{"id":122,"date":"2017-06-29T04:36:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=122"},"modified":"2017-07-03T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T08:28:23","slug":"blog-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/blog-post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

During this week\u2019s crash course in the industrialization of food there have been a few things that have given me pause to consider. I graduated high school at the age of 18, weighing 310 pounds, with absolutely zero idea of nutrition. Currently at 28 I stay around 215 pounds, and I am always trying to keep up to date with the newest information and tweak my diet with more solid, and scientifically back information that I find. Scientifically in my mind, being accepted by large amounts and different scientists.\u2019 I have learned how to read labels, search ingredients, and question a lot of the knowledge and claims around me. However in reading In Defense of Food, I am a bit appalled at the fact that the US government and the scientific community literally use the public as guinea pigs for their engineered \u201cfood.\u201d I grew up eating margarine because my grandparents thought that it was a healthy alternative to butter, but as we learn in the book, it is basically modified with every ingredient that is scientifically trendy at the time. My question is how can the government \/ FDA get away with such things? Is it because we are bad consumers (or good depending on how you look at it) and don\u2019t really pay attention to what we eat, or is because there are so few people that question that they are considered to be in the extreme? Is there a way that a person, even just a small family can actively change what is going on in the world around us? If so, how, and what will it take for people to actually start caring about the public good, and not producing the types of \u201cfood\u201d found in the supermarkets of the world today?<\/a><\/p>\n

I also wanted to share my biggest disappointment…in finding out Diet Soda is not really good for you, and it contributes to the storage of belly fat. It took my a long two years to finally fully quit drinking it!<\/p>\n

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