What Makes A Term As Large As Food - 1309 Words

How does one define a term as large as food? Is it the substance that we place within our mouths to sate a basic necessity or a pleasure that one can indulge in given the opportunity? Well, that’s the glory behind the concept of food. To put it another way, food is quite frankly an abstraction given physical form. There really isn’t a proper way to define food because it comes and goes in terms of substance throughout one’s life span. Not only is it tied to a lifespan of ever changing alterations to the definition, but it’s also engrained within each and every individual differently. The book, Food Matters (Bauer), covers a few wide topics that correlate directly with this idea and as such will be mentioned throughout the course of this†¦show more content†¦Suddenly I was incapable of keeping up with my friends in anything athletic and I needed to buy the adult sized clothes. To put it another way, food had accelerated my aging process, at least m entally, and fast forwarded me years ahead of where I should’ve been in terms of conscientiousness of my size. As a result, by my fourth grade school year I began feeling acutely aware and ashamed of my size in relation to the other students in my class. In addition, I clearly dwarfed the next largest student in my class by well over forty pounds and four or five inches. Mix my abnormal size with an early puberty and you have a stressed out fourth grader with too many internal conflicts to count. Luckily, none of the other kids really teased me about size until I entered the seventh grade. I was still the giant of the class in both height and weight, but the weight issue had grown substantially worse. Specifically, the years between fourth and seventh grade had been lost to an unbridled consumption of food to cope with the massive changes occurring in and around me. Those years were packed with unhealthy garbage food that would help me rise to over two hundred pounds by the s eventh grade. As a result, I was now considered obese for being only five feet seven inches tall and I did not blend in well with the rest of the crowd. Consequently, there were a lot of hushed conversations about me and it made me so uncomfortable that I