“Snacks for a Fat Planet” is an article by John Seabrook discussing his thoughts and his time at PepsiCo, the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States. PepsiCo has a want for “aspirational” products and marketing. Providing great details throughout the whole article, Seabrook begins with a background of PepsiCo and proceeds to discuss the unhealthy benefits on their products. After introducing the reading to the CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi, the reader is informed of the company’s ideas on an expansion for “good for you” products. The salty and sugary snacks are a leading factor in the obesity era we are in and PepsiCo wants to find a way to provide their customers with a product that is less hazardous to one’s health, but a product
Eric Schlosser - Fat Food Nation Eric Schlosser begins "Global Realization" with a visit to Plauen, which he writes, "has been alternately punished, rewarded, devastated, and transformed by the great unifying system of the twentieth century... Plauen has been a battlefield for these competing ideologies, with their proudly displayed and archetypal symbols: the smokestack, the swastika, the hammer and sickle, the golden arches. " What are the "competeing ideologies" to which Schlosser refers? What do the "archetypal symbols" he mentions represent? Each person learns to develop their own distinct set of beliefs based on the fact that they have their own subjective reality.
I feel this predicament every time I go for that third piece of pizza or third scoop of ice cream. Should I eat healthy or should I eat what I like? I sense his dilemma and all the pressing issues that must be questioned.
After watching this video where Michael Moss speaks about Salt, Sugar, and Fat in the American diet, my views about the food industry have changed. I never realized that the government was supporting the dairy industry. It amazed me to learn that the reason Americans are so attached to their dairy products is due to the strong relationship of the government and the dairy industry. Personally, I really enjoy dairy products.
Nowadays, people pay more attention to their health with the improvement of our life quality. Nutrition science is popularized on newspaper, online websites and many other social media. In the essay” The American Paradox,” Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism at University of California, Berkeley, argues that Americans have an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating because we care more about the health consequences of our food choice instead of eating with pleasure. Pollan claims that the food marketing machine, nutrition science, and journalism are main forces for Americans to change their diet. Pollan uses the conflicting reports of scientific studies of low-fat diet and dietary fiber as examples of bad influence of journalism and the
Why are our foods making us unhealthy? Some issues Sinclair includes in “The Jungle” (Sinclair 352-355) are chemical additives that are being used in foods to enhance flavor (taste), and fast food chains are making their food portions bigger which may cause more people to be unhealthy. Importantly, chemicals are being used in foods to enhance flavor (taste). The flavor industries are highly secretive and will not reveal the formulas to their clients.
When people are eating chips, candies, greasy foods, or ever cheap store snacks, they end up getting tire, lazy, and your body won’t react the way you what it to, so they will just go lay down and sleep. Then when they are laying down all the junk in your body won’t digest right, and your body will store up all of the junk in your body as fat. (Does a junk food diet make you
Why do people think having Hot Sugar interviewing Neil Regards Tyson was a good idea? Does it make him look more abstract, more intellectual? His questions and the way he puts it just come off as well… pretentious. He already makes up his mind about all the answers and he cling tightly them even when Mr.Tyson give an amazing answer to his uninteresting question.
I. We consume 8,500mg of salt per day, almost all from processed food. This is only one of the many reasons people have poor nutrition. Humans tend to not know the difference between processed and real foods causing the nutrition levels in our society to drop at an alarming rate. For years this problem has been a big factor to obesity and illness. Real food is single ingredient with no chemicals even if they’re ground and put into a jar.
Even though I could eat all the ice cream I wanted, I just asked for more and more water. Considering I’m an ice cream addict, my mom found this very odd. She also noticed some symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes, one of them being increased thirst. The next time she came in to check on me, she had my sister’s blood sugar test kit.
Besides that, it is also rich in sodium from common salt and other additives. i.Sub-sub-supporting point: Based on the study of Dr. Vinyard and Dr. Bowman, by comparing the adults who took fast food often and those who do not, the study showed positive relationship with overweight status. 2.Supporting point 2: Obesity may not bring immediate death but it may cause heart attack, asthma, diabetes and a lot more. a.Sub-supporting point 1: A lot of diseases can be cause by being obese, although some of the diseases meantion above doesn’t bring immediate death but it would cause a lot of trouble to our daily life.
The shocking truth about sugar is effectively conveyed in Damon Gameau’s stimulating documentary, That Sugar Film, which challenges society’s idea of healthy eating, writes Rebecca Hunter. If you are looking for a film to answer questions, make you think and change your life, Damon Gameau That Sugar Film explains all and even more. Winner of AACTA’s best feature length documentary it is easy to see why this observatory documentary has been applauded.
I. We consume 8,500mg of salt per day, almost all from processed food. This is only one of the many reasons people have poor nutrition. Humans tend to not know the difference between processed and real foods causing the nutrition levels in our society to drop at an alarming rate. For years this problem has been a big factor to obesity and illness. Real food is a single ingredient with no chemicals even if they’re ground and put into a jar.
Excess fructose gets turned into fat, which can lodge in the liver and cause non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Highly processed foods are loaded with artificial chemicals, including flavorants, sweeteners, texturants, colorants and preservatives. Many of these products contain less real food or no food at all. Some of them contain highly refined ingredients like wheat flour, corn syrup and vegetable oils. They are then made palatable using artificial flavors and various processing techniques.
That Sugar Film is an interesting documentary following a man’s journey to discover the harmful effects of sugar on the human body. Damon Gameau uses his own body to try to show his audience that sugar is harmful. His goal with this documentary is to try to convince his audience to reduce the amount of sugar that they consume. Gameau shows that he is passionate about this subject by eating large amounts of sugar daily after having not had sugar for over three years. This potentially puts his body at risk.
