Blog 16

                        Let Them Eat Fat

According to Greg Critser in the article “Let Them Eat Fat”, nutritionist and dietitians have been worried about the companies which sell fast food because they are selling unhealthy items especially in the poor areas where people with low income are living. Due to the economic situation, Cristser mentioned that those people from these poor areas are looking for food that represent low prices and more quantities like items offered in fast food stores where the food contains more fatness and less nutrition.

I agree with the author statement. Fast food companies are in competition against each other and care on the group of business and try increasing the profits. They don’t put their attention on customer nutrition or health as they mention in some advertisements.

Nowadays like the author Crister mentioned in the world of the fast food companies increase the size of the meals to satisfy the need of cheap meals for customers. Obviously the super sized meals are increasing calories and also adding more fat and more sugar in the beverages, even more fast food companies are not thinking how those changes are affecting at the customers health and nutrition. Those kind of food are convenient for the companies because the cost of production is more cheap, but less healthy for consumers.

For example, some statistics published from the Consumer Report Department mentioned that kids at the age of 10 need healthy meals and more nutrients in order to grow up healthy, but in the meantime at this age, 80% of kids love meals from Mc Donald’s or Burger King. Those fast food meals contain double the calories and fat than the daily diet recommended by nutritionist and dietitians. Therefore, the result in the obesity of the kids and teenagers is because they consume twice more than the regular diet that kids at these ages need. Furthermore visits at the doctor’s office were increased due to symptoms or sickness of the stomach pain, also for high levels of sugar on the teenager system and the most relevant condition kids with obesity. Subsequently these results were concern at the Health Department and other Institutions of the Government and recommend that fast food companies publish and print labels in each meal with the components and percent of each ingredient.

In conclusion the Government has to take properly care on these kind of business, they have to have more control, work close with fast food companies, and apply strong sanction make it especially low to control the quality of the food because it is not enough to publish simple labels with some information. These companies are not taking care properly on the quality of the food neither the responsibility that they should have with customers on health and nutrition. Also parents are the most important part on the nutrition because they are the ones who decide what items have to be including on kids nutrition.