Analysis Of Don T Blame The Eater
In David Zinczenko’s Don’t Blame the Eater article, he blames the fast-food industry for starting the rising obesity problem because of the failure of providing the facts and warnings labels about their high calorie junk food to the consumers. Zinczenko argues that kids are drawn by the cheap, high-calorie junk food that the fast-food chains like McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, or Pizza Hut are happy to supply because with lots of parents working all day, they do not have time to check what their children are eating. For Example, the author David Zinczenko states that when he was a little boy, his mother would always be away at work, so he would eat Taco Bell, McDonald’s, and at other places every day, and he ended up obese.
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Zinczenko argues that most teenagers who live a lifestyle based on a fast food diet might be destined for a lifetime obesity. For Example, David Zinczenko states in his article” Don’t Blame the Eater”, that “Before 1994, diabetes in children was generally caused by a genetic disorder-only about 5 percent of children cases were obesity related, or type 2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood cases of diabetes in this country. Not surprisingly, money spent to treat diabetes has skyrocketed, too. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that diabetes accounted for $2.6 billion in health care costs in 1969. Today’s number is an unbelievable $100 billion a year” (Zinczenko 242). He argues that it is the fast food chains’ fault that diabetes and other obesity illnesses have risen in the few past years because they did not provide calorie information on fast food packaging or do not have warning labels on their product. David Zinczenko also argues that the fast food industry are to blame for obesity because they are aiming and marketing towards children their product even though the fast food chains know the proven health issues that there is and provide no warning
Zinczenko argues that most teenagers who live a lifestyle based on a fast food diet might be destined for a lifetime obesity. For Example, David Zinczenko states in his article” Don’t Blame the Eater”, that “Before 1994, diabetes in children was generally caused by a genetic disorder-only about 5 percent of children cases were obesity related, or type 2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood cases of diabetes in this country. Not surprisingly, money spent to treat diabetes has skyrocketed, too. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that diabetes accounted for $2.6 billion in health care costs in 1969. Today’s number is an unbelievable $100 billion a year” (Zinczenko 242). He argues that it is the fast food chains’ fault that diabetes and other obesity illnesses have risen in the few past years because they did not provide calorie information on fast food packaging or do not have warning labels on their product. David Zinczenko also argues that the fast food industry are to blame for obesity because they are aiming and marketing towards children their product even though the fast food chains know the proven health issues that there is and provide no warning