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Summary Of How Junk Food Can End Obesity By David Freedman

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Many of us enjoy fast food restaurants because they are quick, cheap and the food is appeasing to our taste buds. It would be very hard for many of us to turn down junk food for veggies. In the article, How Junk Food Can End Obesity, David H. Freedman presents, “Demonizing processed food may be dooming many to obesity and disease. Could embracing the drive-thru make us all healthier?” Freedman believes in the process of making prepackaged foods healthier. He uses his personal experience of drinking a healthy smoothie versus a fattening and unhealthy smoothie to compare which drink is more appeasing to the taste buds. Freedman goes further into details about the pricing and the calories of each smoothies. He also uses other published articles …show more content…

Michael Pollen states, “The food they’re cooking is making people sick.” He believes the fast-food industry has knowingly addicted us to sugar, fats and other artificial ingredients. Pollen solution is to replace processed-food manufacturers with fresh, unprocessed, local, seasonal, real food (Freedman 508). Freedman argues that Pollen does not comprehend the reality of encouraging people to change their eating habits. He supports his criticism against Pollen by comparing wholesome foods and junk foods. Freedman let the readers know that even though “organic” food is better than processed food, that may not be the case from his experience at the whole foods store. Freedman goes to Whole Foods Market to critically link in the wholesome-eating food chain (Freedman 511). An item on the checkout counter catches his eye. The item label list that the contents are raw and they do not contain any genetically modified ingredients. What the content do contains is more than three times the fat content per ounce as the beef patty in a Big Mac and four times the sodium (Freedman 512). Next, Freedman makes a stop at Trader Joe’s, also known for an emphasis on wholesome foods (Freedman 512). At the register, Freedman was confronted with a healthy snack. The snack contains six times as much fat as it does protein with loads of carbohydrates (Freedman 512). Fat is known to carry more than twice as much calories as

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