in 2002, had it not consummated the related legal laws and regulations to require all food companies to show whole nutritive values? The article “Don’t Blame the Eater” written by David Zinczenko in 2002 talks about his experience in food diet. When he was young, his parents were divorced, and he only has limited money to afford lunch. He chose to eat fast food because it is cheap and palatable. Zinczenko describes himself “By age 15, I had packed 212 pounds of torpid teenage tallow on my once lanky 5-foot-10 frame” (Zinczenko 463). Fortunately, he acquired some knowledge when he was in college. He understands that people gain weight because food companies did not give their customers enough information. Thus, people then could blame the food company, rather than consumers. At present, we do have enough information on the food package and menu. The choice is ours to find healthy food with low calories, high nutritive values, and affordable prices. How often will people go grocery shopping?
When I was young, I gave my own definition of a Western diet, which is all food except Asia 's. There are a lot of kinds of Western food, such as fast food, pasta, salads, and all kinds of pies. I also assume that the Western diet has more much healthy food, for example, its salads are made of raw vegetables. Processing vegetables without high temperatures can save most of their nutritive values. However, in Americans’ mind, Western diet seems to be becoming worse than I thought. In the article “Escape from the Western Diet” written by Michael Pollan, he describes “[And] many of the scientific theories put forward to account for exactly what in the Western diet is responsible for Western diseases conflict with one another” (Pollan 420). The author asserts that the Western diet leads to some illnesses and diseases. There are some more reasons causing Americans to consider only fast food as the Western diet. In the 60s, McDonald’s was the first fast food restaurant opened in the USA, at the same time the popularity of television boomed. McDonald’s advertisements showed up frequently on TV. The first impressions of Americans on fast food, are cheap, fast, and it could be a representative of the Western diet. Since McDonald’s first appeared in America, Americans have chosen fast food as their diets; it could have led to Pollan’s view, that this western diet leads to …show more content…
Maybe over 90% of people will say that I should blame myself; In fact, I agree with this answer because all food nutritive values are shown on the food packaging or menus. However, eating what kinds of food, and how much food were my decisions. I made wrong decisions that affected my weight to increase so much. Can anyone envision what would happen in 2002, had it not consummated the related legal laws and regulations to require all food companies to show whole nutritive values? The article “Don’t Blame the Eater” written by David Zinczenko in 2002 talks about his experience in food diet. When he was young, his parents were divorced, and he only has limited money to afford lunch. He chose to eat fast food because it is cheap and palatable. Zinczenko describes himself “By age 15, I had packed 212 pounds of torpid teenage tallow on my once lanky 5-foot-10 frame” (Zinczenko 463). Fortunately, he acquired some knowledge when he was in college. He understands that people gain weight because food companies did not give their customers enough information. Thus, people then could blame the food company, rather than consumers. At present, we do have enough information on the food package and menu. The choice is ours to find healthy food with low calories, high nutritive values, and affordable prices. How often will people go grocery shopping?