Brianna Holmes

Processed foods: The Hidden Evil

In Today’s generation everything that we eat has been taken over by science. Food has turned into genetically modified and processed foods. Michael Pollans In Defense of Food touches on major problems within our food system that are leading to serious health problems nationwide. The biggest of these problems such as Diabetes, Obesity, and much more originate from science, and how food production scientist are trying so hard to eliminate problems like diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity and improve the health of what we are eating. Scientist are adding genetically modified ingredients that are intended to help improve the foods and stop health problems that are reoccurring but are instead only creating more elaborate health problems. There are more diseases, health problems, and unexplained weight gain that was not present before. Pollan elaborates on processed foods and all of its dangers. The methods that Pollan specifically elaborate on include the Imitation rule, Lipid Hypothesis, The dangers of refined foods and the Low -Fat campaign, intended to bring a healthier food system that would keep our entire nation at a healthier pace. Although that was the goal to bring better health to foods, that is not the case and real issues have yet to be fixed. Instead of cutting the bad sciences out of food production, they are constantly adding more ingredients and un-natural additives that are creating the issues instead of removing all genetic modifications and transferring back to all natural foods. Scientist involved in food production has convinced the consumer that processed foods that include un-natural additives are healthier and improved, but in reality that is far from the truth. The idea that scientist propose is that by adding nutrients that were not originally available in that particular food,