HW 12 - Project Part 2

Overarching Thesis: 
Our culture has many dominant social practices that are nightmarish industrial atrocities and it is nearly impossible to change them.

Major Argument 1:
Many venture to change the “normal” food ways of America but corporate giants like Mc Donald’s and Tyson make they make it nearly impossible for a person to make a difference.

Supporting Claim 1:

Corporate giants such as Monsanto have power in the government so there is no debate over change to the food system.

Evidence 1: Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas was a Monsanto attorney and then in a court case that decided the seed saving conflict. Clarence Tomas wrote the majority option that allowed these companies to prevent famers from saving their own seeds.

http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstrya594.html?recid=540'

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Monsanto/farmerssued.cfm

http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/schmeiser.cfm

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/f/food-inc-script-transcript.html

Evidence 2: Margaret Miller was a chemical lab supervisor for Monsanto and to this day she is the FDA’s branch chief.

http://www.psrast.org/bghsalmonella.htm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

Evidence 3: Linda Fisher was the vice president of government and public affairs for Monsanto and then later became the EPA deputy administrator.

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Monsanto-Fisher-EPA-Job.htm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

Supporting Clam 2:

Large agricultural enterprises like Tyson have power over its Farms by being able to cut contracts and demand upgrades if they choose to.

Evidence 1: In McLean country Kentucky, Vince Edwards a Tyson grower offered to show the cameras of Food Inc. in side the chicken houses but after multiple visits by Tyson he changed his mind.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/ 

Evidence 2: After asking a dozen farmers one famer let Food Inc film in the chicken houses.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

Evidence 3: Carole Morison Perdue grower said, “ I understand why famers don’t want to talk because the companies can do what they want as far as pay goes because they control everything.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/workshops/ag2010/comments/255197.pdf

Evidence 4: Carole Morison Perdue grower said, “The companies keep the famers under their thumb because of the debt the famers have. To build one poultry house is any where from $280,000 to $300,000 per house and once you make your entail investment the companies constantly comeback with demands of upgrades for new equipment and the grower has not choose, they have to do it or your threatened with loss of contract.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/workshops/ag2010/comments/255197.pdf

Evidence 5: Carole Morison did not want to upgrade her chicken houses so in response to that her contract was cut.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/workshops/ag2010/comments/255197.pdf

Hw 10

Food Inc. 
“The food industry has changed more in the last fifty years than it has in the last ten thousand.” Not for the better, for the worse. The foremost concept of Food Inc. is that America needs to change its agricultural industry the right way. America turned its agriculture world into a machine, so in humane that it is hidden from the public.

Food Inc. and Omnivore’s Dilemma have similarity and differences but the movie showed a more one-sided argument towards how bad the agricultural industry is. Compared to the book, which was more factual and informative acting as an unbiased opinion. The movie used images and facts to put forth the directors view on how the industry should be portrayed. In peoples minds this will stand out more because the harsh images that the director got of the industry are shown and not left to the imagination of the reader. In the movie they are able to state facts like “McDonald is the largest buyer of ground beef in America” and show the type of beef they are buying with comments on how it is made. But if this line were in the book it probably would not faze me as it did in the film because I would not have a graphic image sitting in my head. The movie also discussed more about the lobbyists in Washington and how they protect their industry. The book tells more about the actual farms the animals are coming from and the farms they should be coming from. The author, Michael Pollan worked on the farms getting the full experience of the industrial and non-industrial world.

When I think about Food Inc. I think of the animals being slaughtered, genetically grown food, sickness that can kill and then I think about how well the movie made me think like it. It also showed me another example of how our government is corrupt. The government does not put its peoples interests first but their pockets. The world looks to America not just as a role model but also as a source of income. If we are able to make food like corn cheaper than poor countries we might as well start killing them. The grains and food they once sold to the United States which possible made up their whole economy is now gone. Why does the government stand by while a food system is being built that is bad for people, bad for land and unsustainable?

HW 7d

Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Chapter 17:
The ethics that concern the slaughter of animals are now being noticed. And people are starting to believe the justification of slaughtering an animal is if they live happy first.

