Summary Of Addictive Junk Food

Individuals may face with contradictory situations when they try to make choices, the mental and physicals effects can be all factors that can influence the individuals’ decitions. In “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food,” Michael Moss provides an eye-opening viewpoint that Americans are addicted to junk food, which is high in sugar, salt and fat. He describes the choice of focus groups made and they chose to aim at creating products that are cheap, but lack of good nutrition in order to receive more benefits from customers. Similarly, Leslie Bell tackles culture changes and environment can affect choices and raise internal conflicts regard to twenty-something women. In “Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual …show more content…
Bell argues that the contradictory cultural changes may raise the internal conflicts of twenty-something women’s desires when she states “They feared losing their identities and independence through being in an intimate relationship. So they felt conflicted about having and letting somebody in on their relational desire” (30). Most people have been in the contradictory situations. They want to be independent, but also want to be taken care of by others. Young women hope to experiment and satisfy their sexual desires, but also want to settle down in the end. Desire is complex, says Bell, and involves a decent amount of ambivalence. Twenty-something women have mix feeling when they want to have their own identities but still satisfy their sex needs. Bell promotes the several cases of women and how they deal with internal conflicts of desire through splitting them into different parts of their lives. However, their choices do not always go to the right direction and they may question their choices after experiencing more sexual activities, such as the case of