Question 1

Who, according to Pollan, benefits most from what he calls &#34;America's eating disorder&#34;?&#10;A) the food industry, which takes advantage of Americans' anxieties about food to sell more and more of it.&#10;B) we do, because we share information and help each other make the best choices about food&#10;C) poor countries that are able to grow food crops cheaply and sell it on the U.S. market&#10;D) working women who have very little time to prepare meals, especially when married to men who do not know how to cook or refuse to learn

Accepted Answer

Pollan argues that the food industry benefits the most from America's eating disorder because they capitalize on Americans' anxieties about food to sell more and more of it. This includes marketing processed and junk food as healthy, creating addictive and convenient products, and prioritizing profit over public health.

Question 2

The cultural feature absent in America, according to Pollan, is&#10;A) agreement between men and women about what is physically healthy.&#10;B) the rejection of foods that do not deplete our resources and destroy our environment.&#10;C) a traditional sense of the food we eat and how, when, and where to eat it.&#10;D) the &#34;goulash&#34; or stew that mixes the cultural contributions of immigrant groups into a national cuisine.

Accepted Answer

Pollan argues that America lacks a traditional sense of food and eating, meaning that there is no widely shared cultural knowledge of how, when, and where to eat. He contrasts this with cultures that have strong food traditions, where people have a shared understanding of the role of food and eating in their lives. The other options, while related to food and culture, are not the cultural feature that Pollan identifies as absent in America.

Question 3

Who devised the dietary and health practices that Pollan describes as an extreme example of &#34;America's eating disorder&#34;?&#10;A) Walter P. Chestnut, an artist whose paintings inspired people to eat exotic foods&#10;B) John Harvey Kellogg, namesake of the Kellogg Company that is famous for making breakfast cereal&#10;C) Anna Murkowski, novelist and essayist who wrote a food column in American newspapers for more than 50 years&#10;D) Rick Spicer, a health advocate who lost more than 200 pounds during the time he had a physical fitness show on television in the 1950s and 1960s

Accepted Answer

John Harvey Kellogg is credited with devising many of the dietary and health practices that Pollan describes as an extreme example of "America's eating disorder." Kellogg was a physician, nutritionist, and health advocate who, among other things, promoted vegetarianism and advocated for the consumption of whole grains and nuts. He also believed in the importance of regular exercise and fresh air, and he invented many of the health foods that are still popular today, including granola and peanut butter.

Question 4

Michael Pollan presents an examination of&#10;A) Americans' anxieties and uncertainties about what they should be eating.&#10;B) the steady &#34;diet&#34; of biased and slanted information in the media, including blogs and &#34;infomercials&#34; that give us an inaccurate picture of world, national, and local affairs.&#10;C) childhood obesity and the long-term threat this poses for health and the healthcare system.&#10;D) anorexia nervosa, the most common eating disorder among male and female college-age youth.

Accepted Answer

The passage talks specifically about Michael Pollan's examination of Americans' anxieties and uncertainties about what they should be eating. The other choices are not mentioned in the passage as being subjects of Pollan's examination.

Question 5

Pollan believes that Americans spend too much time and effort&#10;A) seeking out the best restaurants and the most fashionable kinds of foods available.&#10;B) trying to grow their own food because they distrust what is sold in grocery stores.&#10;C) fixing food that can be prepared better by professionals-in caf&#233;s and restaurants and in packaged meals.&#10;D) worrying about what they eat, causing them to fall prey to eating fads and

Accepted Answer

Pollan argues that Americans get overly preoccupied with what they eat, which leads to them falling for fad diets and gimmicks. He believes that people should focus more on simply eating whole, unprocessed foods rather than stressing over the latest food trends.

Deck 13: Michael Pollan, Americas National Eating Disorder From the Omnivores Dilemma: a