In the article, Daniel Weintraub argues that parents are to blame for kids being obese, not food companies. “Parents, not state government, are in the best position to fight the epidemic of overweight children in our schools.” I agree with this claim because he gives good evidence and facts. The article is well written and includes good supporting details which helps the author prove his point. Even though it may have some weak points and some things aren’t explained, it’s very convincing and credible.
David Zinczenko’s essay, “Don’t Blame the Eater,” express the relationship between obese children and fast-food restaurants. Zinczenko observes that fast-food restaurants are located almost everywhere, are inexpensive, and are easy to access. Comparing that it is easier: to find a McDonald's, but finding an organic grapefruit will cause a scavenger hunt (463). Zinckenzo shares a personal experience of himself, eating fast-food for lunch, and dinner were his only options; resulting in him becoming obese in his early teen years. Thankfully by the time he went to college, he was able to turn his life around.
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 both David Zinczenko’s “Don’t Blame The Eater” and “ Radley Balko’s “What You Eat is Your Business”, the argument of obesity in America is present and clear from opposing viewpoints. Both articles were written in the early 2000’s, when the popular political topic of the time was obesity and how it would be dealt by our nation in the future. While Zinczenko argues that unhealthy junk food is an unavoidable cultural factor, Balko presents the thought that the government should have no say in it’s citizens diet or eating habits. Zinczenko’s article was written with the rhetorical stratedgy of pathos in mind.
David Zinczenko and Judith Warner agree that Americans have unhealthy eating habits. In her article, “Junking Junk Food,” Warner notes that more than two-thirds of American adults are obese; Zinczenko, in “Don’t Blame the Eater,” looks even more closely at the epidemic in children, specifically the 30 percent increase of Type 2 diabetes in children. A change in lifestyle and the way food is seen is necessary to end the epidemic, insist both authors. Drawing on personal experience, Zinczenko supports Warner’s claim that to escape the weight gain spiral, a lifestyle change must be made. In his case, joining the Navy Reserves and learning how to manage his diet provided the escape, but as Warner asserts, healthy eating requires more than just knowing how to eat better.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/sunday-review/why-students-hate-school-lunches.html?_r=0. Murphy sheds light on the issues illumined in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act enacted by congress which requires strict supervision over the nutritious quality of foods offered in schools nationwide. She compares America’s school eating guidelines to France’s—whose childhood obesity rates rank lowest in the western world. However, she finds that each country;s relationship with food is so fundamentally different from each other and describes how Americas main fault is neglecting to pass down basic
Since the 1980s obesity rates in America have skyrocketed with all the many fast food places coming into the world. David Barboza, in If You Pitch It, They Will Eat, reports the uprise in obesity, “Since 1980, the number of obese children, has more than doubled to 16 percent, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)”(9). The portions sizes play a factor in this and are much larger than the 70s and not only that but the food itself has gotten much larger. The dinner plates have gotten bigger to fit more food on the plate, and also the regular normal ounces in a cup has changed overtime to intake more calories into the body.
“Don’t Blame the Eater”, written by David Zinczenko, is a short article discussing how fast food is the main cause of childhood obesity. This article came about in relations to two kids filing a lawsuit against McDonalds for making them fat. He begins his piece by sympathizing with these individuals because he used to be like them. Zinczenko then informs the reader of his background and how he fell into the category of being dependent upon quick and easy meals. In an attempt to provide a valid argument, he debates on how kids raise themselves while their parents are at work and that the nutritional values are not labeled upon prepared foods.
Unhealthy Food Indulgence: Who Is To Blame? Obesity and its associated health problems continue to be a growing menace to the American population. With only a few minutes spent on a busy street observing all the people of diverse ethnicities, age and race walk by and most of us will agree that obesity in America is not exclusive; it’s affecting both the young and old alike. David Zinczenko and Radley Balko both agree that some measures should be carried out in the fight against obesity in their articles, “Don’t Blame the Eater” and “What You Eat Is Your Business” respectively. However, differences exist between the views of the two authors as to who to blame for the obesity crisis.
In order to combat America's growing obesity epidemic, we must educate students about healthy food and unhealthy food, because if students get more knowledge about the food they eat, they can avoid getting Obese by eating junk food and do not do exercises. In the past years Americans did not care about unhealthy food; they just ate anything they wanted, a couple years after many people including children got overweight because they ate mostly unhealthy food and the government taxed healthy food. That’s why many people spend more money and junk food instead in healthy food. For example if you go to A fast food restaurant, you can spend $10 dollars and get 8 cheeseburgers, otherwise if you want eat healthy food you have to spend $30
The issue is childhood obesity, and it is only accelerating as a percentage of children in both America and all western nations of the world. Childhood Obesity is an issue relevant to all who consider themselves part of American society and it has profound adverse effects economically, physically for those afflicted with the issue, and mentally for those who live an obese childhood or within the family unit of a household with at least one obese child. The scope of the issue is massive and the impact of the consequences dire in many accounts. There is hope to reverse course and change the way of American-western living, and it starts with understanding the size and
Childhood obesity is rapidly increasing due to the shift in cultural norms. Not only is weight affected by surroundings, but exposure to technology deeply creates roots sunk deep into the issue of Obesity. AAP, the American
There are many speculations as to how the prevalence of obesity has risen in the United States over the years. Most people would agree that a combination of poor eating habits and a lack of consistent exercise directly contributes towards a dangerous trend in overall weight gain. Dietary intake is closely related to increased portion sizes, growing fast food restaurant chains, and technology’s role in making everything all the more reachable. Franchises like McDonalds provide a mainstream source of instant gratification; People nowadays treat fast food as a reward for excellence. These factors alone are not necessarily harmful, but acting together with human nature puppeteering, it takes more than sheer willpower to overcome the temptations
Cara Smith AP Language and Composition Mrs. Li 3/21/23 Synthesis Essay Throughout the world people’s diets and exercising are vastly different, and what school you go to can also into what you get fed. Although schools are providing healthy food options and schools are setting up exercising programs for the kids benefits, children make their own choice whether or not to eat the healthy options and exercise. Whether it is the influence of unhealthy foods being advertised, how much time kids are spending on physical activity or if they are even getting any physical activity outside of school, or the personal everyday choice of children and teens to either use the resources they have to eat healthy and not throw their healthy food options away while at school. There is a certain hold that junk food and getting into a comfortable lifestyle that Americans have and these three things prove that point.
To address the problem of childhood obesity, the overall goal of this action plan will be to get parents on board with new healthier lifestyles and choices; realizing their children take after their own eating habits and will adapt accordingly. Involving the whole family in adopting a healthy practice will improve the chances their own habits will continue to pass these habits to the continuing generations. The first recommendation is to establish healthier eating habits with the parents. As the parents start making the changes, the child will likely pick up the new eating habits; as children’s diets are greatly affected by the types of food eaten by their parents #cite.
