"Whatever native wisdom we may once have possessed about eating has been replaced by confusion and anxiety. Somehow this most elemental of activities - figuring out what to eat - has come to require a remarkable amount of expert help" (Pollan, page 1 of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals).
I think that this quote does not really describe me because I eat whatever I want to eat and not whatever people say is healthy. The things I eat can be delicious and unhealthy but I still eat it because of the taste. My mom would tell me not to eat certain things when I am sick but whenever I am hungry, I would consume them. Although I do think that this quote has some point; during dinner, it is my mom who buys the groceries and does the cooking. Dinner is a mix of what I like to eat, and what my mom says I must eat because it is healthy. She allows me to choose what to eat, but she adds vegetables and steamed fish to the table.
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I can relate to you based on your understanding of this quote. I also do not follow specific ideas on what to eat and what not to eat. Ulimately the one who decides what is healthy for myself is myself.
I would reconsider stating that this quote does not apply to you, because it is not necessarily saying that you eat according to what is healthy. Rather Pollan is saying that our diets depend on expert help, whether that be someone telling us what foods are nutritious and what are not, or what is flavorful. It may seem that you eat based on what you want to eat, but there must have been some sort of past influence from expert help. (You wouldn't go around drinking a gallon of oil, at once, because you know that it's bad for you. And you know that based on what you hear from others. Eventually those "others" will be somehow connected to some sort of expert).
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