Final Food Project 1

I’ve always had a good diet, because my mother normally makes something that would be considered “healthy”. The only times I eat junk food is when I’m hanging out with friends, but I normally try to get something that’s more “healthy” like fries. There are days where I crave junk foods, such as ice cream. While on this diet I ate nothing except for fruits, vegetables and grains, which wasn’t hard to do because I eat those things regularly, only difference is I couldn’t eat things that I craved. While on this diet I did have the urge to eat something I gave up, but I asked myself questions when I did. “Why do people crave things that aren’t good for them?” “Do past food experiences cause these urges?

The hard part about this diet was at school, the problem about is that around SOF there aren’t a lot of good options of places to eat, I’d normally would go to a deli near by and get a turkey sandwich, but because I gave up fish and poultry I couldn’t buy deli sandwiches. What I ended up doing was bringing things from home fruits, pita bread, hummus, and carrots, which wasn’t too bad but normally those things are snacks I eat at home. At home when my mom made dinner it was the same thing only difference no fish or poultry so I still enjoyed eating rice with vegetables. The second hardest part was late at night on the weekend, because when my friends bought sandwiches I ended up getting a granola bar which didn’t “hit the spot” while my friends got sandwiches. I was a bit jealous of the, and because they knew I was on a diet it was fun for them to watch me eat my little granola bar while they savored they’re sandwiches.

So how come we like things that is bad for us? Now a days we blame the cooperation’s that make these bad foods for being so addictive, because most things such as ice cream, aren’t made with simple ingredients like cream, milk, sugar but instead “high fructose corn syrup, gum sugar, etc. But that’s not the real cause of why people get addicted to food, and might become overweight, but because food is an essential factor to survival it’s not just the food that’s addictive it’s our natural instincts that causes us to eat things we need to survive. The problem with it is that today because people can eat on a regular basis that natural addiction to food causes people to over eat.
The reason people may also tend to crave foods that aren’t best for us is the fact that human beings are omnivores. Like Michael Pollan stated in his book “Omnivores Dilemma”, human being able to eat virtually anything have developed food preferences. The way people gain preferences is because of experience, if someone eats something new and likes it than that builds up their food preferences. When someone eats something that is considered good or bad, it’s because of his or her preferences.

Before this diet I’ve always been annoyed with the fact that’s easier to find something to eat that after you’re done eating you regret, such as fast food. In the movie Food Inc. at the end it said people should try to vouch for local markets, but does give a clear way how. I personally think that It’ll be a long time when food dishes can taste good and be made the regular long way, especially when people demand a lot, fast.