{"id":399,"date":"2018-04-29T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=399"},"modified":"2018-04-29T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T13:46:32","slug":"how-food-makes-me-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/04\/29\/how-food-makes-me-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Food Makes Me Feel"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a young adult woman in a time heightened by social media popularity and the craze of food science, I\u2014like many young women\u2014are at a millennial crossroad, confused and perplexed by the need to look a certain way to achieve maximum \u201clikes\u201d while also drowning in a sea of supposed scientific facts that influence how I can have a body that I so desperately want.<\/p>\n

After struggling with this conundrum throughout the majority of high school with the rise of Instagram and reading the first part of Pollan\u2019s book, I have realized that young women, like me, have continued with this unhealthy relationship with food because of the overwhelming information about what food is made up of and what I should be putting in my body. Pollan\u2019s idea of nutritionism breaks down food into its component parts, creating a more developed food science. Now there’s an overload of information about food that you need to process, changing our understanding of what it means to be making healthy food choices. While this dialogue is happening, simultaneously, social media is training us to validate ourselves by other people through number of likes or online popularity.<\/p>\n

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These conversations intertwine in a lot of ways. For example, social media has cultivated an ideal body image and Pollan\u2019s idea of nutritionism has defined our perception of \u201cfat,\u201d forgetting the valuable additions that having a healthy portions of fat has (Pollan 49). We have convinced the younger population that being \u201cfat\u201d is unhealthy without talking about the variability of being \u201cfat,\u201d only to be supported by social media\u2019s idolization of certain body types. But the conversation doesn\u2019t need to end there. To get to a healthy relationship with food, I need to better my understanding of what food does for my body and focus on changing my perception of myself in regards to other people.<\/p>\n

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As a young adult woman in a time heightened by social media popularity and the craze of food science, I\u2014like many young women\u2014are at a millennial crossroad, confused and perplexed by the need to look a certain way to achieve maximum \u201clikes\u201d while also drowning in a sea of supposed scientific facts that influence how I can have a body… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}