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Analysis Of Teach Every Child About Food By Jamie Oliver

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Heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes these are all illnesses related to bad diets, aren’t they? If people don’t start to choose a healthy diet, there is a high chance they will end up with one of those diseases. My comparison analysis will be on “Don’t Blame The Eater” by David
Zinczenko and “Teach Every Child About Food” By Jamie Oliver. These pieces explain how unhealthy diets are killing the newer generation or even loved ones. They explain how some children dose not These two authors grew up in completely different living environments. Jamie
Oliver grew up working in his father’s pub where he grew a passion for inspiring people to eat fresh. However, David grew up in an environment where his mom and dad were split. David had a choice between McDonald’s and Taco Bell for lunch and dinner. These are some of the shared …show more content…

David says I tend to sympathize with these poorly fast-food patrons, though maybe that’s because I used to be one of them. (Zinczenko, 2002, para 1) David grew up in the mid-1980s his mom worked longed hours and his dad was away trying to rebuild his life by the time David was
15 he weighted at 212. (Zinczenko,2002) As a kid all David would eat was fast food at that time, he had no choice but to eat Taco Bell or Pizza Hut. During that time, it was difficult for David to get a home cooked meal or to get anything fresh. David’s life was turned around as he went off to college. He joined the navy reserves and got involved with a health magazine. (Zinczenko,
2002, para 3). He began to watch what he ate and paid attention to how much or what he was consuming into his diet. He then learned how take control of his diet. David explains that most of
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the teenagers during his age did not turn their life around they were already too far in. Eventually unlikely to still be alive because of

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