Two intersting points of others SE5

In Deng's SE5,  one of the most intersting part is vegetarian should change their eating diets if they only eat vegetable because that will cause vegetarian lack of some important elements, and that is not good for their health.
Secondly, In Zechi's short essay, the resources that he uses intereste me a lot. The test is to let these people not having breakfast at first and then showed them photos of high- and low-calorie foods.

Eating Disorder of Local Students and International Students

Name: Ran Wang

WRIT1133-27, MWF 12:00

Prof. Eric Leake 

05/17/12

913 Words

               Eating Disorder of Local Students and International Students

       After reading others’ and my own daily food journals, one thing interests me is the eating disorder of both local students and international students in American universities. There are so many people in our group who talked about their missing breakfast or irregular eating habits. As an international student, I found eating disorder is one of the serious issues among college students in America within my first year here. Actually, both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are seriously unhealthy lifestyle. The most important reason that developed these two diseases is the irregular eating habits. It is a hot topic that how this phenomenon has developed among American college students.

       Firstly, I want to talk about the eating disorder which takes place in local students. Justin Carrington’s “Time, money affect eating habits” has some valuable ideas about this topic. In this article, the author implies some reasons of why lots of local students developed the irregular eating habits through personal communications. The most interesting part I found is that time affects their eating habits. "The major thing that prevents students from eating healthy is time," Crabtree said. As one of the interviewees, Crabtree also said “I really don't like eating breakfast, but I have to because I might not have time to eat any other time during the day until late at night." From this student’s opinion, we can see that the availability of time makes students eating irregularly. On the other hand, I did find another reason which causes lots of student have the irregular eating habits. From a parent’s perspective, Lait said he “believes sometimes not having mom and dad around to guide what is being purchased can lead to certain unhealthy eating habits.” I think it is true; especially when students go to colleges, a new environment can change students’ dietary habits by variable ways. Besides, everyone has different dietary habits and schedule; so, when people go to college, new friends also will affect their dietary habits through different ways. I believe it is a truth that if parents are not around to guide which kind of food is healthy and nourishing, some food which look comfortable and tasty but is not healthy will change them healthy eating habits sometimes.

       After analyzing the local students’ situation, I think the irregular eating habits of international students would be more serious. For example, American parents believe new college life will lead to their kids’ dietary habit an unhealthy point because they cannot be around to guide them how to eat healthily. For international students, what we face is a new country rather than a different city in the same country. Meanwhile, our parents are much further away, and there is no way for them to guide us what should we eat or not. Rather than the reason of living without proper guidance, students’ personal issues are also very serious. Considering the interviewed student Crabtree, he said that he has to eat breakfast because he does not have time to eat anytime else during the day until the late at night. It is fair to say that college students have very tensive schedules during the daytime. So, for international students, we would have more stressful schedules than American students because English is the second language for us and everything is new. We could spend much more time on studying; otherwise, we can easily be eliminated by American colleges. As a result, compare with American students, our dietary habits are more irregularly and unhealthy.

       Moreover, I found a research journal which is called “Changes in food neophobia and dietary habits of international students.” In this journal, it uses different research theories to show what the international student’s dietary habits are and whether they can develop new dietary habits in different countries. Specifically, the author uses the statistical analysis, demographics, procedures, data tables to analyze if a climate for positive learning is to be established, what dietary habits changes will take place in the acculturation process for international students. There is a report which studies the Asian students in the USA, suggesting that “the number of meals consumed per day decreased, with almost half of them missing breakfast more often than the other two meals, primarily because of their class timetables. (Pan et al., 1999)” As for me, I think this phenomenon is same with my schedule since I study in American. When I lived in our school dorm first quarter, my roommate was an American and we got along well with each other. But as time went on, we found that we had the different daily schedules and dietary habits. I admit my daily schedule in America is disordered and I have the irregular eating habits. For example, every day I just have a meal and most of time I study until midnight. Finally, we did not continue living together in the second quarter, but we understand each other.

       As a conclusion, eating disorder of local students and international students is always a problem and need to be solved – especially the international students’ irregular eating habits. As for me, I appreciate a lot that my roommate can understand the international students’ daily schedule and irregular eating habits. Maybe because sometimes he has the disordered time schedules as well as I do, not always though. At present, I am trying to adapt the life and study in America, and to adjust my irregular eating habits. I believe that I can do it in the near future.

                        

                                              Work Cited

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"N.C. State: Time, Money Affect Eating Habits." The America's Intelligence WirePrint. 2009.

Edwards, J. S. A., H. L. Hartwell, and L. Brown. "Changes in Food Neophobia and Dietary Habits of International Students." Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association 23.3 (2010): 301-11. Print.

Pan, Y.-L., Dixon, Z., Himburg, S. & Huffman, F. (1999) Asian students change their eating patterns after living in the United States. J. Am. Diet. Assoc.99, 54–57.

