Good vs. Bad Foods
Micky DeChurch
Good vs. Bad Foods
Foods, there are many different kinds, healthy and unhealthy. By living in a place where food is not an issue, we do not eat as much organic food as we should. If you think about it why would you want to grow your own organic healthy food when you could just go down to a fast food restaurant and order a cheeseburger? This is something you wouldn’t want to do. I’m not sure people realize that you don’t need to grow or produce your own organic healthy food, now company’s are producing foods for you. They are altering unhealthy snacks such as chips and crackers to fit peoples healthy diets. I feel that a healthy life needs a healthy diet.
Healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables are abundant in the United States. The reason people like to eat fruits and vegetables is because they are filling and healthy, although some fruits and vegetables are not very flavorful which might be why most people do not like fruits and vegetables. Something people don’t realize is that a healthy diet is not only eating fruity and vegetables, its eating a variety of food is certain quantities. The food pyramid shows people that there are a wide variety of healthy foods you can eat, its not all just fruits and vegetables. If people start to understand what healthy foods really are, they can widen their diet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/nyregion/24fast.html
Unhealthy foods, such as ice crème, a lot of oils, butters, and fats. These are just some of the unhealthy foods in the world. Our country is obese, not in a metaphorical way but a literal way. Fast Food Company’s and fast food corporations are putting so much unhealthy food out into the United States that people can resist. Fast food restaurants are the wealthiest restaurants in the United States. Fast food Company’s do not only put food that tastes good in their restaurants but also food that are very unhealthy. Although people are aware of the unhealthiness of fast food places they still require that one of a kind taste. I must say that fast food “food” tastes really good. Fast food can also be good by if you are in a hurry you can get your food in a small amount of time. Fast food is ok once in a while but all the time, that’s not a good thing. Remember 3.8 million people in the United States are over 300 pounds and over 400,000 people are over 400 pounds. So if you think about it, why be one of those statistics, you should eat healthier food and live a long healthy life. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_advantages_and_disadvantages_of_fast_food
March 19th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Micky, your persuasive essay was really good. You really convinced me not to want to eat at fast food restaurants anymore. Those statistics are crazy, and i think it is pathetic that there are so many overweight people in America. I think food companies should try to make more organic foods or something and they need to stop promoting the bad foods. But overall, this essay is good because you got the point across and it was really persuasive.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Micky,
Your paper was really informative and i think you explained well. Now that i think back a lot of the food places i go to serve alot of ingredients with oils, butter, and fats added outrageously too much. This paper makes me want to think twice about what i eat and what i am really eating. I think people should realize this, and maybe restaurants would serve more healthy foods. I think states should undergo what is sold more strickly.
Good paper
Lindsay Huey
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:04 am
Comment by Easton Renwick
Lylen..
You did a very good job showing your points in this persuasive essay. You showed the good, and bad side about how people think about fruits and vegetables. I think that you could have possibly showed what the most common fruits and vegetables that people eat are, but other than that you did a good job.
Easton
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Lylen Michael –
I really liked your essay. I thought you had a lot of good statistics that showed how crazily unhealthy our country is. I thought maybe you could have went a little more in depth about the actual food, however, and what the most everyday and unhealthy foods are. Overall, I thought it was very good, and I agree with pretty much everything you said.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:01 am
Thank you.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Easton,
I understand what you mean and i was thinking of doing that but i decided not to because i didn’t feel people would really care about it.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Lindsay,
I agree with all of that, and i understand what you said about restaurants how they are way too unhealthy.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Kendall,
I understand what your saying and i agree with all of it, Our county is extremely overweight.
March 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Micky,
I really think that you could have narrowed your topic to offer more detail. When reading your article, I wanted to know more about fast food restaurants and the fat content in the foods that they offer.