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The authors purpose is to inform the reader of how humans don't know how to stop eating sugar and fat. You'd think people would stop eating and drinking huge portions until they're full, but hunger doesn't work that way.

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1. The bigger serving causes humans to eat more.

2. Researchers have found that people (and animals) will eat up to 30% more if they are given larger portions.

3. Our bodies tell us to eat more when we have the chance because hunger might be just around the corner.

"People would buy more popcorn and soda as long as it came in a single giant serving."

"McDonald's customers wanted more, but didn't want to buy a second bag. "They don't want to look like gluttons."

These quotes show that even tho it's a bigger bag, it's still the same as buying two bags servings. People don't want to seem fat so instead of buying two, they but the giant single serving. The bigger serving causes humans to eat more.

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The authors propose is that making cereal is so secretive on how you make it and how it's risky to be in the cereal business.

1st Evidence: “Much of their work is top secret, but nowhere more so than in the cereals area.” (P. 70)

2nd Evidence: “The secrecy surrounding cereals like Lucky Charms seemed silly, and I said so. But an executive explained to me the recipes can’t be patented or copyrighted which means that once you introduce a new cereal, anyone can put out another one just like it.” (P. 70)

3rd Evidence: “In the intersects of secrecy, the food scientists would not talk to me about the current projects.” (P. 70)

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Table 4: The Modern Omnivore and the Omnivore’s Brain pg 86-90

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Table 4: The Modern Omnivore and the Omnivore’s Brain pg 86-90

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The author is trying to inform the readers what the human diet has evolved into. The author is also trying to inform readers about the different tastes of foods, and how humans brains developed to eat those different foods over time.
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“As it evolved toward eating just one food, it didn't need to think as much. Over generations, unused organs tend to shrink. In other words, as the Koala diet shrank, so did its brain.”

“The roots of the cassava, a plant in africa, contain the poison cyanide. This keeps most animals from eating them. But once again, humans figured out a way to safely eat the cassava, by pounding and then cooking it.”

“Over thousands of years, human beings built a culture of food that help us figure out what to eat and what to avoid."

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The author's purpose is to inform the reader on how much corn is actually in our everyday diet. It also shows how it affects our bodies and how we consume food everyday.
Fact 1: Soda is 100% corn
Fact 2: Since 1971, the number of obese children in America has tripled.
Fact 3: If you eat corn directly you consume all the energy in that corn, but when you feed that corn to a chicken 90% of its energy is lost.

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The author's purpose for this section is to inform the reader of how secretive the cereal business is. The author also shows how it is risky to be in the cereal  business because you never know if  your cereal will stay in business

Fact 1 : " An executive explained to me that recipes  can't be patened or copyrigthed

Fact 2 : A box of cereal contains four cents worth of corn

Fact 3:  For every dollar a costumer  spends on HFCS say in a soft drink,Farmers only get four cents.

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The authors purpose is to inform us about the increase in obesity over the past years.

Three of every five American are overweights: one of every five is obese.

Seventeen percent of kids age six through nineteen are obese.

Because of the diabetes and all the other health problems caused by obesity, kids in the U.S. today may turn out to be the first group of Americans with life spans that are shorter than their parents.

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The author is trying to inform us that corn is in a lot of fast-food products and a lot of items are genetically modified and made in chemical plants. “Out of the 38 ingredients it takes to make chicken mcnuggets, at least 13 of them contain corn…” Pollan makes his point that

6 chicken nuggets contain nearly twice as much fat as a regular hamburger

In 1992 chicken surpassed beef as the most popular meat in america

As of 2004 mcdonalds sold about 4.8 billion individual  nuggets per year

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The authors purpose it to inform us many other countries have eating habits that are specific to their country but Americans don’t they have no eating tradition, similar to rats. He is trying to convince us that Americans are unhealthy because we don’t all have similar eating habits. The author is trying to convey the message that Americans are unhealthy due to our lack of official eating habits.

“Rats solve the omnivore’s dilemma by testing new food. If a rat finds something new to eat , it will nibble a very tiny bit and wait to see what happens.”

“Raw fish can contain bacteria and wasabi kills bacteria, The people who have developed the custom of eating sushi with wasabi didn’t know there was such thing as bacteria, But somehow they figured out that eating wasabi kept them healthier.”

“We can’t rely on taste to choose among processed foods. We cant just eat food that we enjoy. We have no stable food culture to guide us, handed down over generations."