Some thoughts on food journals

I found most of students like to sleep rather than eating breakfast.  Time of meals is always depeding on our schedule. On the other hand, lots of students do not like eat in our school cafeteria, If we have a chance, we will eat outside the campus; The Chinese restaurant is one of the most popular one.  

Ran Wang’s 3-day Food Journal (P8)

Ran Wang’s 3-day Food Journal (P8)

Friday, May 11

Breakfast (11:30-12:00) Because I only have one class on Friday, so I got up too late, and just bought a strawberry bread and a cup of ice coffee in the dorm canteen. Also, I added some sugar and two cups of milk in it because the taste was very bitter and astringent.

Dinner: (5:00p.m.) We went to the Chinese restaurant which is called East Chinese food. These are what we ate: Fried frogs with cayenne pepper, shredded kelp with soy sauce and YunNan’s rice noodles, and a cup of coke.   

Saturday, May 12

I did not eat anything in Breakfast and lunch because it is the Saturday and I got up at 3:00p.m.

We bought some Chinese hot pot ingredients as the dinner and ate in my Friend ZeChi’s home. Also, we made the sesame paste by ourselves. These are what we ate: Fish ball, beef ball, Mutton slices, duck gizzard, cow stomach and throat and some vegetables.

Sunday, May 13.

Lunch (11:00) I had a hamburger, some French Fires, ice-cream and a cup of skim milk in cafeteria at first floor.

Dinner (5:30) we drove to the Chinese restaurant which is called Chuan WeiXuan, which is the Chinese Sichuan cuisine. We had some special dishes in there, such as: spiced pork shoulder, pig kidneys, sautéed cabbage with vinegar sauce; Blood pieces, which is made with animal entrails and chilies, Also add some vegetables, For example the bean sprout, bean curd etc.    

The Analysis of Food Ingredients

Name: Ran Wang

WRIT1133-27, MWF 12:00

Prof. Eric Leake 

05/10/12

988 words

                                                   The Analysis of Food Ingredients

       Staple food is an indispensable part in human’s life. In certain location, things are dominated by certain cereals: rice in Asia, wheat in Europe, sorghum and millet in Africa, and maize in America. Last weekend, I had a wonderful time eating the Chinese food in Denver. Actually, different parts in China have different dietary habits; Such as most northern people in China think the rice is the staple food, but the people who are living in southern China like eating noodles. In the restaurant I went to, I had a great chance to eat southern Chinese dish- Rice noodles combination. For this dish, it uses Asian specialist ingredients: rice noodles. Also, there are lots of side ingredients in it: such as beef, pork, shrimp, fish ball and Chinese sour pickled cabbage. In this essay, I would like to analyze the most important ingredient in this dish – rice noodles.

       “About 60 percent of the agricultural workforce is involved in producing rice, and China produces and consumes about a third of the world’s total.”(68) As the author Latham, A. J. H explains in the book Rice: the primary commodity, rice is the most important food in China; also, it occupies the dominate position in Chinese life. Meanwhile, rice has a long history in China. Firstly, China was a major rice importer before the Second World War; most rice was coming from Thailand and French at that time. When the People’s Republic of China was established in 1949, china tried to produce the rice by itself. But there was no proper agricultural research system. Then, with the development of this epoch, Chinese economy had changed from speeding phase to a more stable phase. So Chinese had enough economic strength to develop the agricultural research system. Finally, China started to produce and consume the rice by itself and this development of agriculture went very well. At the same time, the noodles also are an important staple food in China. Just as the author said, “Both rice and noodles are eaten in many parts of China, and as wheat is cheaper than rice, noodles can be substituted when rice crops fail.” (68) So, both rice and noodles are important staple food in China, and there is a special intimate relationship between two of them.

       Talking about the rice noodles, it is the noodles made with rice and rice flour. Also it is the Asian characteristic food, though the shape, size and style of rice noodles are referring to western country. The shape of rice noodles is like the pasta， as well as the Asian ribbon noodles, and the way of making rice noodles is very special. A website which is called “wisegeek” analyzes, “In Asia, rice noodles are classically made by soaking and grinding rice to create a paste, and then rolling out the paste and cutting it.” Besides, I learned something after reading the introduction part of rice noodles in this website. Sometimes, the producers add the mung bean flour to make rice noodles. This explains the phenomenon that some rice noodles have a little bit green color. Also, using the mung bean flour will change the consistency, and will make the rice noodles get more tasty and nourishing. Moreover, I learned why people use Asian recipes to cook rice noodles instead of western ways of cooking pasta. Because the rice noodles is like the Asian thin noodles which is not only very thin but also flexible; to make sure the noodles will not turn mushy when it overcooked. From this situation, Asian recipes work better.

