Matt recently published a post about his experience with preparing a meal and how he felt about Michael Pollen's ideas about the circumstances that lead to the American public's acceptance of a "flood of damaging innovations...such as low-fat processed food".
In his post, he describes how he went about gathering necessary ingredients, preparing, eating, and cleaning up after his meal of an egg white sandwich, oatmeal, fruit, and toast. He did a good job of painting a picture of how he went around his kitchen doing all of the necessary things to prepare this meal and describing how he felt during and after eating this meal.
After talking about his meal, he described how he felt after eating. He was amazed that his meal was actually as healthy as he was told that it was and although it wasn't originally what he had planned on preparing, he was very satisfied with how it had turned out and was proud that he had prepared such a healthy meal, or so he thought. He goes on to describe how he felt about the ideas presented in Chapter 1, section 7 in Michael Pollen's In Defense of Food. Although he believed that he had just eaten a really healthy breakfast, he realized that some of the foods he had eaten weren't as healthy as he had thought. For instance, the fruit that he had eaten had been exposed to various chemicals while they were being grown. He believed that after reading this chapter, he better understood what Pollen had said about Americans and food, and felt that he realized that he wasn't eating as healthy as he should be most of the time, and that he could make a better effort to eat healthier on a more consistent basis.
Additionally, he linked his post to an article entitled "Take a Look at the Chemicals in Processed Foods". As the title suggests, it talks about all of the chemicals involved in the processing of foods. I believe that this was a good article to include in his blog post and enhanced the overall quality of his post.
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