Word: critser
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Fast food restaurants are his most visible creators and sustainers of America’s dodgeball targets. A serving of McDonald’s French fries, for example, has gone from 200 calories in 1960 to 610 calories today. Critser says that the Del Taco Macho meal weighs in at four pounds. Schools have indulged in opportunities to outsource cafeteria lunches to fast food giants, which in turn fill hungry students with several hundred more calories than a traditional school lunch. Two factors are at work—Americans’ obsessions with largeness and value. Even in a society...
...more-for-less phenomenon is amplified for poorer families, a group which feels the devastating effects of obesity most acutely. Critser argues that the poor still believe that “scarcity [is] just around the corner...
Confronting the impact of eating disorders on obesity research, public policy and societal attitudes toward fatness, Critser dismisses research claiming that parents fear that their children will acquire body image issues if they discuss weight problems. He quotes Judith Stern, a professor of nutrition at the University of California at Davis, who argues that “the number of kids with eating disorders is positively dwarfed by the numbers with obesity...
...real problem” when compared with obesity, Critser’s approach to the issue seems unsympathetic and harshly dismissive. He argues that fears of poor body image and anorexia have been sensationalized by the media and adopted by concerned parents, who Critser suggests might have been the last picked in dodgeball themselves. The bottom line for Critser is that the “anorexia argument” is one more way Americans condone obesity...
...tax” on Double-Stuffed Oreos and Doritos? What about parents? Will they ensure that five year-old Johnny will not Supersize his Mountain Dew, and that “would you like fries with that?” is not commonplace dinner discourse? For Critser, the element of self-control and discipline is perhaps the hardest factor for Americans to digest. Will we encourage ourselves to run that marathon or are we content to watch the eight-hour Simpsons marathon on TBS? Obesity is a national crisis, but it also bears likeness to a game of dodgeball?...