In the featured essay "Don't Blame the eater," the author David Zinczenko highly believes in not blaming people for being fat or obese. If the government allows those types of foods to be advertised and consumed it, he says, people think: why not eat it? Media is being used to make these fast foods look desirable and that causes obesity. The more advertisements that are out there the more people want to go to fast food restaurants. However, these fast food restaurants don't put a gun in your head and shove the food down one's throat, right? Then why are people blaming these fast food restaurants?
It’s understandable that fast food restaurant is harming the kids now a day. However, aren’t the parents letting these kids go to these restaurants. Where does the kid get the money from? The parent, right.? If the government allows these restaurants because citizens have the …show more content…
His parents were divorced; moreover, his father left to start a new life and his mother was living paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet. His mother could only afford McDonald's, Taco Bell, and other fast food restaurants; therefore, he became obese at the age of 15 weighing 212 pounds being 5'10 of height. He got "lucky," he says, went to college and "joined the Navy Reserves and got involved with a health magazine" (139). He learned about nutrition and health to maintain a diet.
The author thinks what if not all teenagers go to college and have the same situation as he did or what if they don't become active in fixing their diet. Those teenagers will just add into the increasing percentage of obesity in the country and that's not a good thing. Acknowledging it, it also increases health care costs from 2.6 billion in 1969 to now being 100 billion a year as said in the essay. In today's world, people don't care about each other. Business owners of these fast foods restaurants only care if one giving money to the store. they will be up and
It’s understandable that fast food restaurant is harming the kids now a day. However, aren’t the parents letting these kids go to these restaurants. Where does the kid get the money from? The parent, right.? If the government allows these restaurants because citizens have the …show more content…
His parents were divorced; moreover, his father left to start a new life and his mother was living paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet. His mother could only afford McDonald's, Taco Bell, and other fast food restaurants; therefore, he became obese at the age of 15 weighing 212 pounds being 5'10 of height. He got "lucky," he says, went to college and "joined the Navy Reserves and got involved with a health magazine" (139). He learned about nutrition and health to maintain a diet.
The author thinks what if not all teenagers go to college and have the same situation as he did or what if they don't become active in fixing their diet. Those teenagers will just add into the increasing percentage of obesity in the country and that's not a good thing. Acknowledging it, it also increases health care costs from 2.6 billion in 1969 to now being 100 billion a year as said in the essay. In today's world, people don't care about each other. Business owners of these fast foods restaurants only care if one giving money to the store. they will be up and