Uncooked Food : The Reality About The Raw Food Style

B. Raw veganism includes only fresh and uncooked fruits, nuts, seeds, and vegetables. Vegetables can only be cooked up to a certain temperature.

When I grow up, foods becomes popular especially processed food. I stayed alive and healthy because of those foods. Although now that I am more knowledgeable about foods, I realize that I do not need those food to survive. What I consumed everyday is very toxic and very unhealthy. When we get a chance to understand more about it, I realize and got inspired that I should go on a Plant-Based Diet. First of all, what is Plant-Based Diet? According to the article from Kaiser called The Plant-based Diet Booklet the author defines this plan as “This eating plan includes lots of plant foods in their whole, unprocessed form, such as vegetables, fruits, beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, whole grains, and small amounts of healthy fats. It does not include

1. David Freedman sets out to disprove that processed foods are inherently bad for you; counter arguing what Michael Pollan advocates. Freedman’s set out to prove to the readers that the praise wholesome, organic food receives, and the bashing that processed junk food receives, might not be entirely true. The author argues against Michael Pollan’s opinion on processed food. To do this, he uses a combination of his personal experiences, including in both Whole Foods and Trader Joe, and date he has derived from his experiences in said stores.

In “Escape from the Western Diet” Michael Pollan argues against the scientific theories of nutrition, and discusses the harmful effects, and chronic diseases associated with the Western Diet. Pollan offers an alternate view of a healthier lifestyle to escape the western diet that simply suggests that we “stop eating and thinking that way.” (Pollan 423) He explains that the food industry has changed the wholeness of our food, which causes us to eat unhealthier things such as fast food. He approaches a solution to these contradictory theories and science by focusing on a personal approach to eating that is based on the individual's view of food. Pollan three rules to create a healthier lifestyle are to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” (Pollan 426) which suggest to eat “real” food in a new balanced and healthy way that creates a pleasurable approach of eating. I agree with Pollan’s concepts about the western diet and his rules of eating simpler.

In chapter thirty-two of the kitchen as laboratory, César Vega and David J. McClements discuss what it means to cook from scratch in the context of modern society. Vega begins the chapter by introducing the topic of the importance of knowing where our food comes from, and how it is modified into the ingredients we know today. Although consumers should know where their food comes from, Vega and McClements claim that the consumers should also educate themselves about the process of how food is transformed to provide a better understanding of their food. The authors cite Michael Pollan, an author who writes primarily about food. Pollan claims that consumers should purchase food with a limited number of ingredients, or ingredients that are easy to identify. The authors disagree with Pollan’s point, citing that some foods are enriched to make people healthier, and if the additives were removed there would be a impact on everyone’s health.

Today, as many Americans suffer from weight-attributed ailments, society continues to look for a solution to the age-old question: What should we be eating? As a result, many new complex and often complicated diets with millions of scientific explanations of how it works arise and are taken up blindly by the public. Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, also attempted to give his point of view on the subject of eating. He makes it quite simple for his readers to follow, he simply states people should eat food, not too much, and mostly plants. He claims that most food on the market today is not actually food, it is heavily processed food products. Because of this, he tells his readers to eat “real food” and to generally eat less at the same time, while eating mostly plants as plants are generally the least processed foods and are the healthiest options for us. Pollan also criticized the public and its motion of what he called nutritionism, which is when people are overly obsessed with nutritional values of food and being healthy and

This information has swayed me to understand that organic food is the much better option when considering our natural well being and the environments. Likewise, Mr. Pollan has educated the audience enough to know that “free-range” or “organic” foods do not always mean what their are connotation may make them out to be. Organic foods may include no pesticides or chemical fertilizers, but what about all of the other chemicals that animals must inhale to keep from getting sick. As Michael Pollan puts it “When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.” (Pollan 270.) This quote directly correlates with humans as well. When we eat processed foods or anything that does not stem from the environment that we live in we are changing our bodies into something it was unintended to be. Likewise arose the quote by Victor Lindlahr “You are what you

The series consistently brings up our primal need to cook, while trying to entice us back into the kitchen with beautiful cinematography, personal stories about people, and the cultural impact of the things we take for granted. There 's no doubt that Cooked is a passion project, with a strong message, however, there are many inconsistencies with the argument they present. These inconsistencies mostly revolve around a failure to negate questions of how to achieve their idealist viewpoints, cherry picking scientific evidence, and simultaneously trying to dismantle food industry fuckery while supporting a fallacy.

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.

According to vegansociety.com, “ Veganism represents a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, other animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, other animals and the environment.“ People that follow this way of living are called vegans. The vegan diet is more a lifestyle choice and a philosophy than just a diet. The vegan life is the best way to live because it’s healthier, helps the environment, and is kinder to animals.

Sociology is the study of society and people. Food and food ways are often elements associated with particular societies and therefore, studying such a topic can offer valuable insight into the ways of that society and the people who live in it. Although eating is a vital part of survival, with whom, how and where we eat are not. Studying such ways can illustrate and represent the identity of a person or group. The nature of people and their beliefs can be indicated when analysing their food habits. Who individuals eat with is a particularly revealing factor into gaining an understanding of their identity, culture and society (Scholliers P 2001). For this reason commensality is a term frequently used in sociological research concerning

The phrase “ you are what you eat” has been used for centuries. The healthier your food the healthier you can be. However, as time goes on, I hope this phrase is no longer true. The documentary Food Inc. shows our food and what farm fresh really means; things are not always what they seem. The documentary is dark and gruesome in the way it displays our food and what goes into making it, but it also opens our eyes to the world of production and similarly what we see and what we should be seeing. Although it is a gut wrenching documentary, there is an educational informative truth behind it to see if food is really food anymore.

It is commonly believed that fresh and natural is the correct dietary plan above all else. To start out, Rachel Laudan brings up the concept that going back to the way of our ancestors may not be what individuals need in the modern world. Rachel Laudan questions the idea that the people of the past lived a much healthier lifestyle than the current population finds acceptable by giving the reader mental imagery about how the people of the past truly were living and how undesirable that life was. Consequently, Rachel Laudan backs up her beliefs by arguing about the benefits of the healthy natural eating of the people of the past “ Natural was unreliable. Fresh milk soured; eggs went rotten. Everywhere seasons of plenty were followed by seasons of hunger. Natural was also usually indigestible. Grains, which supplied 50 to 90 percent of calories in most societies, have to be threshed ground, and cooked to make them edible (Faigley 271).” Rachel Laudan seems to be arguing that life for the people of the past was not something to create a lifestyle around. In conclusion, the lifestyle of the past was a difficult one based on uncertainty due to the dependency of the crops to thrive.

The way we eat food has changed drastically in the past few decades. When I think of the process of how our food is made and produced, I typically think of a farm with animals laying around, eating grass, content with everything. Also, I picture ripe red tomatoes, apples, and sweet smelling fruit being pick right when it is ripened so it can get to our grocery stores. This is typically how most people picture our food coming from a farm. It is how they want us to picture it, because it is a happy image: but, it is far from the reality of how things are.

Food can be healing medicine or it can deplete your energy and cause sickness and pain. In Cook Your Way to the Life You Want, Christina Pirello writes that we run a risk by having someone else prepare all our meals. “We run a risk of giving our destiny to any chef who claims to know how to cook a pot of rice. He or she is in charge of who we are and what we feel and how we behave. That may sound dramatic, but the truth is that whoever is cooking is in charge of the people we become.”