What is healthy food?

After reading the two articles, we can easily understand that both of the authors want to tell us what kind of food that they believe is good for people’s health.

In the first article “History of Food Advice” which is written by Dupuis, the author points out that people nowadays are influenced by the popular articles too much on choosing the food they eat. He says that “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 information.”(p34) He first writes about in the early nineteenth century, people more believe in god and their traditional, they have their own believe on what is healthy. In order to change their mind, some scientist begins to use bible to improve themselves. They say that “When direct angelic advice was missing, food reformers used a peculiar semi-scientific deism as their method, counting on the Bible to provide them with scientific data about a better future. For example, the early food reformer Robert Hartley “proved” that God intended humans to drink milk because He showed preference for the pastoralist Abel over the ploughman Cain.”(38) They also sys Americans eat too much meat, they use data to improve that American work eat over meat every day and compare them with the German workers.

In the second article “Unhappy Meals” which is write by Pollan, the author shows his point view that really interest me. First of all, he believes that we should believe in the food that old people choose, the things that people begin to eat from a long time ago is must good for their health. Secondly, Pollan believes that people nowadays eat too much; it is more than what they need. Eating as much as you can is not good for your health, however, eat until you do not feel hungry is enough. The quality is more important than the amount. Thirdly, he points out people should eat more kinds of food, only meat and basic vegetable are not enough, we should also eat fruit. More types of food mean more kind of nutrition.

Nowadays, because people can have a better life than before, so we have the ability to choose the food we want. So, many people just eat the food they like but not care about if it is healthy. I think we should follow the idea of the scientists, so that we can get have the healthy choice.

         

thoughts on eating practices

i am a person who only eat meat, no matter what kind of meat porklamb or even frog. i eat vegetable nearly once a month when my parents are not force me to do that. this eating habbits brings me a lot of health trabble, however, i never think i should change my eating habbit. i believe that we should enjoy the thing we like when we are young, i do not care about how long i can be alive but i think enjoy the present life is the most important thing.

after reading difei's paper

after reading difei's paper, i know that he is talking about yogurt is good for our health. in his paper, i find something that interest me. first of all, he points out that how much nutrasion in the yogurt is depends on the milk they use. he also use the medicaal journal to show us the nutrasions both in milk and yogurt. secondly, he says that eating yogurt can help us to keep away from disease. it not only can help us to defence some normal illness like catching a cold, it can also help us to against the Colon Cancer. 

Chicken nugget

Chicken nugget is a popular food in America, both children and adult like it. After I come to America, I can nearly find chicken nugget in every meal, and we also like to buy them from the market and cooks by ourselves. However, does eating chicken nugget good for our health? I do not really think so.

First of all, I want to talk about the resource about the chicken nugget, which is the chicken in America. I have once watched a movie called the “food inc”, it talks about how does the farmers in America feed the chicken. The chicken in America is really unhealthy; they cannot even walk by themselves until they died. They lives in a small dark house from they born, in order to let them grow fast, they cannot see the sunlight in their whole live. Every day, the farmers throw some food in to their house to keep their life. The place where the chicken lives in is really dirty, they live in the shit and pee of themselves but no one helps them to clean it. I think they are more preferred to die than alive. After they get killed, they will be disinfected by using the Chlorine water, which is really unhealthy for people, and that is why the chicken bone in the KFC is different with normal color, it is more like a black color. As a result, the chicken in American is really not a good choice to eat.

Secondly, chicken nugget itself is not good for people’s health. On one hand, chicken do not have much nutrition compare with other meat, on the other hand, too much oil is harmful to people. Especially when we buy the chicken nugget from the market and hit by ourselves, we may put more oil in it. My friends once tell me the way that how the factory makes the chicken nugget which is report on the newspaper, which really make people feel disgusting. In order to earn more money, they use the whole chicken to make the chicken nugget and they do not want to “waste” any part of it. They crash the whole chicken into the muddy flesh minced meat; include the bones and some unhealthy part. This makes me uncomfortable every time when I eat the chicken nugget, I always feel that I have already eaten the chicken ass. I have checked a medical journal that talks about the food safety about the chicken nugget in McDonalds, I the article, the author points out that they find there are some unhealthy additives like rubber in the chicken nugget of McDonalds. After this thing was reported by the media, McDonalds stand out and said it was use to stop the air get into the nugget when it was boiled, and they also said that it was conform the law in our country, however, this attracted a lot of people and they found that this additive is just used for keep the nugget into a square and this additive was not checked by the government.

In conclusion, chicken nugget is not good for our health, although it is tasty, we should not eat too much.       

       

   

food jurnals

after reading their food jurnals, i find that most syudents more like to choose a chinese restaurant. some of us right about eating hot pot in zechi's home, that is the most interesting part. also, some people do not like to eat breakfast here because they more enjoy to sleep.

The food I ate from Thursday to Sunday

On Thursday, I went to the cafeteria for breakfast. I ate three types of food: chicken leg, mash potato, and pasta. Also, I ordered a cap of coke for drink. For lunch, I go to the jason’s thai with my friends, I ordered a thai tea for drink and ate a sushi and a dish of lamb. For dinner, I just went to the cafeteria again, however, I only ate some pizza. I felt very hungry at night, so, I went to Dresco to have a free meal at about 9 o’clock. I had some French fries, chicken nuggets, and an egg roll.

               On Friday, I get up late, so, I did not have anything for breakfast. For lunch, I go to the Pho and ate a bowl of noodle. At the dinner time, I went to the cherry creek shopping center and ate some sushi and a bowl of wudong noodle. At about 11 o’clock, I was really hungry and I ordered papa john’s for 20 chicken wings.

