For this project I chose the book written by Jane Goodall called Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating. Being a very big animal lover I was excited to see her name on the list of book choices so I can further invest my time into getting to know her ideology that goes beyond the world of chimpanzees. I had first seen her inside a documentary I found on Netflix when I had the flu a few years ago. I had never heard of this book and never been familiar with a lot of her views and opinions surrounding human health. Although not surprising, her views surrounded itself with a high awareness for the environment, animals, and long lasting happy health for you and your family. The healthy alternatives she is proposing inside this book, like choosing to eat organic foods for example, goes beyond a temporary suggestion and reaches into the realm of helping the reader change their lifestyle for the better. This interesting book surrounds itself in her personal health and food advice supported with evidential facts. The strongest points that I personally found the most refreshing were her ideas on alternative ways to consume more healthy foods.
Starting off in the beginning of this book it was heavy in background information that she wanted to set for the readers that was the base of her personal beliefs. Although much different from my personal views, inside chapter one she went into detail on some habits of eating and hunting inside of the animal kingdom where us, as humans, have in common. Starting off with the primate family, of course, Goodall laid out her fundamental views how humans and the primate animal group are only different by one chromosome and from that we have similar behaviors.
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...e has a very sensitive and personable narrative throughout the book that transcends to showing how caring of a person she is. That aspect, who the writer is, is very important to me especially when discussing such important topics that needs to be coming from someone I trust and believe in. Since food and eating habits is something that every human all has in common it is a very good book that is able to affect anyone on a personal level. For me it has drawn an even further connection to the things I have learned in this course. My family has always been health conscious because my mother has been having health problems for 20 years so the importance of health and exercise is something that I have been raised with. With textual evidence the class and this book has presented to me I am very confident in my health habits and choices today and for the rest of my life.
Many families in America can’t decide what food chain to eat from. In the book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan lists four food chains: Industrial, Industrial Organic, Local Sustainable, and Hunter-Gatherer. The Industrial food chain is full of large farms that use chemicals and factories. Industrial Organic is close to it except it doesn’t use as many chemicals and the animals have more space. Local Sustainable is where food is grown without chemicals, the animals have freedom and they eat what they were born to eat. Lastly, Hunter-Gatherer is where you hunt and grow your own food. The omnivore's dilemma is trying to figure out what food chain to eat from. Local Sustainable is the best food chain to feed the United States because it is healthy and good for the environment.
...pened my eyes to the health risks of the food I consume. There is a lot of health risks associated with the foods on the shelves at the supermarket. A food product I ate as a child was Lunchables. At the time I just thought the food was good. Although, now that I am aware of what I put in my body I try to look at the ingredient and the food products I consume before I consume them. The book also informed me of the deceitfulness of people in order to make a profit. A prime example in Chapter eleven is the Kraft Company. The Kraft Company state they want to decrease the amounts of salt, sugar and fat in their products. On the other hand, Kraft creates new products with an increased amount of these ingredients. Many companies state that they try to fulfill the desires of consumers. This idea is wrong. The consumers study what our body craves and uses it against us.
There are many different beliefs about the proper way to eat healthy. People are often mislead and live unhealthy lifestyles as a result. Both Mary Maxfield and Michael Pollan explain their own beliefs on what a healthy diet is and how to live a healthy lifestyle. In the essay, “Escape from the Western diet” Michael Pollan writes about the flaws of the western diet and how we can correct these problems to become healthier. In the essay, “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating”, Mary Maxfield criticizes Michael Pollan’s essay about eating healthy, and explains her own theory on how to be healthy. She believes that Pollan is contradicting himself and that what he is stating is false. Mary Maxfield ponders the
When we think of our national health we wonder why Americans end up obese, heart disease filled, and diabetic. Michael Pollan’s “ Escape from the Western Diet” suggest that everything we eat has been processed some food to the point where most of could not tell what went into what we ate. Pollan thinks that if America thought more about our “Western diets” of constantly modified foods and begin to shift away from it to a more home grown of mostly plant based diet it could create a more pleasing eating culture. He calls for us to “Eat food, Not too much, Mostly plants.” However, Mary Maxfield’s “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating”, argues differently she has the point of view that people simply eat in the wrong amounts. She recommends for others to “Trust yourself. Trust your body. Meet your needs.” The skewed perception of eating will cause you all kinds of health issues, while not eating at all and going skinny will mean that you will remain healthy rather than be anorexic. Then, as Maxfield points out, “We hear go out and Cram your face with Twinkies!”(Maxfield 446) when all that was said was eating as much as you need.
