Mindless Eating

                    In “XXXL: Why are we so fat?,” Elizbeth Kolbert states in her “Book4: Mindless Eating” that people don't know how much they want to eat, they are more rely on external cues and want big portion size, and only want to stop when someone tell to do so. The Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab of director Brain Wansink is testing about people's eating behavior in every circumstances. He does two experiments to test on his students, and he finds out that when students get more popcorn they eat more. Even though that popcorn does not have standard food quality, they still had eaten more than average. On the other experiment, the researcher provides more food without noticing to students than they have being served. In addition, he encourages to students as writing phrases as “ate and ate and ate.” on the bowl which he serve for them. At last the final conclusion for his research is students eat a lot when they are given a lot.

It is really hard to control our eating habit when it once rooted inside us.

Our habits make us to get bigger portion of food even we are full, and we know that junk food can make us obesity, we are still eating them.

I don't want to stop eating when I get plenty of food. I have been in that kinds of situation a lot. Among them, I just remembered about my trip to Singapore last year.At that time my friend who lives there treated me for lunch, so, he brought me to Buffet restaurant and it cost about S$30 each person. They provided variety of foods including sushi, salmon, fried shrimp, fried chicken, crabs and so on. They allowed only 3hours for every customers to eat there. So, my friend and I started using our valuable time as soon as we can start to do so by picking up Fried fish, shrimp, and other food which we thought it was expensive. We could eat a lot and we didn't even believe in our ability to eat.

We didn't pause while we were eating. If nothing left on our table, we picked others food again, and used the whole 3 hours there.The researcher from the article mention statement is totally true to me that “Give them a lot and they eat a lot.” Even though I was full in last thirty minutes, I could still eat them. When my friends brought more fried shrimp, and put on the table, unbelievably, my hand was on the plates again.

Furthermore, I will accept when someone says that health is the most important thing than food in regular time, but when I am having a good taste of food even it is junk foods, I will respond as let talk about health issue after finishing my food. I usually fail to think about my health when I am eating food especially French-Fry.

Happy Meals

According to Pollan's suggestions for eating better, his idea is possible for me and my family to accept. First of all, it is possible to avoid eating foods which my great grand mother disallow us because she has more cooking experience than us and she would know how to cook healthy. So, her advices would be right. Moreover, it is dangerous to eat food which their ingredients are unfamiliar with us, and the author is right we shouldn't eat high-fructose corn syrup because it can lead us to be obesity, and diabetes. It can't give us any advantages, so we should stop using this kind of stuffs. “In addition, we haven't used every items which we see in markets, so we don't know which one is good for our health. But we can easily neglect products which were charged by Health Association because it is obviously clear that unhealthy products may get fined. Moreover, we can't shop real food which mean fresh and healthy food in supermarket, the most fresh and nutritious food may in the farm market because we already know that every organic food come from them. Furthermore, now a days most of the healthiest people in the world are loving to eat green leaves,and vegetables. That are facts we can't argue with anythings, so we must accept that we get benefit of eating mostly green leaves. I agree with an author last advice and it is possible to do, and acceptable way for families. It is the best and fresh food ever which we pick from our own garden when we need to cook. More over, it can save our money and will become more happy by sharing them with our neighbors. Why are we eating meal? Is it only to satisfy our physical needs? Those questions were pop up in my mind while reading the author statement, and my answer would be not only satisfy our physical need but also to fulfill our emotional which I mean families dinners. We can talk and share about our daily experience with each other family members in our family dinner tables, so we don't have to eat rush and we can eat slowly, and talk, and create happy meals.

It is hard to follow every steps of the author saying because my great grand mother may know something, but not every things. So, when I have to choose to eat for breakfast I would not ask to my grandmother because she doesn't have chances to know about now a days every new products such as nondairy creamer. I like to use this stuffs when I make my coffee, but my great grand mother doesn't like it, she only like traditional simple coffee which is black coffee with sugar. More over, it is hard for me to know every products which have health claim issues, so I can't pay attention on every products whatever they announced. I will try whatever products which reach in my hand and if I like it I will keep using it, if it is not I will stop using it. But I would accept only avoid using product when I see side effect products in front of my eyes. Moreover, I could slightly agree with eating mostly leave, but I can't accept fully. Eating more leaves can maintain our bodies healthy but it will not give me delicious meal. I can't be satisfied with my dishes a lot of leaves and having a small amount of meat in it. Moreover, getting plants from our own gardens is more nice than buying from farm markets but it is really hard to own big acres of garden in now a days. Even if we can create a small garden, we still have to spend our time and energy from our busy schedules to have healthy grown plants. Moreover, in these day we have less chance to have family dinners, so we can't expect too much on our busy family members to join in our dinner tables. We can make it happens, but it can't be always.

