Choose our own favorite food

In Pollan’s article “Our National Eating Disorder”, he mainly discussed the causations of the national eating disorder and the symptoms of the national eating disorder. He said “a scientific study, a new government guideline, a lone crackpot with a medical degree can alter this nation’s diet overnight” (PARA 3). Based on this kind of influence, American people will surprisingly found out that the food they love to eat in the past is suddenly found to be “lethal”. Another kind of reason that cause the national eating disorder is that the exotic culture’s import. Large amount of people from different places immigrate to the United State of America, thus the culture in America is certainly variety. However, different cultures certainly represent different kind of food, so it is understandable that why American people have so many choices for their dinner.

According to the author’s perspective, he claimed that the healthiness of the food and the nutritious of the food is an important factor for American people to consider when they choose the food. It is really interesting for me because I used to say the same thing in my own essay. I do believe that the healthiness and nutritious should be considered at first because it directly affect our own health. Another interesting thing I found in this article is that the author said different culture may treat the same food in different ways. For example, when talking about the phrase “chocolate cakes”, American people will say “guilt” while French people will say “celebration”.

The way I choose for my own meal is very simple, the healthy food and the comfort food. The healthy food is good for my health and the comfort food makes me feel happy and relax. For today’s dinner, I ate some rice and cabbages, I also enjoyed some French fries. The rice and cabbages is the healthy food while the French fries is the comfort food for me.