ResProj Paper Ideas

“Crash dieting, as well as the many other diets that are around in today’s society, are for people who are looking for a quick solution to help them lose weight at a fast rate, rather than making healthy long term changes that will result in a lifelong diet.”

-I would like to look deeper into the reasons as to why people’s diets have changed so much. I could research more in depth how our culture has changed and how these changes have affected the ways people choose to diet in today’s society.

“The media makes it seem as though people will only be accepted if they fit the standards of what is being shown in movies and magazines. As humans we strive to become the perfect image to impress others and fit in with the crowd. To get the bodies that we want we come up with diets that are fast and help us lose weight as quickly as possible.”

-I guess in a way I would be using part of the same ideas from the first quote that I posted above, but with this idea I could look more into how media has affected society over time. I would look up the most influential people/celebrities in our culture today and look into how they have helped to shape the ways in which people have gone about dieting.

 After reading these quotes from my 2syn paper what do you think about these topic ideas? Do you understand what I am getting at? And which one sounds best to use for the 3ResProj paper? Why?

Mindmap/Outline

Kaila Ober

Mindmap/Outline Page

Integrating Sources

Example #1:

In The Natural Diet of Man, Kellogg believes that if men are taught on what good dieting choices are, they then can create more wholesome diets for themselves.

As any one will go sharing rabbits or slaughtering lambs may learn; and he will be regarded as a benefactor of his race who shall teach man to confine himself to a more innocent and wholesome diet...I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. (Kellogg 256)

Kellogg gave people the benefit of doubt and stated that he thought that people were constantly improving in their dieting choices. Half of what Kellogg said is true. Some people in today’s society have improved their ways in which they diet. However in the How Crash Diets, like the Master Cleanse, Harm your Health and Heart document, it emphasizes the ways in which many people of today’s generation have formed unhealthy diets due to many factors.

Example #2:

Linda Bacon emphasizes the risk of these diets in the new document. “They go on fasts, yo-yo diets, detox programs, and ‘cleanses’ without realizing that there are serious consequences to weight loss and nutrient restriction” (Bacon, 3). She highlights that fact that when one goes on these types of diets there are many unhealthy outcomes. Body image pressures were not an integral part of everyday lives a century ago. Perhaps people from today’s generation can heed good sound advice from Kellogg’s works and realize lifelong dieting habits are best for our health.

~I used sources from each document to help empasize major points in my paper.

Works Cited

Bacon, Linda. "How Crash Diets, Like the Master Cleanse, Harm Your Health and Heart." Health.com. Web. 24 Oct. 2011. <https://docs.google.com/document

Kellogg, John Harvey. The Natural Diet of Man. Battle Creek, Michigan: Modern Medicine Publishing Company, n.d. Google Books. Web. 18 Sept. 2011. <http://books.google.com/books

First Paragraph of my 2Syn Paper

How has dieting changed from Kellogg’s era to today’s generation?  How has it stayed the same? By looking further into the two documents related to health, I could come up with a few key points or thoughts as to why things have changed or stayed the same throughout the years. Each document contained two very different types of dieting and varying thoughts involving a persons’ diet. However, if closely looked at a person can see the similarities between the two, as well as its differences.  

After reading this first paragraph what do you think my paper is about?

What is a synthesis?

http://users.drew.edu/~sjamieso/Synthesis.htm 

A synthesis paper looks at the differences and similarities involving two or more summaries that discuss a specific topic. It requires a person to analyze documents and form thoughts and ideas on what they have read. Then the person can make comparisons to the topic being studied and form some kind of thesis. Drawing together themes and organizing ones thoughts helps form the synthesis paper.

Before starting to write the synthesis paper one should organize their thoughts about their topic. They can do this by taking notes, prewriting, clustering, and listing their ideas. This will help to organize their paper and make it flow better over-all. It will also help them discover what themes are important to the paper and which ones are not as important.  

 In the introduction the writer should have one or two sentences where they sum up what the focus of the synthesis paper will be. It should also introduce what documents were focused on and being compared.

The body of the paper should organize the themes, thoughts, and main points of the topic of the paper. It should show the patterns found and inform the reader the about the main similarities or differences that are being closely connected or tied together throughout the paper. It should be informative and represent each document fairly.

The paper should also have a good conclusion. The conclusion should summarize and emphasize what the paper’s key points were. The reader should have a clear understanding of what the main themes of the paper were and how everything connected and flowed together.

My main topic for my synthesis paper dealt with health. I linked together ideas from the two documents I was given and discussed various ways in which health has changed from Kellogg’s generation to today’s generation. I thought it was interesting to talk about the similarities and differences that have formed over the years involving a person’s everyday diet and lifestyle.

Insights from reading the new document

The new document that I read was all about crash dieting. I found it very interesting that most people are oblivious to the fact that crash dieting can have many bad side effects. Just like any diet, crash dieting can have its benefits and it can also have its downfalls. One thing that it emphasized was the point that people do this kind of diet without knowing what they are getting themselves into. They simply want to shed pounds quickly and lose sight of how dangerous it really can be.

From reading this document I have discovered new connections that I can make with Kellogg’s Document from his era. Kellogg discussed in his book, The Natural Diet of Man, how people often do not know what is best for them in order to achieve a healthy lifestyle. He makes it clear that most people do not take the time to learn about the affects of how they choose to eat. In the same way we can make connections to the ways in which people live in today’s society. When we compare the two different eras, we can see that things really have not changed much at all.

People are still determined to lose weight fast but in reality they should be concerned with how they can better themselves throughout their entire lives. Kellogg was a huge supporter of the vegetarianism lifestyle. He believed that if people focused their efforts on being committed to this diet, they would feel better about themselves over-all.  The problem is that people tend to lose sight of what is good for their bodies when they are so focused on losing weight as fast as possible. Crash diets are one of the many unhealthy diets that people have created. Just like some people might agree strongly with Kellogg and his views on vegetarianism, others may agree strongly with other ways of dieting. However, Kellogg’s views are still out in the world we live in today.