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