EE2 Draft.

Name: Ran Wang

WRIT1133-27, MWF 12:00

Prof. Eric Leake 

05/28/12

 1195 Words

                    

                Dietary habits disorder of International students  

       Nowadays, with the rapid economic development and the improvement of people’s living standard, a growing number of people would like to study abroad when they have certain conditions. As an international student, In fact, I found it hard adjusting to life in a new country, not only myself, there is a large number of students also believe it is difficult to have the same daily life with local students - Especially in dietary habits disorder issue.

       The dietary habits disorder point out the international students who have the irregular eating habits. Actually, the international students’ irregular eating habits were formed by two reasons; firstly, we have the exactly different eating schedule with local students, and it is irregular. Also, It has the intimate relation with our daily routine. Secondly, we have the different dietary habits with the local students. Different countries have exactly different dietary habits. It is a fact that the people who are from different countries have different food culture backgrounds. Sometimes it is too hard to let us accept and infatuate with other countries food. As for me, I think there is no doubt that enough concern must be paid to the problem of international students’ irregular eating habits in both sides.

       First of all, let us talk about the international students’ irregular eating habits on different eating schedule issue. To compare with the local students, our international students eating schedule seemed more seriously at some points. In this case, let us talk about local students first. Such as the author Justin Carrington’s “Time, money affect eating habits” has some valuable ideas with local students eating schedule. In this article, the author implies some reasons of why lots of local students developed the irregular eating habits by 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 local students 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. But actually some food which look comfortable and tasty but is not healthy will change their tastes to unhealthy. Finally, these unhealthy dietary habits will lead their dietary habits to irregular eating habits, because sometimes they only focus on tasty food rather than nourishing food. As a result, I believe it is a truth that if parents are not around to guide which kind of food is healthy and nourishing, their dietary habits will misguided by variable ways.

       Thus, local students’ parents believe new college life will lead their kids’ dietary habit to unhealthy 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. On the other hand, the people and friends what we get along with are the foreign that have entirely different lifestyles with us, moreover in dietary part. Everyone knows that the people who are from different countries have different food culture backgrounds.

     Moreover, not just eating without proper guidance, the international students’ personal issues are also very serious. In this case, 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)” So, if you continue to consider 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 have to spend more and more time on studying; otherwise, we can easily be eliminated by American colleges.

       Actually I have some of my own experiences to support this phenomenon. In this quarter, we did the three days food journals for our writing class required, after reading others’ and my own daily food journals, and our food journals showed that almost international have irregular eating habits. For example, there are so many classmates talked about they are missing breakfast every day.

(Incomplete… What I will do is, add one more personal experience to support what and how different dietary schedule affect us.  Then I want to talk maybe as time goes on, it is not hard to solve this problem because We feel more accustomed to living in the United States

.  But although we can solve this problem and change our irregular eating habits by ourselves in the future, our dietary habits is not too easy to be changed.

Next to talk about the second reason about how international students’ irregular eating habits were formed. --- We have the different dietary habits with the local students. Different countries have exactly different dietary habits. It is a fact that the people who are from different countries have different food culture backgrounds. Sometimes it is too hard to let us accept and infatuate with other countries food. ---- For this phenomenon, as all immigrants from different countries will be affected and changed by the new cultures in variable ways. As for me, I’ll have to get used to the American way of life. it is too hard to keep my original habits because cooking and diet culture for an immigrant or international student is irresistible.(Finding some resources to support my idea, such as the article Home Run etc.)

P9: The Importance of Being an Omnivore

P9

    After reading “unhappy meals”, which is written by Michael Pollan, I found there are lots of unhealthy dietary habits in our daily life. Besides, some contemporary food issues are affecting our healthy lifestyle unknowingly. Such as the Pollan said, “a healthy claim on a food product is a good indication that it is not really food, and food is what you want to eat.” So, people always eating the food by their own habits and tastes, sometimes it is easy to ignore which kind of food is healthy for them. On the other hand, he provides some healthy dietary habits to his audiences. Something interested me is eating like an omnivore. In this case, he emphasizes how important to eat regularly; choosing the food which has adequate protein supplement; and attention to nutrition rather than your own dietary habits. Pollan said that “The greater the diversity of species you eat, the more likely you are to cover all your nutritional bases.” In this case, I want to talk my own experience. Last year when I came to America, I found westerners do not eat animal entrails, but Chinese and lots of Asian people eat them with relish. Actually, I greatly agree his idea that people should eat like an omnivore, because people could achieve more different kinds of nutrients they need if they are omnivores.

     However, the author Dupuis has opposite point of views with Pollan. In his article “Angeles and Vegetables”, he thinks that people should choose the food by their belief, and it is much more important than the healthiness and nutrients of the food. Dupuis said that: As this brief history shows, angels were present at the birth of American food advice, revealing the truth to intermediaries who then evangelized to popular audiences.” From this point of view we can see he thinks people choose their food is depending on the angle, something like their pursuit, religion and their beliefs. In my opinion, I do not agree with his idea. With the progress of mankind and the world economic development, all of things has changed and update. So, whatever the appearances and nutrients of food also have changed in variable ways. As results, we should not believe all of things as the angle said and other old saying. We need to focus more on the nutrition and healthiness of food rather than own dietary habits. Such as the Pollan said, eating like an omnivore.

                                                         Works Cited

Michael Pollan."Unhappy Meals. " New York Times Magazine28 Jan. 2007:ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web.19 May. 2012.

Melanie Du Puis, E.. "Angels and Vegetables: A Brief History of Food Advice in America. " Gastronomica7.3 (2007): 34-44. Research Library, ProQuest. Web.19 May. 2012.

                         



                           

Thoughts on Eating Practices

I think study and sleep is much more important than eating since I came to America. But At present, I am trying to adapt the life and study in America, and to adjust my irregular eating habits.(international students)

I like Chinese food even though I am an international student in America. But maybe it will change and I will adapt Americans dietary habits in the future.

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.