Parental Responsibility in Childhood Obesity

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In the article “The battle against fast food begins at home” by Daniel Weintraub claims that the parents are to blame for their own child's obesity. Also that fast food companies are not the ones to blame.
Weintraub supports his claim by explaining that is all parents fault no one us but parents “It is parents-not the government, not the fast food companies, not the eating and exercise habits. Can they use some help? Sure. But they are the ones who need to step up to the plat, so to speak”. (Paragraph 3)
Weintraub's purpose is to raise awareness and inform readers that parents are the ones to blame nobody but them so that parents can stop blaming others for something that's happening at their own home.
My opinion on the essay is that it is the parents fault because the parents are mostly the ones who buy the food for the kids cause I don't think the kids work and earn money at this age and also they can …show more content…

The numbers ranged from a low of 17 percent in wealthy Orange County Assembly district to a high of 36.8 percent in an inner-city Los Angeles district. More boys (32 percent) than girls (21 percent) were overweight”. ( Paragraph 7 )
Parents should try to make a cooked meal at home instead of being lazy all day so parents are saying they're tired and kids ask for food so they go drive and buy fast food but parents don't say they're tired so that makes them not want to drive.
With Weintraub's statics research he said that “...Parents try to cook as many meals at home as possible on the theory that even the least healthy home-cooked meal is probably better for our children than the healthiest fast-food serving. We limit television time and encourage our boys to get out of the house, either to participate in organized sports or to ride their bikes, skateboards or rollerblades”. ( paragraph 15

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