After much discussion I think I understand what a “dominant discourse” is, a “dominant discourse” is a discussion that occurs when a group of people share a common idea that is expected of a certain group of people. An idea of a common discourse is Abortion. There would be an anti-abortion group and a pro-abortion group. The anti-abortion group may be a group of religious people that believe abortion is a sin because the person having the abortion is taking someone else’s life. If there was a spokesperson for abortion there would be a doctor who is representing statistics about the number of unplanned teen pregnancies. What’s going on is a discussion about the topic of abortion so someone in a coma might not be asked about their stance on the issue. Food connects to dominant discourses because the people who are putting the information out there about food and health are involved in the health care system.
In Told to eat its Vegetables, America orders fries by Kim Severson, research proved that we are not eating enough Vegetables. Sometimes it may be more appealing to eat a cake, than celery but that doesn’t make us fatter than the next person. There was a study done from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention about the behavioral study of fruit and vegetable consumption. The studies show that only 26% of the nation’s adults and vegetables three or more times a day. This also deals with the different ways to prepare vegetables, people don’t know how to add veggies in their ingredients and this stops them from including it at all. Dr. Foltz a Pediatrician who worked on the C.D.C. report said, “Women, as well as people who are older and more educated and have higher incomes, tend to eat more vegetables.” In a discussion our class had with Mr. Fanning last year we came to the conclusion that people that make more money tend to live longer than people that don’t. Can you guess why? It’s because people that make more money pay more money for foods that may be considered expensive for some people.
In the other articles I read it seemed that the authors did imply that this is a time of reform because there is a lot of information being put out in the media about the food we eat. Sometimes sports may be used to get people to care about their health. Read this title:
Blazers Oden not yet Healthy, but stops Eating and Drinking Fast Food by Mark J. Miller. This article was used to encourage those sports fans. If you have a favorite player that really inspires you, you will want to imitate everything they do. If you hear about them giving up their days of eating junk food and moving on to the more healthy foods that may inspire you to want to make the change for yourself. The media does inspire us because we are getting the information from the experts and they are more knowledgeable about these topics than we are, sometimes, and we rely on the media a little too much sometimes.
When I typed “eating” into the Google search box many websites appeared, and the one thing they had in common were that they referred to eating healthy and 5 steps to losing weight. Most people are influenced by the things they see and since we are constantly seeing standards of the perfect body or standards with our health sometimes we need to fulfill those things to make us feel accepted.
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