What You Eat Is Your Business Radley Balko Summary

In both David Zinczenko’s “Don’t Blame The Eater” and “ Radley Balko’s “What You Eat is Your Business”, the argument of obesity in America is present and clear from opposing viewpoints. Both articles were written in the early 2000’s, when the popular political topic of the time was obesity and how it would be dealt by our nation in the future. While Zinczenko argues that unhealthy junk food is an unavoidable cultural factor, Balko presents the thought that the government should have no say in it’s citizens diet or eating habits. Zinczenko’s article was written with the rhetorical stratedgy of pathos in mind.

People should be able to buy what they want. The government should not be able to control the lives of the less fortunate, even if they are a part of food stamps. If middle and upper class get to decide what they eat, so should

Fast food companies have massive businesses, which causes them to have an effect on the American economy. He depicts the way fast food companies target little children for their business to give them profit. He wants to illustrate to people that the fast food they eat can cause health related problems. He wants people to understand that they should stop eating fast food and should eat homemade food instead, as it is healthier. He wants everyone to have the ability to know and differentiate between good and bad food to help them make a healthy decision while deciding which food to eat.

The book makes you feel like the system is too big to take down as corporations now have too much power and are too big. Hopefully this is just a feeling and not reality. Hopefully one day we can make fast food not be the majority of the food system. We can only try to improve and male changes to the system until we have reached a point where people see food as part of their health care and are able to make better-informed

Michael Pollan is the author of “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual”. Throughout his career, Pollan has been investigating about the hazards that industrial foods pose to us, and how we can avoid them and replace them with a healthy diet. He believes that “The way we eats represents our most profound engagement with the natural world.” (Shetterly, Robert. “Michael Pollan.”

But by checking the nutrition facts, buying cheaper food, and avoiding processed foods, it can help American people begin to eat healthier. This omnivore’s dilemma started when America let junk, processed, and fast foods to take our health in different directions and not the right direction. So many people out there know what is out there and those people are doing the right thing by keeping it at a balance. Many other places go through this impasse on what to eat and what not to eat. These ways to solve the omnivore’s dilemma might not work for some people or it will, the important thing is to keep going ahead and improving

According to a journal from the International Association for the Study of Obesity, “Obesity prevention is necessary to address the steady rise in the prevalence of obesity” (Müller, 2001). Soechtig and the panel of experts all agree that prevention is the best means to help stop this epidemic. Many people see prevention as to just stop eating bad or unhealthy food. Well, that’s not the case. Prevention deals with any things.

We speak for the foundations of the country when we say, “The government should not be allowed to control what people do or do not buy with food stamps.” We believe the foundations of freedom, the definition of junk food, and the purpose of food stamps all contribute to our reasoning. Ricardo Lopez argues, "Obesity is a national problem…. We don 't want to contribute to that." As a committee we would like to formally disagree with his statement.

As diets and health become more and more of a public concern in America. Two authors weigh in on their opinions on how the American public should handle the problem of obesity as well as their solutions to the overwhelming issue. In one article, “Against Meat,” published on the New York Times website in 2009, points out that the solution to obesity should be vegetarianism. Johnathan Foer who is a vegetarian, claims that his diet and way of living is his the way of improving health in the American public. Foer’s article provides a sense of humor as well as personal stories to attempt to persuade his audience for the ethical treatment of animals along with his personal solution for his own health and the health of his family.

Americans today are well-known for their eating habits. With all the options the food industry gives us it makes it hard to go to the grocery store and resist picking up that bag of barbeque-flavored chips or blueberry flavored candy. Due to these processed foods obesity is a growing epidemic in our country and who is to blame for it? In an article entitled “What You Eat is Your Business” by Radley Balko, Balko argues for less government intervention. Balko believes is it our responsibility to take care of ourselves and make it a priority.

Who or what is to blame for the increase of obesity? Thinking Sociologically about Sources of Obesity in the United States by Robert L. Peralta examines obesity as a "disease" (Peralta 200). Peralta provides multiple possibilities to why United States citizens are becoming heavier. He argues that the government aid programs, availability, and cost of nutritious foods makes it difficult to eat healthy (200). Next, the article infers that obesity could be largely a social issue.

Theres a very fine line when talking about body images and looking at what the “in thing” is in the media. When trying to get healthy the number one thing not to do is to look at the media for health choices and image. I agree to very little to what the media has to offer about body image. One day you should be as think as a nail and the next they want you to shove roster strudels in your mouth.

It is imperative to keep in mind that obesity is often preventable; it is not some unfortunate product of nature. This is not nurture verses nature due to both assuming critical parts in this matter. Genetic make-up, environment and behavior are all contributors to this epidemic and subsequently detrimental health effects are the result. The increase of obesity in this nation is cutting down the

As Obamacare is something

I chose to watch “Weight of the Nation”, because the title itself was appealing. I made the assumption that the documentary would provide information on weight throughout the United States. I wanted to get a holistic view on the obesity epidemic that we are struggling with. This documentary was well informative; obesity is a factor of genetics, environmental and behaviors. Granted some may people may have a harder time losing weight because of their genes, at the same token they shouldn’t use that as an excuse.