In "Let Them Eat Fat", Critser discusses how fast food and national restaurants been criticized by nutritionist and dietitians. Fast food places have gotten more aggressive in getting the poor inner city community by making the food available fast and cheap. Because of the poor and wanting cheap meals outside of their home, fast food companies developed a sales gimmick known as "super sizing".
After reading this article, I think people should not consume a super sized meal. Super sizing is very popular in the fast food chain know as McDonald's. " The total caloric content of a meal has been jacked up from 680 calories to more than 1,340 calories ".Customers are encouraged to "super size you meal!" Customers are thinking they are getting a good deal. Its not good to consume large amounts of food without knowing what you are going to intake into you body. Fast food inst good for any ones health. Nutritionist and dietitians criticize the fast food chains and try to educate the people who consume it most, the poor.
I no longer consume a lot of fast food, I try to make healthy meals at home. Its not always best to buy cheap food that taste good because its most likely not good for you. Eating fast food is very poor in protein but rich in fat and carbohydrates, not the good stuff to be eating. I have observed that fast food places have choices of healthy meals and each meal is given its total caloric content, its all about what the people choose to consume.
Do you remember what are the ""healthier" options in these fast food places? Some specifics would be good.
ReplyDeleteHi Kristina! You decided to focus on the Super-sizing which can totally work, but I think this choice (rather than responding to fast-food in general) may have left you with too little to discuss. In the last paragraph you get to discussing your own choice to eat less fast food. I would redo this one based on that. Start with a summary then state your personal choice and use the rest of the essay to explain WHY you chose to eat more healthy and how you do it. What choices do YOU make every day? That would be interesting to read!
ReplyDeleteHi Kristina. My name is Professor Gallagher. I help train tutors for the Writing Center. I agree with the other professors that you are doing pretty well here, but you need to say more, develop your perspective, show us more from your world. Professor Smith asks some good questions. Can you tell us more about what you DO eat? How did you come to decide NOT to eat fast food? How did you learn fast food was bad? Who told you? Did you read it somewhere? What DO you eat? Do you "super-size" at home? Why is it better to eat at home than eat out?
ReplyDeleteOne way you could connect it to the "super-size" problem would be to talk about how much you eat at one sitting. In addition to learning fast food is bad, have you also learned that eating twice as much as you need in one meal is bad for health? People don't necessarily want to eat double amounts, but if you put twice as much in front of them, they will probably eat more! How does your life choice--eating at home--prevent that? Good luck!