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Your Gonna Eat, or Your Gonna Starve Throughout time food has always been a big burden considering the way society looks at male and female feeding habits. No matter how much we deny every human is affected by what others think about our bodies. Products such as Ephedria, Slim-fast, Weight Watchers, and the nutra sweet flavor of our most hated Diet Coke have landed on the store shelves placing a mental stigma on the females and males. Everyday people across the nation of America race through the hurdles of weight loss, abusive eating habits, and the various temptations. Susan Bordo, a scholar of humanities in the University of Kentucky, has written an essay called “Hunger as Ideology” that encapsulates the psychological, social, and cultural trends of men and women about food. Probably the most interesting and important point that Bordo focuses on is the cultural acceptance of advertisements setting negative trends on our culture. She deftly focuses on how these advertisements almost brainwash us to eating or losing weight. Her essay is an important part in understanding the American’s ideology on food