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The article “Don't Blame The Eater,” written by David Zinczenko evokes readers the crucial impact that fast food restaurants have in today's nation's youth causing them to be over weight and have type 2ndiabetes. Throughout Zinczenko's argument he makes the reader view the consumer as a victim yet on the other hand, what he is trying to persuade us to believe by using logos,pathos,and ethos in his argument is that the food industry is the one making the nation's youth to increase obesity. The capacity of impressive questions and personal experience, he composed in the text he is able to comprehensively argue against the fast food industry. The author persuades us right away by starting of with a question: “Kids taking on McDonald's this

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.

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

The article “Don’t Blame the Eater", by David Zinczenko talks about how a group of people are suing McDonald’s for making them fat. Zinczenko shares his experience on how fast food has effect his childhood and teenage years. He explains how teenagers can put on weight with a fast food and part of the problem is the lack in nutritional information about fast food. In addition, he speaks about fast food and the companies behind it.

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.

Daniel Weintraub in the article,”The Battle Against, Fast Food Begins in the Home,” argues that parents are at fault for their children being overweight, not the fast food industry. Weintraub supports his argument by explaining why it’s the parents fault using data and research. The author’s purpose is to inform the reader that parents need to take responsibility for their actions so that people stop blaming others and stop obesity. The author writes in an informal tone for the adults with children in the home.

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.

In his article “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko argues that today’s fast food chains fill the nutritional void in children’s lives left by their overtaxed working parents. With many parents working long hours and unable to supervise what their children eat, Zinczenko claims, children today regularly turn to low-cost, calorie-laden foods that the fast food chains are too eager to supply. When Zinczenko himself was a young boy, for example, and his single mother was away at work, he ate at Taco Bell, McDonald’s, and other chains on a regular basis, and ended up overweight. Zinzenko’s hope is that with the new spate of lawsuits against the food industry, other children with working

Obesity is a condition of excess body fat that affect people of all ages. Unfortunately, children are the most affected generation of obesity. In the United States, the obesity rate has increased over the past years causing diseases and health problems. There are many causes of obesity, such as over-eating, genes, hormones, and the lack of physical activities. “They Say/ I Say” book includes two articles that discuss the obesity epidemic in the United States. The first article, “Don’t Blame the Eater”, Zinczenko blames the fast-food industry for making people fat, and states that fast-food meals were the only affordable option for American children to consume. In the second article, “What You Eat Is Your Business”, Balko argues that blaming food industry is a wrong path people follow instead of fostering a sense of responsibility of what they eat. Realistically, fast-food meals are the major, but not the only cause of obesity; therefore, the government should offer and enforce laws upon the food industry that make healthier meals cost less than unhealthy ones rather than enforce laws that overtax fast food without considering people’s responsibility to their bodies and the liberty of the public.

Do we really know how fast food affects kids these days? In “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko discusses the effect of fast food on kids and teens. He states the issues from both personal experience and from factual situations in our society today. Zinczenko, from his personal experience, was able to get out of his bad eating habits. He suggests how others can do it if he was able to. These different situations give us insight on how Zinczenko expresses his credibility, facts, and emotional issues during his arguments.

As kids, we loved to go out and have a dinner from a fast food restraint. We would love to go to Mc Donald's or some other fast food restaurant. Being youthful, we did not comprehend what we were eating. We did not see every one of the things they put into our food. As we got more established, we began to comprehend what is in those meals. We began to see that individuals that eat a great deal of fast food tend to have childhood obesity. Taking a gander at some fast food restaurants children's menu, there are not a considerable measure of solid decisions on there. Fast food restaurants should make kids meals out of fruits and vegetables and take the burgers and fries out of on their menu for children, so children can avoid having to deal with childhood obesity. In this essay, I will touch on why the healthy options is a must.

The fast food restaurant industry is one of the largest profits in the economy. The obesity epidemic Americans face today is a rising problem that moves more than half of the population in the United States. With growing physique sizes and serious medical problems connected with obesity, it is a problem that needs to be talked about and improved within the health department and fast food restaurants. No one would dispute that obesity, specifically in children, is not a problem. On the other hand, the source of childhood obesity is profoundly debated (Molly, 2010). Society claims that fast-food restaurants are to fault, especially McDonald’s, which is the most growing fast-food chain that is not only national, but international.

In “Don’t Blame the Eater,” Zinczenko addresses the growing health issue of obesity, more specifically, adolescent obesity. He argues that it is not the consumer’s fault that health issues like diabetes and obesity have skyrocketed in recent years. He argues that fast-food restaurants are made to be far more

Often considered the pinnacle of American cuisine, fast-food’s cheap, convenient, tasty, and easy access has been a staple of the American culture and diet for decades. From the giant golden arches of McDonald’s, to the “Eat More Chikin” endorsing cows of Chick-Fil-A, the fast-food industry in America has exponentially and financially grown to be a massive, business empire. According to Spector’s “Freedom from Fries”, McDonald’s alone is responsible for feeding more than a million Americans a day and making fifty billion hamburgers a year. Like precious, precious oxygen, most Americans depend on fast-food to live and, in extreme cases, have become obsessed and addicted to it. In fact, the fast-food industry is frequently blamed and periodically sued for contributing to the obesity epidemic in America. Settlements and court cases such as Pelmann v. McDonald’s, in which the restaurant was sued for misleading nutritional information, highlight the medical problems of many outside eaters and has resulted in several fast-food empires to drastically change their menus by adding healthier alternatives (Mattis). Apple-like slices and milk product cartons have substituted french fries and sodas on occasion, but has not replaced them. Despite the threats and curses for contributing to the obesity outbreak, the fast-food industry continues to thrive and be financially successful. As a business, it has utilized and taken advantage of both the non-health conscious and health-conscious