Unhappy-Meals

Unhappy Meals by Michael Pollan is a very intereting article that examinse the average american diet. In this article he attempts to explain how people are often tricked into eating foods that they think are good for them, when they really are not. Saying that "a little meat won't kill you" since people are commonly freaked out by the thought of eating meanas well as thinking that it will cause them to get fat. He makes the point also that people need to eat whole foods rather than eating "nutrient" which "slowly" started replacing foods around the early 1980's. Nutrients are what he calls "bad science" and are the main result of people in america gaining weight. If you look at other countries in europe for example, their diets are made up of only whole foods. Unlike our diets in the U.S. which contain genetically enhanced foods of all kinds. The western diet contains lots of processed foods such as fats and sugars, rather than fruits and whole grain foods. This is the single most important reason that people in our country are fat. If they would only realize that its not about how little or how much you consume, but rather what you consume that determines if you are fat or not. As a result he list's his nine step plan that results in people having the right kind of diet for eating (see article) and if these steps were followed properly then a person would be on the right track to a perfectly healthy diet.
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