Summary Of Escape From The Western Diet By Michael Pollan

In the article “Escape from the Western Diet”, Michael Pollan suggest to the people that they should stop eating a western diet because western diet is also responsible for western diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and many more. In his article he said that “People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex chronic diseases that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets.” He also gave the solution of this problem by telling people to stop eating a western diet. New theories made new treatments to treat different diseases. In his point of view, if people want to escape from western diet they need to stop eating western food daily. He thinks that if people want to stay healthy they should eat food, not too much,

In Michael Pollan’s essay “Escape from the Western Diet,” he informs Americans about the western diet and believes they need to escape from it. The reason Americans should escape the western diet is to avoid the harmful effects associated with it such as “western diseases” (Pollan, 434). To support his view on the issue, Pollan describes factors of the western diet that dictate what Americans believe they should eat. These factors include scientists with their theories of nutritionism, the food industry supporting the theories by making products, and the health industry making medication to support those same theories. Overall, Pollan feels that in order to escape this diet, people need to get the idea of it out of their heads. In turn he

In this article, Michael Pollan expresses his views on what the Western diet is and how Americans need to escape from it. To the author, a type of American diet consists of an excessive amount of fast food and how it can lead to obesity and illnesses. Pollan expresses how he disagrees with the diet and states that both food and health industries are partially to blame for this. Pollan gives his opinion on the food industry, medical community and his own ideas on how to escape this diet.

There are more ways to shun obesity. Michael Pollan, who wrote “Escape from the western diet”, claims that the fast food industry is one of the main reasons why people struggle with their health. He believes that the processed food we consume gives us harmful deceases. Pollan urges us to listen to his words to avoid the western diet, he preaches that we should start eating healthier and to put more time and effort when it comes to buying food. Pollan provides us with his rules as well and claims that it will help us plot our way out of the western diet. Also, Pollan informs us that when it to the intake we tend to over eat, thus it becomes a huge threat to our health. The government has also made an attempt to put a stop to obesity by inverting an array of food options. By focusing on the main causes of obesity, Pollan overlooks the deeper problem of the lack of insufficient information, thus he leaves us with a lot of question marks .

of nutrition, and all our eating habits as a whole. He correlates the current epidemic of major

Pollan believes that Western diet is the primary cause of many of the different ailments that are impacting contemporary society. A few of the most notable include: heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. This is because there is no vested interest in supporting primary care and preventive medicine. As the health care industry wants to create drugs that can treat these conditions. Yet, they do not deal with the root causes of the problem. Instead, they allow the individual to engage in a pattern of destructive lifestyle choices. This increases the profit margins for everyone inside the health care industry by taking this approach. (Pollan)

He wants this meal to be hunted, gathered, and all grown by him. Pollan noted that sometimes taking the forager approach to consuming food isn’t a quite efficient way for humans to eat. Pollan figured by partaking in this experiment it would teach him numerous ways about eating foods naturally from the outside world, and not consuming so many foods that had a price tag or

In “Michael Pollan's, In Defense of Food starts with a broad sketch of a key social change: how control over what families ate shifted from cultural factors, such as mothers and traditions, to marketing and the food industry. The result is that more health claims are made for food than ever before—but people are less healthy. The goal of In Defense of Food is to analyze the reasons for this seeming paradox. As Pollan does so, he makes other arguments as well, such as the idea that people should spend less time worrying about health and food and that the current Western diet makes people sick”(Pollan). This relate to my others source because I am talking about the culture of food and how my grandma is an Liberian and how in her culture their

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Michael Pollan argues about people should spend less time worrying about health and food and that the current Western diet makes people sick and in the whole book Pollen divide the chapter into three different parts he starts of tell us "The Age of Nutritionism," "The Western Diet and the Diseases of Civilization," and "Getting Over Nutritionism. In the whole book Pollen focus on the personal level, and he talks about what people should and don't eat.

The book “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto”, by Michael Pollan, is one of the most informative and shocking books I have ever read. This book has three different parts, each discussing the different impacts the food we eat has on us. These different parts are as follows: part I, “The Age of Nutritionism,” part II, "The Western Diet and the Diseases of Civilization," and part III, "Getting Over Nutritionism." Throughout this book the author stresses how important food is to our everyday lives.

So, have you ever taste the difference between a homemade meal that’s cooked with whole foods for a meal that been processed in a factory. Michael Pollan, a food journalist and professor, argues how processed food companies only care about the profit their brand are made and not caring about the nutrient that is in the product. In “Escape from the Western Diet”, Pollan argues that there is no kind relationship between them to decide the types of nutrient and whole foods are in it. Some other people like Gyrory Scrinis, who in the article just says that he coined the term “nutritionism”, which he considers that the industry and homemade meal with whole foods are two different types of groups. Michael Pollan ideas that there is no connection between the process food industry and nutrient will be something that I will agree with him because nowadays industry only care about their profits so it is harder to separate our bodily health and the health of the environment you live and eat in.

The Western Diet mainly consists of fried foods, refined grains, sugar, high carbohydrate and fats, and meats (3). It has been hypothesized that having a Western Diet increases one’s chances for developing depression. There has been a great deal of research into why the western diet increase’s one chance of having depression. A common sense reason maybe that the Western Diet consisted of large amounts carbohydrates, fats and sugars which promotes obesity and then causes depression (1). More scientific evidence suggest that having a improper diet like the Western Diet negatively affects peripheral and central dopamine, which are neurotransmitters (chemical which transmit signals across the synapse from the nerve cell to the target cell)

This articles not only touches on our eating habits, and the results of a bad diet. The American people should be picking up on the message that we see in many articles and news media.

This article addresses the major health risk and disease associated with the typical American diet. Which is often referred to a diet high rich in animal fats, very high in cholesterol and saturated fats. High in processed food and low in fresh fruit and vegetable intake.

For many decades there have been major debates on people's eating habits in the United States. Rather it's okay to eat whatever citizens want, or letting the government interfere by putting regulations. In the reading section of “What Should We Eat” from the They Say I Say book, Authors express their opinions and evidence upon what is right as well wrong in the way people eat and the way they do. Michael Pollan, writer of Escape From the Western Diet, Michael Pollan emphasizes on having to stop eating the way we do in order to escape the western diet. Secondly, Mary Maxfield author of Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating focuses on her argument of food is food and people or culture shouldn't tell you what to