National Eating disorder

Pollan points out many problems with the way in which Americans go about picking and choosing which foods they are going to put in their bodies, and says that because of these problems, America is one of the unhealthiest countries in the world. Pollan looks at the changing diet fads that stress one nutritional group over the other, such as the Atkins diet, which stresses a carb free life in order to be “healthy” and look in style. What I thought was most interesting about this article was when Pollan stated, “So we've learned to choose our foods by the numbers (calories, carbs, fats, R.D.A.'s, price, whatever), relying more heavily on our reading and computational skills than upon our senses. Indeed, we've lost all confidence in our senses of taste and smell, which can't detect the invisible macro- and micronutrients science has taught us to worry about, and which food processors have become adept at deceiving anyway.”(Pollan, 4) This statement truly captured to me the American food culture and how people in the United States pick and choose which foods they are going to eat. With the food industry playing perfectly into these changing diet fads, the facilitation of this cultural shift will continue to thrive and allow the food industry to prosper and make money off of carb crazy Americans, due to the fact that the rest of the world doesn’t have to deal with this problem. Pollan’s talk about Europe and the European style of eating interested me due to the fact that I had wrote similarly on the last paper and I was reading to learn facts that I didn’t know. I really enjoyed when he talked about France and Italy having a traditional meal set up and how that set up has not changed for centuries, and because of that, the diversity of the food in their 3-4 hour meal allows them to get all the nutrients out of all the different food gr