Jaidan Brass - Diets (12/04)

  During our discussion on November 17th, we brought up the diets. There are all kinds of diets, including fad diets and religious diets. Last semester, I was in Food and Culture, and we had a section on diets. My teacher mentioned that diets are used for change more than other actions because of how much easier it is to change up what you eat versus other parts of your life. This is also one of the reasons that there are a lot of psychological issues that cause either overeating or under-eating. Fad diets have been around for a long time as a way of 'quick and easy' actions for weight loss or what is the right diet for us. One example brought up was the paleo diet, which is where we are supposed to eat what our ancestors ate. However, that means there is no right paleo diet because many different earlier humans had very different diets depending on where they lived. A religious diet that we talked about in this class was called the Hallelujah diet. There are a lot more examples of religious diets where certain religions cannot eat certain animals or food, such as Judaism. Or there is also how fasting was a way that some people felt closer to God or enlightenment where there are some know monks or nuns that have been known to fast for a long period of time.