Don T Blame The Eater Summary
Amber Barnhart
Professor Lawrenson
English 101-24
18 November 2013
Argumentative Paper:
Who really is to blame Many American’s are complaining about the weight they are gaining due to the fast food industry. They put their blame towards the industry for their current health issues, when they were the ones to make that choice to eat there. Everyone has their own choice on what they eat, but what if your brain is actually making you make that choice for you? They say that you need to take personal responsibility for the food you chose to eat. David Zinczenko states in “Don’t Blame the Eater” that “Shouldn’t we know better than to eat two meals a day in fast-food restaurants? ”(392). The parents drive their children there knowing eating …show more content…
The book “Salt Sugar Fat” by Michael Moss talks about the realizations of the industry. He proves his point that “It’s not like there’s a smoking gun. The gun is right there. It is not hidden.” This meaning everyone already knows the dangers of the industry but yet act like they were blind sighted from the start. Moss stated how the industry markets toward “heavy users” meaning repeating customers who can’t get enough. The industry will use their money towards marketing these users instead of neew ones because they have found this to be more effective. An interesting fact from the book would be how the fast food industry has an 80% rule. This means that they food that they are advertising has to be eighty percent familiar to the customer or the customer could question what they were buying. Moss tells his readers that we have 10,000 taste buds and we can taste the sugar all the way down to our pancreas. Moss quotes in the book that he met a name man Jean Mayor who provided interesting information” His name was Jean Mayer, a Harvard professor of nutrition...was hugely influential in matters of diet, starting with poverty and hunger...which led to the introduction of food stamps and expanded school lunch programs...endeared him to the food industry...But what made Mayer an industry threat was his pioneering research on obesity, which he called a "disease of civilization." He is credited with discovering how the desire to eat is controlled by the amount of glucose in the blood and by the brain 's hypothalamus, both of which in turn are greatly influenced by sugar." (p.74). This shows how addictive sugar can really be. The next section in the book was fat. "As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn 't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food
Professor Lawrenson
English 101-24
18 November 2013
Argumentative Paper:
Who really is to blame Many American’s are complaining about the weight they are gaining due to the fast food industry. They put their blame towards the industry for their current health issues, when they were the ones to make that choice to eat there. Everyone has their own choice on what they eat, but what if your brain is actually making you make that choice for you? They say that you need to take personal responsibility for the food you chose to eat. David Zinczenko states in “Don’t Blame the Eater” that “Shouldn’t we know better than to eat two meals a day in fast-food restaurants? ”(392). The parents drive their children there knowing eating …show more content…
The book “Salt Sugar Fat” by Michael Moss talks about the realizations of the industry. He proves his point that “It’s not like there’s a smoking gun. The gun is right there. It is not hidden.” This meaning everyone already knows the dangers of the industry but yet act like they were blind sighted from the start. Moss stated how the industry markets toward “heavy users” meaning repeating customers who can’t get enough. The industry will use their money towards marketing these users instead of neew ones because they have found this to be more effective. An interesting fact from the book would be how the fast food industry has an 80% rule. This means that they food that they are advertising has to be eighty percent familiar to the customer or the customer could question what they were buying. Moss tells his readers that we have 10,000 taste buds and we can taste the sugar all the way down to our pancreas. Moss quotes in the book that he met a name man Jean Mayor who provided interesting information” His name was Jean Mayer, a Harvard professor of nutrition...was hugely influential in matters of diet, starting with poverty and hunger...which led to the introduction of food stamps and expanded school lunch programs...endeared him to the food industry...But what made Mayer an industry threat was his pioneering research on obesity, which he called a "disease of civilization." He is credited with discovering how the desire to eat is controlled by the amount of glucose in the blood and by the brain 's hypothalamus, both of which in turn are greatly influenced by sugar." (p.74). This shows how addictive sugar can really be. The next section in the book was fat. "As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn 't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food