Don T Blame The Eater Analysis
Who should be responsible for obesity? America is one of the richest, most technologically advanced and powerful country in the world, but it is also known as home to the most obese population in the world. It is because of the environment that is filled with fast food stores. As David Zinczenko says in his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater”, “Drive down any thoroughfare in America, and I guarantee you’ll see one of our country’s more than 13,000 McDonald’s restaurants. Now, Drive back up the block and try to find someplace to buy a grapefruit.” (p392). Paraphrasing this quote, it says how easy to get fast food and how hard to find fresh food in the same place. Now, fast food is almost unavoidable. Regulating advertisements to include warning labels about
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health would help individuals make more informed decisions because it shows how bad food they are trying to eat. America is an environment that provides people a lot of fast food that is unhealthy.
People know the fast food is not healthy. It contains a lot of sugars, fats and oils. However, people love the fast food because it is fast and actually tastes good. Also, there are more benefits, which are the convenience of driving through and not messing up your own kitchen. I know what that is like because since I came here, I have been getting fast food from outside almost every day. I have to do things around me by myself since I moved out my parent’s house. There is not my mother who used to make healthy meals for me every day anymore. I am becoming lazy to cook by myself and tend to get fast food until now. As a result, I gained ten kilograms which means how bad food I keep eating. Additionally, there are a lot of attractive advertisements on the street that can make me feel like I want to eat more. Finally, fast food is cheap. I would like to eat a dollar hamburger from McDonalds rather than a fifteen dollar steak from the store. The environment does not only enhance people’s access to go to fast food store, but also the advertisements that the store shows could be the cause that makes people feel like eat more,
too. If you live in the environment that is filled with fast food stores, you will get obese easier because they provide you tasty food with a lot of sugars, fats, and oils. As I mentioned above why people eat fast food even though they know it is unhealthy, the environment is the cause of the high obesity rate in America. The environment makes people feel they want to eat more like I felt. David draws on his own experiences as a “1980’s latchkey kid” in his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater”, it explains how easy it is for teenagers to put on weight with a steady diet of fast food meals. According to his essay, Before 1994, diabetes in children was generally caused by a genetic disorder- Only about 5 percent of childhood causes were obesity-related, or Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood causes of diabetes in this country (p392).
This research shows how people are getting obese and how bad influence on people’s health fast food has. As he continues David says that not only is a rise in the cases of childhood obesity, but also the amount the United States is spending on this disease is unbelievable. I think fast food has become one of the pop cultures now. The fast food companies try various measures to make good deals. For example, they provide little kid’s a burger meal with toys. This enhances kid’s appetites. They try to make the environment that people are accessible which means people are also accessible to obese. I believe that if the advertisements on the street show the exact calorie of the every fast food, people would consider about eating them. By looking at a lot of attractive advertisements without bad aspects on the streets, people will never know how bad the fast food is. In David Zinczenko’s essay “Don’t Blame the Eater”, “Some fast-food purveyors will provide calorie information on request, but even that can be hard to understand” (p393). He explains that although that salad may be low in calories, if the consumer adds the toppings or dressing they are more than tripling their calorie intake. They have to pay more attention a world and a people who are dying off because of ignorance. I hope the fast food companies will correct and add more information for people. Radley Balko is arguing that obesity is a matter of personal responsibility to watch what someone eats. He says in his essay “What You Eat Is Your Business”, “We’re becoming less responsible for our own health, and more responsible for everyone else’s.” (p396). He believes that. We definitely should take care of ourselves, because nobody will care about your health and love you more than you do it yourself. I also believe that lack of self-control could be one of the reasons that American people tend to be obese. They have a choice to choose what they eat; however, the place they live is the perfect fast food area. There is the fact that I am becoming lazy since I was into this environment that is full of fast food stores. The environment makes people lazy to cook a healthy food by themselves. The first food store is easy to access and get food, tasty, attractive advertisements, cheap, the convenience of drive through, and mostly open for 24 hours. The influence from the environment is bigger than people think and it affects a lot. Obesity has become an epidemic in today’s society. Fast food is indispensable meal for Americans. I am not saying that eating fast food is always bad; however, seeing people die from a preventable disease like obesity is sad. Living a healthy life style is important to a personal well-being. I hope that one day obesity will be defeated in numbers. Check to see is you are obese today, and if you are, try to be healthy all the time. It could change your life!
