The Effects Of Fast Food On Kids And Teens

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.

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

Logos is “the evidence and proofs that the speech develops fit together into patterns of reasoning that thoughtful listeners find acceptable, convincing, and compelling.” (Osborn & Turner, 2015,

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.

Is Greed actually not of a financial use rather than a emotional use. If so would employees who work at fast-food establishments or even major corporate heads of these billion dollar fast-food chains allow their own children to indulge themselves in them, knowingly aware of the vast risks they could embark on later in life due to their unhealthy choices? In his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko brings up valid points on how fast-food is harmful to one’s body. Zinczenko is able to effectively argue against the manipulation of the food industry. by showing the reader that the consumer is the victim while the food industry is the one to blame.

Logos is one type of rhetorical appeal speakers and writers can use to persuade their audiences. Logos evidence being used to persuade

In “Don’t Blame the Eater”, the writer, David Zinczenko, initially argues that those teens who are fat because of eating fast food from restaurants like McDonalds, should take responsibility for their obesity. He then sympathizes with the obese children by giving his own childhood example. His mother and father were usually away working and he had no other choice but to rely on fast food restaurants. He argues about the growing number of fast food chains, how FDA doesn’t take notice of the ingredients that are not mentioned on food packaging and how it is the responsibility of the parents to make sure that their children are eating right. He also argues that the money fast food chains like McDonalds are spending on advertising and targeting

In David Zinczenko’s article, “Don’t Blame the Eater,” Zinczenko argues that, there aren’t any cheap, healthy and convenient alternatives to fast food. This is a controversial issue that some argue that fast food restaurants are the reason why they have caused diabetes and obesity for children. There is a possibility that this argument can cause lawsuits to be brought upon these companies due to this situation. From my standpoint, the youth should have self discipline to a limit where they can still enjoy fast food but to a certain extent. In my own experience, my parents would take me out to eat fast food for a reward because of something that I did at school. Most of the time, my mom would always cook, so the meals that I mostly ate everyday

“Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko, emphasizes the relationship between obesity in children and fast food restaurants. As a child, Zinczenko ate at many types of fast food restaurants, because his parents were too busy to cook for him. He had the option to eat at fast food because his neighborhood was invaded by them, eventually that contributed to his obesity and “by age 15 he had packed 212 pound of torpid teenage tallow won my once lanky 5 foot-10 frame” later he learned how to have a healthy diet. This essay offers important information about diabetes he said “ before 1994 , diabetes in children’s was generally caused by a genetic disorder, but today according to the National Institute of Health, type 2 diabetes accounts for at

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

country alone, 17% of all children and adolescents are now obese, triple the rate from

Over the last thirty years the obesity rate has tripled for children ages two to nine, Children and adults alike are getting more and more unhealthy from fast food (Obesity Rates). Food has many effects such as increased blood pressure, fatigue, less emotional even an example would be mood swings and behavioral changes, kidney disease, diabetes, obesity, digestive disorders, and heart disease (Lakshmeez). These are only some of the negative effects that food has on kids and adults alike.

As adolescents journey through the transition to adulthood, they are given the freedom of choice, and the most important of these choices I believe is their health. Most Americans these days do not smoke and if offered a cigarette, would refuse it. But place a burger or a soda and they would happily eat away even though these types of foods can be as negative on your health as tobacco. What caused the public’s eating habits to degrade so rapidly through the years? This is because millions of Americans these days are bombarded by fast-food advertising, subconsciously skewing their dietary habits without their notice and with increasing technology, there is no near end to the increase of these harmful advertisements unless we can stop it ourselves.

In the past people used to prepare their food at home with their families.However, fast food restaurants today are very popular because many people find themselves forced to go and eat there because they find no other solutions to do their jobs in time. People should limit their visitation to restaurants because fast food contain chemicals in its packaging and fast food will make people suffer from obesity.

My mother is obese, and recently, she was diagnosed with type II diabetes. When I was a