                On Sunday, I did not eat breakfast. For lunch, I just had a piece of pizza. For dinner, I had a really great meal, Zechi Zhang invite us to his home and had a hot pot together. We had lamb, beef, shrimp and meat ball etc. the food ate with the sesame sauce taste really nice. We also had many types of drinks.      

Cuttlefish ball

Last week, ZECHI invited us to his new apartment to have a Chinese traditional hot pot. Around all the food we had include lamb, potato and vegetables, the thing most interest me is the fish ball. The fish ball we bought was made of cuttlefish, which is the most popular one in our country.

Fish ball in CHAO ZHOU   

When I ate this fish ball, I remember the fish ball I had before in our country. Fish ball have many different levels, and people have often eat it can easily find the difference between the good one and the bad one. A bad fish ball is always made by flour and a little bit cattle fish, which I always ate when I was a kid. A bad fish ball is very soft, it is easy to over hit in the hot pot. A good fish ball is totally different with the bad one, the whole ball is made of fresh cuttlefish, and it is much harder than the bad one, you can also put it in the hot pot for a long time and does not need to worry it maybe melt in the hot water. In china, there is a province called CHAO ZHOU, and it is really famous for making fish balls. First of all, it is in the southern part of China, so, they have a good resource to get the fresh fishes. Second, they also have a very strict step when the fish ball was produced, and after they get the product, they also need to check the quality of the fish balls. A qualified fish ball must bounce to a specific height. So, most people in our country like to choose the fish ball which is produced in CHAO ZHOU.

How do people make fish ball

I have once watched a movie that told me how to make a fish ball. First of all, they put the cuttlefish on a machine to separate it into two part, they only use the body part to make the fish ball. Then, they clean the cuttlefish and keep only the white meat. After this, they put the cuttlefish on a board and use the back of the knife to pat the cuttlefish in order to make it looser, and then, they use the knife to cut the fish into minced meat. Second, they need to add some cold soup in it and some onion ginger juice. Third, they need to stir it in one way and add oil, salt, egg white in. finally, make it into fish balls and throw them into the hot water, fresh cuttlefish balls come out.

The invite of fish ball

            There is a very interest story that tells us how people in ancient china invite the fish ball. The first emperor of QIN Dynasty is a very cruel man, he liked to eat fish and there must be a dish of fish every meal, however, he did not want to see the fish bone. The cook also could not make the bones into powder; he thought it was a curse to him because he did many bad things in his life. So, many cooks were killed by him. One day, a new cook needs to cook the fish for the emperor, he did not know what to do and thinks he might be killed, so, he became so nervous and used the knife to pat the fish crazily to show his angry. Suddenly, he saw a thing that surprised him that all the bones of the fish had come out by themselves, as the dinner time quickly came, he quickly picked all the bones out and made the fish into the fish balls and put in the soup he already prepared before. So, when the emperor saw the fish ball which was white and looked really good, he was very happy.

            People should protect the cuttlefish

            Recently, I have seen a research paper which is from the United Kingdom that shows us the decrease of the cuttlefish. In the research, it tells us the change of amount in recent 10 years. Although the quantity of cuttlefish had increased in last year, the total amount is much less than 10 years ago. I have also check the research in our country, in shows the same thing with the first one. So, we should begin to protect cuttlefish. We cannot let people do not eat cuttlefish; however, we can invited some new skills to rise the cuttlefish by ourselves.             

the compare of the three articles

After reading the three articles, I find that the similar part of the three of them is they all talks about the food resource.

In the first article “An Animal Place” which is written by MICHAEL POLLAN, he talks about that the relationship between human and animal. He says that animals are really easy to die in the wild, so, when they become a resource of food, it is not always a bad thing. People provide them place to live and give them food to eat, they have a better like than in the wild, and they also provide the food resource for people, it is benefit for both of them.

In the second article “Estabrook - Tomatoland - Introduction”, the author writes about the difference between the tomatoes from different place. He points out that the location of where the tomato grows will make difference of their taste and shape. So, by compare their taste and how are they looks like, we can find out the different history of production.

In the third article “Cook – ‘Fowl Trouble’”, the author wants to tell us the harmful of the broiler chicken. This article talks about the terrible process of feed chicken nowadays. Compare with several years ago, how quick workers feed a chick is not depends on their skills any more, it just depends on the amount that USDA allows them to feed per minute. The chickens nowadays are also much heavier than before. They grow up in a place called “of-fal-room”, the worker also face some dangers here.

After reading these three articles, the most noteworthy thing I find is the harmful of the chicken. I have once watched a movie called “food inc”, it clearly told me that how terrible were the process when the chicken grew up.                    

Response to "Our National Eating Disorder"

In the article “Our National Eating Disorder”, the author Pollan tell us that why eating disorder happens in America, and he also talks about who people do not eat healthy. To improve his point of view, he gives out two reasons. First of all, he says that a big problem is because immigration. The United States is a country which combines with many different countries, people from all over the world come here, and of course they like to choose different types of food.  Another reason is that the government sometimes influences people’s choice by making some eating guidelines. Although it may not really help people to choose the healthy food, most people like to believe in it. Just as the author says in the article that:” A scientific study, a new government guideline, a lone crackpot with a medical degree can alter this nation’s diet overnight”. These are the two main reasons why people in America eating disorder.

I am agree with the point that immigrate will cause the eating disorder. I am a Chinese student who studies in America, so, I can easily understand the feeling that people in Asian country feel about American food. The fast food culture in America is really hard for us to accept. So we always choose some Chinese restaurants here to have our dinner. That is also one of the reasons that we are hard to make a foreign friend. This is a point that we should try to improve.