Monday, September 10, 2007

Exercise 2, 38 agree with curcumstance.

In his article "Don't Blame the Eater", David Zinczenko tells about childeren suing McDonald's for making them fat. He agrees that it is the fast food chains' fault for the childeren's obesity, in that the chains make the unhealthy food and they don't place nutritional information in eyesight. Also, fast food chains spend large amounts of time and money in advertisement campaigns, time and money that could be used in better ways. Zinczenko disagrees, howerever, that tehere should be lawsuits against the companies. Even though the companies are selling health hazardous food with no warning labels, he belives it is not only the fault of the companies, but of the consumer as well. Even with his beliefs, he would not be surprised to see lawsuits in the future and warns his readers that they could be next.

Exercise 2 pg 38 disagree

In his article "Don't Blame the Eater", David Zinczenko argues that childeren are overweight because fast food was the only choice for a meal. He tells about the limited eating options for a child whose parents had no time to cook. Because of the lack of inexpensive and convenient food sources, he was forced to eat fast foos. He insists that the lack of alternatives was made worse by the lack of nutrition. Zinczenko states that a seemingly healthy salad, said to have 150 cal., has an additional 190 cal. from the almonds and noodles, not to mention the 280 cal. salad dressing you add later. Zinczenko belives that the lack of quick and healthy eating options are the reasons why people are overweight.

I disagree with Zinczenko in that there are, in fact, a number of convenient, inexpensive, and nutritional resautrants in the market today: Subway, Potbellies, Panera, and Boston Market being a few of them.

Exersice 2, pg. 38

In this exersise in "They Say, I Say" we, the students, had to sumemrize an article in two different ways. One way was to disagree and the other to agree with a circumstance.

I found this exersise very intersting. I learned that I could tell two very different stories with the same information. And in that, spin the information to strenghten my own argument. Once again, I found the exersice to be very beneficial.