I strongly disagree with the author, because his idea is totally impossible for us to accept. We all have different like and dislike foods, so I will not like whatever my great grandmother says it is good. I will eat whatever I like. I don't want to know what is made with, I only care about the product brands. The one that I know is the product brand is not easy to create, so whatever the product brand is popular it is surely delicious and worth to pay. There is one more point which impossible for me which is “Get out of the supermarket whenever possible.” That is impossible because we don't have time to shop every single farm to pick up our needs. Every products have same quality, we don't need to choose that much.

If we buy from supermarkets, we will get the same quality products as the Farm markets. Moreover, that is impossible to plants ourselves to have organic food, because now a days lands price are higher than the last two decades. Even though if we have land, it is impossible to use even a few space to make as garden in this city. If we make a garden where can we park, where can we make BBQ, where can we throw parties. Moreover, if we can have a meal with other people especially family members, it would be nice. Now a days, most family members can only put on their expectation list to have a family dinner, because they can't give time for that. Whoever hungry they have to eat first, because they have to do next things.

CATW essay revise

          In “How Your Cell Phone Hurts Your Relationships, ” Helen Lee Lin states that the relationships between people can be hurt if the phones are present around in their conversation area. Moreover, according to research it shows that people can not trust each other, and can't feel closeness to each other if the cellphone is present in their sight. Furthermore, the past studies also show that using cellphones may make us pay attention less to our social awareness, and current environment. The author is right. If we have phones in our hands while we are in conversations, both parties may feel doubt and cant communicate effectively.

          Personally, I don't want to talk with friends who busy with their phones because even though I talk to them, I am not sure they are listening to me. That kind of event happened to me, once my friend and I came back from school and took a bus together. Meanwhile, we were talking to each other about our class work and school. But the thing which I disliked was that he was always checking his cell phone. I felt like he didn't pay attention to our conversations, and I had dilemma about whether to talk him or not, and I became doubt on him. Moreover, I don't feel I am wrong because according to the research from the article it shows me that I am right. In that research the researcher asked a pair of strangers to discuss interesting events. He also placed cellphones near their conversation area. After their conversation was done, the researcher gave them questionnaires about their feelings about each other while cell phone was present near them. Their answers were same as mine, they didn't feel close to each other, and feeling less trusting.

         Furthermore, I don't want to blame my friend because even myself will pay less attention to current environment while I have my phone in my hand. My unconscious mind is attached to my phone even though I am communicating with other people. This mostly happens when I send text message from my phone before I have to physically communicated with another friend. I always pull back my attention from my ongoing conversation on my phone. So, I can't really concentrate on our conversation between us. In addition, according to research from the article it show that too “because of the many social instrumental, and entertainment options phone afford us, they often divert our attention from our current environment, whether we are speeding down a high way or sitting through a meeting.”

In conclusion, if we want to have a good conversation with friend and feel closer. We should keep our phone away.

Bottled water is safer than tap water.

"Bottled water is safer than tap water."

This statement from the Myth could be right for underdevelopment countries, but it will not true in development countries just like in New York City. In New York City most of the people are willing to drink tap water because we believe that it can both save our money and safety for our health. However, the myth statement can convenience a few people, I still prefer to drinking tap water because is regulated by the US environmental protection agency, and that organization is more accurate than Food and Drug Administration. Moreover, according to research from ABC news show that new york city tap water' taste are more better and clean than bottled water. Tap water are enrich in mineral such as fluoride which help to prevent from tooth decaying and chlorine which kill microorganisms, but bottled water doesn't have some. In summing up of these researches, nothing can persuade me from drinking tap water to bottled water.

Blog2: Revise Hype essay

                  In “Hype,” Kalle Lasn states that advertisements are everywhere, and it is difficult to avoid from toxic of mental pollants. Now a day, advertisements' increase rates are growing up tremendously in North America. We will have to start dealing with advertisements from early morning to late night until we sleep. Moreover, the author states that in these days advertisements are not only come with billboards, or on satidums but also at unusual places where a small screen at supermarket shopping carts too. Kalle Lasn is right advertisements are distract in our daily lives because it can waste our time and it can harm our society.

                  If I get a chance to watch movie, I would choose to watch from DvD rather than TV channels because most of the tv series and online movie pop up advertisements so many time until I feel impatient to watch them. Moreover, even when I listen to music from radio, there are a lot of commercial come after every three songs and I can't really listen to music from radio. So, whenever I want to listen music peacefully, I have to use my own mp3 player. Furthermore, getting a lot of advertisements informations can waste our time too because we will get hard time to choose. Sometime their prestantion of their products are good, but some products are not matching with their promises. If we encounter with that kind of products, we have to go back and buy for another brands again.

                  In addition, some time even though advertisements give us useful information, some of them will lead our children to the wrong way. The tabaco, alcohol, and gambling industries are the most toxic companies in our society. What ever they advertise is only to make profits for them they don't care who use their products or services. Once I had seen about the Malboro tabaco product advertisement, in that advertisement a cow boy was chasing a black horse with throwing a single rope. That advertisement main idea is a cow boy can solve everything only after he smoked that cigarette. If such kind of advertisement is seen by our future kids, they will imitate an inappropriate thing for their ages. More over, recently Resort World gambling buses advertisement are every where around in the manhattan. Their plan is they will advertise while they are giving service to their customers which mean their buses are running back and forth everywhere to pick up their customers, and drop off at resort.

