Unhealthy Food Myth

Question 1 In chapter two and three the author Michele Simon identifies multiple myths regarding how eating habits are your personal responsibility. One particular myth states that “People know that certain foods are unhealthy.” The bigger misunderstanding is people assume that everyone is informed about proper decision making but they are not. People are unaware of the nutrition facts because multiple restaurant refuse to provided them on the menu and will often say “Ask the cashier in front for nutrition facts” instead. Another myth in this chapter was “People can simply choose to eat healthy foods.” Unfortunately, that is not true based upon the lack of healthy food provided in the U.S and being healthy is very expensive not to mention. …show more content…
As Mc Donald’s spokeswoman states her valid reasons for them offering a forty-two-ounce coke that contains twenty eighteen teaspoons of sugar “This is not super seizing because competitors might be offering something like that too”. At the end of the day Mc Donald’s is less worried about what they offer you and more about how many sales they make. In other words, Mc Donald’s is approaching the “halo effect” with their brand name but caring less about the high cholesterol, saturated fats, and calories that they had been offering. Mc Donald’s serves billons of customers daily and customers are misled by the wrong details. If a food company is telling customers, they are providing them with healthy well cooked dishes it should be true and not false advertisement because me being a customer’s trust the company I am purchasing from. Unfortuanly anther issues comes down to money because not everyone can afford a four-dollar salad but can purchase a two-dollar cheeseburger. The food industry does not look at customers and there needs but morally the companies …show more content…
Customers enjoy on the go, easy to eat, mess free food products but are not aware of the fact that there are not quite informed about how their food is chemically induced. It all boils down to poor nutrition seeing a box that saying “Whole grain” does not necessarily mean it is. Since the government has no control on the front of the box that where they fool us customers who are in a hurry. They mislead us because they are quite aware of the fact that no one will read the fine print if the box says Fat free or any other healthy claims. “In the long run we cannot rely on the food industry to reformulate, repackage, or relabel its way out of the problem it has created” is what I agree with the author statement. So much damages have taken place to a point where you cannot trust any food industry but to read the fine print and go based off you prior knowledge. It is a corporation responsibility to provide the best food for the health of the society but the food industry is only looking out for themselves. They do not believe in ethics or what right of the of the society they believe in making money for themselves and getting their name of their brand