English 1010-009
Jim Beatty
06, February, 2015
Fast Track to Obesity In the article Don't Blame The Eater, David Zinczenko argues that fast-food companies and the food industry are to blame for America's obesity outbreak. Zinczenko article discusses fast food and it negative effects on individuals if they eat from these type of restaurants on a regular basis in 2002. The idea for this article was to raise awareness of what eating fast food has done and can do if consumed regularly. Zinczenko blames the fast food restaurants for increased diabetes cases, increased obesity, and states that there should be lawsuits filed against the restaurants because of these things. In his essay Zinczenko calls for widespread fast food reform. Zinczenko He believes that America's obesity outbreak would be helped greatly if fast food companies made the risk of fast food more obvious, if the healthier foods were more cost effective relative that of fast-food, and if fast food, companies were not allowed to be so devious in their advertising schemes. He said The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that diabetes accounted for $2.6 billion in health care costs in 1969. Today's number is an unbelievable $100 billion year”. This show how much fast food is costing us to help those that have been affected by the foods of a fast food restaurant. He also write about how fast food companies do a poor job of informing people about the danger of fast food and what it can cost us in the long run. Zinczenko concludes that restaurant can help themselves and their customer by informing them about some of the more dangerous fattening food. Better information can and will and cause less diabetes and obesity in the nation because if they informed the people about the danger of fast food then its going to be the national. He states that fast food companies ''will do better by providing the the nutrition information people need to make about their