After watching the movie Super Size Me and seeing all the effects of eating McDonald’s for 30 days straight I now see that it is the girl's fault as to why they are obese.
60 percent of Americans are obese and that’s not McDonald's fault. McDonald’s is one of the most successful fast food chain restaurants in the world, and I am sure everyone can see why. Sure McDonald’s has fatty food and huge portions but Americans have the freedom to choose healthier foods on McDonald’s menu, or just not eat there at all. Instead of getting a Big Mac get a salad, instead of getting a sugar filled soda get a nice refreshing water.
The hard part is choosing which one to get. Not all people realize they have a choice between healthy and junk filled food. There’s some things contributing to that thought though. A huge one is companies for healthier food spend only about 2 million dollars on advertising, while companies for soft drinks, candy, chips, and fast food spend around 200 million dollars on advertisement. Children watch over 1000 fast food commercials every year and in my opinion that says a lot about our
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But….The average person only walks 5000 steps a day while most people from New York walk 4 to 5 miles a day! People in New York could eat McDonald’s and walk it off all in their normal day routine. While people like the teenage girls who don’t live in a place like New York will eat McDonald’s and burn little to none of it off. The girls who sued McDonald’s were suing because McDonald’s allegedly made them obese. When really they could’ve altogether avoided McDonald’s and went to a different restaurant to get something healthier.
In conclusion it is not McDonald’s fault for making the teenage girl’s obese. It is the girl's fault for eating the McDonald’s in the first place. No way it is McDonald’s fault for being a very successful company and making adds that draws major attention to their restaurant and it’s
In the article “Don’t Blame the Eater”, author David Zinczenko, the editor -in-chief of Men’s Health magazine comments on the lawsuit against McDonald’s which is initiated by the overweight children’s parents. He claims that fast-food industry should accept full responsibility for a serious public problem: leading American kids to obesity. Zinczenko supports his claim with his personal experience to show how the fast-food chains marketing on them with low price. He also said it is not easy for those obese kids to turn their lives back. He believes this should be considered as a public health problem because their obesity causes the society huge public health losses. Zinczenko insists that if fast-food industry doesn’t take actions quickly, it is only a matter of time for them to become the next tobacco industry.
Are fast food productions hold responsible for America being categorized as the fattest nation? In the documentary Supersize me, Morgan Spurlock, director, and author of this film challenges himself on a McJourney for thirty days. Spurlock could only eat fast food that came from McDonalds. He went onto this journey to analyze the effect McDonald’s has on the human body. The film Supersize Me uses ethos, logos and pathos to effectively convincingly argue how people should be more aware of the foods they eat, and the possible repercussions they are risking.
Increasing the options of fast food restaurants in America gave society different choices of where they can choose to go eat. Some restaurants may be cheaper than others, but what society didn’t realize was the cheaper the restaurant the more calories the food contains. The consumers didn’t seem to realize or have a problem with these cheaper companies until some consumers sued the company for getting them fat. This caused children to sue Mcdonald's the company for making the consumers get fat. For this reason, according to the author David Zinczenko it is a problem that people are not informed on how many calories the food they're eating contains. He has the credibility to be trusted by his audience
David Zinczenko’s impartial essay, “Don’t Blame the Eater”, questions if children should be suing fast food companies for making consumers obese. He starts out by connecting to those who have found their way into unhealthy eating styles, but luckily for him, he found a way out of there. Furthermore Zinczenko compares the rate of diabetes in children in the 90s to the 2000s, it was significantly lower as compared to present day. He then goes back to the issue that the youth has, being un-employed and young and only having access to the cheap fast food, should they still be to blame? The next topic that was brought up was the lack of information that fast food franchises provide, Zinczenko points out the fact that on the countless television
In the piece “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko, he discusses the topic of fast food restaurants and the issues, as to why kids today are suing McDonalds for making them fat. In his article, he starts by recapitulate a familiar time from his past where he also suffered from fast food restaurants. Zinczenko was a latchkey kid who was at the age of 15 and weighed 212 pounds. As any child, he didn’t have much money. Therefore food options were very limited. It was either McDonalds, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut. Pretty much the only affordable meals you could eat everyday and that are open late. Later on, Zinczenko went off to college. He got to join the Navy Reserves and be apart of a health magazine, teaching himself
