New Year’s Resolutions are a popular trend in the United States; each year, 41 percent of the population promises to do something different in the new year. Now, that does not mean that they keep those resolutions. In fact, on average, of the people that create A New Year’s resolution, only 9.2 percent of people feel that they have accomplished their resolution when the next new year comes around. Quite a few of these lists of resolutions include trying to lose weight; they may also include trying to eat healthier. In the small town of Lotterdale, Kentucky, Caleb Johansen was one of these people who desperately hoped to lose weight by the end of the year and like many sluggard people, this had been his resolution last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. Nonetheless, this year he resolved one more time and felt determined to lose the extra weight that he had been packing for years. In fact, that’s what he did, the morning of New …show more content…
Then he decided that since he had a little over an hour until he needed to report back to work, that he would go for a bike ride. Even though he had not been on a bike in what seemed to be decades, but he thought how difficult could it be? As a matter of fact, they say you never forget how to ride a bike once you learn. In consternation, Caleb hoped that that was true as he went to grab his workout gear. However, he looked all around his closet, in every nook and cranny, but could not seem to find his sneakers; but grant it, he had not worn his sneakers in years and they had had their fair share of negligence. Finally, after what seemed to be hours, he found the blue and silver sneakers stashed in a corner of his immense closet. Although they were covered in filth and seemed to be at least a size and a half too small, they were all he had, so he jammed his feet into them and headed for the
Davis and His Pants Once upon a time there was a boy named Davis. Davis went to school. Davis had a pair of perfect pants. But one day, Davis’s pants were not perfect pants. The pants were very rude to Davis.
In David Freedman’s essay How Junk food Can End Obesity, Freedman makes the claim to policy arguing that instead of demonizing processed foods, Americans should instead support the idea and production of healthier processed and junk foods. He calls on the public to recognize that while many products on the market these days are labeled as “wholesome” and “healthy”, consumers should learn to become aware of the fat and calorie content in these products because many times they have the same- if not more- fat and calorie contents as that of a typical Big Mac or Whopper. In his essay, Freedman primarily places blame on the media and the wholesome food movement for the condemnation of the fast and processed food industries saying, “An enormous amount of media space has been dedicated to promoting the notion that all processed food, and only processed food, us making us sickly and overweight” (Freedman), he further expresses that this portrayal of the
Radley Balko’s essay “What You Eat Is Your Business, in They Say, I Say, the author argues that the government should take more targeted initiatives in dealing with obesity. Within the last 15 years, the United States government has implemented numerous laws and initiatives to try to make America healthy again. However, are they working? The daily lives of Americans seem to revolve around food, whether it be eating healthy and following the food pyramid, or on the other end of the spectrum, eating fast food for every meal and snacking on junk food. There are larger issues that the government could be handling, yet they choose this obesity epidemic over pressing day-to-day problems.
Today’s society is surfaced with various problems, one of them being our diet along with obesity. The health of our country’s people has become a national problem. One’s diet is based upon their choices, but even then there are many controversial views upon what is healthy and what is not. Two essays that I read uniquely present their views on this topic. First, there is “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating” by Mary Maxfield and then there is “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko.
Every 5 years since 1980, a new edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans has been published. The primary goal is to make recommendations about the components of a healthy and nutritionally adequate diet to help promote good health and prevent chronic disease for current and future generations. About half of all American adults have one or more preventable chronic diseases, and about two thirds of US adults are overweight or obese. These conditions have been highly prevalent for more than two decades. Poor dietary patterns, over consumption of calories, and physical inactivity directly contribute to these disorders.
Morgan Spurlock, an American Independent Filmmaker embarked on an experiment of eating only McDonalds for thirty days. He documented his findings in a documentary titled “Supersize Me” As a result, Spurlock gained nearly twenty-five pounds, and his body mass increased almost fifteen percent. The reason behind Spurlock’s investigation was to identify the problem with our countries rise in obesity, largely contributed to a lack of fresh and healthy food being available. Obesity is an epidemic plaguing our country ever so quickly and one of the biggest reasons for it is many communities don’t have access to fresh food, and in many times that food if available exceeds the families budget. The United States Department of Agriculture (1) defines
In his article “How Junk Food Can End Obesity”, Freedman examines these purported claims and strives to appear credible, reliable, and emotionally appealing to persuade readers that the wholesome-food movement is impeding the near-term step’s to reversing the obesity trend. First, many
In Wil Haygood’s essay Kentucky town of Manchester illustrates national obesity crisis he turns a spotlight onto how obesity is affecting the nation. He discusses what it is like for one family in particular to deal with obesity. Haygood also writes about a study done by Jill Day, and gives a plethora of facts on the matter. Wil Haygood observes that the people of Kentucky Town, Manchester, like the rest of the nation, are overweight and suffering obesity. In this essay he talks about a family of three, a father and his two daughters, who live in this town, are affected by this.
In the story “The bicycle’’, by Jillian Horton, Hannah experiences a transition from an ignorant, obedient and disciplined child to a rebelling, disobedient and independent adolescent.
My short-term goal was to maintain my healthy eating, and make adjustments to my diet to include important food groups I was under consuming within the next 3 months. I have managed to balance my diet and become more accustomed to eating certain foods I didn’t enjoy in the past. To reduce my stress by being more optimistic about the challenges I encounter in my everyday life. My action was to have a more positive outlook, as well as starting to
Nutrition Topic: Nutrition Organization: Topically Specific Purpose: To inform my audience the importance of proper nutrition I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention getter: Did you know that more than two thirds of adults are considered to be overweight or obese in the United States? If obesity rates stay consistent, about 51% of the population by the year 2030 will be obese.
I have always been paranoid. I sleep with three lamps on since I’m deathly afraid of the dark, and have pepper spray with me every day that I walk home from school. I can almost never stay home alone, because of my fear of kidnappers and robbers breaking in. Scary movies are not my thing at all and on halloween I prefer to stay home and pass out candy. My biggest fear of all though, are the popular girls at school.
I. Introduction: a. Attention Getter: Nothing can be as satisfying and enjoyable as eating junk food. Is it not? It can be so good! Food is what makes us who we are.
(Dray, Sarah.) Most suppose that by going on diets, losing weight, and going back to their original eating habits is acceptable. These actions are simply making matters worse for them. “People who diet gain more weight than those who skip the diet route altogether (Dr. Axe.) ”
In a perfect world we would all be eating the right food, exercising, sleeping well and just generally enjoying life. In the real world most of us manage a percentage of the healthy lifestyle and muddle through as best we can with the rest of it. Part of the problem is we are encouraged to think, mostly by the media, that we should be doing everything possible towards a healthy lifestyle, all of the time. For most of us this is just not possible.