What Is The Purpose Of Don T Blame The Eater

How often do we find ourselves blaming others rather than ourselves when a problem arises? Many people, myself included, tend to take the blame and rather than taking responsibility for it, place it on someone else. In Don’t Blame the Eater, David Zinczenko, the author of many best-selling books, comes to the defense of the eater on the topic of the decline of health in children. He claims that the reasons we shouldn’t blame the eater are because of the lack of options and false advertising from fast food companies. Personally, I feel as though this article was written as a defense mechanism to take the blame off of us and give to someone else. In reality, the decline in children’s health is a result of making bad choices when it comes

By this I mean when we choose to eat out and eat bad food, we forget to make healthy choices. At one point in the article, Zinczenko mentions that he was once unhealthy and overweight as a result of his poor eating habits. He goes on to explain that once he joined the Navy Reserves, he learned how to manage his diet (463). He makes the point to say, “But most of the teenagers who live, as I once did, on a fast-food diet won’t turn their lives around (Zinczenko, 463).” Teens go through life eating unhealthy food with no sense of consequence. We must realize that everything should be done with a sense of balance in mind. For example, if we choose to eat a double cheeseburger meal two times a day, we should also choose to go on a run or take the time to work out afterwards. That being said having healthy habits is important regardless of what you eat in order to stay in shape, but more importantly if you have unhealthy habits it is your responsibility to enforce these healthy habits to counteract those unhealthy choices. Personally, I feel we shouldn’t blame companies for our health problems when there are other things that we can do in order to make ourselves healthier every day. After reading the article Don’t Blame the Eater, I immediately became upset about the fact that we have succumb to blaming others for problems that are in our control. When it comes to eating fast food, it is important that we fix the problem now through understanding that there are other options and learning to balance our poor choice with good choices. It isn’t the fast food companies that decide our fate it is our own. If we continue to blame others for our problems, we will continue to see an even greater decline in children’s