Don’t Blame the Eater Dear David Zinczenko‚ In the essay “Don’t Blame the Eater”‚ fast food restaurants were blamed for childhood obesity. If healthier alternatives are not available the obesity rates in children will increase and all consumers of fast food will suffer health wise. These fast food restaurants provide convenient but unhealthy meals for people without warning them of later consequences. This essay was persuasive because of the examples and statistics used to prove that it is not
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Don’t Blame the Eater‚ Blame the Eating Industry In terms of personal health‚ the borders of proper nutrition are similar to that of a jail cell. Zinczenko points outs the restrictive nature of food within modern day Am erica. A generalized point of view that can be taken from this is that the fast food industry is incredibly convenient and affordable for necessary needs to live and thrive in modern day America. Zinczenko brings in examples that involve personal experiences in his family‚ as
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Don’t Blame The Media We’ve all seen the violence in today’s media‚ but can we really blame the video games or television shows for the violence in our society? Did the cavemen of 20‚000 B.C. need Call of Duty to fight each other into extinction? No. The media is not to blame for the violence we see everyday. Society today has become almost comfortable with the violence we see everyday. Fights break out at schools all the time. Kidnappings happen‚ and Americans live everyday with the
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In his article "don’t blame the eater" Zinczenko blames the food industry for the obesity epidemic. Zinczenko opens his articles with a personal story about growing up eating fast food because his parents split up‚ his mom had to work and he had no other options. He goes on to give statistics on childhood diabetes due to obesity. Zinczenko then insists that "complicating the lack of alternatives is the lack of information about what exactly we’re consuming." over all Zinczenko is advocating changes
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ENC 1101 10 March‚ 2014 Summary of “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko In his article “Don’t Blame the Eater”‚ David Zinczenko says he identifies with a group of children who are suing McDonald’s for making them fat. Drawing on his own experiences as a “1980’s latchkey kid‚” he describes how easy it is for teenagers to put on weight with a solid diet of fast food meals. Part of the problem‚ he argues‚ is that nutritional information about fast food is often either unavailable or hard to
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Summary of “Don’t Blame the Eater” “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko. tells us of a reason for obesity in children‚ He came upon an article about kid’s suing McDonalds for making them fat. He goes on to say that “I tend to sympathize with these portly fast food patrons”‚ though. Maybe that’s because I used to be one of them.” Zinczenko in fact does sympathize with them. He goes on to argue that parent’s leaving their children home alone to fend for themselves at getting a meal
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15‚ 2013 Assignment 1 In the essay‚ “Don’t Blame the Eater”‚ David Zinczenko‚ editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazine‚ discusses the recent lawsuits against fast-food chains. He does not deny that there should be a sense of personal responsibility among the public‚ but has sympathy for the kid consumers because he used to be one. Zinczenko argues that due to the lack of nutritional facts and health warnings‚ it’s not so ridiculous to blame the fast-food industry for obesity problems. My
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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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In David 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
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step of action has been taken. Amidst the plethora of passages about this touchy subject there are two that stick out. The first is‚ “Don’t Blame the Eater‚” an article written by David Zinczenko. The picture that Zinczenko paints is one that puts the fault of obesity on the fast food industry. Because he was once an overweight child‚ he sympathizes with the eater. In the second writing on this subject‚ “What You Eat is Your Business‚” Radley Balko‚ takes a different standpoint on the matter. Balko
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