#13

When I was 13 years old and my sister was 1 year old, I need to take care of my sister if my mom and dad were not at home. I remember one day, there were just my sister and me at home. Because my sister always stays with mom and if mom is not with her, she might cry and try to find mom. In order to avoid her crying, I try my best to played with her, watched her favorite TV show and made her favorite food for her. My sister very likes playing toy bricks so we played it together. There was one stone in the toy bricks box. My sister throw the stone at me unintentionally. It hurt my lip a lot and my lip was bleeding. I was very sad and was crying. But my sister was surprised and she didn’t know what what did she do wrong. I realized my sister was so young and she was not meant to do that. If I was very mad at her and told her how painful I felt, she won’t understand. So I had to calm down and after that I still played with her.  

Prompt 12

In my LinkedIn profile, I want to show my academic accomplishments, experience and my character. Through my LinkedIn profile, It can make more people know me and future employers can find me and communicate with me. Moreover, It also shows my interests and other skills except professional abilities. More people who have same interests, can communicate with me, make friends with me and share our common interests.    

Prompt #11

As fast food is becoming more and more popular in America, it has affected people in positive and negative ways. On the positive side, it is very convenient and saves a lot time to eat fast food than cooking at home. Moreover, the main reason is fast food is delicious, cheap and easy. Not only the service is fast, but the preparation of food is also fast. On the other side, the fast food causing great public health concern, especially childrenhood obesity. According to the national health and nutrition examination survey, it finds “ In 2011–2012, 34.3% of all children and adolescents aged 2–19 consumed fast food on a given day. Almost 12% (11.6%) of children and adolescents obtained fewer than 25% of their daily calories from fast food, 10.7% obtained 25%–40% of their daily calories from fast food, and 12.1% obtained more than 40% of their daily calories from fast food ” (Vikraman). Lots of children eat fast food and consume lots of daily calories from fast food. That is one of most important reasons, which causes childrenhood obesity.

           

Prompt #10

Prompt #9

I began to find some sources about my topic which is fast food and obesity by using google scholar. Firstly, I wanted to find the facts of childhood obesity, then I just googling it and find a good article which is “ Incidence of Childhood Obesity in the United States ”. Moreover, I also wanted to find some books about my topic so I found some online books by searching in truman library.   

Cunningham, Solveig A., Michael R. Kramer, and KM Venkat Narayan. "Incidence of childhood obesity in the United States." New England Journal of Medicine 370.5 (2014): 403-411.

The article shows childhood obesity facts. It reports the the incidence of obesity and the data is from a large, nationally representative longitudinal study of children who were 5 to 14 years old.

Glickman, Dan, and Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention. Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press, 2012;2011;. Web.

The book tells obesity is a major health problem in the United States and we need to work together to solve the problem.

Cartere, Jason Y. TV, Food Marketing And Childhood Obesity. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2009. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 24 Feb. 2016.

The book tells the television advertising increases the rise of childhood obesity rates and expose the effect of advertising to children by using a comprehensive analysis.

Prompt #8

My topic is about fast food and obesity. Fast food is one hot topic nowadays. Although fast food is very convenient and relatively cheap, It brings lots of bad effect on people’s health. Eating too much fast food will cause many diseases, especially obesity. Obesity is a big problem for Americans. I am going to focus on the childhood obesity. I am going to talk about why and how the fast food cause childhood obesity. I also have one point is fast food restaurant said they are healthy but they are not actually.    

Prompt #7

After completing SurveyMonkey survey and discussing about the survey in the class, I learned something about survey. First, It is very easy and helpful to use SurveyMonkey to create a survey. Second It is very important to create good survey questions. The questions should be specific. For example, the first time we finished creating our group questions, we gave the survey to other group and they answered all questions. One question like “What is your favorite type of food ”, That group’s answer is delicious food. But that is not the answer we expected because we want to know their favorite type of food just like Chinese, Mexican or Indian food. Therefore, when we create the survey questions, the questions should be more specific and we should give more detailed information. Moreover, we need to over all possible answers. For instance, a question like “ How many meals do you usually have at the end of the week?”, we need to consider the people who don’t have a weekly meal plan.

In addition, the survey shows most classmate prefer to eat sweet food in the evening. I don’t think It is good for our health. Because Eating a little bit sweet food is fine and good for your sleep. But If you eat a huge slice of cake or other sweet food, It will increase your blood-sugar level and disrupt your sleep. So I think most classmates should change the time of eating sweet food.  

Prompt # 6

After looking back over everything we talked, I am really interested in food culture and fast food. The first time I came to America, I felt It is very different food culture between Chinese food and American food. I feel I have a lot things to talk about food culture. Exploring the food culture is not just for studying, It is also for enjoying our lives. Since the food culture in different country is different, that makes lots of people be interested in exploring different food culture. They travel around the world for eating different food and learning about food culture. Food for them is a kind of lifestyle and a very important part of their lives. Moreover, the people who can not travel around the world, they study different food culture from Internet and try these food from different kinds of restaurant like Italy restaurant, Chinese restaurant and french restaurant. Therefore everyone can explore the food culture.

