Reflection Blog post

In this class, I think I learnt one important thing is I found the relationship between food and people's healthy. Food is a part of people's life, people can't live without food.I am able to find and do research about food culture in different place and food culture for different people. For vegetarian, they just eat vegetables, and for meat lover, such as me, I prefer to eat more meat rather than eating vegetables and fruits.  

EE2 Final

Xuehui Deng

Writing 1133

EE2

People Should Eating Diversity Food

I’m from China. Nowadays, people in China have plenty types of food to eat, but if go back sixty years, food were very limited for people. So people are really caring about nutrition and health of food now. Because of eating in diversity, I have become a stronger and taller guy than my father, even taller than my grandfather. Eating in diversity helps me growing fast and healthy. Moreover, I think eating food is one of the most important ways for people to keep health.  

I have no limit on eating food. I like eating meat, but I also prefer to eat vegetables and fruits fro dinner because I think eating diversity can help me get more nutrition. I’m a basketball fun and I love playing basketball, so I think getting many types of nutrition will make me growing taller and stronger. However, not all of people eating like me, eating diversity, some people just like to eat vegetables and they just eat vegetables. We called these kinds of people as vegetarian. I’d like to say that eating vegetables is a healthier way for people than eating meat. I’m an international from China. In China, people don’t eat meat very often. However, when I came to the United States, I found American food is not as healthy as Chinese food. People always eat hamburgers, sandwich, and pizza for dinner. All of the foods are full of Calorie and fat, and these foods are not good for people’s health if people keep eating these types of food usually.

In order to get to know more about the benefit of being a vegetarian, I made a search from website. I searched Penrose website and I found an interesting article named “Nutrition Concerns and Health Effects of Vegetarian Diets” which was published by Nutrition in Clinical Practice. From this article I know that vegetables are full of nutrition and contain some important elements which are good for people’s health. For example, vegetables have low calorie and low fat, and that can help people keep fit. For girls, it is very important for them to keep fit because having a nice body shape represents beauty. So girls prefer to eat vegetables rather than eating meat. Eating diversity include eating vegetables. I suggest people eat vegetables for every dinner.

However, from reading the “Nutrition Concerns and Health Effects of Vegetarian Diets” I also know people who just eat vegetables may lack of iron, vitamin and other nutrition which are important for people. From looking at the data in the article, I found non-vegetarian can get more Calcium, Zinc, Vitamin D and Vitamin B12 than vegetarian because people also need these elements to build their body. So vegetarian also need to change their eating diets to get more Calcium, Zinc such good elements which means vegetarian should change their eating habit, not only for their preference, but also for their health.

Also, eating diversity means eat many colors of food. I read an article named “Diversity Your Diet” published by Realage.com. In one part of this article, the author talks that eating many colors of food is good for people’s health. For example, in the article, the author says that “Red foods contain lycopene and anthocyanins, phytochemicals that help lower the risk of some cancers and promote.” (Para 3) Such as tomatoes, pepper, these kinds of red foods will also help people decrease the risk of getting heart disease, and good for people’s memory function. In addition, blue-purple colored food is good for people’s memory function and yellow-orange colored food is good for people’s vision health. I know some food looked colorful, but tasted awful. However, these kinds of food are full of nutrition, but the bad taste makes people don’t want to eat them anymore. Actually, I think sometimes, people should focus on the nutrition of food, not the taste of food because people are able to build a strong body by eating bad-taste and colorful food which is full of nutrition. Each color food has different type of nutrition, and people can live with a healthy body by absorbing many types of nutrition. So I suggest people try different color food.

In addition, from reading the article “Anti-cancer Diet Diversity”, I know that fruit and vegetables have powerful anti-cancer activity which would help people decrease the risk of getting cancer. Also, from the article, I know that drinking tea is another way to protect cancer. “Green tea contains large numbers of catechins, compounds that have many anti-cancer properties.” (Gifford-Jones Para 10) Tea is one of the most popular drinks in the world. Asian people first try to drink tea and tea has spread to all over the world quickly.

For me, I have custom to drink tea after dinner, so do my parents because we think tea can protect people’s stomach and help people digest food well. I think drinking beverage is also belonging to “eating diversity” for two reasons. First, people are always drinking while eating. No matter drinking soup, or drinking soda, people usually combine drinking and eating together. Secondly, the definition of eating means using mouth. Beverage is just another type of food for they are liquid. I think eating diversity also means drinking many types of beverage. From drinking juice, people can get vitamin. From drinking soda, such as Coca and Sprite, people are able to get rid of their thirsty. From drinking tea, people can absorb nutrition from tea. Beverage plays an important role for people to keep nutrition balance.

