David Zinczenko's 'Don T Blame The Eater'

In David Zinczenko’s article “Don’t Blame the Eater” he explains the dangers of eating at fast food chains. Zinczenko starts off by talking about the popular news headline of parents suing fast food chains for making their children obese. Zinczenko then goes on to describe that he does have some empathy for these families because he, himself, used to be one of those obese children. He explained how busy his family used to be and how affordable it is to eat from these fast food chains. In his later life, he joined the Navy Reserves and lost all the weight he had gained and learned about the better food and the better nutrition to put into his body. Zinczenko, however, did know that not all kids were this lucky to fall out of this eating pattern. Following the story of his life, Zinczenko stated statistics of type 2 diabetes in children from before 1994 until now. Most of these stats are quite shocking to realize. After that Zinczenko then went on to explain how fast food chains do not display the nutrition facts on their food. They do provide them on their websites, or will provide them at the fast food chain if requested. Nevertheless, Zinczenko explains that the information is falsely given. These places will hide facts, and make it seem like their food is not bad when the calories are twice as much as the preconceived notions that commonplace consumers believe.

In his conclusion, Zinczenko wishes that these fast food chains would put both warning labels to signify possible diabetes development and nutrition facts to depict the nutrients that people are absorbing.
Zinczenko’s wish is meant to better the lives of all people, the general public, and he says so by distinctly using the word “we.” The word “we” has both an inclusive denotation and connotation, which helps him to relate to the audience through the sharing of his personal experience with obesity and fast food chains.
I agree with Zinczenko’s argument about the dangers of fast food chains. I agree that it is not just the eater’s fault. There is blaming to put on the eater knowing that fast food chains are not as healthy of an option to eat, but they do not know all the nutrition facts as well as what they are consuming when at fast food chains. While reading the text where Zinczenko gave statistics, of type two diabetes in children from before 1994 until now, I was shocked to see the percentage increased as much as it had.
Zinczenko used extravagant detail in this article by not only appealing to emotional perspectives of his audience but also by stating the surprising statistics about nutrition which were both used to enhance his argument. He gets to the readers emotions by using his own story of how he went from eating a bunch of fast food every day to now eating healthy in the Navy Reserves, where he learned how to control his diet. He also used a logical stand point by adding in statistics that go for his argument. In conclusion, I agree with his article in many ways and think he did an outstanding job of showing his point of view, and how he got his argument across.