Mary Maxfield Food As Thought Summary

Eating healthy is one of the most important things that a person needs to do to take care of their body properly. It helps with multiple things needed throughout an individual's life. These things include growing physically, spiritually physically, and mentally. All of this aids the body to operate in the highest and best way possible. People living on the Western side of the world, they cannot always trust what they eat. “Escape from the Western Diet,” was an article written by Michael Pollan to inform Americans about the dangers of the western diet and believes that it would be beneficial to escape from it. In Mary Maxfield’s essay “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating” she talks about the important reason why people in America are overweight. She explains the mistakes that Americans make about how to …show more content…
Surprisingly Michael Pollan pathos is weak in his article, but his strong use of ethos and logos makes his argument successful. The building of ethos through using of heightened vocabulary is one of the reasons whys the Pollan accomplishes. In the first paragraph of his article, he provides a slew of logical terms to the reader, driving them to believe he has experience with the topic. With the reader stunned by Pollan's information, they are much more likely to continue reading and agreeing with the rest of his argument. Pollan also cites other sources he used all throughout the article. In expansion to building up his credibility, Pollan's word choice serves to create an illustrative tone that appeals to the readers logical reasoning by introducing chemicals and how they might affect the bodies of people. He compares how little time present-day Americans has to spend on making and eating meals for the time went through by those in the past. Another method that Pollan used logos for is including history and numbers in the