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Chloe Braun

Professor Fine

ENC 1101

22 September 2015

"Dont Blame the Eater" by David Zinczenko

In this essay David explains why people shouldn't blame the eater, but instead the environment they grew up in. In the introduction of this essay he explains his background. He grew up in a typical home in the 1980's, his parents were split up so they were on a budget. Growing up as a kid for him, lunch and dinner meant Taco Bell, McDonalds, Pizza Hut or Kentucky Fried Chicken. He goes on to say "by age 15, I had packed 212 pounds of torpid teenage tallow on my once lanky 5-foot-10 frame." (pg. 463) As time went on David eventually turned his life around, went to college, and joined the Navy, where he learned how to eat proper foods and manage his diet. This was when he realized that most teeangers today who live as he did won't turn their lives around.

"Today according to National Institues of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood cases of diabetes in this country." That is a large percentage of children that have diabetes, considering in "1994 diabetes was generally caused by a genetic disorder and only about 5 percent of childhood cases were obesity related or Type 2 diabetes." (pg. 463) America went on to donate "$2.6 billion in health care costs in 1969." This action showed that America did realize what obesity was doing to their country. Little did they know it would keep getting worse. Todays number is an astonishing "$100 billion a year" (pg. 463) The argument for obesity is that shouldn't peple know not to eat fast food every day?

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Teenagers seem to have a hard time finding an alternative to fast food. Fast food is cheaper and more convienent to this society, for example if a family was on a road trip they would most likley stop at a McDonalds for