What Causes Obesity In America There is a reason why so many people are obese. The main reason is food‚ the kinds of foods are not just fast food but food what we call junk food. Who is responsible for this‚ is it the people who consume it or is the companies that produce and promote their food. I think they are both to blame and there is always a good and bad in everything. If you are twenty percent over your normal weight you are considered obese. We have to make the right choices when it comes
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In the essay “Don’t blame the eater”‚ David Zinczenko talks about fast food restaurant being the cost of obesity among youth and children. The food fast restaurant across the nation are‚ to many‚ the only way they can eat because of the price of their meals. The fast food restaurants are the only options for young people whose parents are often at work during the day. These young people do not know the dangers of consuming these foods on a regular basis. The problem is that most of these young
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Zinczenko’s Don’t Blame the Eater article‚ he blames the fast-food industry for starting the rising obesity problem because of the failure of providing the facts and warnings labels about their high calorie junk food to the consumers. Zinczenko argues that kids are drawn by the cheap‚ high-calorie junk food that the fast-food chains like McDonald’s‚ Taco Bell‚ Kentucky Fried Chicken‚ or Pizza Hut are happy to supply because with lots of parents working all day‚ they do not have time to check what their children
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is to blame Many American’s are complaining about the weight they are gaining due to the fast food industry. They put their blame towards the industry for their current health issues‚ when they were the ones to make that choice to eat there. Everyone has their own choice on what they eat‚ but what if your brain is actually making you make that choice for you? They say that you need to take personal responsibility for the food you chose to eat. David Zinczenko states in “Don’t Blame the Eater”
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Savannah Merryman 10/7/14 Essay 2 Dr. Smith Society Questions Unhealthy Food Should the government control what we eat? Some people may think that government being involved is beneficial to a person‚ but in reality it is corrupt for the government to be involved. Parents should have a right to what their child eats‚ along with teaching personal responsibility for their child’s food choices. For example‚ fast food is convent for parents; families in today’s society are very busy when it comes
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Is Fast Food the New Tobacco: Six Summaries of Some Related Literature In David Zinczenko’s article “Don’t Blame the Eater‚” first published on November 23‚ 2002 in the New York Times: Zinczenko argues that children have no other affordable choice to fast food which leads to health problems and health cost. Specifically‚ Zinczenko came from a split home‚ dad went his way and mom worked long hours‚ lunch and diner was a choice of numerous fast food restaurants where the affordable
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kids might still eat fast food on their own time because the parents probably don’t follow their children everywhere. It also doesn’t really matter if they don’t become obese a kid if as soon as they leave high school or their parents homes since they’ll have more freedom and their parents won’t be around to tell them what is healthy to eat and what isn’t. As soon as the kids become adults and leave their parents they may become overweight and
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Fast Food or Consumers: You be the Judge. Old McDonald had a farm. We all know that childhood song our parents used to sing to us growing up. Unfortunately‚ we (the American people) were on that farm acting as their livestock. They made millions off of our need for their fast convenient food. But who’s really to Blame? David Zinczenko tries to answer this question in his article called “Don’t Blame the Eater”‚ by comparing the rise in childhood heath issues with the popularity and convenience of
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a magazine‚ you couldn’t read a newspaper‚ you couldn’t turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.” is a quote by Morgan Spurlock‚ that acutely describes the obesity problem going on in America. Any way one can want to talk about the problem‚ it will always be a huge dilemma throughout the United States. For a long time now‚ people have been discussing who is to blame for the obesity crisis going on. Some people prefer to blame the government‚ several blame the restaurants
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Lauren McFall Mr. Gossett English 10H-4 March 17‚ 2008 You are What You Eat Throughout the past twenty years‚ obesity in the United States has drastically increased. Currently‚ one-hundred and seventeen billion people in the United States are obese. Out of those people‚ three-hundred thousand people die each year because of complications due to being over-weight. One out of every four children in the average school in the United States is over-weight. In an effort to combat this growing
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