Fast food is also a very hot topic. Although fast food is fast and convenient for people especially for the people who don’t have enough time for eating, fast food has lots of bad influence. Eating too much fast food can cause different disease, and obesity. It is a very serious issue for Americans because it causes obesity. So it is very necessary to study the bad effect of fast food and appeals more people to eat healthy food and keep a balanced diet.  

Prompt #5

After reading the three articles, I found some differences which are their main arguments, their attitude to organic food and different narrate style.

1. main argument is different.

“Beyond Organic” focuses on the author's experience with organic products and tells us the benefits of growing organic food.

“ Organic Foods: Do Eco-Friendly Attitudes predict Eco-Friendly Behaviors ” is trying find and show the result of determining whether student awareness and attitudes about organic foods would predict their behaviors with regard to organic food consumption and other healthy lifestyle practices.

“Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” talks about lots of issues of whole foods, people should reject making food “sustainable” which is organic, local, and slow and people should find other ways to solve global deprivation.

     b. The attitude to organic food.

“Beyond Organic” and “ Organic Foods: Do Eco-Friendly Attitudes predict Eco-Friendly Behaviors ” have positive attitude to organic food and encourage more people eat organic food or growing organic food. However, “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” is try to explain why people should reject organic farming.

    c. Different narrate style

“Beyond Organic” chooses the first personal statement way and focus on writer’s experience and opinion.

“ Organic Foods: Do Eco-Friendly Attitudes predict Eco-Friendly Behaviors ” focus on the study the writers did. Moreover, the writers show many details about the study, also use other sources and statistics to prove the main idea that most students preferred to purchase and consume organic foods.

“Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” is just like the research paper, which brings up the main argument and prove it.  

Prompt #4

I watched the documentary Fed Up that was written and produced by Stephanie Soechtig and narrated by Katie Couric. It surprises me and makes me realize how the food industry corrupt is. The documentary Fed Up talks about the growth of American obesity rises a lot, which causes generations of children have grown up far fatter than their parents and these children face impaired health and shorter lifespans. The documentary also shows many details and sources about the reason why the obesity epidemic happens in America. I think the intended audiences are Americans especially the parents of those children and their children. Stephanie Soechtig wants to make Americans especially the parents and the children to aware of why the obesity epidemic happens and appeals them to take action to solve the issue.

The documentary use logos, ethos and pathos. The strategies mostly were successful. For example, logos is a good way to get Stephanie Soechtig closer to audience, bring up his main idea and prove it. For instance, the food industry advertising children in a misleading way. Such as McDonalds improves their food by using toys which attract more children to buy the food. The food industry uses different ways to mislead people and create more economic profits. Although money is very important, the food industry should be responsible for people’s health.

The picky eater

            I started following the blog which is " The picky eater ". The blog makes me have a new definition of " picky eaters ". When I looking at the word " picky eaters ", I aways think of the children who are very selective about what they eat and reject many foods. But after I followed the blog, I completely change my view of " The picky eater ". " The picky eater " in the blog is the person who is trying to make and eat healthier food, and enjoys a happier life. Moreover, I really like the writer's positive attitude to food and life. She is eating her way to a healthier life. She is trying to make healthy, delicious food. The most important is that it is easy to follow how to cook PickyEater meals and do not take long to prepare. She post lots of great recipes which includes many details about how to cook. I also like the food pictures which makes me want to eat. The blog is not only about food, the writer also shows her own experience. She traveled many countries, learned how to cook and created her own recipes.

Live to eat

         There is no doubt that people eat to live. Once we stop eating, we will die. So It is necessary to eat for surviving. However, in my opinion, It is more important for us to live to eat than eating to live. Because nowadays, most people have enough time and money for eating. We do not need to worry we do not have enough food to eat. In this case, Eating is not only to survive but also eating is to satisfy ourselves. Moreover, we have many choices to decide what we eat. For instance, we can choose healthy food, the food that we like a lot or the food we never eat before. 

        We live to eat. That also means eating is an necessary part of our lives. I often watch the food TV show. The TV show records some people travel around the world to eat different kinds of delicious foods. I love the TV show a lot because that is also my dream to look for different kinds of food and eat them. Though I can not travel around the world to try delicious food, I often go to different restaurant to eat different foods and if I am traveling, I will look for different kinds of local foods and try them.

       All in all, It is more important for us to live to eat rather than eating to live.  

Dumplings

My favorite food is dumplings. Eating dumplings always makes me have a homely feeling. Especially, the dumplings which my mother cooks, are very delicious. It is also a lot of fun to make dumplings but not easy. Usually all family members will join the work. I enjoyed a lot when all families got together, made dumplings and ate dumplings. On the other side, The dumpling is one of the most important foods in Chinese new year. During the new year’s Eve, my families will get together to make dumplings. Then they will do an interesting thing that is they will hide a coin in one of the dumplings. The person who find the coin, means having a good fortune in the new year. Dumplings bring me lots of good and funny memories since I was young. That is possibly why I love dumplings a lot.