EPIDEMIC

In the article of Kessler, it states that addiction towards food is a mental illness. This is the leading cause of overweight and diabetes worldwide. Taste plays an important role in the addiction. Eating and the desire to eat are two different activities and they work separately. There has been an increase in consumption of fats and oils. Foods have high quantities of sugar too. These ingredients are irresistible for the brain, creating an addiction. The body doesn’t create it’s own balance. This region of the brain is called the “reward center” that creates instant gratification. It gives a positive emotional experience to desire and feel satisficed. This addiction is similar to an addiction of tobacco. It can be helped and it’s a choice to decide what you want to eat. Eating less and when hungry is a possible choice to prevent overeating. If you feel the desire to eat more remember it’s harmful and not necessary for the body.     

Food Inc.

In Food Inc., it empathizes on our nation's food industry. Taxpayers supply money for the creation of these cheap products sold at the markets. These products have high contains of sugar which over a period of time will lead to health problems like diabetes. This conforms “ minorities will be 1 in 2 which will have diabetes”(Food Inc.).  This quote means that minorities who don’t have much money to spend are who consume most of these cheap products leading to diabetes increasing rates. The income level plays a major role in how much one could spend on food. The less money to spend the cheaper products is bought by the lower income consumer. Products that contain high corn syrup are sold cheaper to the consumer. These additives are genetically engineer for cheaper prices. There is a choice to try to buy healthier foods for the health of ones body. There might not be a choice to buy these products in high quantities, but at least to try.  

HOMOGENIZING

  In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser comments on homogenizing explained into three facts about the fast food industry. Homogenizing is to be made similar or uniform in any way possible. Ray Kroc’s founder of McDonalds changed the eating habits on families and individual consumers. Natural flavors are now in everything eaten and consumed from these fast food restaurants. Ranchers are substituted for factories that process meat marketing.These three examples discuss the importance of homogenizing in the fast food restaurants like McDonalds. These foods have to taste the same in every location for the consumer to be familiar with the taste and know it’s the same elsewhere. The scent of food is more memorable then the taste and the scent are man made additives used to addict the consumer to want more. Four main corporations control the meatpacking and marketing industries. Ranchers have no choice but to provide their cattle’s to these corporations. They don’t get much of investment back, which have lead to high rates of suicide. These corporations maintain uniformity in the way the meat is processed. There’s not much choice in the meat eaten by the consumer. The ideal of these fast food industries is to maintain homogenize in every aspect of the food process.