P 9: Healthy diet

From Michael Pollan’s article which was named “unhappy meals”. I learned that American people’s eating habits is not regular and healthy enough nowadays. The contemporary food issues are affecting people’s daily life, especially people’s health. The author mentioned that America faced “the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional” (2). Then the author mainly talked about the food problems about nutrition which has many unknown common senses we do not understand. Such as, the “French paradox” tell us “a population that eats all sorts of unhealthful is in many ways healthier than we Americans are” (4); not only the citizens but also the nutritionists have trouble discerning qualitative distinctions between foods; people do not realize the composition and the detriment about nutrients in food. Personally, I am interested in the topic which was “pay more, eat less”, I agree with the author who wants to tell us that “the quality may have a bearing on quantity” (16).

On the other hand, the “Angeles and Vegetables” which was written by Dupuis has the opposite point about the problems of people’s healthy diet. He strongly opposed the point, “as history has shown, unless we also want to return to our great-great grandmother’s enema bag, that may not be the best advice” (43) which was mentioned in Pollan’s article. So, Dupuis support to eat everything people want and people do not consider the health and nutrients of the food which means that he prefer to make our dietary choices to solve our personal and national problems rather than make political choices. Personally, I was surprised with Dupuis’s idea which was opposite with Pollan’s point. He used dauntless words and evidence to attack Pollan’s idea; it is so excited to read the evidence which mentioned that people can eat everything to satisfy our stomachs.

Works Cited

Michael Pollan."Unhappy Meals. " New York Times Magazine28 Jan. 2007:ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web.19 May. 2012.

Melanie Du Puis, E.. "Angels and Vegetables: A Brief History of Food Advice in America. " Gastronomica7.3 (2007): 34-44. Research Library, ProQuest. Web.19 May. 2012.