Eating like a omnivore

In Pollan’s article, “Unhappy Meals”, Pollan’s opinion about the American contemporary food issue is that the American people’s eating habits is not healthy enough in recent years. More and more people just eat what they like to eat but they pay no attention on the healthiness or nutrients of the food. He gave out several advices to improve the American eating habits, and to be more specific, I want to mainly discuss two of them.

First, according to Pollan’s opinion, he said “Avoid food products containing ingredients that are unfamiliar, unpronounceable, and contain high-fructose syrup” (page 16). These three parts ingredients are not harmful themselves, but if they are processed, they can be really harmful to us.

Second, Pollan said that “eat mostly plants, especially leaves” (page 16). As we all known, the plants absolutely contain less calories than meat. According to Pollan’s perspective, he believed that the vegetarian is healthier than carnivores. So he agreed with this conclusion: change the plants as the main dishes on our tables in order to become healthier.

However, another author, Dupuis, showed different opinions. Dupuis disagree with Pollan’s perspective. He said “Injustice is worth serious attention, but diet won’t do the trick” (page 43). Unlike Pollan, Dupuis’s main idea is that people should not consider much about the healthiness and nutrients of the food. Our eating habits should follow our heart, our taste. Consider much is a waste of time.

Nowadays, the eating habit of American people is become more and more unhealthy. Some people only eat meat while some people only eat vegetables. Based on my perspective, I believe that become omnivore is the best choice. People should eat both meat and vegetables every day so that they can receive enough vitamin and calories. Maybe this is the best way to become a healthy person.