I couldn’t find anybody in the Chat room. I tried a few times, so I wrote my own essay. Natalia Espana.
What is making us sick? In the last two years, the answer of this question became more and more important in my life. We know some steps to follow to became healthy. For example; Eat a lot of vegetables, fruits, whole grains. Avoid fried, greasy food. Well, it turns out that this is not enough any more. The food that we eat these days is affecting our health because it is loaded with chemicals, preservatives , fertilizes and animals are fed in an unnatural way.
The vegetables and fruits we buy at the supermarket are not safe anymore. These days pesticides are so strong that when they are spread on the lands it could be life threatening for humans to be close to them. In his book “The Omnivore Dilemma” Michael Pollan, Describes his experience in Idaho visiting a potato farm. He explains that the potato crops were sprayed with water, pesticide and fertilizers. They were so toxic to the nervous system that no human being was allowed to get closer to them for the following five days. These potatoes have to be stored for six months to wait for the chemicals to fade.
Our animals are not in a better situation. Cows were born to eat grass. Because of the meat demand, they are loaded with hormones, and they are overfeed with grains. This is unnatural for these animals. Their Omegas ratio changed and therefore ours has changed as well. When a normal Ratio would be 4 to 1 (omega6 to omega3). The new advanced cow is 20 to 1.The most common consequence to humans because of the way animals are fed is high cholesterol, therefore causing stroke, heart attack and other ailments..
Finally, a big part of the food available today at supermarkets is over processed and loaded with preservatives, colorants and high fructose corn syrup. These extremely affect our health. The risk of cancer, diabetes and heart attacks increases considerable when we eat these foods on regular bases.
However, we still can work against this problematic situation. Some of the precautions we can implement in our life is to buy Organic foods, cage free, hormone free, grass feed animals. Avoid highly processed foods and select the most natural ingredients. This is one way to take control of our health for good.
References:
Omnivore’s Dilema, Michael Pollan
Maximized Living, BJ Hardick, Kimberly Roberto
Natalia Espana.
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Excellent job on this assignment. I thought you presented your topic in a way that is straight to the point and it is effective. Your reference is indeed great and it definately promotes an excellent example of your topic. For "Maximized Living", is that where you got most of your information from? Also, for your attention getter, maybe a more rounded out question would work better or possibly a statisic. Well overall, I liked it and I seriously thought you did an excellent job by yourself.
ReplyDeleteNatalia, I think you did an excellent job all by yourself. I like your subject matter and the way your paragraphs flowed into the cause, the consequences, and the solutions. You gave ideas and comments on how to change what we stock our pantries and freezers with and the additudes we should adopt for the health of our families. I really appreciate it because I am the main gatherer of the nuts and berries in my family.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure why you wrote a whole essay here--the assignment was to write an intro and a body paragraph--but you clearly put a lot of effort into this and you do see the distinction between an intro and a body.
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