Title: Should fast food be blamed for obesity? by Elizabeth Bugbey
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Claim: People's choices about exercise and their eating habits should be blamed for obesity, not fast food.
Elizabeth Bugbey
Period 5
January 8, 2013
should fast food be blamed for obesity?
Ethical Appeals About How Fast Food Shouldn't Be Blamed for Obesity
-Even though there are fast food restaurants where we live (McDonald's and Chick-fil-A), no one in this room is obese.
Why? Because...
-We exercise self control.
-We demonstrate an ability to balance the number of calories we consume and burn.
-We walk to class instead of using scooters, and try to avoid eating in excess.
-We do this because we recognize the value of good health and the negative aspects of obesity.
Our attitudes and habits are to blame... not the food!
Logical Appeals About How Fast Food Shouldn't Be Blamed for Obesity
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Rebuttal: Obese people make the choice to eat fast food, they are not forced to.
Emotional Appeals About How Fast Food Shouldn't Be Blamed for Obesity
Concession: fast food meals have extremely high amounts of calories, often equivalent to a 2,000 calories/day diet.
Counterargument: Fast food should be blamed for obesity.

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Claim: People's choices about exercise and their eating habits should be blamed for obesity, not fast food. (fattylanes)
Elizabeth Bugbey
Period 5
January 8, 2013
(Elizabeth M. Whelan)
("wallefatties")
("Overweight-People-Are-Perceived-as-Lazy-2")
("fast-food-tattoos")
should fast food be blamed for obesity? Ethical Appeals About How Fast Food Shouldn't Be Blamed for Obesity
-This article from the NYTimes suggests that obesity should not be blamed on the number fast food restaurants around people, nor on the availability of healthier food options. -The choice made by overweight people to eat more food than necessary and food that's not good for them is to blame for their obesity. -In this Forbes article, the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) agrees that fast food is not to blame for obesity. -The blame goes on the people for taking in more calories than they burn - it doesn't matter if it's fast food or not. -The lack of self control among overweight people causes them to be that way.