Aaron Carroll Simple Rules For Healthy Eating Analysis

1. David Freedman sets out to disprove that processed foods are inherently bad for you; counter arguing what Michael Pollan advocates. Freedman’s set out to prove to the readers that the praise wholesome, organic food receives, and the bashing that processed junk food receives, might not be entirely true. The author argues against Michael Pollan’s opinion on processed food. To do this, he uses a combination of his personal experiences, including in both Whole Foods and Trader Joe, and date he has derived from his experiences in said stores.

The author explains, that growing number of overweight and obese are the result of processed foods and lack of nutritional information serve in the restaurant.

It is filled with things like fat and salt that is unhealthy. The author says, "Ingredients such as salt, sugar and fat are sometimes added to processed foods to make their flavour more appealing and to extend their shelf life, or in some cases to contribute to the food's structure, such as salt in bread or sugar in cakes."   The author also says, "These foods can also be higher in calories due to the high amounts of added sugar or fat in them." Processed food is full of sugar which is very bad for the body since some people cannot dispose the sugar

Food politics, one of the most complicated discussions of all. Four authors, four articles, and four opinions. The first article is “The Pleasures of Eating”, by Wendell Berry, is about health. His article is not only about our health, but our foods health. Berry speaks of blind eating and clueless purchasing, that we don’t know what we are eating. Some questions asked by Wendell Berry were “How fresh is it? How pure or clean is it, how free of dangerous chemicals? How far was it transported, and what did transportation add to the cost? How much did manufacturing or packaging or advertising add to the cost? When the food product has been manufactured or "processed" or "precooked," how has that affected its quality or price or nutritional value?”

“The health concerns raised about the processing itself - rather than the amount of fat and problem carbs in any given dish - are not, by and large, related to weight gain or obesity. (517 Freedman) David Freedman says in his article, How Junk Food Can End Obesity. Freedman is saying that processing the food itself has nothing to do with weight gain or obesity, what is contained in the food is what matters. Just as Maxfield stated, “Food-be it french fry or granola bar, Twinkie or brown rice - isn't moral or immoral.” (446) It is up to the individual, to trust their body and mind, for the correct amount they need. There is no right or wrong way to eat. Food is

David H. Freedman, a consulting editor for John Hopkins and author of several books, writes in “How Junk food can End Obesity” about the dangers of ruling out Fast Food as a way to decrease obesity in society. He argues that using nutrients to gauge the healthiness of a food is an adequate way to increase health in society, and that most “healthy” foods contain a lot of unhealthy ingredients that do not promote health. He also advocates small changes of about 50-100 calories in meals to encourage people to stay on their diets and promote long-term weight loss. He also points out the severe monetary difference between health foods and fast food. He ultimately wants to promote using the forum of food in society to decrease obesity in society, rather than making the large leap from junk food to whole, natural foods.

Eating healthy is very important for people, and modern supermarkets can make this difficult with thousands of new products flooding the market every year. Countless numbers of the products that hit the market are considered food, nevertheless is it the food needed for proper nutrition? Most of the food that fills up the supermarket shelves each year isn’t the healthy real food our bodies need to get proper nutrition. Several edibles obtainable appear healthy or normal enough to call wholesome. Think about processed deli meats, for example, particularly the ones that say “no preservatives” on them. Several of the processed meats you find contain nitrates, a preservative. Nitrates are viewed as harmful, so people don’t want them in their sandwich meats. Hence some deli meat companies made their product more appealing to the public, by labeling “no preservatives.” This

Considering what processed foods are, we see that they are foods that have been made chemically from refined ingredients and artificial substances. They are filled with added sugar which is very detrimental to the health and mind soundness. Processed foods are chemically made to make us want more. They in fact leave a good feeling every time we have

In the article of How Junk Food Can End Obesity, David Freedman, the contributor editor at the Atlantic and Inc. Magazines, lays out a “they say” that then frames his argument. He states that making processed food healthier can contribute to the battle of the obese in our society. Freedman also says that the food these companies are cooking are making people sick and how it is destructive to an individual’s health. For instance, in the reading, Freedman states a quote from Michael Pollan, a journalism professor at the University of California at Berkeley, “It is one of the reasons that we have the obesity and diabetes epidemics that we do… If you’re going to let industries decide how much salt, sugar and fat is in your food, they’re going to put in as much as they possibly can… They will push those buttons until we scream or die.” In other words, Pollan believes that we constantly let people put all of these things in our foods but no one is stopping it.

