Response to Pollan- The Omnivores Dilemma

In The Omnivores Dilemma, Michael Pollan argues that as individuals we don’t have a good enough idea of how we choose to eat and what foods we are eating. Most of the food we consume is advertised by the media, providing us with little information on where it comes from and how healthy it actually is. We are reliant on other people to run the way we eat, even if we are not aware of it. I agree with many of Michael Pollans ideas, you can go to a bookstore and find thousands of dieting books, search online the newest trend in how to lose weight or watch TV and see commercial after commercial on diet supplements and pills to take in order to lost the most weight in the fastest period of time. Most diets don't work for everyone but people continue to follow them, many fall into this trap just because they like the results they see being advertised, they are convinced they will one day looks just like what they see.

I would consider my family to fall into the trap that everyone else finds themselves in, but not to the extreme of most. We don't have diet pills laying around the house or follow the south beach or zone diet, just to name a few. A lot of the advice my family takes is from our doctors. there are numerous time where i will see my mom reading an article in the newspaper about a new product in the market and will run out to try it cause she thinks its the "healthier" thing to do. Getting older I have found the best way to eat for me. When i was younger i would only want the food that looked cool or what every kid wanted in their lunch box but their parents would not buy. In elementary school it was common for kids to switch lunches because it was so important to have the lunch that appiled to them, if it was not what their mom or dad packed it was something else that another kid had.