America Has Been Faced With The Growing Obesity Epidemic.

With obesity rates increasing at a high rate, David Zinczenko, author of “Don't Blame the Eater”, tells his readers about his argument about how it's not the fault of the children consuming so much fast food. He works as a nutrition and wellness editor for ABC News. Before working for ABC News he was also an editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazines as well as editorial director of Women’s Health magazines. Past jobs and the job he has now put him in an appropriate position to publish his thoughts on obesity. His intended audience for this essay are the fast food industries and also the people who laugh at the children for trying to sue for being obese. Zinczenko has written an effective argument by establishing himself as an authoritative

Although Zinczenko was able to turn his life around he states, “Most of the teenagers who live, as I once did, on a fast-food diet won’t turn their lives around: They’ve crossed under the golden arches to a likely fate of lifetime obesity” (463). Adding details from his own life give him more credibility in the sense that he has firsthand experience on the

David Zinczenko's article "Don't Blame the Eater" discuses with regard to a series of health-related topics involving food that most people and, particularly, young individuals eat today. The article is meant to raise public awareness concerning the risks associated with consuming particular foods. These respective risks are generally ignored because companies selling the products refrain from emphasizing the exact effects that consuming their food can have on someone's health. The reality is that cheap foods are an appealing alternative for young people who are more concerned about the quantity than the quality of the foods they eat.

In his essay, “Don’t Blame the Eater”, David Zinczenko brings forward his points about how the American fast food system needs to have a change or there will be serious consequences for the future of American children. Zinczenko presents an argument largely based on facts from sources such as the Center for Disease Control and the actual websites from these fast food chains to bring to light what is going on with the state of American health and how it relates to fast food companies. In one paragraph he breaks down a salad from a prominent fast food chain. He lists the calories that the website lists, (150 food calories) then goes on and show that a normal person eating that salad would most likely consume around 1,040 calories (Zinczenko

The personal experience Zinczenko's includes in his text many people can relate who have been or are going through a similar situation. At this stage we can view imagery in the text as the reader I can picture a young boy being lazy,laying in bed which is perhaps gaining weight constantly and many dangerous diseases on the long run. The author is a very smart intiligual writer that acquires the reader to have trust in him by sharing his experience and how he overcame his struggles and why he believes fast food restaurants are the main reason the nation youth suffers from over weight and diabetes.

Zinczenko’s rhetorical comments on the fast food industry are spaced throughout his piece. Zinczenko also states that alternative options are hard to find when fast food is readily available. “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” (Zinczenko 463). This strong statement proves Zinczenko’s irritated tone throughout his piece. Zinczenko’s stand that the fast food industry is responsible for obesity.

Zinczencko complains that unlike many other hazardous items, fast food does not come with warnings on how terrible the food is for one’s health and its future effects. He emphasizes that even if the customers were able to obtain the nutritional facts, they are not palpable, but rather obscure. He points out that the fast-food companies make the nutrition labels vague and misleading; they calculate the calories for every separate part of the meal, and they make it so the consumer must pay attention to serving size as well. He observes that the fast-food industry can get away with confusing labels because there are not any Food and Drug Administration labeling requisites (Word Smart, p. 220) covering fast food. Zinczenko complains that there is not any sort of nutritional labeling on the menus at fast-food restaurants. Now, nine years later, there are some changes, but his point is still valid. McDonald’s menu now states the calories of each meal, but as Zinczenko points out, it is very difficult to

In today’s society a huge issue is that we constantly hear about the food industry in America. We often hear in the news that obesity rates have increased, or that Americans have many diseases that contribute to being obese. “What You Eat is Your Business” by Radley Balko expresses that people are at fault for making such unhealthy food choices. Others argue that the food industry is to blame for being so unhealthy. According to David Zinczenko in “Don’t Blame the Eater” he blames the fast food industry as well as the consumer. Zinczenko asks “shouldn’t we know better than to eat two meals a day in fast food restaurant’s?” (392). So, who is to blame for American’s eating so much unhealthy food? Should it be the consumers’ burden or the fast food companies? On one hand, as consumers we continue to purchase foods that we know are making us overweight. On the other hand, fast food companies continue to offer high in calories foods.

