It's My Body And I Ll Eat Analysis
Christine Colvin
Jenny Webster
ENG100 CRN 63076
Summer 2013
It’s my Body and I’ll Eat if I Want To
Let’s face it, nobody is born with the knowledge of how to properly feed and nourish themselves. What we eat and how we eat it is something that is taught to us by our parents as we are growing up. Michael Pollan’s mantra of “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” is an excellent example of a common sense approach on how to feed ourselves and our families. When we are children, it is ultimately our parent’s responsibility to make sure that we eat a balanced diet. I cannot speak for everyone else in America as I am only one person with one voice, but I can tell you that I agree with Radley Balko when he said that “bringing the government between you and your waistline….is the wrong way to fight obesity.”(396). What it really comes down to is personal responsibility and making sure that we take care of our bodies, and if we have …show more content…
I am not referring to America as a whole, I am speaking about Americans, individually, each and every one of us. We must start taking responsibility for our bodies; it is our own obligation to keep ourselves fit and healthy. Common sense seems to dictate that we need to stop putting the blame on the fast food companies and start putting the blame on ourselves for mindlessly consuming the junk that they serve us on a golden platter.
Works Cited Balko, Radley. “What You Eat Is Your Business.” They Say I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing .WITH READINGS. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst. New York, London. W.W. Norton & Company. 2012. 396-397. Print. Pollan, Michael. “Escape from the Western Diet.” They Say I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing .WITH READINGS. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst. New York, London. W.W. Norton & Company. 2012. 437-440.
Jenny Webster
ENG100 CRN 63076
Summer 2013
It’s my Body and I’ll Eat if I Want To
Let’s face it, nobody is born with the knowledge of how to properly feed and nourish themselves. What we eat and how we eat it is something that is taught to us by our parents as we are growing up. Michael Pollan’s mantra of “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” is an excellent example of a common sense approach on how to feed ourselves and our families. When we are children, it is ultimately our parent’s responsibility to make sure that we eat a balanced diet. I cannot speak for everyone else in America as I am only one person with one voice, but I can tell you that I agree with Radley Balko when he said that “bringing the government between you and your waistline….is the wrong way to fight obesity.”(396). What it really comes down to is personal responsibility and making sure that we take care of our bodies, and if we have …show more content…
I am not referring to America as a whole, I am speaking about Americans, individually, each and every one of us. We must start taking responsibility for our bodies; it is our own obligation to keep ourselves fit and healthy. Common sense seems to dictate that we need to stop putting the blame on the fast food companies and start putting the blame on ourselves for mindlessly consuming the junk that they serve us on a golden platter.
Works Cited Balko, Radley. “What You Eat Is Your Business.” They Say I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing .WITH READINGS. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst. New York, London. W.W. Norton & Company. 2012. 396-397. Print. Pollan, Michael. “Escape from the Western Diet.” They Say I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing .WITH READINGS. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst. New York, London. W.W. Norton & Company. 2012. 437-440.