Richard Spight WRIT 20100 APU February 13, 2016

Homework Week Two
Reflection Paper on: How Junk Food Can End Obesity (Freedman, D. 2013)

We are introduced to the author David H. Freedman as he makes a comparison between two equally wholesome smoothies. The first drink is from a Los Angeles health-food eatery, a 16 ounce of blended apple-blueberry-kale-carrot juice totaling some 300 calories for a supersized price tag of $9.00. Freedman ordered up a like smoothie a few weeks later outside Chicago with only 220 calories that tasted in a word “delicious” for a mere $3.00; he thanked McDonald’s for the tasty treat. There was a courtroom like parade, of writers whose ink pen had protested the food industry complex and directed their readers toward natural and local sourced food purveyors, avoiding the highly processed and fast-food industry. Health food evangelists cried out against America’s health obesity crisis resulting from sugar, salt, and fat intake. Michael Moss’s “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giant Hooked Us” was a #1 best seller on the New York Time and Melanie Warner’s “Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal” and host of other voices for reform in what is on the tables of Americans. The head-shepherd and chief prophet in the need for change in industrialized Big Food engineering is Michael Pollan. Pollan has expressed the need to regress to a simpler time, when the food source could be tracked and trusted. “The food they’re cooking is making people sick” this Pollan’s stands and his follower echo like sentiments. He groups the food