Blog 16

Let Them Eat Fat

In “Let Them Eat Fat” Greg Critser, the author states that fast-food has been criticized by specialists who responsible for nutrition. Nevertheless, the fast-food restaurants continue their existence. Moreover, they appear more in poor communities, and offer to their costumers extra meal for free by “supersizing.” The author explains to us how the body gets a metabolism after eating fast-food every day. Also, how dangerous it is for teenagers because they get more than twice the calories that they need. I believe that Greg Critser is right that fast-food restaurants allow their customers to eat fat because they seduce them with “supersizing” meal, and increasing calories in the body destroys metabolism that make body to be dependent on fast-food.

Fast-food restaurants chains is business organization that wants only to earn a lot of money. They don’t care about their customers. Obviously, they started to propose “supersizing” even after numerous critical articles about fast-food. “Supersizing” is a seductive product especially for poor people because according the G. Critser “…the supersize is free.” Once, one homeless man told me that he knew what the result would be after eating fast-food, but that he doesn’t have a choice because he doesn’t have enough money. Also, he feels full when he eats a ‘supersize” meal. This show us that fast-food meal occupies at first, people with low income, so their company try to grow in poor communities.

Almost all people know that fast-food is not healthy food. We can see it from “Supersize me,” from articles, or from scholars studies. If we would eat fast-food every day we can get metabolic disease that destroy whole our body. I read about one research that took place in one of the New-York school. Nearby that school a fast-food restaurant was located for few years. Those students were investigated by medical specialists. After two years they compared how students’ healths were changed, and so numerous students were discovered with some different diseases compared to students from other schools. This example said us that fast-food companies also want to hit another layer of society, our children.

Some of additives that contain in fast-food may make people addicted to fast-food like drug or cigarette addiction. People who always eat fat, high-calorie and unhealthy food at soon can discover that them so difficult to refuse of these meals. The brains of those people require the fat food, or other case appears negative emotions when they eat food that dissatisfies them. For instance, one of my daughter’s friends loves to eat fast and junk food all the time. Every time she craves to eat them, and she can’t stop eating this food. I can say that she became addicted. This summer I sent my daughter at a camp with that her friend. I was surprised when I saw how many boxes with junk food were sent by her parents. I couldn’t keep my curiosity and I expressed my surprising by question. Whereat, her parents answered that she doesn’t eat any food besides fast and junk food.

In brief, fast-food companies don’t think and care about healthy their customers. Therefore, it’s up to us. We have to think what we do and what we eat. Fast food, like drug and cigarette addiction, and we have to fight with these “enemies” our health.