In David Zinczenko’s article “Don’t Blame the Eater” he focuses on the fast food industry and their role in the increasing health and obesity issues of our nation’s children, as well as these issues potentially becoming a serious problem that we will all have to deal with if we collectively don’t do something about it now. When it comes to the topic of fast food, most of us can agree that it is not the best source of nutrition. It is unhealthy and can be the cause of many serious health issues with our children such as obesity related Type 2 diabetes, stomach ulcers and even heart disease, high cholesterol, sleep apnea or even cancer. We can even agree that fast-food diets are a major contributing factor to

Obesity has become increasingly more prominent in American society. It is also a major health issue affecting many adults and children in the US every year. In his article "Don't Blame the Eater," David Zinczenko sympathizes with children who are suing McDonald’s making them fat. In his own experience as a “latchkey kid”, he knows how easily fast food makes teenagers put on weight with a steady diet of fast food meals. Zinczenko argues that both lack of fast food alternative companies and lack of providing nutrition information contribute to childhood obesity.

Zinczenko use of pathos pulls at our heartstrings and allows us to sympathetic towards him. As a child, he fell victim to the fast food industry himself. “By age 15, I had packed 212 pounds of torpid teenage tallow on my once lanky 5-foot-10 frame” (463). He became obese at such a young age because he was a son of a single, hard-working mother whose only way of providing for him was through the fast food industries because of convenience. He would consume two to three meal a day from one of these popular food companies. “Lunch and dinner, for me, was a daily choice between McDonald's, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut” (462). When one reads statements such as these they are forced to think about their own unhealthy choices that they have made in their lives. One contemplates if they too have fallen prey to the fast food industries. Zinczenko uses this appeal to allow us to assess our own moral and put ourselves in a perspective of someone who has been a victim of the fast food

The essay by Radley helps me to understand the article by Zinczenko in various ways. For instance, Zinczenko is extremely focused in admonishing the evils of the fast food industry, yet he forgets that there are other healthier options which most partakers of fast foods do not choose. Obesity is not an illness that just comes but rather it is a result of poor food choices made by the people. He forgets that people have a choice and they tend to choose the fast foods. It is not the responsibility of the fast food joints to inform the people about the dangers of the foods that they serve but rather it is the responsibility of the citizens to do their research and understand the risks that they put themselves in when they eat the fast foods.

In David Zinczenko’s article, “Don’t Blame the Eater”, the author argues that the consumers should not be to blame for poorly nutritional meals due to the lack of

The fast food industry is a thriving enterprise in America 's economy these days. One can find a fast food vendor on nearly every block, says David Zinczenko in his article "Don 't Blame the Eater". The article explains the growing expanse of the fast food industry and the subsequent number of nutritional food businesses declining, there by leaving the fast food industry responsible to provide adequate nutrition for countless numbers of young American adults. As well as sympathizing with a group of children suing McDonalds for apparently making them “fat’. As an obese child, David recalls the limited options of nutritional food in and outside of his household. With what seems like no other options, children all over America are now turning to fast food as a means of quick, cheap, and an inexpensive food alternative. Are there really no other options though? Fast foods presence in the neighborhood and poor nutritional makeup contribute to childhood obesity. Even though fast food chains should be held responsible for providing inadequate nutritional meals and inaccurate nutritional information, the reality is parents are responsible for instilling healthy eating habits into their children therefor combating child hood obesity. Both parents and fast food corporations are equally responsible for children’s obesity by over marketing and parents being irresponsible with their

A victim that grew up in the mid 1980s faced a problem. The problem was that his parents were not together and both of his parents worked for long hours. As results, this victim had to eat at McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell because this places are more affordable. Later on this individual joined the Navy Reserves. In Don’t Blame the Eater, David Zinczenko announces that he