Diet has stated that “Individual, social, cultural, religious, economic, … all influence people’s eating habits.”(1). Studies show that social, religious, economic factors have a large impact on a person’s nutritional status. Studies also have shown that social factors has led to disorders that affect a person’s nutritional status, as well as economic, religious factors, and lack of exercise. The nutritional status of a person refers to the status of a person’s health in terms of the nutrients in his or her body. Anorexia, which is a disorder in which a person lacks or loses their appetite, is considered a mental condition. Binging is the actual action taken by a person to force themselves to throw up what they eat in order to not gain weight. These conditions affect a person’s nutritional state greatly. A person’s nutritional state can be affected through religious practices, social customs, economic factors, and lack of exercise.
A person’s nutritional state can be affected through their religious beliefs. Ruth A. Waibel shows that Muslims are mandated to refrain from drinking, eating and being involved in sexual intercourse during the course of daylight hours (1). The Islamic religion affects an individual's nutritional state due to the fact that they fast for such a long period of time. In the Islamic religion it is typical to last at least 12 hours without taking in any type of liquid or solid. This affects the body because this can lead to malnutrition because the individual goes a massive amount of time without eating or drinking. Healthline claims that “kosher” is the term used to identify food readying in agreement with the dietary guidelines of Jewish law ( 1). This demonstrates that according to what the Jewish diet...
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What we eat, the way we do it, and why we do it, will always be scrutinized and in this article the author does just that. She argues that eating healthy or not depends on witch social class we fit in; witch can be true in a way. However, eating healthy or not can also be a question of choice. Obviously having more money will always give you more choices and the option to go for expensive products with higher quality. The journalist goes back to the 19th century saying that white bread was a luxury that only rich people could afford but showed no evidence that, by eating white bread they were healthier than the poor who could not afford it.
Although the two authors do not refer to each other directly in their works, both their perspectives share a common ground that no enough income make people eating less healthy. Pinsker argues that the actual barrier that stops people from eating healthy is the lack of income (129-130). He uses studies to show that poor families choose processed food because children like those tasty processed food (Pinsker 129-134). Whereas poor families cannot afford the waste if children refused to eat healthier but less tasty food parents provided (Pinsker 129-134). Cortright also suggests that income matters the most to why people do not eat healthy. He even further discusses income as the most influential limiting factor by addressing that other factors such as physical proximity to local food sources do not cause people to eat less healthy (Cortright 135-138). The two authors, in general, reach a consensus and mutually prove that income plays as the biggest limiting factor for people to have healthy
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Eating is an instinctual habit; however, what we decide to put in our body is a choice that will affect our way of living. In “The American Paradox,” Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism at University of California, Berkeley, disapproves of the way Americans have been eating. The term “American paradox” describes the inverse correlation where we spend more of our time on nutrition, but it would only lead to our overall health deteriorating. According to Pollan, our way of eating that had been governed with culture, or our mother, was changed by the entities of food marketers and scientists, who set up nutritional guidelines that changed the way we think about food. Nutritional advice is inaccurate as it is never proven, and it is not beneficial
Proper nutrition is important in maintaining a long and healthy life. Most Americans are rushed due to their busy work schedules, and do not take the time to plan their diets properly. Like me, most Americans are unaware of the importance of eating a healthy diet and consume too many foods without the proper nutrients. Throughout my life I have been fortunate. I have not had any major health problems, and have been able to consume most foods without having to worry about gaining weight. These last two years, however, I started to gain weight and have become concerned with my diet. Changing my poor eating habits has been difficult for me, however, having this assignment has taught me that it is not as difficult as I previously imagined.
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