       On the other hand, after I seeing another source in a different website which is called “foodsubs,” I found there are a lot of types of Asian rice noodles. Each of them has a different name. For example, rice flake noodles, rice stick noodles, rice vermicelli, thin rice sticks, wide rice noodles and river rice noodles. The one that interests me most is the rice vermicelli; which in Chinese is named “mi fen”. This article in the website also demonstrates variable ways of cooking rice vermicelli. “These [the vermicelli] are used throughout Asian in soups, spring rolls, cold salads, and stir-fries. They're similar to bean threads, only they're longer and made with rice flour instead of mung bean starch.”  After reading this resource, I found there is not just one kind of dishes using the rice noodles; what I ate is called rice noodles combination, it is just one way to cook rice noodles. Maybe other countries can use the rice noodles to make other dishes as well. But the common thing is that no matter in which country, all rice noodles are using the mung bean flour to change it consistency, and to make it tastier and more nourishing. It is similar with last website article, and it reinforced that mung bean plays an important role in making rice noodles.

       In conclusion, before reading these articles, I only know the rice noodles are very tasty but I did not know how to make it or the relationship between rice and noodles. Afterwards, I learned a lot about rice noodles production and history. Actually in the Song dynasty in China, the rice noodles were called “rice cables,” which could be dried to make a good gift to other people in festival. Rice noodles are popular across China and even the entire Asia. The rice noodles can be heated, cooled, stewed in soy sauce, even fried. If I can get a chance to eat other Asian countries’ food, I will try some other different dishes that are made by rice noodles.

                       Work Cited

Latham, A. J. H., and Inc ebrary. Rice: The Primary Commodity. 14. Vol. New York:

Routledge, 1998. Print.

Lori Alden, Asian Rice Noodles, 1996-2005.Foodsubs.

http://www.foodsubs.com/NoodlesRice.html

S.E. Smith, What are Rice Noodles? 23 March 2012. WiseGEEK.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-rice-noodles

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                                   The different point of view from food production

   The last time when I read the articles which are called The Infographic by Cook, the introduction part of the book tomatoland and “An Animal’s Place”, these three authors compares three pieces of the food production and history. Also, there are some social phenomenon were revealed. 

         In the first article infographic by cook, the author mainly talks about the harmless broiler chicken in North America. The author researched the broiler chicken in North American. The most thing makes me amazing is the broiler chicken is not healthful. The first reason is the meat inspectors should process chicken carcasses too fast because the rising demand of broiler chicken. So, it is easy to have some healthy issues in some way by an oversight on a small logistical detail. On the other hand, these workers are treated indifferently in American. They are doing one of the dangerous works but the government gives them very scanty allowance. Even though they cannot afford the prptective boots, gloves and aprons, so there are many bacteria will easily makes them infected with the bird flu. Due to these reasons, unsafe measures will result in the increase of work accidents. Such as the author says, “Injured foreigners aren’t eligible for welfare or disability benefits”(Christopher, 42). In my opinion, I think this issue should be solved. Otherwise not only the customers will dare not to buy the broiler chicken because that is insanitary, but also a skimpy allowance will makes the workers do not want to take this job anymore because it is too dangerous.  

         In second article, tomatoland, the author believes the different tomatoes grow in different country not only will have different appearance, also the taste are definitely different. He tried to find out some history and production of the tomatoes in order to prove his point of view. I agree with his opinion-we should find the different of tomatoes by comparing the appearance and the taste it in different area. In last article, the author talks about the history and production of food is someway.

Blog Post

         In the article Our National Eating Disorder, which is written by Michael Pollan, he analyzes there are some unhealthy and incorrect dietary habits in American people’s lifestyle. Besides, he uses some researches and symptoms to explain why Americans have the disordered eating habits. I am totally agreed with his point of view. As he said, some Americans’ dietary habits were recognized distinctly. Most of Americans believe the taste of food is a true guide to what should be eaten. But actually that is not absolutely right. Lots of food which has nourishing is not tasty because it is hard to see and taste most of important components of food. But only the scientific laboratories can show the food is nourishing. I still remember when I was young, my mom let me eat lots of food which is nourishing; such as carrot, soybean and some other vegetables. All of these vegetables are not very tasty and I hated them all the time. As I gradually grow up, this attitude seemed to be too optimistic because I know it is nourishing and it is good for my health. On the other hand, eating healthily is still the important food value of Americans though they have the disorder eating habits. In the opposite situation, some people who are from France do not think that way; they do not consider anything when they eating. But one of the striking thing is the French are healthier than most of Americans, although their eating is unhealthy. The author explains that in article, “They eat small portions and do not go back for seconds; they do not snack; they seldom eat alone, and communal meals are long, leisurely affairs” (4). So, from this phenomenon we can see the healthy dietary habits are not only depending on if the food is healthy or not, the behaviors of eating also is very important to people.