Don T Blame The Eater Summary

In the essay “Don’t Blame the Eater” written by the highly-acclaimed author David Zinczenko who is the editor-in-chief of the popular fitness magazine Men’s Health along with being the author of numerous bestselling books. This essay was originally published in the New York Times on November 23, 2002 though it is a mildly dated article the topic continues to be relevant and highly debated this topic being the concept of whether the consumer of food is to blame for their poor decisions in diet or another outside force can also be to blame. This topic has been debated and discussed from a variety of authors from many different perspectives in the ‘They Say I Say” text. This topic is very interesting because ultimately what is at stake here is …show more content…
Relating to this idea the addictive qualities in junk food is often overlooked these addictive qualities can even be compared to the horrible deceptive big tobacco business in the sense that tobacco companies don’t inform customers about the incredible number of addictive ingredients in their products that are conveniently looked over. There is also a lot of deception in the recording of calorie contents in foods Zinczenko says “Advertisements don’t carry warning labels the tobacco ads do. Prepared aren’t covered under food and Drug administration labeling laws” (Zinczenko …show more content…
We must start feeling accountable for our health and stop blaming the market. I personally am very in favor of government intervention when it comes to protecting our citizens from ourselves in a sense because of this I absolutely can’t stand the fast food and junk food business because it is clearly harmful to the health of the masses but the government continues to stand by it for whatever reason. Referring to the tobacco business being incredibly close to the junk food business I just can’t get support it