Re: Argumentative Letter
The western diet is commonly used in our world today. This diet has several positive and negative effects of our daily living. Western diets are easy to prepare and less economical. This has made it popular compared to traditional foods. On the other side, western diets are associated with many side effects which include the western diseases that are so alarming.
According to your article “escape from the western diet,” you have made several arguments concerning this type of diet. Firstly, you have made it clear that the western diet is the leading cause of western diseases. In my opinion, I support this claim. Due to the high consumption of the western diet, western diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart related diseases are highly increasing. Though this condition seems to panic many people in the whole world, there are various ways in which the western diseases can be reduced. Industries that are responsible for processing such foods should come up with measures which will help to reduce the major side effects of such diet. It is advisable that processing industries should make slight changes in their mode of processing. They should target on producing food products that are low in fats and carbohydrates. They should also reduce the chemicals used as preservatives during the food processing. Finally food processing industries should increase the omega 3 in their food product which reduces cholesterols in our bodies hence reducing the risk of exposure to chronic diseases. This will play a big role in minimizing the cases of western diet in the world.
Secondly, you have argued that medical community is only focused on treating the western diseases and not coming up with ways of curbing the high western food consumption. Though there is some truth on the same, I believe that it’s not the medical workers are actually doing their work right. Even if the medical community is responsible for treating and giving pieces of advice to the patients on the food they are supposed to consume, they are not capable of monitoring them in daily basis. This means that people will continue with their life style despite the doctor’s advice.
Finally, you have claimed that traditional way of eating is the only solution to western diseases. I actually agree with your stand. Traditional foods have less or no chemical at all. This makes them good for our health. Traditional food consumption is highly preferred by many. The main problem with this kind of diet is that it consumes a lot of time to prepare compared to western foods. Most of traditional foods are very perishable hence making them less important. For instance, one can just take less than an hour to prepare and eat packed meat compared to preparing the raw meat. In addition, today’s life style is really discouraging people from consuming traditional foods. I think something should be done on traditional foods to make them more appealing to people such as improving the preservation measures and faster way of preparing them.
Throughout your article, you have used several appeals towards your audience. Firstly, you have effectively used logos in your article by clearly explaining the effects of western die. You have really drawn the attention of people on how western diet is dangerous to our health. On the same time you have tried to convince the audience on the importance of going back to the traditional form of eating. Finally, you have also used pathos to appeal to your audience in various ways. This has finally made them to believe that western food is not worthy for consumption due to its side effects. You have also drawn the emotions of your audience towards traditional food consumption which has less or no side effects in our bodies.
After reviewing your article, I have noticed that you are only focusing on explaining the negative effects of western diet. This is truly not fair at all. Western diets are good in different ways. They are fast to prepare and less economical. In future, you should also try to explain to the audience the positives of western diet. You have also come in to conclusion that traditional foods are the best for human consumption and advised people to go back to their traditional way of eating. To some extent, I disagree with this since traditional foods are very expensive in terms of resources. I suggest that you should also come up with ways to improve our traditional food prepation in order to make them more preferable.
Yours sincerely,
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