My family eats out only once or twice a week and the other days we eat home cooked meals. Parents are to blame for childhood obesity because they have the means to teach their children but choose not to because they believe someone else will teach them. It is not the lack of a nutritional guide or large portion sizes at cheap prices it is the irresponsibility of parents that is the cause. If you do not teach your kids who
As such, the quality of education that they receive is quite poor and degrading instead of building. Without quality education, these teenagers do not proceed further in their career ladder. By making these low paying jobs take precedence over their education, the teenagers end up paying a high price when they are grown- ups. Etzioni provides explicit evidence showing that most of these teenagers end up as school dropouts and the only place they can work in is the same fast food restaurants that they worked in when they were teenagers. Basically, his argument is that fast food industries such as McDonalds offer a wide field of employment for teenagers which is beneficial as it makes them self responsible.
He insists they would not eat as much if they knew that it was bad for them or if the industry put nutrition labels on their food. My outlook on this topic varied significantly from that of Zinczenko’s. I feel that it is not the fault of the fast food company. Neither would I put blame on the younger children who eat fast food. I would put most of the culpability on the parents who do not teach their kids how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and buy their children unhealthy food. I disagree completely that we as Americans suffer from lack of information about nutrition in fast food.
I believe that David Zinczenko in his article submitted to the New York Times “Don’t Blame The Eater” makes a good case for how society should be concerned about a generation facing a lifetime of childhood obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart diseases and other related health complications. However I find that I feel personal responsibility should be the governing factor in this matter. Mr. Zinczenko asks in his article “ Shouldn’t we know better than to eat two or more meals a day in a fast food restaurant? ” Yes we should because although specific warning labels aren’t found on fast food packaging we’ve known for years that fast food consumption on a daily basis is hazardous to your health. There’s information readily available about childhood obesity as stated in Zinczenko’s article where he notes that “Before 1994, diabetes in children was generally caused by genetic disorder-only about 5 percent of childhood cases were obesity-related, or Type 2 diabetes.
The whites not working made it official.” (90). Burke is saying that The Great Depression didn’t hit home until it affected the white people. And the fact that no white people and as well as no black people were working made African-Americans view The Great Depression as being equal with Caucasians. African-Americans were used to these Depression conditions. Clifford Burke made the remark that their wives would go to the store and get beans and a big piece of meat to cook for dinner and the white man could not do this, if he were to bring back the same items his wife would threaten to leave him.
In “The battle against fast food begins in the home” by Daniel Weintraub he is stating that parents are at fault for children’s obesity and their eating habits. Weintraub also says that the food companies shouldn’t be blamed for people gaining weight and becoming unhealthy by eating their food all the time. In this article Weintraub is blaming the parents which in my opinion is correct for him to do that because parents should teach their children what to eat and what not to eat. I don’t understand how people could blame a food company for making them fatter. That is absurd; if people don’t want to gain weight then they shouldn’t eat there or allow their children to eat there if they are going to complain about it.
There should not be open campus at schools. The school would lose profits from the lunches, the food consumed by the students outside of school will most likely be unhealthy, and the students would not be under any supervision. Open campus would have a negative effect on schools and its students. The students would leave during lunchtime to get themselves McDonalds or Burger King to eat. Meanwhile, our already poor school loses profit to these fast food restaurants.
Dear Editor, Have you heard about the new FDA regulations that were set into play this year? If you have not, Michel Obama and a team of nutritionist have been working on a guideline that all schools must follow containing the amount of food that children are allowed to eat for their lunch. The problem with these guide lines are that they were made for children who are obese and do not participate in any extra-curricular activities, such as sports. Here at OHS our meals consisted of, on average, 5 oz. of protein or meat, a day.
Finally, there are set requirements for SNAP, and if a person does not meet all of the requirements, then the family will not qualify for SNAP benefits. State food banks are another option to address hunger. For example, a state program in Maryland is the Farm to Food Bank program, where farms across the state provide Marylanders with fresh, local produce. Another state program is the Summer Clubs program, which provides meals over the summer to children who rely on their school cafeteria for food during the school year. The disadvantages to the state food bank programs are that the logistics of distributing the food while it is
They Deserve More Fast food industry has many Federal, state and local laws. Employers in the fast food industry don’t follow the currently enacted laws which cause workers to be treated as employees of inferior category. A big number of employees in the fast food industry is made up of youth under 18 years of age. They often have no experience at work which makes them easy targets to manipulate; they are more vulnerable to assault from criminals, co-workers or managers. There are laws for youth employment; these laws determine the number of hours which youth can work, length of the shifts and type of work they may perform.