Body and Mind

Chapter 8 was sad.  I'm starting to notice a patern here.  This chapter brought back memories of McMillan's American Way of Eating.  Poor people, unable to afford healthy food for themselves or their children, if any food at all, resort to the cheapest, most unhealthy food imaginable.  The unbreakable barrier between poor and the educated also made itself apparent here.  The fact that poor people tend to be resentful against people of higher class and occupation causes a barrier that can prevent doctors from properly treating their patients, as well as the language barrier that is found in America.  Also, I can understand the problem with taking an accurate role of how many people are malnourished in the United States.  With it being an embarassing ordeal, along with being poor in general, it must be very difficult to truly measure the scope of this epidemic.  Despite these problems, it is definitely an issue that must be solved.