As many people would recognize, there is a rising obesity problem in America and there are many influences that could contribute to this. Fast food is not the healthiest choice but, they should not be to blame for making children obese. In David Zinczenko’s “Don’t Blame the Eater” he talks about how the obese population is blaming fast food companies for their health situations. He begins his argument with what he observes as a ridiculous headline, which is that kids are suing McDonalds for being fat. David starts by teasing these overweight individuals that are bring a lawsuit against McDonalds, but then later admits that he used to be overweight as a child and was able to change his life around.
This old commercial presents a cereal called Life and shows three brothers in a traditional family setting debating on whether or not it is worth eating. The cereal presented is made by a tried and true company Quaker which offers heart healthy foods to combat the unhealthy cholesterol in our bodies. The commercial seems to rely heavily on pathos to persuade the audience with a cereal that is supposed to be good for you. The pathos used shows two brothers looking at a potentially repulsive cereal in which they push off to a younger brother named Mikey. As they look at the cereal one brother says “dumb cereal, it’s supposed to be good for you” and then they agree with each other to give it to Mikey who hates everything.
Pablo Freire allows us to see what he believes is the ongoing problem with our educational system. He makes a very compelling argument stating that it is not the way we teach but how we mentally categorize learning. Teachers assume that they have all the knowledge needed to pass on to their students and students know nothing. As if the students are a blank canvas that the teacher get to throw their paint on. This is what Freire calls the educational banking system.
Wal-Mart’s main defense is all the jobs it creates for American citizens. While Wal-Mart does create many jobs it destroys more than it creates. According to the book, How corporation’s hurt us all, By crushing local businesses, this giant eliminates three decent jobs for every two low-paid Wal-Mart jobs it creates (Dan Butts 167). So basically every time a Wal-Mart comes to a small town, a lot of the employees have to join the superstore and work for less or lose their job all together. Another reason people like to defend Wal-Mart is because they have better prices than most everyone else which is easier on peoples wallets.
Since $1 was not a lot of money the chances of them doing it again were very high. People in America started to get so lazy that they would not even want to leave their cars. As a result Business such as banks, movie theaters, motels, and restaurants took advantage of this and built drive-ins. These drive-ins would typically hire teenage girls to attract boys by dressing them in attractive outfits. The birth of fast food began when the desert was turned to orange groves with the help of irrigation paid by taxes during WWII.
Introduction The rapid increase of overweight and obese people in the United States has been described as an “epidemic” (U.S. government), but people still do nothing or are not worried enough to stop this up going problem. Morgan Spurlock is an north American cineaste who filmed the documentary “Super Size me”. The documentary daily narrates his 30 day Mc Donald’s diet and the consequences that it had on the health and physical appearance of Spurlock. Furthermore, it also interview people in the streets and experts in order to gain credibility and have a stronger impacts in the viewer opinion. Nevertheless the documentary is extremely biased, it makes the fast food companies looks like enemies and it doesn’t even give a point of view which could go against his ideas.
*Non-Idians teacher they expect them to be dumb in class but smart outside of class. Living up to expectation in a classroom. He was expected to fail although failure is what was expected of him Sherman Alexie refused to do so. reading is a tool one can use to succeed in life. Like it or not, the importance of a good education cannot be stressed enough.
I do believe sugar can be addicting because I myself have never gone a day without having some kind of sugar. Lustig, Schmidt, and Brindis states how “[o]ver the 50 years consumption of sugar has tripled world wide.” Instead of fixing the problem we are just getting worse. Since sugar is “cheap” we should make it more make it more expensive and hope for a change. Also, even though petitions keep getting “denied” we shouldn’t give up until there is a change. My uncle has diabetes and every time he sees me eating chocolate or some sort of candy he tells me that I’m going to end up dying from diabetes also because that’s all he would eat, I wouldn’t really take him seriously I would just laugh about it.
"Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them." Unoka Pg. 5 4. "Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings."
With a bit of knowledge, even the poorer can be informed that if they can’t afford low GI starches, eating maize meal cold significantly lowers the GI. again the choice would be up to the individual then, as to whether or not they would be prepared to eat their maize meal cold. Sugar is also a major contribution, and is in everything we eat, from a packet of Simba chips to salad dressing to tinned food. Large corporates such as Coca-Cola, producers of very high sugar products, should also be considered drivers of the global diabetes