Then, just when the children get used to it and settle in, the grown-ups rip it away and make them eat disgusting, healthy green stuff. Not cool, grown-ups, not cool. In Dr. Seuss's world, the grown-up gets a taste of his own medicine. Next thing you know, your children will be telling you what to eat. Get ready for candy, cookies and chocolate milk, every…single…day.
The Fast Food Industry is responsible for obesity in America as they have many fast food restaurants typically many within a small radius providing cheap easy solutions to societies hunger. David Zinczenko, a writer for The New York Times, describes marketing powers in his assessment "Don't Blame the Eater" he states that just about all fast food restaurants falsely advertise their foods and pass to many as a "healthy" meal choice but little do people know is that they are still extremely unhealthy foods that should not be included in anybody's diet what so ever. There has been many varieties of marketing techniques developed over the years of the fast food industry's attempts to persuade others to eat at their establishments. The fact that the foods they are extremely unhealthy for people of all ages from kids to adults is helping to cause obesity throughout America although some may be aware of the risks the average American still continues to eat out at fast food establishments along with the family giving the fast food industry a chance to get the entire family hooked for life. Going to fast food restaurants to prove his theory about how horrible fast food restaurants are for the human body.
Americans are spending more on fast food than higher education, computers, and new cars. 96% of American children could recognize Ronald McDonald; the only fictional character of higher degree is Santa Claus. Many kids watch a McDonald’s commercial and beg their parents to take them there.the author uses statements from restaurant owners, employees, and customers. He also uses surveys. in the chapter “your trusted friends” he talks about kids recognizing Ronald McDonald.
I am currently on a diet plan because I just recently had a baby. I have started this plan about two weeks ago and it has been effective for since I have lost six pounds. My plan consist of not consuming more than 2,000 calories a day and replacing one meal for a protein shake for breakfast every morning. For lunch, I may have a cup of fruit, Greek yogurt, and/or a plain turkey sandwich. For dinner, I mainly consume fish, maybe salmon but never fried, mixed vegetables, and boiled eggs.
The food children will eat is not what you will find in an average cookbook. Behind the tasteful burgers and fries are food technologists and food engineers producing artificial “flavorful food”. Many kids at a young age are still forming their eating habits, if children continue eating fast food this will lead to adult obesity. Not only are people that are consuming the food in danger, the workers manufacturing are also in great danger as
Even if such false advertisements are eliminated in the future many more battles are ahead. According the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, cereal companies average three to four unsupported health claims per box. Cereal companies spend $156 million per year marketing to children, and the average preschooler sees 642 cereal ads per year on television, almost all for cereals with little nutritional value (Deardoff,
I disagree completely that we as Americans suffer from lack of information about nutrition in fast food. Every capable adult knows that eating anything in a fast food restaurant is bad for you. They need to stop being lazy and letting their kids eat fast food frequently, especially if their kids are not very active. It is the responsibility of the parents to feed their kids three healthy meals a day and to make sure that they are maintaining a healthy diet. I do not believe that if fast food industries started putting nutrition labels on their food that it would have a significant difference on the amount of food that people eat.
Spurlock attacks McDonalds in this documentary about their food and how unhealthy it is but it is not only McDonalds that is a problem. All fast food restaurants are unhealthy and advertise the unhealthy and readily available cheeseburger and large fry. The point is that obesity is a very big problem in America and fast food restaurants are not going to change the way they make their food or advertise. Americans want to have to change for the problem of obesity to go away. Although this documentary is very blunt and sometimes sickening, it might help some Americans to see that fast food might lead them down a road of health problems and maybe
Spurlock travels around the states of America to see what school children are eating for lunch on a daily basis. ‘It’s For Kids’ Spurlock shoots the scene in Naperville, Illinois specifically he visited Maderison Junior High. His investigations proved that the students there were consuming more than 1000 calories per meal, which is accessibly high. Whether it was totally true or not Spurlock claimed that most kids either brought lunch from home or brought lunch from the canteen and shared. Basically the unhealthy choices from the canteen proved to be the biggest problem.
ß But, right now 20 million children are currently on the Free and Reduced lunch programs provided by schools. And on average the federal government is paying about 6 dollars a day to feed each on of these kids. (Two meals breakfast and lunch). So lets say each one of these 20 million children are eating these two meals every day all year. So that’s 175 school days times 6 dollars a day.