The article, “Don’t blame the Eater,” by David Zinczenko is about the many lives in America, which is affected by obesity. Zinczenko is telling us in this article about the problem of obesity and how no one really cares about this problem so he’s trying to put it out there in the world so people can notice what’s happening. At first, Zinczenko is showing how sarcastic, it might sound if kids everywhere were suing McDonald’s for making them obese. Then later on, he shows us clearly that he is supporting the many lives with the problem of obesity and to back up his support, he then tells us about all the facts and statistics to prove fast food restaurants like McDonald’s are ruining many lives and mostly children. Zinczenko himself has experienced
Today, approximately 1 of every 3 adults in America suffers from obesity. In a world where people are surrounded by fast food 24/7, it is hard to come up with solutions to the growing obesity problem. In David Zinczenko's article Don’t Blame the Eater, written in 2002, he defends people who began suing fast food companies for their obesity. He justifies their choice to do so by pointing out the insufficient access to healthy food, the lack of choices for people who cannot afford to eat healthily, and the absence of information fast food companies provide about their products. These are used to convince his audience that the people who consume fast food are not to be blamed for their obesity because it is the fast food companies that are at
Daniel Weintraub in the article,”The Battle Against, Fast Food Begins in the Home,” argues that parents are at fault for their children being overweight, not the fast food industry. Weintraub supports his argument by explaining why it’s the parents fault using data and research. The author’s purpose is to inform the reader that parents need to take responsibility for their actions so that people stop blaming others and stop obesity. The author writes in an informal tone for the adults with children in the home.
McDonald’s is killing Americans, at least that is what Morgan Spurlock believes. In his documentary Super Size Me he embarks on a quest to not only describe and use himself as an example of the growing obesity trend, but to offer the viewers with base-line nutritional knowledge that will allow them to draw their own informed conclusions. Spurlock's primary intention is to prove through self-experimentation that eating solely McDonald's food is dangerous. His secondary intention is to denounce the rising obesity rate in American by using statistics, his own research, and the opinions of experts. His broader message is for a general audience while he tailors select chapters towards more specific demographics such as parents or McDonald's
Obesity has become increasingly more prominent in American society. It is also a major health issue affecting many adults and children in the US every year. In his article "Don't Blame the Eater," David Zinczenko sympathizes with children who are suing McDonald’s making them fat. In his own experience as a “latchkey kid”, he knows how easily fast food makes teenagers put on weight with a steady diet of fast food meals. Zinczenko argues that both lack of fast food alternative companies and lack of providing nutrition information contribute to childhood obesity.
People make conscious decisions when they gorge their mouths with ninety-nine cent triple cheeseburgers that takes two minutes to make. Yeah America is great and all, but obesity is not. The McDonalds, Jack in the Box, Carl’s Jr, on every corner is driving America down a very unhealthy and scary road. As time goes on people find new ways to be lazy. There needs to be an epidemic for exercise, and healthiness. The normal body type should be fit and lean, not over weight and fat. There needs to be a scare across America where people are being too healthy, and too fit, not too large, and too unhealthy. Although the portion size of food, and quality of food is a part of the obesity problem, people need to exercise to end this epidemic of obesity.
The article “Don’t Blame the Eater", by David Zinczenko talks about how a group of people are suing McDonald’s for making them fat. Zinczenko shares his experience on how fast food has effect his childhood and teenage years. He explains how teenagers can put on weight with a fast food and part of the problem is the lack in nutritional information about fast food. In addition, he speaks about fast food and the companies behind it.
Dan’s answer to that question was, “No, because it is ultimately the consumer’s choice whether or not they want to buy and eat the food because nobody is forcing them to do it. The food may be fattening and contribute to poor health but you can burn off the food and calories by exercising and doing physical activity. You cannot blame McDonalds for one being obese as nobody is forcing them to eat it all the time. There are numerous of other reasons that could be contributing to the obesity other than just the McDonalds Corporation.”
McDonaldization is viewed to be one of the reasons behind obesity. This is due to people
•In the recent times McDonalds has been blamed for the high fat content in its products and many consumers perceive that the food served at their outlets is not healthy. Also, the consumers are becoming increasingly health conscious these days. McDonalds