2. Food For Health (Macro/Micro Nutrients)





Part A:
 - Two type of Digestion Mechanical and Chemical

Macro Nutrients:- (Need in large amounts)
- Carbohydrates: 4 cal- 1g
- Protein: 4 cal- 1g
- Fats: 9 cal - 1g

Micro Nutrients:- (need in small amounts)
- Vitamins
- Minerals 
- Water

Part B:

                                            Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
“Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.” This has become a famous mantra expressing the feeling of many who are rejecting the contemporary food culture as proliferated by nutrition science and the industrialization of food over the past century.  Michael pollen want to tell us by this statement, “We human should eat in order to be maximum healthy.” He simply means that eat natural foods. Nothing else is better than natural food. It won’t make you fat and it’s really healthy.  “Healthy is always wealthy for your body”.  More the healthy, less the diseases come to you and less it makes you fat. So, you don’t have to spend lots of money after doctor treatments or making yourself thinner or skinner. If you want to be a healthy than you should control ourself in eating and better eats healthy food. You should know what to eat and what not to? And also you should know what is good and healthier for you and what not? Michel Pollen describes well this mantra on his book, “In Defence of Food”.  Pollen said that we are rejecting good and healthier food. He describes this using different subtitle now day dietary foods, science describing food, cultural food, fake foods and reason of going fatter.
In Defence of food, Michel Pollen said that modern North American dietary foods are not really dieting food. It makes you fatter. He said that “Now days all nutritionals advice we’ve received over the last half century has actually made us less healthy and considerably fatter.” Using people’s advice and eating dietary food in modern days makes you fatter than you really were because that food are not really dietary, they make you fool saying it’s dietary.  Every year, nutritionist found something new for diet and later that food consider as fat by other nutritionist; that’s what Michael pollen said in his book. It’s really true though, now days it’s less food in market that make you healthier. Most of the food make you fat and using someone else advice is bad for your body. Michael Pollen said, “In fall of 2006, two prestigious studies on omega-3 fats published at the same time came to strikingly different conclusions.” Now who to believe? Nutritionist job is to find something that makes us healthier. They mostly focus on nutrition. Taking and following advices of nationalist and make yourself unhealthy better to eat healthy food. The foods what animals eat are healthiest for them. In dieting, you better eat vegetable or called natural foods that omnivores eat.  Those foods are best for dieting. You will not go fatter by that. Professionalise advices not make us healthier; therefore, eat natural food and make yourself healthy.
Michel Pollen stated that believing scientist now days also a joke; they also want to make a profit; therefore making additive products; which are totally unhealthy. Michel stated that “golden age of the food science is gone”. Now sciences add more different type of additives into one food products and make it variety of food products. “Low fat, no cholesterol and high fibre labeled on the food products” they sell this types of products and make people fool using it.  People buy this product so they won’t turn fat, but this product make them fat because this products are additive. Therefore, Michel pollen say, “not to believe on scientists and mainly speak on authority and common sense.” Science makes us fool now days; therefore, better not to believe on them and make our self-more fat. Michael also argued on culture food a lot. His absolutely right on his point of view. He say, “My own mother grew up in the 1930s and 1940s eating a lots of traditional Jewish- American fare, typical of families who recently emigrated from Russia or Eastern Europe; stuffed cabbage, organ meats, cheese blintzes, kreplach, knishes stuffed with potato or chicken liver, and vegetable that often were cooked in rendered chicken or duck fat. I never ate any of this stuff as a kid, except when I visited my grandmother.”  So, you can see how much culture food out there, his mother ate and at Michael age it disappeared. We are rejecting culture foods; which our grand – grand – grandparents ate and grown up. Notice how healthy, your grandparents look; they eat culture food and still won’t turn unhealthy. Researchers and other people suggest that culture foods make us fatter because it has lots of fat inside, but in reality it won’t. Culture Foods are healthier; they put vegetables and lots of healthier stuff inside and make it really tasty and yummy. Now days, people don’t like cultural foods; people are interested in junk foods more. Michael also said, “Most of us no longer eat what our mother as a children and what our mother feed us” And that’s right. My mother grown up eating healthier food, but now she turned so Canadian. She doesn’t like to make a food, what she ate in childhood because she was tired of eating that food. She loves this fatty food more. I love my cultural food, but its kind an unhealthy. So, my friend suggests not eating that kind a food. If you eat than you will turn fat. My grandfather and grandmother at back home they ate cultural food everyday still they don’t turn fat. They are still healthy at the age of 85 and still don’t have any kind of diseases like BP, Diabetes, cancer, etc. They maintained their body very well. Therefore, we should eat culture food as our grandparents do; they won’t make you fat.
In modern days, you don’t have real grown vegetables. People make vegetables by adding chemicals and stuff. We don’t eat real vegetables at all. We don’t even recognize how real vegetables / fruits test like. Now days, people add food color and sweeteners in vegetable/ fruits to make them taste like real, but they are not real. Michael Pollen said, “Most people faking it they add sweeteners in food we forgot how really food taste”.  So, the food we eat now days are fake. When I was at back home, I use to eat fresh vegetable/ fruits directly came from farm; which taste really sweet and different than I eat food in now days. Michael Pollen said, “Today there are thousands of other addible foods like substances in the market”. These foods are totally a joke. They are not real; it’s chemistry after each food now. Therefore, don’t trust on addible foods. Try to get food which is pure not addible.
When people get fat, they blame on everyone for that. If you really concerned about your health you should be careful, what you eat daily. Michael said. “If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that health claim. “And that is true if you want to be healthy, you have to maintain your body and for that you should eat healthy and food that make you less fat.  The main problem is, people like junk food more they don’t like to eat healthy food. Other side, people who are thinking that, they are eating healthy food and still getting fat, the only reason after it is the food they are eating is not really healthy food. So, what to eat? To be a healthy.  Michael said that eat what animals eat, what omnivores eat. They are eating healthier food than what we eat.  Eat vegetables and fruits and as above arguments said that are now chemicals made not realistic food. Still they’re healthier than what you eat in daily basis. Therefore, take care what you eat.
          In conclusion, Dietary foods, science research on food, culture food, fake food and reason of getting fat are all connected. We don’t know, what we are eating now days and don’t even know how food we are eating made?  Surrounding us there are all unhealthier food; which makes people easily fat and that’s the main reason, most people surrounding us are fat. That all point us to Michael’s message, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Michel said, “Eating little meat not going to affect your body.” So, you can eat some foods that are not healthier, but mostly eat healthier food and more plant. Plants are natural foods; which give your body natural strangeness and you won’t turn fat by that. Therefore, “Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants".

Reference

-          Michael pollen, “In Defence of Food “.

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