Is The Food Industry Trying To Make Us Fat Case Study

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Is the Food Industry Trying to Make Us Fat? Waist sizes are expanding, everyone is on a diet of some sort, and a large majority of the population is under the care of a physician for some disease that can be attributed to the modern diet. With no end in sight to the obesity crisis and its associated diseases, individuals will need to educate themselves on healthy nutrition and how to avoid the pitfalls inherent in our food environment. Information on the origins of this epidemic, potential cures both magical and old-fashioned, and who or what is to blame for this crisis are everywhere you look. Two authors that offer their opinions on this vast subject are Michael Pollan, author of the book Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, and Mary …show more content…

Michael Pollan opposes these trendy diets that he feels is causing the obesity epidemic and its related disease processes. Pollan offers that the healthcare industries that promote these diets are becoming rich off of our continued obesity, and consumers should be cautious about trusting their advice. Pollan states in his essay, “the healthcare industry, being an industry, stands to profit more handsomely from new drugs and procedures to treat chronic diseases than it does from a wholesale change in the way people eat.” (Pollan 422). Pollan is arguing that the healthcare industry wants the population to stay obese so they can line their pocketbooks instead of protecting our health. However, after his critical analysis of these healthcare organizations profiteering Pollan offers his own eating rules to improve health and diet, these rules are briefly offered in the essay but can be enjoyed in full detail by purchasing one of his books. Similarly, one look at his website and one has to ask where his motivations truly lie, offered for sale are all of his books and dates of his future appearances. While Pollan wants to thrash these organizations he is making a profit selling diet advice as well, so whom should the consumer trust, the one selling a product or his

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