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I think the most usful thing that I learned from this class is how to find resources. After this class I have a better skill to use penrose library. I know how to find different types of materials, and make work citied by using penrose.Also, I know some food problems and food cultures. How people eating, what people eating, and the differences how people eat between now  and in past.

never hungry

For me, I just do not want feel hungry. My eating habits are influence by my class schedule. Class schedule is one of the most important things for college students. And, it determined by how many classes I have took and what class I have took.  After registration, I will have a class schedule, and this schedule will influence my life style in next ten weeks. If lucky, I will get a good schedule, reasonable time distribution. But, most of time is unlucky, just like this quarter; I have a crowd class schedule, all of the classes are during the lunch time. Every day, my classes begin at 11am and finish at 3pm. Thus, for me, what I can have at dining hall are only breakfast and dinner.

Breakfast will show more importance for who have a similar class schedule as me. A lot of research show that breakfast is a very important meal for people’s daily life. So, for me the person who have no time to eat lunch, the breakfast is very important. But sometimes, I will get up late and skip the breakfast. And, every time when I skip the breakfast, I will feel tired and hungry a whole day, sometimes I even get stomachache. I remember that one day I went to class without eating breakfast. In the class I feel asleep and tired, and I really didn’t want to take notes and listen what professor’s speaking. After the class, I went to my dorm, and lay on my bed.  Few minus later, I fell asleep. When I weak up, I found is dark outside. It’s really hurts my study efficiency; I wasted a whole day to do nothing, no homework, no listen the teachers’ speaking. I cannot concentrate without eating the breakfast, unless I eat something at afternoon after the class.  But it’s too late; I have already missed lot things that professors teach us in class.

However, breakfast is not enough for me. Sometimes although I get up earlier, and have breakfast at dining hall, I still feel hungry at early afternoon. The best way is eat something during the class break. I always bring some chocolate to class, and eat it during the break. Breakfast is just breakfast, it cannot instead the lunch. Breakfast is important, but it doesn’t mean all. So, I need to eat something at lunch time, even I cannot go to dining hall. (I will find some source about the important of lunch)

I saw some American students will eat their meal in class. This is a good way to fill an empty stomach, if classmates and professor do not mind. But actually, I don’t like to eat my lunch in class. Because I think it will influence my classmates and professor. In general, no one can don’t make any noisy when he or she was eating, even if someone can keep quite when they were eating, they cannot stop the smell diffusing.  However, it still will influence others in the class. In China, most of schools do not allow student eat in class, some of them are do not allow even in school. When I was in primary school, my teacher told us “Do not take any food to school.” But the middle school is much better; we can eat at school but not in classroom. So, I’m not get used to eat in class. What’s more, I don’t like do something unique. I mean I don’t like to be the only one who is have lunch when others are taking note or listening to the professor’s speaking. I think it’s weird.

reading

After read the two articles written by Michael Pollan, and Melanie Du Puis, I found that both of them are talk about the food advice. In Puis’s article “Angles and Vegetables-A Brief History of Food Advice in America”, she answers the question: why we love to read the food advice? Her answer is “Because we have lost our faith in both religion and science as guides to eating, we rely on popular writers to steer us through a welter of confusing and contradictory.”(34) And, she talks about the development of food advice in America in her article.

In Pollan’s article, the author show unbelieving in the nutrients. He quest nutritionism in his article “So nutritionism is good for business. But is it good for us?”(5) He claim some diseases are not relat to the fat. Also, he tells us that “fat doesn’t make you fat; carbs to.”(5) So, in pollan’s article, he talks a lot about the misunderstanding on food. And, these misunderstanding are headed by nutritionism. He also mentions some history of food advice – nutrients.

One egg a day is enough

After read the food journal post on the blog by my classmates, I found that some of them are like to eat eggs at breakfast. Then, I was wondering, how many eggs should we eat per day? If we eat too much, then, do we will get into trouble? If so, what kind of trouble we will meet?

As we knew, egg is a very nutritive and very popular food. The eggs I mentioned in this essay are chicken eggs. Most Americans like to eat eggs at breakfast. Omelet is one of the most popular foods made of egg. Of course, poached eggs are also popular. Every morning, when I have breakfast in dining hall, I found that almost everyone will order an omelet or two or three poached eggs. People like eggs because of the taste and the nutrition. For remain our health, to know the nutritional content of foods is really helpful. So, what’s really in an egg? Do they really that nutritive as we expect?

