We are all different from heads to toes; our body system is different from everyone else. There are many points that Pollan is trying to point out, but I will provide you with different meals that I want to share with you and that will be healthy and not everything is like Pollan tries to explain. There are many different types of bodies, most likely divided into three sections the first one would be slim, then it would be a fit body, and lastly a thick body. Thin people just have a different type of metabolism which burns the food faster. This means that they need different types of nutrition’s.
Life in the modern world is full of stress and struggles that are ready to let you down anytime. People are in a hurry, eat fast, work harder and forget how to take care of their health because they are too busy to think of how to eat in a right way. They keep ruining their health by fulfilling their stomach as much as they can. So, many nutritionists advise that people should change this bad eating habit and do simple things, such as eat less and slowly. In the book “Food Rules”, Michael Pollan also lists “Eat Slowly” and “Eat Less” as recommendation for eaters.
This causes frustration and reduce the willingness to eat. Muscle tone disintegrates in accordance to this condition. Slowed digestion in the stomach can delay stomach emptying and build fullness and increased risk for ulcers. Other major negative effects are the process of intestinal absorption slows down effecting the absorption/breakdown of proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates, lactose, calcium, constipation, the person pancreatic function diminishes and the liver becomes smaller in size and weight (Bernstein; Luggen). 2.
There are many underlying health conditions that result in specific nutrient needs and influence what people can or cannot eat. For example people who suffer from conditions such as diabetes mellitus, coeliac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, lactose intolerance and food allergies will probably have to be very careful of what they eat due to consequences such as weight gain, serious food allergic reactions as well as very uncomfortable symptoms like abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea etc. So it is important that they have to exclude certain foods from their diet, which could influence their dietary intake as well as their nutrient intake. There are also other who are unable to absorb certain nutrients into their bodies and this can cause a deficiency of those nutrients, so they have to take supplements. In conditions such as diabetes mellitus in which the hormone insulin is either not being produced in the pancreas at all, or it is being produced in insufficient amounts or it could also be that the body is not utilising the insulin produced properly.
In “From Quality to Quantity,” from part two of In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan argues that our food system’s sole focus is on increasing production and profit. To support his argument, Pollan describes the idea of nutritional inflation. It is the fact that people must consume more food to receive the proper amount of nutrients today, whereas, in the 1940s, people were able to consume considerably less, but still gain the fitting amount of nutrients. Going into depth with this point, Pollan references Brian Halweil and his report from 2007 where he traces the problems with today’s nutritionally deficient foods to the very roots. Halweil points out that though the use of industrial fertilizers are producing bigger plants with more yield faster, when one depletes the soil of its numerous necessary nutrients down to a basic three, those grown with the use of the fertilizers will always lose to those developed in organic soils, when comparing nutritional values and benefits.
This is the same case to the less fortunate who tend to eat more food, when more of it is on offer. Financially, people should seek intervention measures when confronted by adverse health conditions. Afterward, the poor may perish as they lack resources to seek medical attention from health professionals. Economic factors are the determinants of the food one consumes. The fact, that the rich will still get healthy food while the poor survive on low quality foods.
Improved immune system. Reduced risk of chronic disease. The negatives of an unhealthy diet are you can get heart disease or strokes. It can lead to obesity in the long run. It can damage major organs.
The condition of our bodies determines the level of joy we experience in life. The choices we make about what we put into our body impact our ability to efficiently accomplish our day-to-day tasks. If we want a “high performance vehicle”, we need to provide it with “high performance fuel”. (E. Cheraskin) The body synthesizes non-essential nutrients but is unable to produce nutrients essential for proper body function so these must come from the food intake. Essential nutrients include substantial quantities of macronutrients; carbohydrates, protein, fats and water, plus small quantities of micronutrients, vitamins and minerals (Rolfes, Pinna, Whitney, 2009).
Good nutrition is the balance of an adequate diet combined with with regular physical activity and is essential for good health. Inadequate or poor nutrition can lead to decreased health and lowered immunity increasing the risk of disease. Insufficient nutrition can also result in impaired mental and physical development. Once food is ingested by the body it can be broken down into macro or micro nutrients. Macro nutrients are the structural, energy providing parts of food they are required in small amounts by the body.
Cespedes (2015), “Lack of proper nutrients can limit the body's immunity, limit the body's ability to rebuild itself from daily punishment so that your muscles do not rebuild, it can because you to have bowel problems, infections, decreases your ability to think and remember things. So essentially without proper nutrients, vitamins, and the building blocks of life such as protein, your body can wither away.” After doing this little experiment I have learned many things about my diet and eating habits. I know a lot of my inputs were based on time restraints on what I had going on over the weekend. So one thing about having a healthy balanced diet isn’t just eating proper, but making time and changing your lifestyle to be able to eat proper. Personally for me, I would need to add more servings of vegetables and fruit on a daily basis and eliminate the amount of cholesterol intake that I have been using.