                   As I have shown, there are nothing advantages for us from advertisements. They will annoy and distract our mentality.

 

Blog 4: The Allegory of the Cave

               In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates tells a story to his student Glaucon to explain that people will act rationally in their environment, if they know the truth, not only put effort themselves to know it but also “the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual.” Socrates create a story about the prisoners who was born in cave and chained their necks and legs not to move and look their back. They will be set up to see only shadows in their entire lives, and also they don't have a chance to know what they are seeing. After that, Socrates want to see what nature will come, so he released prisoner , and let prisoner know as what he see out side is real and what he see inside the cave was an illusion. When the prisoner was told to look straight at the light, at first he will approach to the objects see and later he will clearly see it in reality. On the contrary, Socrates states that when the prisoner is forced to look at the direct sun light, he will not see any thing which called reality. Moreover, Socrates states that if the prisoner grow accustomed in order which is let him know the shadow best,and the reflection of objects in water,and objects themselves. Last of all he will able to contemplate himself as when he see the reflection of sun in the water, he will know the real sun exists. I agree with an author that our thinking processes are rationally or not are depend on the environment where we grow up, and the intellectual reason for truth.

                Mostly it is happening while parenting kids because all of the parents do not want their kids in to being in the danger. So, they always solve problems in their own ways which they think it will harm their kids. For example , some aggressive parents might hit at their kids when the kids try to reach cookie jar which placed on the top of refrigerator. In reality that parent worried about their kid will get hurt from falling jar on their head, but the kids dont know that truth, and their parents don't give specific reason, so they might think that they got punishment because of they try to reach to cookie jar. If the kids keep just like similar untruth reasons in their whole lives, their rationally thinking process will delay.

               Further more, now a day most of adults are competing each other at drinking. They challenges each other as whoever drinking the most is a winner. According to dialogue of Socrates “Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner?” They don't really know the truth of good and bad, they encourage and cheer each other at the wrong things.

               In conclusion, people can think more rationally, when they will grow up under right instructions, and get explain the truth reasons for what they are doing.

Write Blog 3: Summary of "I Know the Truth, so Don't Bother me with Facts."

In “I Know the Truth, So Don’t Bother Me with Facts,” Jeffrey Kluger claim that most people do not want to change their belief once they accepted them even though they are provided with the facts. People are easily fooled by giving them untrue story or completely wrong information. There fore, Ohio State University of assistant professors of communication R.Kelly Garrett and Erik Nisbet research to estimate how much they seriously believe on false information, and how much their standpoints will change when they are being made visible to the facts of the cases. It comes out with [It turns out that] people can be easily influenced with “insinuating picture or inflammatory quotes ,” on the other hand only a few people are willing to change their opinions when they know the truth. More over, most of the people are extremely attached with their biases when they are being told they are wrong. Jeffrey Kluger is right when he states that we dont want to believe others than our belief because of our high expection and fear of losing our possessions.

When people are in troubles they stick to the wrong thing as their hopes, and they dont even want to listen professional advices. Mostly people are want to get back healthy lives while they are in sickness, so they will find a way to maintain their health in different ways by taking medicine or doing physical activities. Some of the greedy people are taking advantages from this weakness by providing them expensive ineffective medicine. Recently I read an article from my country which is the advertisements sold a dietary supplement as a perfect medicine that will cure every dieases including cancer. Therefore, most of the cancer patients stopped getting the chemotheraphy, and fully depended on that supplement. Eventhough their doctors explained them detail about the side effect of that dietary supplement, the patients did not listen and keep beliveing in their wrong informations. As a result, they had to give up their hopes early. 

Futher more, we are not only being happy of winning all the time, but also afraid of losing our possessions. Mostly banks will be get in trouble when clients become doubt on them, and also that doubt can lead the banks to be shut down. Once it was happened to Asia Da Na bank from my country, at that time there were rumors about that bank was in a bad shape and it would nearly bankrupt. In reality,they lent a lot of money to small businesses, and different companies and they are running the business smoothly. However, they are doing in good jobs when the clients doubts were raising and withdrew their money back, that bank got into troubles. Because most of their clients money were lent with agreements to other businesses, they couldn't ask them back immediately. At first the bank didn't want to file a bankruptcy, so they tried to perusade their clients in different ways [such as] as offering high percentage of saving rates to avoid taking money back from them. Eventhough they tried to satisfy their client by selling their properties and gave back their money, when there were a lot of demand and they couldn't handle that situation. At last, they had to file a bankruptcy, and shut down their bank.

Summing up, people are easily to believe in rumors and that rumor can give disadvatage to our society. So, before we belive on something we have to make sure where that information come from inorder to prevent unexpected events happening.