Food is Healthy?

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What, in your opinion, are the current important health issues that are directly related to food. 

Specifically, what are they, and why are they so important in today’s society?

  • Diabetes
  • Obesity 
  • Cardiovascular disease 
  • Food scarcity 
    • Food deserts 

They all harm people in different ways. Many of them can cause illness or death. 

How, in your opinion, does food impact these problems?

  • By eating too much, too little, or the wrong things these illnesses can occur. 
  • And environmental racism, and classism cause food scarcity.  

What, in your opinion, are the key components to a healthy diet?

  • Big variety of foods 
  • Each food group (protein, veg, fruit, grains, dairy, etc) 

From a health perspective, what is “good” food? What is “bad” food? Use some examples.

  • Everything depends on the individual (metabolisms differ)
  • Good food: whole, local, fresh, not processed
  • Bad food: processed, high in nutrients that can harm (sugar, salt, fat, etc), unnatural ingredients 

Please find two examples of food advertisements that have a health message. It can be overt and clear, or subtle and implied. These can be web advertisements, audio advertisements, or video advertisements. 

Please include the link to a web location here:An ad for a new McDonald’s meal, with a side salad.

(Mcdonalds, 2013)

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/business/mcdonalds-moves-toward-a-healthier-menu.html

McDonald’s Salads 

https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/print/nutrifit_naturally_healthy_1 

Strawberry cereal

Nutrifit: Naturally Healthy, 1

(The HUB advertising, 2018)

Considering the advertisements that you selected….

Are your selected advertisements effective in addressing the key health issues you mentioned above? Why or why not?

  • Mcdonald’s- addresses balanced meal/ variety. But it also has processed elements. 
  • Cereal- tries to seem organic or natural but in reality, it is processed. Appeals to a health crowd wanting whole foods. 
  • They both try to portray “good” foods but both have unhealthy processed elements.

McDonalds.  (2013). [Untitled illustration of a Mcdonald’s combo].

Retrieved March 9, 2021 from https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/business/mcdonalds-moves-toward-a-healthier-menu.html

The HUB advertising.  (2018). [Untitled illustration of a Cereal].

Retrieved March 9, 2021 from https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/print/nutrifit_naturally_healthy_1