Unhappy Meals Summary Essay Example

Study Finds. ” And the cloud of nutritional confusion over the country darkened. ” But how can this be I pondered? I was always told that low-fat is always better.

By this time in my reading I had started to see a trend. The light bulb was flickering but not fully on yet. Another topic Pollan stresses on multiple occasions is eat less. The "not too much" part of the advice is cited several times. Pollan's main support for this is to look at the French. They eat foods rich in nutrients proven to be terrible for you. Yet they are much healthier than the average American. Why you ask? Because they eat much less than we do. The easiest way to reduce calories is to not eat calories, which are in all foods. So eating less food means you eat fewer calories.

Michael Pollan also cites a study done by the Women's Health Institute. His main point comes from their survey about what people have been eating. The "medium" portion sizes are at least three times smaller than what most Americans consider to be a "medium" portion size. So, we eat more of foods that are bad for us, that turn out not really to be foods at all, with “nutrients” put back in that we really don’t understand their effect on the human body. This all makes perfectly good sense now. In the end you can summarize this essay on eating healthier by his 9 final rules.

• 1. Eat food “the real stuff”
• 2.Avoid food that has health claims,
• 3. Avoid food that have unfamiliar ingredients,
• 4. Stay away from the super market,
• 5. Pay
  

more for your healthy food then eat less of it,

After reading this article by Pollan, I have been moved on a personal level to become a more conscious and healthy eater. Most of his advice is simple and easy to follow I guess we will know if he was right or not by gauging our health against our next generation’s health. References Pollan, Michael. "Unhappy Meals. " The New York Times 28 Jan. 2007. Print.