Don 't Blame The Eater

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.

According to his article, “The Battle Against Fast Food Begins In The Home”, the author, columnist and blogger Daniel Weintraub, argues parents, not fast-food companies or the government are responsible for their child's health and well being. Weintraub supports this claim by providing data from the Center For Public Health Advocacy on the subject of overweight schoolchildren, State law recommendations outlining nutritional standards, and his own experience with the problem. Weintraub intends to convince or persuade the parents or parent to accept the blame for their overweight child. From my standpoint, however, it is clear the

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.

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

In his work, “Don’t Blame the Eater”, David Zinczenko sheds light on the direct connection between the percentages of obesity in the growing population. In the beginning, Zinczenko defends the fast-food industry by stating that there are little alternatives to fast food for low income families. He supports his claim by stating that, “Lunch and dinner, for me, was a daily choice between McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut” (391). Later, Zinczenko shifts to his main argument, saying that fast food industries are to blame for the growing levels of obesity in the population, due to a lack of labeling and misinformation. He supports this by saying that, “There are no calorie information charts on fast-food packaging, the way

In the reading “ Don’t blame the eater", David Zinczenko argues that children, that eat fast food restaurant should not be blamed for their weight gain. Zinczenko claims that the only affordable meal option for an American teenager is fast food. He also explains that today's fast food chains fill the nutritional null in children's lives given by their troubled working parents. Zinczenko's childhood had circumstances that he had no healthy alternatives to fast food chains and blames this for the weight he gained. This reading has a strong message about fast food companies making kids fat, and all they rely on when their parents are employed and have no chance to cook for them.

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

David Zinczenko’s argument in “Don’t Blame the Eater” is that for young teens eating fast food is unavoidable. This is untrue because although there are many fast food restaurants, people do not have to eat there. Many healthier options are provided if people know where to look. It is imperative that people understand what they are putting into their bodies. There are many alternatives for eating healthy such as grocery store items. For example fruits, vegetables, yogurt, and some places even have pre made salads or sandwich wraps. But people choose to eat fast food because it is

The second article is “Child and Adolescent fast-food choice and the influence of calorie labeling” by B. Elbel, J. Gyamfi, and R. Kersh. This article is a “natural experiment” on obesity. Like in the previous article the authors are concerned about the impact fast food is having on children. The article discussed the authors experiment on caloric labeling in children and adolescents living in New York and New Jersey. In New York a law was going to be passed that fast food restaurants needed to include labels that had calorie and nutritional facts. Authors gathered data before and after labeling started to occur in those cities so they could contrast the before and after to see if those labels had any impact on the choices the adolescents and

Most of us have eaten at a fast food restaurant at least once in our life whether it is Five Guys or Burger King. From the warm fries to a juicy burger, we just can’t seem to get enough of it right. But should there be a warning label on the bag or wrappers stating the negative effects of eating one of their foods? There are numerous unspoken dangers that derive from fast food. Because of this, Americans aren’t aware of the health risks they are taking when eating it. The lack of personal responsibility in fast food consumers is an overall contributing factor leading to childhood obesity but being informed on things like to the amount of calories in a Whopper Jr. or the amount of fat intake from garlic and cheese fries can lead to a major difference in not only us as but the youth’s important eating habits. The government and fast food chains are ultimately responsible for not educating its citizens enough.