Summary Of Don T Blame The Eater

Don’t blame the Eater When driving down the road in your home town, how many fast food places do you drive by? In the essay Don’t Blame the Eater, David Zinczenko depicts the world’s fast food problem and the ever growing obesity epidemic. Zinczenko, himself, experienced the troubles of growing up in a split family that didn’t have a lot of money making fast food likely choice for lunch and dinner. I support Zinczenko theory of not being able to blame the eater because, it sheds light on of the difficult problems of fast food and childhood obesity in a perspective that has been overlooked. In the essay Don’t Blame the Eater, Zinczenko states that when he was a child, he would eat fast twice in a typical day. He then stated that when he was fifteen, he gained a weight that brought him to 212 pound while only being five foot ten inches tall. But, as unlikely as it sounds, Zinczenko then turned his life around when

David states that it is not just the child’s fault for eating fast food, it is also the parents fault for not providing them a healthy alternative. When children are taken to fast food restaurants, they do not know to look at the calories or the mount of food that they are putting into their bodies. Then, after they eat the fast food, most of the children go home and play video games or watch T.V. without doing any physical activity that would help burn off the extra Calories. David himself writes” Shouldn’t we know better than to eat to eat two meals a day in fast-food restaurants? That’s one argument. But, where, exactly, are customers particularly teenagers supposed to find alternatives? (242)” In other words, David believes that if there were more, cheaper, healthier options then, childhood obesity rates would lower. Ultimately, David’s theory is that there are many different ways to help combat obesity and one of them is giving children a healthier