“Kid Kustomers” Eric Schlosser In his report‚ “Kid Kustomers‚” Eric Schlosser discovers the tactics marketers and manufacturers utilize to target children. Schlosser claims that since the 1980s when working parents spent less and less time with their kids‚ they felt it necessity to spend more money on them. Manufacturers took advantage and began to promote a kid-related appearance. They started by observing children of specific ages to discover their interests and habits‚ receiving much
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their parents for the necessities they need and be okay with what they had. Now it’s backwards. More and more kids are demanding to have the latest technologies and the latest gadgets rather than being comfortable with the resources and materials their parents provide. Children are taking control rather than their parents taking control. Children are becoming the parents and the parents are becoming the children. The parents are doing what their children want them to do and
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We as Americans love food and slowly but surely we have ended up with an abundant amount of food options as well as huge waistlines. But we have to argue‚ who is to blame for this? Should we be held responsible for our bodies and what we decide to consume or is the food industry responsible for luring us in? This‚ as well as many biological and environmental factors can contribute to the rise of weight problems and obesity. R.A Ames‚ author of "Fast Food Isn’t to Blame"‚ argues that weight difficulties
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At some point in your life‚ someone probably said to you: “You are what you eat.” Well‚ that’s true. If we eat healthy‚ we will more likely be healthy. Our bodies need healthy‚ clean foods to grow strong‚ learn‚and be active. Our kids especially need these things because their bodies are changing‚ growing and learning so much every day. Eating healthy from the time of infancy will follow our children through adolescence into adulthood. Proper nutrition will not only help our kids avoid illness
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Some people say: we are what we eat. It’s a great saying. I absolutely agree with this.You may have a fit body or quite overweight. Your appearance showed us what you ate. Eating too much or too little are both not good. We should keep a balanced diet. That’s a key to be in good health and get success. For example‚ many people have meals too late because they have to work overtime‚ which leads to stomachache. Or a hungry man is eating too much to stop his hunger so what’s next. The answer is that
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The article discusses the long-term negative impact of watching television on the diet of American adults and provides advice on encouraging teenagers to eat healthy. This article is relevant to my project on proposing ways to combat obesity in Singapore as it highlights an important but possibly neglected causal factor for unhealthy eating habits – TV-watching. As young Singaporeans are exposed to television shows and media sources just as American teenagers are‚ findings on their negative influence
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In Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation” he talks about the truth behind fast food. We never really wonder‚ when we eat fast food‚ where it came from‚ or what we are really eating‚ or how it came to be sitting in front of us. Well Schlosser uses his undeniable phraseology‚ his overall facts on the history of fast food‚ and his brutal honesty to describe and challenge our fast food nation‚ as we know it. In his book Schlosser argues that the fast food industry utilizes its political influence to avoid
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everyday lives‚ we generally decide what we put on the table but we aren’t exactly sure where our food comes from‚ besides the store. Jamey Lionette and William Saletan have analyzed and questioned the origins of where our food comes from and what our food is. In the article “Please don’t feed the people”‚ William Saletan confronts the shifts in the human race in the increase of obesity as well as constructing an idea of how we became “unhealthy”. Jamey Lionette created “We Are What We Eat”‚ to examine
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: Summary to “Your Trusted Friends” by Eric Schlosser. Eric Schlosser‚ an investigative journalist best known for his book “Fast Food Nation” from where the piece “Your trusted friends” is taken describes few types of marketing strategies implemented by Walt Disney and Mc Donald’s corporations. Throughout the text Schlosser is drawing parallels between Walt Disney’s and Ray A. Kroc’s business practices. What they both had in common‚ as being friends and children of the
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With countless diets hitting the market each day‚ it can become impossible to know the best route in order to properly fulfill our nutritional needs without wreaking havoc to the world around us. The philosophical book The Ethics of What We Eat by Singer and Mason explores the lasting impact our dietary preferences pose on humans‚ animals‚ and the environment‚ as they offer suggestions on how to improve our ecological footprint through our choices. A lasting theme of the book puts a light on the
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