Tuesday, September 28, 2010

What you see a lot of is the media using a persons title to perswade the readers view on food and health. In the article "Doctors Orders: Eat Well to be Well", a 64 year old doctor named Preston Maving tries to promote healthy eatting to his community through his coworkers. The title doctor means he is a medical professional,  many assume all doctors are smart and know everything about the human body. Many also see doctors as trust worthy since their job is to help you be healthy, so since this Dr. Preston Maving says that the right way to live is to eat organicly many will assume its true because hes a doctor. This also causes people to look up to doctors leaving them to think they will have better health if they live like a them.  However, this causes a steriotype for doctors that they should all be healthy. "A nurse who works at the Hospital for Special Surgery on the Upper East Side openly acknowledges that vegetables make her gag. Still, she begged to not be publicly identified because she is in the health care field and knows that she should set a better example.".  "Set a better example" implys that doctors are our role models. Role models are suppose to do the "right" thing, so for her to openly admit she hates vegtables would cause people to ridicule her since doctors in our eyes should be healthy. What people aren't seeing is that doctors are human being like everyone else, why is alright for you to eat unhealthy but not for a doctor to?

The media also uses many excusises for why American's don't eat healthier. No one wants to admit they are worng, so the media tries to blame others sorces for America's health problems. In the article " Fresh Vegetables where fast food reigns", they basically say that many don't eat healthy because of they can't afford the organic foods and the food sorces that surround them like fast food resteerants. "The idea is to provide fresh food to communities where obesity, diabetes and high-cholesterol problems are epidemic and where local food options tend more to fast food than healthful ones." It is true that fast food is more affordable and faster to prepair then organic food, but that doesn't mean it right to eat it all the time. Everyone knows by now that fast food is unhealthy for you, there are plenty of affordable healthy food options besides fast food that aren't organic ether. They also fail to mention in the article that it isn't just eating unhealthy food that causes health problems, but it's also lack of excersize.

1 comment:

  1. Y -

    Decent - but where's the clear explanation of dominant discourse? Where's the sense of motion regarding dominant discourses addressing US foodways?

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