In another way, eating less meat will also help people keep healthy. As I mentioned above, I found American people eat too much meat for meal. As I observed, there are three things in American people’s daily menu, which are hamburgers, sausage and cheese. For hamburgers and sausage, parts of them are made by meat, either beef or pork. I still remembered I watched a movie in writing class named “Food Inc.” which is about how people feed and kill animals. Some animals are born for people to eat. In this movie, people killed animals merciless, and people in the movie don’t treat animals as creature, but treated animals as tool. Why people do that? Because there has a huge demand for meat in market, and people are able to earn much money for feeding animals and selling meat. If people eat less meat and turn to eat more vegetables and fruit, that will decrease the demand meat, and then, it will decrease the supply of meat in market. I am not suggesting people stop eating meat, but eating less. Meat also has some nutrition that other foods don’t have. For example, meat contains a huge amount of Calcium that is good for children and old people because Calcium can build people strong bone. I am a meat lover, I like eating meat more than eating vegetables and fruit, but after watching the movie “Food Inc.”, I would like to eat less meat and eat more vegetables, not only for personal healthy preference, but also for saving more animals’ life.

Moreover, I read an article named “Eat More Chocolate, Lose Weight”. From the title reading the title, we know that people can lose weight from eating more chocolate. Some people think eating chocolate will make people getting fat, but actually, eating more chocolate can help people lose weight. I know girls afraid eating chocolate because they are afraid of getting fat. If they know eating chocolate can help them lose weight, I think girls will eat chocolate every day because chocolate is also delicious food. In addition, I do think chocolate belongs to another types of “eating diversity” because it neither belongs to meat category nor the vegetables, fruit category. Chocolate can be a type of leisure food for people which means people can eat chocolate in their leisure time. White-collar people can eat chocolate in their break time. Students can eat chocolate at the rest of their study. We are able to find chocolate at any place at any time. Chocolate cannot be a real meal for people, but it is still important for people because people can lose weight from eating it. In addition, I learnt from reading the article “Anti-cancer Diet Diverse” which says that “There's good news for chocolate lovers. Dark chocolate contains 70 percent cocoa and provides the body with polyphenols that fight cancer.” Not only people can lose weight by eating chocolate, but they are also able to fight with cancer by eating chocolate.                   

To sum up, eating food diversity can help people live in a better life. Each food has it own elements which are good for human beings. Tea can help people decrease the risk of getting cancer. Chocolate can help people lose weight. Vegetables contain many types of nutrition that don’t exist in other foods. Although some foods taste bitter, some food taste very sour, actually, people can benefit from eating diversity. Come on guys, eating diversity, it is good for our health.     

Citation

"Diversify Your Diet - Page 2." RealAge.com. Web. 31 May 2012.

<http://www.realage.com/food/how-to-eat-healthy-2>.

Salzberg, Steven. "Eat More Chocolate, Lose Weight!" Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 09 Apr.

2012. Web. 31 May 2012. <http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/04/09/eat-chocolate-for-better-health/>.

Craig, Winston John. "Nutrition Concerns and Health Effects of Vegetarian

Diets." University of Denver Penrose Library /Penrose/Music. Nutrition in Clinical Practice. Web. 17 May 2012. <http://0-ncp.sagepub.com.bianca.penlib.du.edu/content/25/6/613.full.pdf html>.

Dr. W. Gifford-Jones.  "Anti-cancer diet diverse :[Final Edition]. " The Windsor

Star  10  Aug. 2006,Canadian Newsstand Complete, ProQuest. Web.  31 May. 2012.

EE2 draft

People should eating many types of food (eating diversity)

Nowadays, food can be the most important tool for people to keep health.

11      Vegetarian, good & bad aspects of being a vegetarian. The good is vegetables are full of nutrition, and the bad thing is people may lack of some nutrition that don’t exist in vegetables, such as Calcium.

22    After reading “How to eat healthier”, I know the color for vegetables represent different values. For example, red vegetables are good for people’s heart health and memory function.

33       After watching the movie “food Inc” in class, people kill animals which are able to eat in bad ways. Animals are living so painful, so I think may be people can eat less meat. I mean people can eat in a balance way, eating both meat and vegetables to keep health. Also, less demand of meat production will decrease the supply of meat and that means less animals will be killed.

44       Eating diversity cause less disease. From the article “Anti-cancer diet diverse”, I know drinking tea often can decrease the risk of getting cancer. That is one benefit of eating food diversity.

55       From a Blog, it says that eating chocolate can help people lose weight. Often, people think may think eating chocolate may make people getting fat. I find an article from website named “Eat more chocolate, lose weight”. In this article, the author says, after doing research, they finally get a conclusion that eating chocolate do help people losing weight.

To sum up, eating food diversity can help people live in a better life. Each food has it own elements which are good for human beings. Although some food taste bitter, some food  taste very sour, actually, they all good for people’s healthy.     

Blog 9

After reading two articles which are written by Pollan and Dupuis, I know that food changes people’s life a lot.

