In the article “Don’t Blame the Eater”, David Zinczenko argues that fast food restaurants are in fact making us fat and thus leading to the enormous outbreak of diabetes worldwide. He disputes that the growing mass of the consumer isn't their fault, but is in fact the fault of the fast food industry. He claims that as a child he nightly had the task of choosing between places like McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC. He states, “Then as now, these were the only available options for an American kid to get an affordable meal.”(Zinczenko 462-63). Continuing with his personal story, Zinczenko (weighing 212 pounds at the age of 15), says how lucky he was to have been allowed to join the Naval Reserve in college and become part of a magazine
