American Kids’ Nutrition And Poor Food Choices

Poor eating habits include buying or consuming under or over eating, not having enough of healthy foods we need each day, or consuming to many types of foods such as burgers, can food, frozen food, and drinks such as sodas, beer, wine, and juices that are highly concentrated in sugar which are low in fiber, high in fat, salt or sugar. Research has shown people who consume fast food everyday can lead to health threatening problems than people who rarely eat fast food. Some people blame the food industry for their health problems they feel that their cause of them being fat. Some people believe that everyone should be responsible for their own health and diet. In his article “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko blames the fast food industry for making individuals fat that the only option to eating is cheap fast food and no healthier option for healthy foods. Poor food choices are bad food for American health because they consume High Cholesterol, Obesity, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, and Heart Disease. David Zinczenko believes that fast food chains should be responsible for kid’s weight gain and have a lawsuit against the food industry for making them fat and come with warning labels. In his article “Don’t Blame the Eater,” there are a group of kids suing Mcdonald’s for making them fat. According to Zinczenko he put it as “I tend to sympathize with these portly fast-food patrons, though. Maybe that’s because I used to be one of them”. According to Zinczenko, when he went to college he learned how to be healthy and managed his diet. Studies has shown the increasing statistics of diabetes in Americans, in fact, “before 1994, diabetes in children was generally caused by a genetic disorder – only about 5 percent of childhood cases were obesity-related, or Type 2, diabetes”.

On the other hand, money has been spent on diabetes for years. Looking past advertisements as an individual can be tough as to whether you want a healthy option or a McDouble from McDonald’s. Buying cheap food makes it sounds way easier than buying healthy foods. Zinczenko writes “make fun if you will of these kids launching lawsuits against the fast-food industry, but don’t be surprised if you’re the next plaintiff”. To sum it up individuals would benefit from the food industry advertising the right calorie information. In my opinion, I agree with Zinczenko points, healthy foods are hard to find these days. Even when going to the grocery store and buying an item that is healthy and checking the calories may not even be right. For example, many people eat salad because they think is healthy but in reality are not good because it contains a bunch of calories and preservatives. Fast food restaurants like golden corral, hibachi, olive garden, and others will have a nutrition sheet on their table for individual’s to look at sometimes the information may not be right. Moreover, the word Fast food should click to people like this is not healthy why do you think they call it fast food. In the end fast food is not healthy for individuals no matter what fast food company says I blame eaters. In his article, “Don’t Blame the Eater,” Zinczenko argues about fast food being the only cheap option and there is not convenient option as to fast food. I agree with him because people do not have the time to cook dinner for their kids or eat a healthy lunch. There are many families out there that have to work long hours and provide their families; this is the only option for parents that are working throughout the day, so they fall for cheap, tasty, meals at restaurants. The problem is most people do not care about the risk that comes with fast food like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity. The fast food industry does not care about what the consumer are eating they only care about what they can profit from them. This is why it’s important for individual’s to educate themselves on these fast food restaurants. Ever heard the saying you are what you eat and what you put into your body is what is going to get out so, it up people to make the right eating habits. Although Zinczenko makes some valid points there some I disagree with. My mom worked at Wendy’s and they have a list of carbs, fat, protein, calories, and sugar in each food item.

Personally the food chain is not to be blamed for individual’s weight gain. It is the individuals fault. They might not hand out all the information on their food with every order, but if you ask for it they will give it to you. Moreover, there’s a bunch of healthy with options out there like target, Walmart, Sam’s club, Costco’s, Publix, and others when you can just buy some apples or a sandwich instead of going to Mcdonald’s and buying a McDouble, Large Fries, and a sprite, moreover this could save your budget. Where he explains driving through the busiest roads in America you see all the fast food restaurants, he is wrong. Adding to Zinczenko argument, I would point out that there are many options to healthier options than just fast food. In conclusion, Zinczenko believes that the lack of warning labels in Fast Food Company and unhealthy foods are contributing factors to obesity and other health risk problems in children. People should be cautious of what they eat this might feel difficult but it helps in the end when it comes to your health. Although Zinczenko may seem of concern to only a small group of people, it should in fact concern anyone who cares about their health concerns.