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Eating disorder

“Our National Eating Disorder” written by Pollan pointed out three main problems with the American national eating habit nowadays which displayed the unusual prevalent about excessive apprehension. First, as the author mentioned in this article “this obsession has been recognized as a distinctly American phenomenon at least since the early decades of the 20th century.” (Pollan, 1) It is the main reason why the eating disorder has been occurred in America. Also, the Social Science Research can lead people to avoid one kind of food which will be bad for their health overnight. People just follow the trend about the scientific advice without consideration and analysis. What’s more, Americans are so careful to eat a piece of cheesecake or a chocolate cake because they can also worry about the health problems which can lead to fat disease. I can also find the problems with the food factories, they are expecting a new technology which “can readily re-engineer processed foods to be low-fat or low-carb or high in omega-3's” (Pollan, 3) because of the “eating disorder”. Moreover, as a country with a huge percentage of immigrant populations, America does not have his own food system for all the citizens. So there are always some problems with food system happens nowadays.

I can find that the French looks eating comfortable and disengaged from the article, they have their own eating scale, such as, every food can eat for fun if they enjoy them and they eat alone rarely. Personally, I am an eating freedom person, I also eat less my favorite food because I can always keep the feeling and enjoy it more (Pollan, 4).