In "How Junk Food Can End Obesity" by Freedman, the author critiques the wholesome food promoters and how they believe people should eat healthy. He states that these people believe that real food is only farm fresh food and that processed food is inherently unhealthy. However, Freedman states, that even if they could get everyone to switch to farm fresh food, it would still not end obesity. He states that this food actually has about the same fat content and contains other unhealthy materials which make them equally bad as processed foods. Also, he states that people tend to not have access to this food because it is more expensive. Also, those who are not health conscious will not eat it because they do not believe that it will taste good.

was a powerful, educational, and well thought out documentary. Prior to watching Food Inc., I thought I had a respectable idea of how the food I ate was handled and processed. Subsequent to watching Food Inc., I realize that I was greatly mistaken. For example, some of the information gained is where animals such as chickens are raised, how tomatoes and other plants are chemically ripened after being picked half way across the world, and who is responsible for it all. I personally would recommend anyone and everyone to watch this film and educate ourselves about the food we eat every day. “Why are there more food borne illnesses in the world today than there were fifty years ago?” One may have wondered before watching Food Inc., but the only question you will be left with after watching is “What can I do to help?” In my innocence, I only cared about eating cereal, cake, and anything else doused in sugar, but as we grow older we don’t only have to protect ourselves, we have to protect the ones we love as well. I was lucky, my mother taught me all about the harmful foods and what not to eat at a young age, but some families aren’t capable of receiving such an education. The average American family intakes a surplus of energy dense foods simply because that is what’s available, as Food Inc. explains. Our contemporary American food culture has fashioned itself around the fast food industry, and now what was once fast food, is now how we

All aspects of fast food have been criticized significantly, especially since the health food trend craze came around. An argument by culinary Luddites that is often thrown around is that our ancestors never had the access to these options and lived a much happier natural lifestyle. Rachel Laudan brought these points to the forefront to be critiqued in her writing “In Praise of Fast Food”. Rachel Laudan brings the argument that individuals have always participated in the consumption of convenience based foods, the goal in growing and producing food has always been to alter produce to make it more convenient as well as better tasting. Fast food is not as new of an invention as many believe it to be. Modern mainstream media outlets have pushed the belief that processing food has been the worst thing for the well being of the human body. Rachel Laudan makes some very solid points in the fast food debate that should be noted.

I want to change how much processed food I eat because I want to live a healthier lifestyle. In, “Eating Made Simple” by Marion Nestle she discuss ideas on how to become healthier. Nestle notes, “Eat less, move more; eat fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; and

Most Americans love the low cost, prepackaged, great tasting food that is convenient to buy and prepare. These prepackaged or processed foods are normally made to be faster, cheaper and usually taste great but they are loaded with bizarre, unpronounceable chemicals that, if you saw them in their pre-processed state, you would never consider putting in your mouth. Emulsifiers, preservatives, colorants, stabilizers, artificial sweeteners, texturizers and even bleach can be found in most processed foods. On average, Americans spend 90% of their food budget on these types of foods which is found to contribute to the leading causes of obesity, auto immune disease, diabetes and even cancer.

One of the most unhealthy diets in the world is that of an American. It is made up of processed foods and a good amount of television. America easily has the most fast food restaurants in the entire world. Leave it to McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King or any other fast-food restaurant to serve extremely cheap and even unhealthier food at any time during the day or night. ”It tastes good so why not?” That seems to be the question many people are asking now-a-days. Because it is so easily accessible and processed, it is made to be very tasty and extremely unhealthy. Many Americans find his or herself indulging on the these fatty foods of America on a day-to-day basis. While it may taste good at the time, it has a terrible effect on your body