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Mariam Alrashed
Prof. Dylan Altman
English 113A
9 September 2014

1- Dont Blame the Eater, David Zinczenko.

In this article Zinczenko deplores how people are freeing them selves of
responsibilities towards what theyre eating by asking a rhetorical question Whatever
happened to personal responsibilities? in his article Dont Blame the Eater. He also used
pathos and ethos in his article by including his own experience with obesity when he reached
15 years old being reared by working parents and how junk food could be easily accessed not
like nutritious food. Zinczenko supported his opinion by mentioning some statistics about
how diabetes is becoming an issue in the states; the diabetes accounting has risen, which
would be represented as logos. Nevertheless, he points out the importance of education
towards our health, that even if food companies do stick a nutrition fact label on their product
most people will find it useless.
2- Being Fat is OK, Paul Campos.
Campos is being sarcastic towards the term overweight as he declares in his article
Being Fat is OK. (Jewish World Review, April 23, 2001. Campos, Paul) That is according to
the BMI he is overweight, BMI is somehow a reliable source to know your bodys fatness
but not for all human beings, this part goes under pathos section. Adding to that, he
mentioned that healthy-food companies are exploiting peoples needs that they put these
boundaries of weight and fat amounts and filling peoples heads with numbers in order to
memorize them and try to reach/keep a certain weight by using their healthy products,
while you could be healthy no matter how much you weigh. Quoting his quote the data

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linking overweight and death are limited, fragmentary, and often ambiguous. (Jewish World
Review, April 23, 2001. Campos, Paul) As it was published in the New England Journal of
Medicine by including this quotation in this article the author uses logos to support his
argument that weight is not related to neither health nor humans life span.
3- What You Eat is Your Business, Radly Balko.
Bringing government between you and your waistline. Said Balko, Radley in his
article What You Eat is Your Business. Government is interfering and trying to take action
in this obesity issue by mentioning that and the fact that schools have stopped junk-vending
machines to be on their property Balko used logos as an uphold to his argument. Also at that
time when he wrote this article in 2004 menu labeling as he mentioned was neither
enforced nor accepted by the congress while now it is in every restaurant menu. The writer
uses pathos to drag peoples emotions on the role of the government in this problem. Obesity
is considered as a personal responsibility unless government forces all people healthy or
not- to pay extra money on junk food or unhealthy food. Also, saying that restraining health
insurance companies to put extra charge on obese people or converting their health-related
money accounts to a retirement account indicates that he is using pathos to gain readers
attention.
4- Junking Junk Food, Judith Warner.
Warner is depending mostly on pathos in her article Junking Junk Food, thats
probably because shes aiming for some sympathy from parents who have children in
preschool who are feeling sad because of the unhealthy food banning and the governments
intervention on peoples diet. Also she includes logos for instance, the tobacco ads as Judith
mentioned in her article how they used to portray it as sexy and cool as she mentioned in
her ninth paragraph while now theyre trying their best to make people quit smoking.
Furthermore, there was a time where unhealthy food and overeating were very important

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especially in gatherings claiming that we must eat in order for our bodies to operate well until
it became a cultural thing. Warner also emphasizes the importance of education about
nutrition, healthy life and diet.

Citation

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Being Fat is OK (Jewish World Review, April 23, 2001, Campos, Paul)

Dont Blame the Eater (Zinczenko, David)

Junking Junk Food (Warner, Judith)

What You Eat is Your Business (May 23, 2004, Balko, Radley)