Jacob Gamble
Professor Craig Johnston
English 1A
26 September 2017
Eating In-N-Out is my Right
According to the institute for health metrics and evaluations “nearly three-quarters of American men and more than 60% of women are obese or overweight”. The United States government has been looking for ways to fix this enormous problem. But what if it’s not their problem to fix? Everyone should worry about their own weight because obesity is a personal issue.
In the article “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko, the controversial subject of obesity is discussed. This article was written as a response to the negative reactions over children’s lawsuits against McDonald’s for “making them fat”. The author poses the question of whether this …show more content…
I think most people would agree that it is not the child’s fault for creating these habits because they are not yet old enough to make those kinds of decisions for themselves. Therefore it is the parent’s responsibility to teach their children good eating habits and exercise habits. Another contributing factor to this epidemic is the fact that “kids are spending an average of 7.5 hours a day with electronic media” according to a 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study. The author of the article What You Eat is Your Business, Radley Balko, states that the “government ought to be working to foster sense of responsibility in and ownership of our own health and well-being” (467). By this he means that instead of looking to the government to solve our problems we need to do it ourselves. I believe that since children are incapable of balancing their diet and exercise it is up to the parent. If we rely on government intervention we will be sacrificing our civil …show more content…
One of Zinczenko’s main arguments was that kids do not have many healthy alternative and that there are far more McDonald’s than places to buy a grapefruit. I believe his logic is flawed because it is our choice to spend our money on burgers rather than vegetables. Because of the law of supply and demand, the result is more places to buy burgers. The solution to there being more places to buy healthy alternatives is to spend money on said alternatives rather than on unhealthy food. Because the U.S. has Although Zincenko believes that there should be more regulations to change the way industries function, he is mistaken. In order to reduce the obesity epidemic, the individual, rather than the government for the individual, must decide to eat healthy
Professor Craig Johnston
English 1A
26 September 2017
Eating In-N-Out is my Right
According to the institute for health metrics and evaluations “nearly three-quarters of American men and more than 60% of women are obese or overweight”. The United States government has been looking for ways to fix this enormous problem. But what if it’s not their problem to fix? Everyone should worry about their own weight because obesity is a personal issue.
In the article “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko, the controversial subject of obesity is discussed. This article was written as a response to the negative reactions over children’s lawsuits against McDonald’s for “making them fat”. The author poses the question of whether this …show more content…
I think most people would agree that it is not the child’s fault for creating these habits because they are not yet old enough to make those kinds of decisions for themselves. Therefore it is the parent’s responsibility to teach their children good eating habits and exercise habits. Another contributing factor to this epidemic is the fact that “kids are spending an average of 7.5 hours a day with electronic media” according to a 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study. The author of the article What You Eat is Your Business, Radley Balko, states that the “government ought to be working to foster sense of responsibility in and ownership of our own health and well-being” (467). By this he means that instead of looking to the government to solve our problems we need to do it ourselves. I believe that since children are incapable of balancing their diet and exercise it is up to the parent. If we rely on government intervention we will be sacrificing our civil …show more content…
One of Zinczenko’s main arguments was that kids do not have many healthy alternative and that there are far more McDonald’s than places to buy a grapefruit. I believe his logic is flawed because it is our choice to spend our money on burgers rather than vegetables. Because of the law of supply and demand, the result is more places to buy burgers. The solution to there being more places to buy healthy alternatives is to spend money on said alternatives rather than on unhealthy food. Because the U.S. has Although Zincenko believes that there should be more regulations to change the way industries function, he is mistaken. In order to reduce the obesity epidemic, the individual, rather than the government for the individual, must decide to eat healthy