nutrition

In the world today I feel that is very difficult to know what nutritional information is accurate, and which is just a sales pitch. Society today has so much focus around portraying this perfect image, it has created a huge stigma around what we truly need to be eating or supplementing in order to live a strong, healthy life. This makes it really hard for us to distinguish the difference between what information is correct and incorrect. I found an article called “ 10 ways to be an expert at spotting nutrition quackery.” The article goes over processes that we can use when trying to decide if the health source we are reading is creditable or not. The article states that salespeople use all different kinds of language to make us want their product. For example the article explains to be weary of products promising fast results. It explains that sure you will lose those fifteen pounds quickly but you most likely will not keep it off. There was one bit that really stood out to me, the use of the word natural. The article explains how companies will use this word even though their product is definitely not as natural as getting your nutrients from real food. This article opened my eyes to realizing that there are so many people just trying to make money off humans wanting to be “healthy”, even though most of the population does not know what they need in order to live that “healthy” life.

 

https://eatwell2bewellrd.com/10-ways-to-be-an-expert-at-spotting-nutrition-quackery/

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Although there are some similarities between choosemyplate and harvard selection, I do prefer the harvard selection. Choose my plate suggests that half of our meal be fruits and vegetables. Vegetables are very important, but I believe we would be taking in a lot of sugar if half of every meal was fruit. This is the big reason that I choose the harvard example. That is truly the biggest difference between the two.

Below is a picture of china's food pyramid. It is interesting to see this because in the US we have moved away from the pyramid. China’s food pyramid does have a lot of similarities to ours, but also some differences. I found it strange that the largest food group for them seems to be grains. I wonder why this is, and how eating so many grains affects people's daily energy.

 What do I think of food labels? Reading the first two chapters in this book has really taught me a lot. I generally will glance at the food labels of packaged food, if I buy packaged food. My eyes always go directly to the amount of sodium that the food has. These chapters have taught me about all the different foods we need in order to have a nutritional diet. I think that after this class I will find food labels more helpful, but for now they generally just confuse me. This is a big reason why my diet primarily consist of fresh vegetables and meats. I do not like eating things that have complex ingredients that I can't even pronounce.