Gems:
"Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the life of the pig- an animal easily as intelligent as a dog- that becomes the Christmas ham." (p.306)

"That fate is reserved for the American laying hen, who spends her brief span of days piled together with a half-dozen other hens in a wire cage the floor of which four pages of this book could carpet wall to wall." (p.317)

"We are the better for it, and they are never the worse...The death they suffer in our hands commonly is, and always may be, a speedier and, by that means a less painful one, than that which would await them in the inevitable course of nature" (p.328)

Thoughts:
I believe that the slaughtering of animals in our society cannot be justified in any means. We have changer the circle of life, which was made for the hunter/gatherer method that justifies the killing of an animal. When this method was used it was a sacred thing to kill an animal and you only killed what you need nothing more now. Now we kill to feed whom? The refrigerators that we stuff with food no body eats for years.

Chapter 18:
Hunting used to be natural way of life for humans. We have a sense of pride killing an animal. When I went out hunting I felt this sense of pride when I killed a pig but the after affect made me feel discussing.

Gems:
“A brain chemical that sharpens the senses, narrows your mental focus, allows you to forget everything extraneous to the task at hand (including physical discomfort and the passage of time), and makes you hungry would see to be the perfect pharmacological tool for man the hunter,” (p. 342)

“I felt a wave of nausea begin to build in my gut. The clinical disinterest with which I had approached the whole process of cleaning my pig collapsed all at once: This was disgusting." (p.356)

"So much of the human project is concerned with distinguishing ourselves from beasts that we seem strenuously to avoid things that remind us that we are beasts too - animals that urinate, defecate, copulate, bleed, die, stink, and decompose" (page 357)

Thoughts: 
I don’t feel I could ever take another animals life. That’s me being a hypocrite because I eat animals all the time but I don’t think I could hold a gun and watch an animals life end before my eyes. The biggest mystery to me is, how do people work at these slaughterhouses and live with themselves?


Chapter 19:
Humans have become very good at gathering over the year but there still is a risk of identifying something wrong. Wild mushrooms are easy to identify wrong even though we have become great gathers.

Gems: 
“For the individual human, his community and culture successfully mediate the omnivore’s dilemma, telling him what other people have safely eaten in the past as well as how they ate it,” (p.372)

"Without fungi to break things down, the earth would long ago have suffocated beneath a blanket of organic matter created by plants; the dead would pile up without end, the carbon cycle would cease to function, and living things would run out of things to eat." (p.376)

"Who's to say the day won't come when science will be able to measure the fungi's exotic energies, perhaps even calculate our minimum daily requirement of lunar calories?" (p.378)

Thoughts: 
I have no experience gathering mushrooms but I have gathered berries in the woods before and they are right, you have to know what your doing before you do it. You do not want to pick the wrong mushroom or berry because you will get sick or worse. Trust me I know from my own experiences. I find it also very interesting that mushrooms can hold lunar energy. Can this be used for anything like solar energy? Will there be lunar panels? It’s something I feel some research should be invested into. It could save the world or mess it up even more.

Chapter 20: 
After I hunted and gathered food for myself, which was harder than I imagined, it gave me a feeling as if I was linked to mother earth. This meal was food that mother nature meant omnivores to eat when she put us on here.

Gems:
"No, little if anything about this meal was what anyone would call 'realistic'. And yet no meal I've ever prepared or eaten has been more real" (p.392)

"I suddenly felt perfectly okay about my pig- indeed, about the whole transaction between me and this animal that I'd killed two weeks earlier. Eating the pig, I understood, was the necessary closing act of that drama, and went some distance toward redeeming the whole play." (p.401)

“Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we’re eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them,” (p. 404)

Thoughts: 
This chapter made me think a lot about how hard it is to get your own food from the wild, and how civilization spent most of their lives getting food. In Time magazine there was an article about organic food in the august issue and they said, “if we all decided to switch to healthier, chemical-free meat, there wouldn’t be remotely enough to go around.” (Kluger 32) We have to work towards coming off processed foods and switching to natural food like we used to live on. These processed foods are not just bad but from this book I have learned there made with the use of oil, which is not a resource that will be around forever. So how can America continue to let the food companies run this way if the companies, which feed us, are setup to fail?

Bibliography 

Kluger, Jeffrey. "What's So Great About Organic Food?." Time. 176.9 (2010): 32. Print.

