FINAL DRAFT: Writing Project #2: The Synthesis Essay - Joining Conversation
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Why People Like To Eat Unhealthy Food
Marvellous .S. Surajudeen
Department of English, Ivy-Tech Community College
English 111 OFH
Professor Scott Cook
February 11, 2021
Why People Like To Eat Unhealthy Food
When it comes to your health, who do you listen to, your body or expert? Do you consider that are harmful to your body.” bad food “or “junk food”? Mary Maxfield recommends that we need to listen our body than we do to expert. She also says that we should label food good verse bad instead of the word “junk food “. Michael Pollan argues that our body is not always correct and that why we should leave it to the professionals. He also argues that in other to leave heathier lives we need to cut out junk food. Both Pollan and Maxfield have very different views on the way we should take care of our health. Why do people eat food unhealthily, Michael pollan asserts that junk food is filled with tons of carbohydrate and omega-3-faty acid that then causes chronic deasses. He then goes on to say “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plant” (Pollan,2008, p.628).
There are many different beliefs about the proper way to eat healthy. People are often misleading and live unhealthy lifestyle as a result. Both Mary Maxfield and Michael Pollan explain their own beliefs on what healthy diet is and how to live a healthy lifestyle. In the essay “Escape from the Western diet” Michael Pollan writes about the flaws of the western diet and how we can correct these problems to become healthier. In the essay “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating”, Mary Maxfield criticizes Michael Pollan’s essay about eating healthy. She believes that Pollan is contradicting himself and that what he is stating is false. Mary Maxfield ponders on why the people should eat to primarily for a good purpose and not to eat unhealthily. She stated that American people should protect themselves rather than been known as a nation stricken by heart diseases, diabetes, and cancer (Maxfield, p.642).
The author of “Escape from the Western Diet”, Michael Pollan places the blame on the western diet, arguing that people need only to change their eating habit to prevent chronic diseases. The western diet consists of food high in sugar and fat, as well as a large consumption of red meats and refined grains. As a result, people who consume a western diet faces problems with their weight and often have many diseases as listed above (paragraph3) and they are traced back to poor dieting. The writer thinks this habit is unhealthy and he further continue ticking out his point that even those who are supposed to acts on how to reduce the rate at which junk food or unhealthy food are bought are not doing so. (Pollan,2013, p.625)
The Author Mary Maxfield explain that the factors that causes obesity is not only unhealthy food also he believed that the right way of eating involves eating less and differently than we instinctively would “what a person eats [rarely] takes primacy over how they eat it” (Allison, “Eating”). In essence, we can eat as we as always have – which includes eating for emotional and social reason -and still survive or even thrive (Maxfield, p.644). The writer supports that people can eat the way they like and thus give then the believes that they can eat as they desire. Mary Maxfield theory on how to eat healthy is to trust “Trust Yourself” Trust nobody. Meet your needs.” you can eat whatever you want or need and have to trust that your body will tell you what it needs.
Eating the pizza instead of the salad seemed like a good idea at the time, but now one is stuck in this sloth like state hours later. It seems letting craving control what and how to is not the best strategy to healthy living.
Mary Maxfield, in her article “Food For Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Food” discussed her view on how people should eat. She believes people should eat what they crave. The Author claim that diet, health, and weight are not correlated with each other, and because of the this, people view obesity as unhealthy, thus forcing them to distinguish “right, healthy” food from the “wrong, unhealthy” choices. As a result, she concludes that science has nothing to do with how people eat but Pollan mention too that it is difficult to make healthier choices be caused process foods, such as canned or frozen fruits and vegetables, packaged foods, fortified foods, and easy-to -prepare foods, constitute of more than 75% of food in grocery stores. Maxwell writes “When we attempt to rise above our animal nature through the moralization of food, we unnecessarily complicate the practice of eating food- be it French fry or granola bar, Twinkie or brown rice- isn’t moral or immoral “(Maxwell 644) Maxfield main point is essentially “Eat the food if you are well please.
In conclusion Pollan and Maxfield obviously have hugely differing viewpoint. Maxfield attacked pollan for being hypocritical and essentially preaching what he is fight against. She believes that Pollan is contributing to the hysteria and preaching for what he is so adamant in fighting, but Maxfield on the other hand is being realistic, and she takes a more honest approach for people day -to-day lives. The author Maxfield has a valid argument in regard to still remaining healthy, but she focuses more on the fact that the food is meant to nourish a person, mind, body and soul. If eating a Twinkie or cheeseburger feels like the right things to do, then it should not matter its nutritional value, as long as it is consumed in moderation. The author is making a reasonable suggestion for everyday person to make positive changes in their lives, and by doing it in such manner, it will have a better effect on people and thus, create more positive change.