In Davin Zinczenko's "Don't Blame the Eater," the author contests that as a young child with working parents, his diet of fast food made him obese. Further, he claims that the accessability of fast food is much greater than that of a healthier option. Specifically, the ratio in his town of Big Macs to grapefruit was about a million to one.
I may be confused about where his family did their grocery shopping. Did they buy all of their food items at Burger King? They have to eat at home SOME time. And while his busy mom or dad is at the grocery store, why don't they buy a loaf of wonder bread, some american cheese, and some miracle whip. This would last about 2 weeks. Granted, I hate miracle whip, american cheese, and wonder bread, but it is another option. More importantly, it's dirt cheap. Throw it in a plastic bag and eat it on the way to wherever you're going. Easy as McApple Pie.
In David Zinczenko's "Don't Blame the Eater," he observes that the overweight people suing fast food companies really don't have an option because of the ease with which they are decieved by what they are eating. An unassuming cheeseburger may hide enough calories to last you through half of a normal day. He stresses that alot of caloric information is incorrect and leaves out important ingredients.
I wholeheartedly agree. A hungry teen is thinking about one and one thing only; how to achieve ultimate peace between mind and belly. I doubt that in the line of Wendy's, a mother is having much trouble weighing the caloric content of the french fries she is about to give her son against the relief she will have once he stops complaining of hunger pangs when she is already late for a meeting. Possibly, though, making a court case of it will make the situation more of a joke than anything.
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You did a good job of summarizing the article. You expressed the authors argument with examples and then introduced your idea. Which was something that "They say, I say" expressed in the reading.
amen.
I agree with you when you say in the second article, "I doubt that in the line of Wendy's, a mother is having much trouble weighing the caloric content of the french fries she is about to give her son against the relief she will have once he stops complaining of hunger pangs when she is already late for a meeting." I believe that time is a major problem to why fast food restuarants are so popular. If there is no time to run to the store, or fix a meal at home, sometimes the next best thing seems to be McDonalds. I would guess that you disagree with Zinczenko, believing that there are healthy and cheap alternatives to eating at fast food restuarants.
I don't like miracle whip either.
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