HW 9

Freakonomics

#1
In Freakonomics the protagonist’s use three main moves to give evidence for their movie. The fist moves the protagonist’s uses are skits in which they bring real life situations to the people watching. This allows them to better understand what is happening on a basic level so they can relate. The scene in the movie about children getting better grades for money shows a human level connection.

Another move that the protagonist’s use in the film is the ability to show and explain data. Data was shown in the sumo scene to represent the links in evidence that showed fowl play was involved in the sport. Which was the link they were try to show about fowl play in the food industry.

The last move I saw the protagonist’s use was cartoons. The scene about one of the protagonists dough’s getting m&m for going to the bathroom on the toilet was better told in cartoon form because it would be hard to show just by descriptions.

#3
In my option the authors relied on life experiences as their main scores of evidence. Life experiences were two out of the four skits used to prove their point. This is a good idea for the author because it can connect to people on a more personal level and they can relate more to the people in the movie.


Freakonomics serves as an inspiration and good example to our attempt to explore the "hidden-in-plain-sight" weirdness of dominant social practices.

I disagree with this statement because I don’t believe that any hard evidence was given to me to use this movie as an inspirational example of exploring social practices. I think this because the movie was very vague in it’s evidence. For example in the scene with the sumo wrestlers, they no hard numbers to back up there statements, just numbers running down the screen. As well they had professionals on the same topic contradicting one another, which does not make me think they found good examples to use. The veil on the other hand that they talked about over the sumo league did make a good example of the veil the Food industry puts on Americans.

HW 7c

Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Chapter 11:

Joel Salatin does no work on his farm because he lets the animals do all the work for him. They create the healthier farm by fertilizing, feeding, and other process that help the farm. The animals nurturer other animals, and in turn, nurturing themselves. 

Gems:
“In nature you’ll always find birds following herbivores...The egret perched on the rhino’s nose, the pheasants and turkeys trailing after the bison – that’s a symbiotic relationship we’re trying to imitate,” (p. 211)

"The idea is to not slavishly imitate nature, but to model a natural ecosystem in all its diversity and interdependence, one where all the species "fully express their physiological distinctiveness."” (p.215)

Thoughts:

This is how I always imagined a farm working because this is how children’s books make farms out to be. But why would they lie. The truth is they never did because the books, stories and songs have been around for years and will never change. The industrial food market has turned the childhood memories of a great farm in America to dust. But with the will of Joel Salatin these childhood stories are real to me and can be real for many kids.


Chapter 12: 

Joel Salatin slaughters his animals himself to insure a guarantee to his consumers that the life cycle of the chicken was on his very farm. He does not want them shipped out to let someone else to slaughter his work.

Gems:
"In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling." (p.233)

The problem with current food-safety regulations, in Joel’s view, is that they are one-size-fits-all rules designed to regulate giant slaughterhouses that are mindlessly applied to small farms...” (p. 229)

Thoughts: 
This is a very nice peace of mind. But how do you find farms like Joel Salatin? The farms are not advertised or talked about and I don’t know how reliable the Internet is. There should be a way to know legitimate famers that do this.

Chapter 13: Effort to eat real organic food or "non-barcode" food is what makes farms like Joel Salatin appealing. People are willing to pay high prices for quality food because diseases are common with industrial foods.

Gems:
"Already the desire on the part of consumers to put something different into their bodies has created an $11 billion market in organic food. That marketplace was built by consumers and farmers working informally together outside the system, with exactly no help from the government." (p.257)

“Yet this artisanal model works only so long as it doesn’t attempt to imitate the industrial model in any respect,” (p.249)

Thoughts: 
My family doesn’t put the effort in, to eat non-barcode food because my dad has been living for 63 years and he has been eating the same food for all that time so he thinks that he should not have to pay the extra money and go far just to get “fresher” meat. As well my point from before; Where do you go?


Chapter 14: 

The chicken I had gathered had a higher nutritional standard, omega-3s, vitamin E and heath values that only could be gained by eating chickens raised on grass.

Gems:
“The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss described the work of the civilization as the process of transforming the raw into the cooked – nature into culture,” (p.264)

“Both literally and metaphorically, a saltwater bath cleanses meat, which perhaps explains why the kosher laws- one culture's way of coming to terms with the killing and eating of animals- insist on the salting of meat." (p.264)

Thoughts: 
The health benefits in our society don’t out way the need for low prices. So we look to other food that is made cheaper but to a lot of people tastes them same. This is an example of my life reading this will not change what I eat that much, if any.

