Humans as omnivores have adapted to be opportunists in our diet. This can be an immense advantage when you are surviving in the wilderness as a hunter-gatherer and is probably why humans are some of the most successful organisms on the planet. But the question of what you should eat is one that can bring up much anxiety. If you… Read more »
Incorporating mindfulness into my life has always been a consistent source of clarity and a way to process information from the day, however incorporating it into my education has never been a habit of mine. In our course, the contemplative practices are a way to use mindfulness to enhance our education, and allow us to connect with how the material… Read more »
We have been told from a young age that humans started as a hunter-gatherer society. However, as time has progressed we stopped hunting; humans have progressed to the search for something more artificial, something easier to grab and gather. With the uprising of the industrialization of food we have come to find that nutrition, the quality of our foods, has been… Read more »
In Michael Pollan’s book, “In Defense of Food,” Pollan introduces the audience with a brief background about the development of nutritionism in the American political sphere in the 70s. One of the concepts that stood out to me from the first week’s reading was the important role of language in promoting nutritionism. In the first part of his book, Pollan… Read more »
The lessons that I learned while reading Michael Pollan’s book, In Defense of Food, were extremely eye-opening. From what I have learned, what stands out to me the most are the extreme changes that have taken place in the process of procuring food as an individual. It seems to me, from what I can tell at this point, that the… Read more »
One of the ideas that I would like to elaborate on after reading Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food” is the warning of the Western Diet becoming a global phenomenon. Due to the fact that agriculture revolution and production world wide has follow the trends of the Western nations. The idea that our agriculture production today focuses on high quantity… Read more »
When the history ever been recorded, there is nothing like “my dinner is from the factory in somewhere around the world and all I need to do is put in the oven for three minutes”. Does it sounds familiar to you? Nowadays, yes, it says everything about people’s eating habit. We used to grow our own vegetables; we used to… Read more »
Food is much more than just the objects we consume daily to survive. It’s a way of enriching our lives with the nutrients we derive from the foods we eat. For big companies who hold enough power over the media, it’s an opportunity to get fast cash by using the reliability and accessibility of information to enforce norms—with the intent… Read more »
In Michael Pollan’s book, “In the Defense of Food”, Pollan states “Eat real food, mostly plants, not too much”. His three rules on how to eat have good intentions, but they have created a culture of food shaming in society. However, society has taken his book to the extreme with nutritionism and health. For instance, many people believe that… Read more »
According to “In Defense Of Food” by Michael Pollan, this book can be summarized that the problem of the foods industry which focusing on maximizing profits, Food Science- limited nutritional science, consumers food and the change of consuming pattern. Large-scale agro-food companies focused on maximizing profits seek sales efficiency, uniformity of quality, and ease of storage. This characteristic affects not… Read more »