Louisiana Chapter 1 Summary

This chapter relates to us all in more ways than one because we all love to eat. To be completely honest most of everything about Louisiana is Food. Many of us don’t actually monitor what we ingest. As a people, we lack clear knowledge of the harm the things we eat actual do to our bodies and we rather dope up on different medicines in order to get the assumption that all will be okay. The information given in this chapter correlates with chapter one in so many ways. This is actually the reason why knowing your health history is so important. Going into the grocery store attempting to get low fat items instead of the basics because we “hear” it is a better option when in reality it is no better than the items stacked with fats and sugars. The only difference is the tricky prices and those that are on a low …show more content…
Unaware of the blatant harm we are causing ourselves we continue to gourmandize until we can no longer fit into the jeans of our liking or have to spend money on newer clothes because of, you know “Our clothes are shrinking”. Furthermore, if we continue down the path in which we are traveling and also don’t have much knowledge of our family history, death or major sickness is the synopsis of our future. This chapter opens my eyes and makes me want to revise my so called healthy life. If I began to pay closer attention to not only the words that lie in front of my eyes but also the ones hidden behind those then maybe I can begin to live and actual healthy life instead of a fake one. This is really funny because it makes so much sense. When I was working out and maintaining what I thought was a healthy diet and wondering why I wasn’t losing much weight it was because I really wasn’t doing what I was supposed to. I will look into more information and possibly read the chapter more to get a clearer understanding so that I can began my first health corrected