Blog 3.5 CATW#4

CATW #4

Luis palacio

Let Them Eat Fat

As I began to read an article called Let Them Eat Fat, it opened my eyes on the things we eat in our communities. People should just eat fat as the title of the article talks about, because what we are doing to ourselves is very bad. People should eat more home cook meals then fast food meals.

As I read the article written by Greg Critser I realized that what he said is so true. When he talks about how striving Americans target poor inner-city communities, and how one out of every four hamburgers sold by McDonalds is now being purchased by inner-city consumers who are mostly young black men. He also shows what is happening when we eat so much of the fast food meals with the total caloric content being pushed up pass the daily levels we should be on.

I feel that everyone should eat more home cook meals than fast food meals because it might be way healthier depending on what you’re cooking. At home you can cook more protein-rich food instead of it being protein-poor and fat-rich. You can save more money than you would if you cook meals at home because it will last for a couple of days. And that means less spending if you got something to eat with you.

You got to realize that what Greg Critser is saying is for your benefit. You shouldn’t eat so much fast food meals. And realize that we are being targeted because of our need for cheap meals outside the home. Growing up being in the same situation I fully understand why we buy fast food because that’s all we can buy at times. But if you’re going to be subject into eating these fatty foods at least make a stand and fight for these fast food restaurants to make healthier food.

Reading this article made me more aware of what I should be eating, especially the last sentence of it when Critser said “the fact that the easy availability of these huge meals arrives in the same years in which physical activity among teenage boys and girls drop about half”. That sentence right there made me recall a show I watched a long time ago. About a man that ate McDonalds 30 days straight to show people what the effects are when eating so much fast food. When he began this little project of his to show the world the effect it was amazing. If I’m not mistaken he gain 40 pound in just one month of eating McDonalds. He showed us the proof we needed to believe it really was a problem. Teenage boys and girls should be physically active in school and home but instead they are just eating fat.

To conclude I feel that we need to focus on eating healthier cooked meals than what we get at these fast food restaurants. We should realize the fact that if we are in these inner-city communities what is going on around us and how it affects us. And as Greg Critser said “suffice it to say that consumption of said meals is fast and, in almost every instance I observe, very complete.” We still should focus on eating complete meals that are healthy and not protein-poor but fat and carbohydrate-rich.