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.