Well-known, Atlantic essayist and writer, Yasmin Tayag, in her essay, “Gut Health has a Fatal Flaw”, describes how many healthy alternatives don’t do much for you and how we don’t know how the gut operates too well. Ms. Tayag’s purpose is to inform readers about how little we know about the gut and its effects on our overall health. She creates a formal, persuasive tone in order to convey to her readers the idea that “healthier” alternatives do not help improve overall health as well as they should and that we know very little about how the gut works in relation to our body. Ms. Tayag begins her article speaking about how her father encouraged healthy eating with the mantra “All disease begins in the gut.” She then voices her discontent with her fathers idea saying “I would roll my eyes, dubious that his enthusiasm for this practice was anything more than fussiness.”
Nial Wheate, a senior lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Sydney, wrote the persuasive article "Red meat 's a tasty treat but too much can give you cancer". His intention is to inform the Australian meat lovers that the properties found in red meat can increase the risk of cancer. With a serious and concerning tone Wheate appeals to the logic and reasoning of the audience by the use of statistics. The formal tone leads to the belief that this is an issue that needs to be addressed immediately. The article incorporates two photograph, one of raw pieces of red meat and the other of four sausages on a plate, to draw the reader in by seeing some of Australia 's most iconic foods.
The producer intends to dramatize the data in this case in order to give the impression that many people have successfully recovered from serious diseases by simply switching to a plant-based diet. As a result, the audience will find the statistic surprising and will feel compelled to try it
Relevance between Food and Humans with Rhetorical Analysis In the modern industrial society, being aware of what the food we eat come from is an essential step of preventing the “national eating disorder”. In Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, he identifies the humans as omnivores who eat almost everything, which has been developed into a dominant part of mainstream unhealthiness, gradually causing the severe eating disorder consequences among people. Pollan offers his opinion that throughout the process of the natural history of foods, deciding “what should we have for dinner” can stir the anxiety for people based on considering foods’ quality, taste, price, nutrition, and so on.
In Michael Pollan’s essay “Escape from the Western Diet,” he directly to Americans about the western diet and why he believes they need to escape from it. The reason Americans should escape the western diet is to avoid the harmful effects associated with it such as “western diseases” (Pollan, 420). To support his view on the issue, Pollan describes factors of the western diet that dictate what Americans believe they should eat. These factors include scientists with their theories of nutritionist, the food industry supporting the theories by making products, and the health industry making medication to support those same theories. Overall, Pollan feels that in order to escape this diet, people need to get the idea of it out of their heads.
In her article “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of eating,” Sociologist Mary Maxfield claims that food is neither moral nor immoral, therefore, everyone can eat whatever they desire. Maxfield feels that everyone should trust their body and allow their mind to decide on what our body needs intake. On a daily basis our body needs the proper nutrients to function. But too much or too little nutrients can cause many illnesses or other problems that can be harmful and damaging to our body. However, Maxfield ignores the fact that eating whatever we want we may suffer the consequences of negative side effects.
Nowadays in America, we are encountering problems with our food system. The way it’s being processed is affecting everyone. From youngest to oldest, farmers to lawyers and smallest to biggest animal. Consumers are made to believe that they are buying and eating healthy foods , but the labels that led them to believe that are not completely honest. The essay “Escape from the Western Diet” written by Michael Pollan is an explanation of the theories of the western diet.
This appeals to our physiological needs because naturally, humans need to eat food and to hear from a professional that there are other influences outside of food that are giving cause to the obesity crisis gives Americans a slight sigh of relief when it comes to the degree of toxicity of our foods. Furthermore, that people eat a more wholesome diet versus those that do not, tend to be healthier than that live on fast and processed foods,there are also stark differences to recognize between these classes that should be taken into account as well such as the tendency to engage in exercise, air quality, and other health considerations such as smoking and
Eating Healthy Michael Pollan, a health food spokesperson, made some interesting critiques on how he believes that there is an American paradox such as, “a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with… the idea of eating healthy” (Maxfield, 442). The idea taken from Michael Pollan’s quote is that he believes the definition of healthy eating has more to do with how it is “driven by a well-funded corporate machine” (Maxfield, 442). He is also claiming that the food industry is benefiting on our lack of knowledge on how to eat properly when it comes to being healthy. In her article Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating, Mary Maxfield directly attacked Pollan’s claims, pointing out the hypocrisy in his words because he is sharing
In closing, Mary Maxfield does not address the how society should meet there needs. Proceeding through the beginning of her article Mary claims we can eat as we always have and thrive, and her solution at the end is to trust ourselves, our bodies, and meet our needs. Here Maxfield contradicts herself against her own word and straddles the fence without even knowing it. Mary neglects to discuss the cognitive role in this article, yet she gives her own perception regarding the principles of food.
The Internet and social networking services are easily accessible from an early age, affecting the self-image of how the Internet reacts to your activities and life. Essays “Nigella Lawson Wants Everyone to Experience the (Thoroughly Guilt-Free) Pleasure of Food” by Nigella Lawson and “The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action” by Audre Lorde convey the importance of self-definition through the love of food and struggle as a black lesbian poet. Both essays by Nigella Lawson and Audre Lorde go in-depth about the relationship between pleasure, language, and community in order to emphasize the importance of defining and embracing your own identity. Nigella Lawson highlights the importance of embracing pleasure without worrying about guilt. In her essay, she argues,
Foods, whether homemade or fast-foods are meant to serve one major purpose; satisfying hunger. Depending on quantity, food fills the void in the stomach to meet the primary need for satisfaction of hunger to supply energy to the body. The genre of this article was health; its entire argument was to give the reader the message that cooking at home is much healthier and better for you than eating at a restaurant or eating microwavable dinners. Bestselling food writer Mark Bittman makes the case that eating at home is good for your health, good for your family—and, with the right approach, far easier than you think. In the Time magazine article “The Truth about Home Cooking”, the author uses features such as, logos, pathos, ethos and tone to support their argument.
In the Eating chapter of The Happiness Myth, Hecht goes into depth of some of these trends and how society affects the way we see our food. People often believe what they are taught and continue to practice them without questioning, and not knowing otherwise. Though, Hecht claims, “What is important to happiness here is both the liberation from the particular obsessions of the culture, and the realization that we like invoking obsessions, we have fun with them, and they make us feel better for a while, until they make us feel worse.” (Hecht 194). Thus, the reason these types fads still exist today is because people like to have things to fester over, and allow us to temporarily feel better about ourselves.
In order to decide whether I will apply this suggestion, I will assess the threat of prostate cancer, and the sum of the barriers and benefits associated with eating 5 or more servings of tomato products a week. For the threat assessment, I perceive that my susceptibility to prostate cancer is great after discovering that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetimes. Though only one in 36 of those men will die of prostate cancer, the severe circumstances that surround any type of cancer would be undesirable for me. In addition, by taking this assessment and doing research, I have been cued to action to reduce my own risk. Because of this, I weigh that the benefits of eating 5 or more servings of tomatoes weekly to be greater general health, more incentive to buy other vegetables as I buy tomatoes, more incentive to cook at home with tomatoes rather than eat out, and more protection against prostate cancer.
There was also no mention of whether the effects of the false belief manipulations were long term or just short term. People memories tend to not be the most reliable as this study has shown and mentioned in the beginning of the article, over time there is the possibility that they might go back to disliking asparagus. The study also mentioned that the findings of this study could help with developing healthy eating habits but the researchers did not actually test out that theory because no behavioral measures were