Chapter 15: 

The hunter/gatherer method is not an aliquot method to survive in our modern society because humans out number their wild prey. The idea of killing you own food makes me want to go back to another food chain. 

Gems:
“Foraging for wild plants and animals is, after all, the way human species has fed itself for 99 percent of its time on earth; this is precisely the food chain natural selection designed us for." (p.280)

“By contrast the hunter, at least as I imagined him, is alone in the woods with his conscience,” (p.281)

Thoughts:
The hunter/gatherer method is a method that has not been possible in our society for many years now because of the domestication of all our main sources of food. It was a good method back in the day because it gave every one a chance to eat. (no money was involved) Now people starve and they is no other way of getting food than buying it.


Chapter 16:

Humans endure the omnivore's dilemma everyday with the stress of what to eat? But America has a made guidelines to make the choices simpler. 

Gems:
"What began as set of simple sensory responses to food (sweet, bitter, disgusting) we've elaborated into more complicated canons of taste that afford us aesthetic pleasures undreamed of by the koala or cow." (p.295)

“For the omnivore a tremendous amount of mental wiring must be devoted to sensory and cognitive tools for figuring out which of all these questionable nutrients it is safe to eat,” (p.291)

Thoughts:
I don’t believe that figuring out what to eat is a dilemma more like a luxury because there are millions of people in this world that don’t have a choose of what to eat. They only have very limited resources. I did not agree with what he was saying.

HW 8

Growing my own food was not a new experience for me. I had grown my own food at a camp I worked at this summer. The food went to poor families in the area of New York I was working in. Growing my own food is rewarding every time I do it. I have never done it in a jar but it was a good experience. It is rewarding to eat something you have worked hard to grow. My process took a week and that might seem long to a farmer but from what have been reading in Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan. To watch my food grow is inspiring, it’s a tine seed that opens up in to its own thing and grows. I feel I watch this process with kids I work with, every month they seem bigger and more developed than last I saw them just like my sprouts. The sprouts tasted like grass and did nothing for the ham sandwich. 

HW 7b

Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Chapter 6:

High-fructose corn syrup replaced sugar and has become the leading source of sweetener in all food. This raised calories in food resulting in people consuming more calories. Coca-Cola and Pepsi were able to use the High-fructose corn syrup to take out sugar which is cheaper, which aloud Coca-Cola and Pepsi to make bigger bottles.

Gems:
Public health problems cost us “90 billion a year.”(p.102)

“Three of every five Americans are overweight; one out of five is obese.” (p.102)

A dollar can buy 1,2000 calories of potato chips and cookies or it can buy yoy 250 calories of carrots. (p.108)

Thoughts:
High-fructose corn syrup has made American people fatter. Since Pepsi and Coca-Cola has used high-fructose corn syrup they have been able to give people more soda for pennies more and from chapter 6 when people are given more food or drink than they need, they still eat it. If the companies were not out to become millionaires they would have stayed with sugar and people would not drink soda in such large moderations.

Chapter 7:

Corn being processed into different food items is how McDonalds has changed the way of fast food. They have created a profiting food industry that is not good for people to eat.

Gems:
“five grams of TBHQ can kill.” (p.114) About 125 nuggets 

“In truth, my cheeseburger’s relationship to beef seemed nearly as metaphorical as the nugget’s relationship to a chicken,” (p. 114)

“Soda (100 percent corn), milk shake (78 percent), salad dressing (65 percent)…”(p.117)

Thoughts: 
This chapter has made me never want to eat McDonalds again. This is a very big thing for me to say because I think it tastes good and I have read books and seen movies about what McDonalds does to people. But I’m young, it’s good, I work out so I like to think it goes away but to think that the nuggets at a high amount can kill me and the meat is not real meat makes me sick. Why would any one want to eat meat made out of corn? 

Chapter 8: 

Grass farms are the opposite from industrial farming. Animals on the farm eat the grass and take care of it. It’s a cycle. This is where organic food comes into the modern era.

