Food for thought review
The article “Food for thought (and for credit)” by Jennifer Grossman talks about how families can use home economics to avoid the risks related to health, more so obesity. She talks bout how home economic can be impactful to all the members of the family in the journey towards healthy living. She covers other authors who have explored the same issue and gives her perspective. Jennifer also has made sure to be more practical in using statistics instead of mere approximations to make her article more appropriate. In this essay, I will be making different evaluations, first on the rhetorical situation, involving the interpretation of background information. Secondly will be an analysis of the purpose of the writer in writing the article while assessing the relationship to her audience. And lastly, an assessment of the writer’s language in passing information.
In this article, the author, Jennifer, is responding to the poor eating and planning habits that are prevailing among families in the contemporary world. There has been a rise in the rates of obesity, a condition that is rare to heal; a child who starts with obesity is more likely to grow with it. For the fact that it is a food-related condition, not a lot of people have been able to balance the urge for food with healthy feeding. People are not falling into the situation because they do not have the knowledge, but because of ignorance. Now that the cost of food is more on quantity rather than quantity, people are taking even unhealthy food as far as it is in huge amounts on the plate. For this reason, the writer feels obligated to write an informative article, which will both save small amounts of money in the hands of the people and also take care of their health. Jennifer, a former vice president at Dole Food Company, writes this from a perspective of a person with vast experience in the field. The article being in such a prominent publication is more likely to reach a broad audience.
The writer, in this case, is writing on behalf of a concerned party and someone who has experience in the field of health and nutrition. Being in such an environment, she must have made a lot of observations about the feeding behaviors of the people. It is an article that targets the general audience since feeding habits are something of the universal concern. And with the modern-day markets and economic experiences, every person can relate to the scarcity of money, but they do not focus on the health affairs, which is the challenge. Even though a lot of people agree to the position, they do not have an option in consumption due to finance deficiencies. I believe that people can feed in even better ways with less money if they realize the dangers they are posing their lives. Home economics is part of the solution to the challenge.
In the endeavor of trying to convey the message to her audience, the writer has used a factual and convincing tone. With facts, she is trying to show the audience how bad the situation is for people who are already negatively affected. Jennifer has then incorporated a convincing tone to save the people from the sea they are drowning in. At the beginning of the article, the writer has used a rhetorical question as a hook to catch the attention of the audience. And that is a welcome to the endnote for the article. The author has been general in the essay and avoided stereotypes. That will make everybody comfortable while going through the article.
In conclusion, the author of the article has tried to use every convincing figure ranging from statistics, convincing tone, and optional solutions to save the people from the epidemic. It is true there might be financial challenges, but there are still modes of salvaging the situation. It would be wiser to monitor health, as the efforts of checking on finances are also intact.