The Omnivore's Dilemma

According Micheal Pollan (to what I think he is trying to say) his argument is that our past knowledge about eating and how to eat has been replaced with confusion and anxiety on what to eat. Most Americans today rely on these experts of foods such as diet books, commercials, magazines, etc. to tell us what we can or cannot eat to make your eating habits healthy. I think that this argument is definitely very true for many Americans today. Today people have some weird fad on food, eating healthy, eating certain ways to look like what the media says your suppose to look like. Many people listen to these "experts" and following the experts plans not knowing that some probably are not good for us or do not even work at all. For most people, these "experts" can completely change our daily eating habits and what can be found in our kitchens or change what we shove in our mouths. Although it makes me wonder why we trust these experts when they, to us, are basically are strangers and most of us have probably never met these experts. Ironically though what these experts say to eat or not to eat people will most likely definitely follow whether it is because they want to loose weight or eat "healthy". It makes me wonder if some new famous food expert were to magically pop up on the media sooner or later and says "its healthy to not eat any foods at all and just go anorexic", will people be that blind as to listen? Ever though there are many of those who follow these food experts as if a religion there are those who do not and indulge in foods that are probably worse to eat such as McDonalds, Burgerking, Junk food, etc. And although they do not follow any experts that may probably be wrong it does not make them any better with their foods habits.

For me, as much as I wish I could say I have never followed these experts advice on eating I must admit that I definitely have. In the past I have struggled with my weight and the first thing I obviously do is ask the experts on how to loose some weight. And back then I weighed around 148 pounds and following many advice, looking on many magazines, being very unhealthy I became 126 pounds rapidly. Right now though I tend to eat what ever I want besides from the fact that I started to be vegetarian about two years ago. I became vegetarian not because of dietary reasons but because I am against eating innocent animals being killed without being able to defend themselves ( i guess that is an easy way to put it). Being vegetarian was through my own will and not from any "expert". Now I weight 133 pounds and I do not feel embarrassed about my weight because I feel that I am easting fairy healthy. The way I get my eating habit advice from is from my father. To me my father always seemed like he knew what he was doing but when thinking about it my father probably got his easting and diet ways from what we are calling "experts. And even though you do not read diet books or magazines and listen to people on television there are still people that you ask for advice on how to eat healthy. This for example is like your parents or friends. And who do these close family and friends get their food advice from? Most likely some sort of dietary expert. Or if they were to ask their friends and family at some point all the knowledge is directed back to one sources which is most likely what we know as these "experts".