Asking people to eat less, he says, is like asking them to breathe less. It sounds reasonable, so long as you don’t expect them to keep it up for long. In the New York times article, Diet that ignores hunger by Gary Taubes, published on Aug.29,2015. He reviews and questions, the attempt carried out by the nutritionist to reduce obesity and overweight. Much of obesity research of the past century has focused on elucidating behavioral techniques that could induce the obese to eat less, tolerate hunger better, and so, by this logic, lose weight. The obesity epidemic suggests it has failed. He also questioned the validity of the research, when he stated in the article “is the experience of six days relevant to what
In Wendell Berry’s “The Pleasures of Eating,” this farmer tells eaters how their separation from food production has turned them into “passive consumers” who know nothing about the food they eat, or their part in the agricultural process (3). They are blindsided by a food industry that does not help them understand. Berry argues that the average consumer buys available food without any questions. He states consumers that think they are distanced from agriculture because they can easily buy food, making them ignorant of cruel conditions it went through to get on the shelf. Humans have become controlled by the food industry, and regard eating as just something required for their survival. Berry wants this to change as people realize they should get an enjoyment from eating that can only come from becoming responsible for their food choices and learning more about what they eat. While describing the average consumer’s ignorance and the food industry’s deceit, he effectively uses appeals to emotion, logic, and values to persuade people to take charge, and change how they think about eating.
Michael establishes his credibility as an author by directly and indirectly affecting people households by imposing healthy changes in their food habits. Karen expresses how he has directly and indirectly affected her household for the better as they use his food rules such as, ‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly greens. Mostly plants.’ Such impacts he has made on households through not just one of his popular books, but by many has made him popular and does justice to his work as an author and an activist.
In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan ventures out to answer the seemingly simple question of: “What should we eat for dinner?” (L1). Our ability to consume just about anything nature has to offer has left us with what Pollan states as: “the omnivores dilemma”. Throughout his book, Pollan seeks to unmask the secrets behind our seemingly harmless everyday meals.
Include a conclusion that states how the book has changed your thoughts about food :)
Jane Goodall is an influential, well-respected female scientist, referred to by her biographer as “the woman who redefined man.” She is a primatologist (the study of primates), anthropologist (the study of humanity), and an ethologist (the study of animal behavior). Goodall was born in London, England in 1934, and spent a lot of her free time observing animals in nature; she’s been fascinated with animals her whole life. Even as a child, she always dreamed of studying African animals in their natural habitats to gain more information on them. She moved to the Kenya highlands, on a friend’s farm, because she was so passionate about this dream. She got a job as a secretary and eventually contacted Kenyan archaeologist and paleontologist Louis Leakey. Leakey took Goodall as his secretary, with secret plans of sending her to study primates out in the field.
It over simplifies the ides of eating healthy to a degree at which it seems that anyone can do it just with these simple steps. He basically say put in this and you will get this. That does not take into account the outside factors. The health issues, like diabetes and hyperthyroidism that can cause and be affected by being overweight have no baring in his view. The exercise you do seems to have part in how health you are. Even the body’s natural predisposition and genes seem to be irrelevant to someone’s overall health. A person’s metabolism is not taken into effect. All these things make up the idiosyncrasies and nuances of nutrition, however he thinks that they can easily be simplified into simply escaping the diet of the western world. And that is a bad thing to do in such a complex and intricate thing such as
The essay “Food for Thought (and for Credit)” by Jennifer Grossman was able to convey the relationship between obesity and fast food of today and the importance of home economics in schools. The definition of nutrition is the process of providing the food necessary for health and growth. This includes healthy and unhealthy food choices. Simplicity and convenience led to the rise of fast food restaurants in America, which led to an increase in poor nutrition. Grossmans argument was that nutrition education needs to change.
Being health conscious is arguably the most important thing a person can do for themselves during her lifetime. I was quite overweight as a child, so when I became old enough to realize the importance of a quality diet and exercise ritual, I strongly began to enforce them. Today I continue to monitor the amount of fatty, oily foods I consume, as well as maintain some level of physical activity. Until instructed in the course, Dynamics of Personal Health, I had never charted out my food consumption or physical activity. It was very interesting and beneficial to see a breakdown of my daily calorie intake and usage.
I chose this topic because more and more people are starting to eat unhealthy. This paper is showing awareness of eating unhealthy over time. Eating healthy is very important because it helps make sure your body is getting the right nutrients. Having the right nutrients can make you have a healthy and happy life, which is very important to have. I believe that staying health is very important, and that is why I chose to write about this
Previously to taking this class, I had never given much thought to my eating habits. I always thought of the way I chose to eat as one of those things I didn’t need to concern myself with too heavily now because I’m a young broke college student. The way I eat is pretty similar to the way most of my friends eat and when you live away from home, that seems like the norm for people in college. However, after applying what I’ve learned in this class to my life, I’ve realized that the dietary choices I make now affect not only my current health, but my future health as well. So overall, I would say that my eating habits are pretty bad, but I’m working on making them better.