The Work Cited
Zinczenko, David. “Don’t Blame the Eater” They Say I Say. ED. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstrin, Russel Durst. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. 391. 392.
Balko, Radley. “What You Eat Is Your Business” They Say I Say. ED. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstrin, Russel Durst. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. 393. 396
health would help individuals make more informed decisions because it shows how bad food they are trying to eat. America is an environment that provides people a lot of fast food that is unhealthy.
People know the fast food is not healthy. It contains a lot of sugars, fats and oils. However, people love the fast food because it is fast and actually tastes good. Also, there are more benefits, which are the convenience of driving through and not messing up your own kitchen. I know what that is like because since I came here, I have been getting fast food from outside almost every day. I have to do things around me by myself since I moved out my parent’s house. There is not my mother who used to make healthy meals for me every day anymore. I am becoming lazy to cook by myself and tend to get fast food until now. As a result, I gained ten kilograms which means how bad food I keep eating. Additionally, there are a lot of attractive advertisements on the street that can make me feel like I want to eat more. Finally, fast food is cheap. I would like to eat a dollar hamburger from McDonalds rather than a fifteen dollar steak from the store. The environment does not only enhance people’s access to go to fast food store, but also the advertisements that the store shows could be the cause that makes people feel like eat more,
too. If you live in the environment that is filled with fast food stores, you will get obese easier because they provide you tasty food with a lot of sugars, fats, and oils. As I mentioned above why people eat fast food even though they know it is unhealthy, the environment is the cause of the high obesity rate in America. The environment makes people feel they want to eat more like I felt. David draws on his own experiences as a “1980’s latchkey kid” in his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater”, it explains how easy it is for teenagers to put on weight with a steady diet of fast food meals. According to his essay, Before 1994, diabetes in children was generally caused by a genetic disorder- Only about 5 percent of childhood causes were obesity-related, or Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood causes of diabetes in this country (p392).
This research shows how people are getting obese and how bad influence on people’s health fast food has. As he continues David says that not only is a rise in the cases of childhood obesity, but also the amount the United States is spending on this disease is unbelievable. I think fast food has become one of the pop cultures now. The fast food companies try various measures to make good deals. For example, they provide little kid’s a burger meal with toys. This enhances kid’s appetites. They try to make the environment that people are accessible which means people are also accessible to obese. I believe that if the advertisements on the street show the exact calorie of the every fast food, people would consider about eating them. By looking at a lot of attractive advertisements without bad aspects on the streets, people will never know how bad the fast food is. In David Zinczenko’s essay “Don’t Blame the Eater”, “Some fast-food purveyors will provide calorie information on request, but even that can be hard to understand” (p393). He explains that although that salad may be low in calories, if the consumer adds the toppings or dressing they are more than tripling their calorie intake. They have to pay more attention a world and a people who are dying off because of ignorance. I hope the fast food companies will correct and add more information for people. Radley Balko is arguing that obesity is a matter of personal responsibility to watch what someone eats. He says in his essay “What You Eat Is Your Business”, “We’re becoming less responsible for our own health, and more responsible for everyone else’s.” (p396). He believes that. We definitely should take care of ourselves, because nobody will care about your health and love you more than you do it yourself. I also believe that lack of self-control could be one of the reasons that American people tend to be obese. They have a choice to choose what they eat; however, the place they live is the perfect fast food area. There is the fact that I am becoming lazy since I was into this environment that is full of fast food stores. The environment makes people lazy to cook a healthy food by themselves. The first food store is easy to access and get food, tasty, attractive advertisements, cheap, the convenience of drive through, and mostly open for 24 hours. The influence from the environment is bigger than people think and it affects a lot. Obesity has become an epidemic in today’s society. Fast food is indispensable meal for Americans. I am not saying that eating fast food is always bad; however, seeing people die from a preventable disease like obesity is sad. Living a healthy life style is important to a personal well-being. I hope that one day obesity will be defeated in numbers. Check to see is you are obese today, and if you are, try to be healthy all the time. It could change your life!
The Work Cited
Zinczenko, David. “Don’t Blame the Eater” They Say I Say. ED. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstrin, Russel Durst. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. 391. 392.
Balko, Radley. “What You Eat Is Your Business” They Say I Say. ED. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstrin, Russel Durst. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. 393. 396