Gems:
Look at a farmer’s bookshelf; the emotion there shows what kind of farmer he is. (p.132)

"Because a healthy soil digests the dead to nourish the living, Salatin calls it the earth's stomach." (p.127)

Thoughts:
Why can’t all farms run like this? It is a better way of life for all creatures. All the extra food we have, we do nothing with. If we our not giving all this extra food to the hungry, why doesn’t everyone have organic fames? The reason I see that the famer just wants to sell their product make money and let some one else deal with what happens to it. The more food they have to sell the more money they make. But that attitude is wrong. Everything people eat starts at a farm and if food were just made naturally there would be a healthier America. 

Chapter 9: 

The idea of organic food for most Americans is a pure good substance that is made with out chemicals. But organic famers have fallen to greed just like the farmers before them. Organic farm can no longer hold the name as organic after investigations were done.

Gems:
"Indeed, the longer I shopped in Whole Foods, the more I thought that this is a place where the skills of a literary critic might come in handy- those, and perhaps also a journalist's." (p.136)

“The inspiration for organic was to find a way to feed ourselves more in keeping with the logic of nature, to build a food system that looked more like an ecosystem that would draw its fertility and energy from the sun,” (p. 183).

Thoughts:
Like I have said before any human in America wants to make money. But I thought people that ran organic farms were doing it to make America a better place because why else would you do it. This makes me lose hope in peoples willingness to change. America still has not accepted that what we are eat is bad.


Chapter 10:

Joel has a farm that he says is better than organic because it sustains it self by sun energy. The sun grows the grass, which in turn the cows eat then support it. The farm does not fit into our society because it does not fit the industrialized world.

Gems:
“Cows eating grasses that had themselves eaten the sun: The food chain at work in this pasture could not be any shorter or simpler,” (p. 195).

“We seldom focus on farming’s role in global warming, but as much as a third of all the greenhouse gases that human activity has added to the atmosphere can be attributed to the saw and the plow,” (p. 198).

Thoughts: 
This is the most logical thing I feel. It cost no money to feed or grow the crops so why wouldn’t every one do it. I still feel that people need speed in their lives. The faster they sell cows the faster they get rich.

HW 7

Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Chapter 1: The industrial food chain that feeds most of Americans comes back almost to the same place every time, the American Corn Belt. We are processed corn walking because most of what we have and eat has corn in or on it. Corn is used so often because it can reproduce itself endlessly.

Gems:

“Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescent tubes, the American supermarket doesn’t present itself as having very much to do with Nature. And yet what is this place if not a landscape (man-made, it’s true) teeming with plants and animals?” (p.15)

There are 45,000 items in the average American supermarket and a quarter plus of them have some type of corn in it.

“So that’s us: processed corn, walking.” (p.23)

Thoughts: 
The first chapter caught me off guard because I didn’t realize what value corn has in our America society. It plays a big role in how Americans live. This mad me look around my home to see what was made with corn product. I had found that at least ten things in my house not food related in twenty minutes that had corn based products in them like a bellhops bell I have has corn oil on to keep it moving smooth.

I also didn’t think about how grocery stores portray their products. That they are supposed to have food from the wild but Michael’s description makes me think of a cold hearted felling. I feel and unease or a feeling that a trick has been played in me.

Chapter 2: George Naylor’s has a farm that relies on corn and soybeans to keep it alive. Corn has changed over the years with the new hybrid corns that allow farmers to plant more stalks. The biggest change in corn is the production of chemical fertilizer, were corn did not depend sun energy.

Gems:

“Several human societies have seen fit to worship corn, but perhaps it should be the other way around: For corn, we humans are the contingent beings, “ (p. 27).

"The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants." (p.37)

Thoughts: 
People should look at what they eat because while famers want to make money for less work, they are only doing this by using chemicals they don’t know the affects of on all people. Farmers are like any other people in America, they want to get rich quick. They take the easy way out even if it comes with an unknown risk.

Chapter 3: Corn has to be grown to certain standard before it is can be shown. Farmers who can produce the biggest bulk of corn receive profit from their Farmers Cooperative and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Gems:

"My plan when I came to Iowa was to somehow follow George Naylor's corn on it's circuitous path to our plates and into our bodies. I should have known that tracing any single bushel of commodity corn is as impossible as tracing a bucket of water after it's been poured into a river. " (p. 63)

"Such corn is not something to feel reverent or even sentimental about, and nobody in Iowa, save the slightly embarrassed agronomist, does." (p.59)

Thoughts: 
I thought that it was very interesting that corn is held at such high religious vales even to day in Mexico.

