Don T Blame The Eater By David Zinczenko

He was the editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazine also director of Women’s Health magazine. He has the credibility to be trusted by his audience on nutrition facts and is currently working as the nutrition and wellness editor for ABC News. Zinczenko is reliable when he explains to the audience he can connect with the people suing the company. Zinczenko himself writes, “I tend to sympathize with these portly fast-food patrons, though. Maybe that's because I used to be one of them”(2). In making this comment, Zinczenko implies to the audience he understands the kids because he was once one of them that use to eat in the fast food restaurants. Zinczenko not only has the credibility to understand the situation because his educated, but because he uses first person, which connects himself with his audience to let them know they're not the only ones that are going through that situation, but that others have gone through the same too. `

The examles of ethos that Zinczenko uses in his writing are when he talks about how any calories you are eating when you eat at a fats food restauant which he makes a remark comment about the government as well. The author tends to use this to sway the reader emotion and attention to use such detailed ideas and examples all of this makes the reader think and emotions. Zinczenko also tells us how he over came his eating struggles by avoiding fast food restaurant and staying occupied however he still has the mentality that what is cuasimg individuals to be over weight is fast food restaurants which goes against his claim.

The main argument of this film is how the easy access to the fast foods, allied to the advertisement industry, lack of government action, and the person’s option for rapid and caloric meals are responsible for the most part of the American population is overweight with the tendency to get a sickness related to the obesity.

My feelings on Zinczenko’s article are mixed. I agree with his arguments that consumers are oblivious to the true horrors of the impact of a fast-food diet, but I do not agree that they should go so far as to sue the

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He supports his claim by first explaining the history of Plauen, Germany and how in December of 1990, McDonald’s opened its first restaurant there, but now has over one hundred and seventeen restaurants in foreign countries, and growing, with the help of U.S. State Department and Germany being the most profitable overseas market, then he talks about the fast food industry targeting children in foreign countries also because they are the ones least connected to tradition in their respective country, yet people wait for hours to eat the McDonald’s restaurants opened in their cities because they stopped caring about receiving healthy food, but this also has a consequence, “Wherever America’s fast food chains go, waistlines start expanding” (Schlosser 242), even on countries that have never faced this problem like Japan, but others like Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, and Norway have banned ads for kids and Helen Steel and Dave Morris, part of the London Greenpeace, sued McDonald’s and has been in a Libel with them for years since some of the things they accused McDonald’s of are true but majority being false, he also talks about adults being obese too, that about two hundred and eighty thousand Americans die every year because they are obese, including children aged six to

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

Zinczenko ate a lot of fast food when he was younger because that is what his mother could afford. There are countless people in this situation. People also go to fast food restaurants because it is convenient, cheap, and on the go. The problem is that these ‘restaurants’ do not sell quality food as they advertise on TV, radio, and online. They sell cheap, processed foods that cause health problems to their consumers without them knowing.

In order to add a deeper and visual understanding of his view point, Czeslaw Milosz uses Figurative Language in order to assist the reader.

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

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.

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 Don’t Blame the Eater, David Zinczenko composes his opinion on the fast food industry’s absence of nutritional information and more. Zinczenko starts his piece by giving his own life experience. He recalls his childhood trying to find food and that fast food was “the only available options for an American kid to get an affordable meal” (Zinczenko 462). By giving his own life experience, Zinczenko relates to the reader and grabs their attention.

As we all know that the percentage of the obese kids is skyrocketing in every country in the world. There are around 40% of the populations in the world are obese. In the David Zinczenko’s article “Don’t blame the Eater”, he claims a connection between fast food and the obese kid patrons. In his article, he uses 3 pieces of evidence to support his argument including his own life experience. Firstly, he uses his own experience to state he used to belong to part of obese people but he changed. Secondly, he compares the data from the 1960s and nowadays for diabetes from 2.6 billion dollars per year to 100 billion dollars per year in the United States. Lastly, he uses the chicken sandwich calories information on the company website which does not completely fit the actual calories contains from the food. To sum up, I disagree with Zinczenko’s opinion of considering junk food as the significant factor to blame the eater. Other than this, there are more reasons such as lack of exercise, lacks of sleep and the genetic influence cause the obesity.

Fast food is convenient and a popular part of American culture. There is an increasing movement today to compare America’s fast food companies to the cigarette industry. Yes, it’s true that they both sell products which have the potential to endanger one’s health if used. Smoking a