Friday, January 21, 2011
HW 32 - Thoughts following illness & dying unit
I think the most obvious connection from the previous unit to this unit is that poor food choices can lead to illness and dying. Heart Disease, Diabetes, different types of cancer and obesity can all lead to death and are all illnesses. Certain foods make it easier to fight off diseases like this but the common cheap foods found in America have been directly linked to all of these diseases. A lot of people try to keep this out of the media because most the foods we eat can be very harmful to a person's body however it is easy to see that when food is linked to illness people tend to stop eating those foods. I think companies try to keep people from fearing the foods that they serve knowing that when people see that the food is unhealthy it will lead to less money. Foods that are considered healthy are always more expensive but the health affects that are positive and are holistic ways to preventing certain illnesses are also rarely advertised because they cost a lot. The same way that death is usually hidden behind walls of a hospital the truth about food is also hidden away behind the walls of the people who prepare the foods. When people start to become more aware of the foods they are eating there will probably be a positive change in the amount of people who are obese, have diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses will change.
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chris,
ReplyDeleteI think you were able to link very well how what we learned in the past unit directly connects to what we learned in this unit. you also were able to bring it together in a sortof overarching theme which i liked. what id like to see you improve on a bit is to see if you can carry this into something deeper, that maybe we havent discussed yet in class. something much easier said than done of coarse but i think you can do it, in this one for instance it seemed like you were about to get to something really big but it didnt go the distance.
hope this helped
john
How do all the factors you listed affect us socially? Ok, so you have diabetes, does that change your lifestyle? Why or why not? Are the ways in which we sit upon non-action and non-changing lifestyles the product of cultural apathy or a fundamental lack of understanding on how the body works in conjunction with food? How do we get people do understand and act upon this information?
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