Actually, people tend to choose restaurants based on the size of their food portions. Young and Nestle propose education and public health programs as a solution to obesity.
A similar viewpoint is shared by David Zinczenko in "Don't Blame the Eater." Zinczenko talks about the growing rate of childhood obesity and how it is connected with the fast-food industry. He brings up the fact that there is more fast-food available than there are healthy food places. For example, he states that you can drive down a street and find more fast-food restaurants than you can find a place that sales a simple grapefruit. Zinczenko goes back to talk about his own personal childhood experience. He came from a broken family and was often left to find his own means of food, which led him to make poor decisions and would end up at fast-food restaurants like McDonald's and Taco Bell. Zinczenko learned to manage his dietary choices and self-control as he got older and luckily realized that his old habits were leading him to a lifetime of trouble filled with disease because of obesity. He makes the bold statement that today's youth might not have the realization he had and will not be able to change the unhealthy path they are on.
In contrast, in "What You Eat is Your Business" by Radley Balko, he doesn't necessarily disagree that portion sizes are larger today or that fast-food is highly available, but he does not however, agree that obesity is caused by the fast-food industry. Balko believes that each individual's health should be entirely up to them. He believes that everyone knows exactly what they are eating and can make their own decision on whether or not it is wise for them to eat whatever it is that they want to eat.
One issue also tied to portion size is the fast-food industry and their want for more money. One reason why portion sizes have grown in size so much over the past decades is because of price competition.
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Then who is at fault of childhood obesity? Should we blame general society or parents? ... In the article, "Are parents to blame for childhood obesity? ... Joe Kosterich says, "The only people who can change the eating patterns of children are parents. " (2011, para. 2) then how do parents change children's eating patterns? ... ("Early Childhood.. ", 2014, Para. 9) Parents cannot be the only ones to blame for obese children. ...
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Childhood obesity has never been as high as it is today. ... Approximately 300,000 deaths per year can be blamed on obesity. ... If we do not do something to prevent it now, who knows what will happen in the future. ... Technology may also be something to blame for the overwhelming increase in the obesity rates. ... It is more likely that genetics determine who is susceptible to the disease of obesity and factors in the environment then determine if conditions are right for an individual to actually "catch" the disease. ...
Since I came to the United States, everywhere I go I see people who are so obese that they can hardly walk. ... How obesity does affect obese peoples" health? ... This assured me that I" m not the only one who's interest in this subject. ... In general, I always thought that obese people are everyone with a thickness of the layer of fat under his skin, who can hardly walk. After I started my research I was so surprised to learn that every person who seems not to be overweight to me is. ...
What is obesity and how prevalent is it in Australia? Evaluate the psychosocial factors that impact on obesity. ... These Australian data are approximately consistent with worldwide trends (WHO 1998) of increasing obesity to epidemic proportions in the US (Troiano & Flegal 1998), some Western Europe countries (Grivetti 2001), and increasingly in lower-income and transitional countries, (Popkin & Doak 1998). ... This suggests that increasing obesity rates may be more related to a reduction in amount and frequency of incidental and planned physical activity, than to an increase in caloric (an...
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