Anh Nguyen Prof. Galassi Eng. 099 Asst # 5 17 July, 2014 Healthy solution: Taxing sugary drinks What are sugary drinks? Sugary drinks include non-diet sodas, sports drinks, energy drinks and sweetened fruit drinks. They contain little to no nutritional value and are one of the leading causes of obesity. With the recent increase of overweight and obese Americans, a debate has surfaced over whether the government should tax sugary drinks.
Discuss explanations for the success and/or failure of dieting (25 marks) The cognitive behavioural approach looks to explain dieting through positive and negative thought processes. The main reason why people want to lose weight is because they have negative views on their own body image. Herman and Polivy try to explain why restraint might actually increase eating, through their boundary model, which is that when dieting there is a conflict between the physiological need for food and the cognitive control over what should be eaten whilst dieting. The problem is that after the first 5-10% initial weight los the person begins to reach a plateau and the weight loss stops. A further problem is that at this point the body’s psychological needs and desire to maintain a certain set point over ride the cognitive control of the diet.
Explain this statement: “This failure of prevention occurs in the face of a decrease in smoking and reduction b. In dietary fat.” That if you want the diets to work and have everything turn out right you need to start with decrease smoking and not eat as many fats in your diet 8. Dean Ornish recommends a very low-fat diet along with what other components? Exercise, lose weight, Meditate 9. How does this make the Ornish diet scientifically invalid There is no evidence that shows that olive oil is bad for you, and the only cholesterol olive oil will raise your good HDL cholesterol.
We need to make these sugary drinks not so easy to buy. Everyday the soda companies come out with some new drink to suck us in to buying them and getting us hooked. Pepsi and coke are famous for this, but we still feel the need to try the drinks that come out. Even though most of us know that these drinks we consume are bad for us. In conclusion I believe having a tax that increases the prices on sugary drinks is a good place to start for the obesity epidemic.
Failure to do so results in their immune system producing antibodies which attacks the lining of their bowel causing them to have abdominal pains, constipation/diarrhoea, bloating, difficulty in gaining weight in childhood or maintaining weight in adulthood and anaemia. Because it affects the way their body can absorb nutrients it can also lead to osteoporosis and increase their risk of bowel cancer. Some foods can be bought that are labelled ‘gluten free’ but tend to be more expensive. • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the term used to describe a condition when on inspection of the bowel everything seems normal, but the person suffers with symptoms like abdominal pain, flatulence, bloating and constipation/diarrhoea. The person may want to keep a food diary to help discover which foods make their condition worse and avoid them in the future.
The highest percent of obesity worldwide is amongst children. In Europe, officials are calling for food industries to set their own regulations, or face bans like the tobacco industry. McDonalds is trying to expand and reach new markets, but it is being threatened with social pressure from nutritionists and national governments. McDonald has been adjusting to this issue by adding new healthier options to its menus, adding balanced lifestyle messages into marketing campaigns, and by continuing to promote and raise funds for foundations aimed at helping children with life threatening illnesses. Question How should McDonald’s respond when ads promoting healthy lifestyles featuring Ronald McDonald are equated with Joe Camel and cigarette ads?
For example, Pollan talks about margarine, and how scientists “claim” that it is a better, and cheaper substitute for butter, but it contains all these unnecessary ingredients that could be more harmful to the human body. Scientist believed by taking out saturated fats and cholesterol they could make margarine healthier, but what they did not know was it would produce unhealthier fats known as, trans fats. People never think about how deep and revealing food can be, but after reading this novel it’ll open your eyes to what really lies
Diet Soda: Too Good to Be True? Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to give up diet sodas and drink healthy beverages. Thesis Statement: Drinking too much diet sodas may increase the risk of catching diseases and produce dangerous side effects; therefore we should drink healthy beverages instead of diet sodas. INTRODUCTION I. Attention Getter: One of the easiest ways to reduce the amount of calories you consume a day is by switching to diet sodas.
Keenan Reilly Rubbish! 12/1/2012 Is Indifference Corrosive? If you knew that your favorite food was made with a considerable amount of mercury, and that’s what made it so tasty, would you still eat it daily knowing that it was doing harm to your body? Being indifferent, is an alarmingly personal choice, it isn’t a stamp that makes something permanent forever, it is a moment by moment choice that is either being made consciously or unconsciously. Speaking for myself, I would stop eating that food if I knew there was mercury in it, because I care about my body, I know mercury is poisonous, etc, etc, I could go on with a list of reasons as to why I personally would not eat food with mercury in it.
According to “Don’t Blame the Eater”, by David Zinczenko, he argues that suing a fast food place is wrong and should be your responsibility on what he eats. He gave the perfect example to show us how wrong it is with “isn’t that like middle-aged men suing Porsche for making them get a speeding ticket?” With this example he gives an alternative view of looking at lawsuit towards fast food restaurants that are just doing their jobs and making us food. This is not to say that the fast food restaurants don’t have a part in people being fat. With fast food places spending millions of dollars in advertising, who is not to say that some can be misleading? With so many ads and billboards persuading us to eat even though we’re not hungry.