For the “Unhappy Meal” which is written by Pollan, the author says that people’s eating habit and eating diets are not healthy enough in nowadays. First, Pollan points out that people should follow old people’s eating habits. The author thinks old people’s eating habit is more health than people’s eating habit in recent years. The whole society is developing, and people change their eating diets frequently. Foods are better than before, but not all of people live healthier than before. The author thinks that old people’s eating habit is good for people to choose food nowadays. For example, people should better choose food that can be found before. Once people go to supermarket, people should buy food that exists in the supermarket for a long time because people like and trust these kinds of food. Secondly, people eat too much nowadays. Pollan says that eating too much is not good for people’s health. People should better not eat too full because it is bad for their digesting food. Also, people should have a diversity eating menu that means people should better eat many kinds of food. People should eat meat, vegetables, fruits and they’d better eating foods in a balance way. Some people like eating meat, for these kinds of people, and they should change their eating diets to vegetables so that they can keep their eating diets balance. Also, eating in a balance is good for people’s health.

In Dupuis’s article, he talks about that people’s eating habit has changes a lot by influence from others. People begin to lose their own eating habits by many kinds of reasons, such as religion. People are now eating in fashion.

To conclude, these two article writing in an opposite way, but emphasize one same food culture. Although people are getting richer than before, people should also follow their eating habit to build a healthy body for them.  

      

Works Cited

Michael Pollan.  "Unhappy Meals. " New York Times Magazine  28 Jan. 2007:  ProQuest

Newsstand, ProQuest. Web.  19 May. 2012.

Melanie Du Puis, E.. "Angels and Vegetables: A Brief History of Food Advice in

America. " Gastronomica  7.3 (2007): 34-44. Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  19 May. 2012.

Eating practice

I want to eat more vegetables than meat because right now I want to keep fit.I like playing basketball, but I find I am too heavy to play basketball good. I can't jump  very high because of my weight. So i decide to keep fit and balance my eating diet. I'd like to eat more vegetables and less meat so that I am able to lose weight. Also, eating vegetables are good for my health. From the research I did, I found that people can gain lots of nutrition from eating vegetables.

Learned from Kaichen's blog

About Kaichen's SE5, I am interested in French fries fro two points. First, French fries is the most popular food in western countries. people love french fries just like people like eating meat in the United States. The second point is French fries may cause disease, such as cancer.

Review （SE5）

Short Essay five

After reading food journal of my classmates, I found I am really interesting in Yusi’s article. She writes about she just had vegetables in three days without meat. That’s incredible for me because I will feel lose something if I don’t eat meat for one day. I can’t image people who just eat vegetables for three days because I think it is impossible for me. Besides, I’d have to say that Yusi is eating in a healthy way because eating vegetables are healthier than eating meat. I’m an international from China, and n China, we don’t eat meat very often. But when I came to the United States, I found American food is not very healthy. People always eat hamburgers, sandwich, pizza, and drinking soda. All of the foods are not good for people’s health if people keep eating these foods usually. In china, people always have food, combined with vegetables and meat, for dinner, and actually, people cook vegetables, not like here that people eating vegetables with sauce, such as ranch, 1000 islands. Maybe this is a different eating style between Chinese people and American people, but I’d like to say that I think Chinese people eating in a healthy way.

In order to get to know more about the benefit of being a vegetarian, I also did a research. I searched Penrose website and I found an interesting article named “Nutrition Concerns and Health Effects of Vegetarian Diets” which was published by Nutrition in Clinical Practice. From this article I know that vegetables are full of nutrition and contain some important elements which are good for people’s health. For example, vegetables have low calorie and low fat, and that can help people keep fit. For girls, it is very important for them to keep fit because having a nice body shape represents beauty, and I think that is way Yusi just had vegetables in three days. Also, low calorie and low fat can decrease the risk of getting cardiovascular disease. For the data from the article, it shows that “Based on blood lipid data in one large cohort study, the incidence of ischemic heart disease was estimated to be 24% lower in lifelong vegetarians and 57% lower in lifelong vegans compared with omnivores” (Winston p, 616) and that is why more and more people prefer to eat vegetables instead of having meat nowadays.

However, from reading the “Nutrition Concerns and Health Effects of Vegetarian Diets” I also know people who just eat vegetables may lack of iron, vitamin and other nutrition which are important for people’s health. From looking at the data in the article, I found non-vegetarian can get more Calcium, Zinc, Vitamin D and Vitamin B12. People also need these elements to build their body. So vegetarian also need to change their eating diets to get more Calcium, Zinc such good elements. For me, I eat both vegetables and meat. Not only I like eating meat, but also eating both of the food. I think eating both vegetables and meat can make me grow faster. I like playing basketball, so I need to get stronger and taller. I think vegetable can give me the nutrition I need such as Iron, and I can get Zinc and Calcium from eating meat.

In conclusion, vegetarian should change their eating diets if they only eat vegetable because that will cause vegetarian lack of some important elements, and that is not good for their health. Vegetarian should eat food full of Zinc, and Calcium to keep their nutrition balance.  

Reference

Craig, Winston John. "Nutrition Concerns and Health Effects of Vegetarian Diets." University of

Denver Penrose Library /Penrose/Music. Nutrition in Clinical Practice. Web. 17 May 2012. <http://0-ncp.sagepub.com.bianca.penlib.du.edu/content/25/6/613.full.pdf html>.