I also thought it was interesting that corn is and under ground business and that its not simple. 

Chapter 4: Cows have moved off farms and ranches to concentrated animal feeding operations to be feed corn. This corn also called corn–fed is filled with drugs and other proteins to up the time it takes for a cow to become right to slaughter. This change from feeding cows grass to feeding them corn-fed comes from the logic protein is protein. Researchers suggest that eating cows fed on corn-fed is bad for us because the cow now has more fats, which put us at a higher risk for heart disease. The problem is not with the cow but rather the corn its being feed.

Gems:

“Corn the plant has colonized some 125,000 square miles of the American continent, an area twice the size of New York State…” (p.65)

“(about 60 percent of it, or some fifty-four thousand kernels) goes to feeding livestock,…” (p.66)

Thoughts:

Why did Americas obtain a strong love for greed during the industrial era?

What need was there that they needed more meat faster? Where there people with money in America not being feed.

The questions above to me are what have made America what it is today. But greed is what drives everything in our country. Farmers wanted to get rich quick so they found a faster ways to make cows fat. So they could sell then quicker. But really no body needed all these cows but some one will buy them, so that they can sell them for more money and get rich. This is a cycle till some one eats it but we cant eat all of it. 

Chapter 5: Corn that is not eaten by animals is broken down into many different oils, vitamins and for complex carbohydrates. These carbohydrates are used in almost everything we eat. We are cutting the nature out of food by making chemicals out of bonded carbohydrates and using it in foods.

Gems:

We eat a ton of corn a year. (p.85)

High-fructose corn syrup is the most “valuable food product refined from corn.”(p.89)

Thoughts:

Corn that is used for everything is a thought I do not like to have but it still does not stop me from eating no corn-based products. Because for real, they’re good. The health hazard is not high enough that I feel I should stop eating corn-based goods. 

HW 6

Day 1:

Yogurt 80

Granola 140

Milk 120

2 chicken sandwiches with Mayonnaise 450

Salad with tomatoes, cucumber, cheese and onion with dressing 150

2 burritos 600

Ice cream sandwich 360

Total 1900

Day 2:

Yogurt 80

Granola 140

Milk 120

Roast beef sandwich with lettuce tomato and ketchup 500

Chinese food 300

Salad with tomatoes, cucumber, cheese and onion with dressing 150

Hamburger 350

Ice Cream sandwich 360

2 Powerads 120

Total 1950

Your calorie goal is 3432 a day

http://www.thedailyplate.com/

As a growing and very active boy I should have an enormous appetite but I don’t. I eat little amounts of food at a time to make up the almost 2000 calories. I should be eating about 3500 according to my mother, a nutrienist, and http://www.thedailyplate.com. I eat so little because I take focus pills called concerta and one of the affects of the drug besides helping a person focus, it leaves a lack of desire to eat. I can be really hungry at times and in the next moment, I’m not. I’ll eat a little and then just stop because I’m “full”. I just can’t eat anymore but I know I have to. I’m not getting enough calories and protein in my body. I am a very active boy and needs energy. To make up for the pills, I eat a lot of small meals to try to eat more in a day.

All meals of mine need to have a great balance of nutritional substance in them. So I start my day this way, with a banana & strawberry light yogurt with a fourth of a cup granola in it. Yogurt is made up of milk, which gives me protein. Granola is good for your digestive track and nuts and cranberries are fruits good for your health but especially nuts are because there, “high in protein have fiber and antioxidants” and good for you. My chicken sandwich with mayonnaise is a very good source of protein with five slices of chicken on each sandwich.

http://www.helium.com/items/824263-the-different-kinds-of-nuts-and-their-nutritional-value

  

I feel that in the last 48 hours I have eaten good food that is good for a well-balanced protein diet but I also know I have not eaten enough calories for my activity level. As I said before I take concerta, a focus medication that cuts my appetite. I feel that I have to push my self to eat but I don’t want to. I don’t know what to do about it except don’t take it over the weekend and eat as much as I can but that’s not the thing to do.