In the society
we are living in today, mainly in the United States there are certain foods
that are of easier access to us than others. Also the media has a very big
impact on what we decide to eat. Reading an article on Children’s Health in
CNN, they talked about an experiment between apples and cookies, and comparing
the results. In an elementary school, Cornell University branded certain foods,
using an apple and a cookie as their choices. They branded them with Elmo
stickers and observed and took note of which one the children would choose, the
results end up showing that the apple was chosen more when the Elmo sticker was
on it.
Taking that into a
greater perspective, if adults did the same thing; and choose the healthy item
we wouldn’t have such a problem with obesity.
Personally, I do think that certain endorsements impact our decisions,
for instance if they had tried that same test with a much older crowd and used
other brands, for instance if we put a supermodel on an apple, that would affect our decisions. What if we put a
sumo-wrestler on a cookie? Would you be more attracted to the cookie then? Our decisions in food are often impacted by
our surroundings. But if you look at
this problem globally, I don’t think people in 3rd world countries
make the decisions for their food, like we do. They are impacted by another
circumstances, I don’t think they have access to same foods we do. I looked at
this website, stop the hunger and it gives the statistics of world population,
and well I feel that our problem of children making healthy decisions is more
of a microsociology problem, but when you look at it in a bigger problem some people
don’t even have food to choose from. http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/29/elmo-says-to-eat-more-apples/
http://www.stopthehunger.com/
9/7/2012
3:47pm
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