Second draft on Pollan

In the book Omnivores Dilemma, Americans do not have a food culture. Everyone is so scattered and indecisive that we listen to what ever the media tells us to eat. We base our opinions of what's good and what is healthy on what the TV says, we use that to base our meals. We usually do not know what to eat and we usually do not know which diet is the best. Our decisions come from the ads on TV and how things are set up to catch our eye in the grocery stores. People take the atkains diet is where people are told only to eat meat and no grains or fruit. This is bad because your body is not going to get all the necessary proteins and carbs that it needs to function. But people do not take this into account because they only listen to the results of the diet and they might not even care or think its unhealthy because no one ever mentioned it to them. Gavin had said that this indecisiveness is in fact our own food culture. But I see it as our way of coping with all the decisions. And in its own way puts on a false culture look so that people don't think anything is wrong with the way they eat and will continue to eat like this under the excuse of because its our culture. With all of the influences around us telling us what to eat and what is healthy we choose from those options thinking there is no other choice. Yet there is always a choice. Like the Italians who have set food culture my family is just like it although in someways we also add a little of our own culture from the influences from society. We set our own food culture from what past generations have done and have passed down. We do watch the news and listen the newest trends about food and I usually do not listen to what they say but I do have a couple of good laughs when I think about the people that do listen with out any questions.