Chicken eggs contain all essential amino acids humans that human need, and also supply vitamins and minerals. These include vitamin A, vitamin B₂, vitamin B₉, vitamin B₆, vitamin B₁₂, choline, iron, calcium, phosphorus and potassium. And, eggs can provide protein. An egg always with high cholesterol and it is an essential material for life. It seems eggs are very good for our health, should we eat much as we can? Of course not, everything have a limit, even it is good. The most things that we should care about is the essential molecular of life – cholesterol. Because, take too much cholesterol will have some bad influences to our health. And, one of the theories is cholesterol can increasing risk in heart disease. I believe no body like to get heart disease by eat too many eggs.  So, what should we do? Stop eating eggs? No longer eat eggs anymore? No, we don’t need do that. According to P.J.H. Jones article, 7 eggs per week is good for our health, 7 eggs per week is enough. Thus, if a person who like to eat egg every day, one egg per day is enough. If we eat eggs more than 7 a week, we may get into a health trouble. But is not necessary, all of us are different, maybe someone can eat more than others. 7 is just for a general situation.

All in all, egg is really good for our body healthy, as long as you not eat too much. Moderate eating eggs can supplement many essential molecules for our body, such as some vitamin, and protein. But, just not eat too much, “moderate” is very important.   One egg a day is enough for us.

Work Citied

"Food and Agriculture Organization article on eggs". Fao.org. Retrieved 2010-01-10.

Vitamin A, RAE Content of Selected Foods per Common Measure, sorted by nutrient content. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). 2005. p. 4

P. J. H. Jones Dietary cholesterol and the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients: a review of the Harvard Egg Study and other data International Journal of Clinical Practice 63
Article first published online: 14 SEP 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2009.02136.x
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-1241.2009.02136.x/abstract>

thoughts on eating practices

I won't change what I eat. I mean I won't eat the food that I don' t like, or have a very bad taste even thouth they contain many good things. But,hope I can eat breakfast every morning, because it will help with my attention. Usually, I won't having breakfast, so, I always feel tired and asleep. And, it not good for my study. I want change.

reading classmates blogg

After read my classmates' post, I found that two of them were talked about the breakfast. Zechi explained eat breakfast can help people with their attention.Joe is different, he do some research, and found that having breakfast is good for our mental health. Another interesing thing is in Deng's blog. He compare the advantage and disadvantage between meat eater and vegetarain.

p8

Our group member like drink water and soda. They don't like eat at dining hall during weekend. Most of them are go outside to have a great meal.Compare to me,I think I'm a lazy guy, three days with three meal.

3days meal

Saturday:6:00pm Noodles wiht tomato, and meat ball
Sunday:4:50pm pork, fries, humburg,ice-cream
Monday:9:25am maple flavor, cheese egg with ham, tomato, and sausage,

industrail food

After read these three articles, I found the same thing that author want tell us is in nowadays, what we eat in America are nearly all made from industry.  The new technology make them bigger, growing fast, reproduce fast, but less nutrition, and changed taste. For example, in “Fowl Trouble”, the author says the chicken in nowadays is bigger than last few decades. And, in article “On The Tomato Trail”, the author says this “Today’s industrial tomatoes are as bereft of nutrition as they are of flavor. According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, and 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and ….than it did in the 1960s. But…It contains fourteen times as much sodium.”(2). These entire article mentions industrial food, and, I think everything have two sides, so does industrial food. The good thing is because the increasing population we need more food, and food industry almost solve this problem. Industrial animals or plants have a very short life cycle, and some of them will bigger than them growing a nature environment. Most of them are transgenic, they are genetically modified, and so, they are different. Although, this technology solved our food shortage problem, it also brings some other questions. For example, would industrial food influence our healthy? Because industrial food’s nutrition is changed, just like what author’s says in the “On the Tomato Trail”, and, after genetically modified, the animals or plants will become a little bit abnormal, for example the bigger chicken. So, as far as I concerned, both of the author are quest the industrial foods.

Eating Disorder

Author says that the eating disorder in America is the food looks good or taste good may kills people. He says “One way to think about America’s national eating disorder is as the return, with an almost atavistic vengeance, of the omnivore’s dilemma. The cornucopia of the American supermarket has thrown us back onto a bewildering food landscape where we once again have to worry that some of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us.”(3). So, I think the author’s opinion for eating disorder is that what we eat now is not always healthy. Many article and research in this quarter show that health is one of the most important things in American food culture. But at the end, the author says this “‘Worrying about food is not good for your health,’ Rozin concludes – a deeply un-American view.”(4). Author mentions that Rozin and Fischler think the healthy is just a part of the American problem with food, they say “a more relaxed and social approach toward eating could go a long way toward breaking our unhealthy habit of bingeing and fad-dieting.”(4). I think this is a very interesting view. Americans not care about the health of the food as much as we think. Maybe, most of them are know that food is not health, they still eat it, because with relax social attitude they don’t think it’s a big deal. For me, when I choose the food, normally I would not consider whether it health or not. I just see if it is looks good and taste good. And, what I want to eat always change, maybe yesterday I want to eat beef, but today I will want to eat the noodles.

 

Work cited

Pollan Michael “Our National Eating Disorder” October 17, 2004