Best of Week: Changing the Way We Eat

        I think the most interesting and meaningful topics that came up in class this week was when we discussed the way we eat after Hallie's TED presentation. Hallie did her presentation on Jamie Oliver- a British chef who has made it his life mission to educate the uneducated on how to eat well. He believes children need to be taught about what is healthy and what is not and how to cook good, nutritious meals while still getting enough nutrients.
        This was extremely interesting to me because I happen to know a lot about healthy eating from my upbringing. My family owns an organic farm in Wisconsin and I have been brought up eating very natural, healthy foods. In fact, my aunt's job is something like what Jamie Oliver does only on a much smaller scale. She goes around to schools in south-west Wisconsin to talk about eating healthy and to help schools increase the healthy food choices in their cafeterias.
        Another part of her speech I liked is when she offered someone either a candy bar or an apple. I think the majority of Americans (as she proved) would take the candy bar (the unhealthy choice) over the apple, but not me. Maybe that's just because I was raised eating far more apples that chocolate bars, but I hope that it's because I know better, because by that logic once Americans become more educated about the food they eat and what it's done to them they will hopefully change their eating habits.

Blogging Around

The first blog I commented on was Garret's blog titled Metacognition: Organization, Garret organized his facebook and in turn learned a lot about who his friend's were and who he really cared about, which is something that I could relate to:

I completely agree with the things you said in this post Garret. I'm not trying to be mean when I do this, but I honestly don't accept the majority of the friend requests I get. I only have a facebook to keep in touch with my real friends not so I can make someone I hardly know look popular. So, my guidelines are I will accept a friend request if I have had a conversation with you. I probably only have about 200-250 friends on facebook now and I'm proud of it. I actually read a study that proves the average person can only maintain about 150 personal relationship max at one time which proves that those friends you removed weren't really friends or even aquaintences in some cases.

The second blog post I commented on was one that Benjy did awhile back called Connection: Once and Real Life. Benjy talked about how a lot of movies try to make things seem perfect: relationships, talents, happy endings but that doesn't really portray real life very well. He then discussed how the movie Once, which we watched in class, did a good job of portraying real life and real relationships which I agreed with:

I completely agree with you on this Benjy. I think a lot of filmakers try to cater to the publics cravings for happy endings and instead sacrifice a lot of meaning in the story, because in real life not everything is a happy ending but you have to be able to find happiness no matter what kind of endings you are given. I think Once does a good job of making a pretty true to life story yet keeping it appealing to the audience. The best movies in my opinion tell it like it is and don't let sappy, set up moments catered to pleasing viewers dominate the films.