Topic > Analysis of What You Eat Is Your Business - 1649

Most people today are not well informed about healthy choices, but more importantly, they are not well informed about how unhealthy their daily diet is. Can the consumer be blamed for taking advantage of products that are placed at his convenience and which may seem completely harmless? Nowadays people are unable to pick up a food and easily understand its nutritional values. The packaging and advertising are cryptic and very misleading. In most cases, when eating out, calorie information is only available upon request (Zinczenko 392). Zinczenko points out that the food industry does not help itself with this statement: “I would say that the industry is vulnerable. Fast food companies are marketing a product to children with proven health risks and no warning labels” (393). By making it unclear what these products distributed by many food companies do to the human body, companies put themselves at risk of lawsuits, as described in Zinczenko's Don't Blame the Eater. A combination of many factors is exposing the population to a greater risk of obesity. Like Zinczenko, Obama says that misleading information, non-existent nutritious family meals, and the availability of high-calorie snacks at local grocery stores have created “a lifestyle that is condemning too many of our children to a lifetime of poor health and undermining our better capabilities." efforts to build a better future for them” (424). Both Zinczenko and Obama show care and interest in children's health. Explain that with the example of their parents, children can easily live healthy and beneficial lifestyles or just as easily inherit habits from their parents that increase the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors