Lauren McFall Mr. Gossett English 10H-4 March 17‚ 2008 You are What You Eat Throughout the past twenty years‚ obesity in the United States has drastically increased. Currently‚ one-hundred and seventeen billion people in the United States are obese. Out of those people‚ three-hundred thousand people die each year because of complications due to being over-weight. One out of every four children in the average school in the United States is over-weight. In an effort to combat this growing
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Cultural relativity is the process to understand that all beliefs‚ customs‚ and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. In other words‚ “right” and “wrong” are culture-specific; what is considered moral in one society may be considered immoral in another society. And since there is no something as “universal standard of morality”‚ therefore we have to use the culture’s own value system to judge the culture. It is closely related to ethical relativism‚ which is to judge
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What Causes Obesity In America There is a reason why so many people are obese. The main reason is food‚ the kinds of foods are not just fast food but food what we call junk food. Who is responsible for this‚ is it the people who consume it or is the companies that produce and promote their food. I think they are both to blame and there is always a good and bad in everything. If you are twenty percent over your normal weight you are considered obese. We have to make the right choices when it comes
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"You Are What You Eat" There are many reasons I believe that you are what you eat. When assessing an obese individual you would now that they have a nutritional problem. Likewise when you look at a frail underweight individual they may have a nutritional problem as well. Your health depends on what you eat. Weather an individual is obese‚ underweight‚ recovering from surgery or has a debilitating disease a balanced diet has a significant role in good health. A well balanced diet according to Lutz
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“What You Eat Is Your Business‚” by Radley Balko In the article of Radley Balko‚ he considers obesity a problem in the nation. Balko believes that it is unhealthy for children to be eating bad food but it’s their choices to eat that food. Balko is saying that if people are eating unhealthy and are having health problems everyone shouldn’t have to pay for their health problems. Balko says‚ “In other words‚ bringing the government between you and your waistline.” Basically he is saying that the
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were shop stalls which used to sell bread ‚ sausages and wine(howstuffworks.com). Radley Balko states in his article “What you eat is your business?”‚ “We’re becoming less responsible for our own health‚ and more responsible for everyone else’s. Your heart attack drives up the cost of my premiums and office visits. And if the government is paying for my anti-cholesterol medication‚ what incentive is there for me to put down the cheeseburger?”(Cato.org). It says that fastfood is a problem and will continue
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should be doing more to control what us as Americans consume. Before eating anything and possibly ruining your health‚ people should consider taking other approaches to eating healthy in order to maintain their overall health as it is very important. While one’s appearance may not bother the individual themselves; other people in society will
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Shady Bahsoun Amst 276 December 8‚2009 Research Paper #2 “Tell me what you eat‚ and I’ll tell you who you are” “Tell me what you eat‚ and I’ll tell you who you are” once said French lawyer and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. With the growth of food import/export around the world and the opportunities of expansion in foreign coutries: Could Brillat-Savarin’s statement still be possible today or has it completely lost ground? Food is one of the fields in which globalization has
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Are You Really Gonna Eat That?!? Shiloh Jackson Everest University Online SYG2000-2016 Principles of Sociology - 2016 Are You Really Gonna Eat That?!? In today’s society things are deemed weird due to our lack of understanding of other cultures eating habits. A Filipino delicacy‚ known as Balut is a fertilized egg that is incubated until a duckling develops‚ and then soft-boiled and eaten. Haggis‚ a Scottish favorite made from the chopped heart‚ lungs‚ and liver of lamb or beef and mixed
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Radley Balko‚ in his article “What You Eat is Your Business‚” argues that we as should be responsible for what we put into our bodies. Both authors are discussing their views on the issue of obesity in America. With regards to the theme of corpulence‚ the greater part of us will promptly concur that something must be done to end this emergency and better the health of our nation’s people. Where this ascension generally closes‚ in any case‚ is on the subject of what part our legislature ought to play
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