Summary: According to Mary Elizabeth Williams, cheaper stuff is getting dangerous for our lives. It seems really good to pay very less for something, but after using it for a while we throw it away in the trash and go for a new one,even its working, because it looks old or a new model has arrived in the market for a less price and the marketing companies convince people that they need to buy something new.
Thesis: Author is explaining that the cheaper things are getting bad for our lives. But why.?
Reason: Because it is becoming harmful for our environment.
Example: One of my friend threw his old watches and some electronic stuff, which was 80% made of plastic, in trash and than it was all burned. This burning of all that trash, carrying plastic, was polluting the atmosphere.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Blog # 11 Let Them Eat Fat
IN " LET THEM EAT FAT ",Crister explains that all the fast food and national restaurant chains have grown very rapidly in poor communities.There is a supersizing sales gimmick that enlarges the order of a person's meal to double.This trend is getting very common and causing the caloric content of the meal rise up from about 680 clories to more than 1340 calories.
I never realized that fast food chains are becoming so much popular in poor communities and their increasing need for cheap meals outside the home.In the paragaraph,Greg Crister explains that the sales gimmick known as "SUPER SIZING" starts at 5 PM when various workers of poor communities get off from work and head for a quick meal to the fast food restaurants where they are cheerfully encouraged to Super-size their meal for some extra pennies. As quoted in the paragraph :"the fast restaurants have signs saying , If we don't recommend a supersize,the supersize is free!" A supersize meal order becomes the twice of the size regular meal.
These supersizing meals seem very cheap and very attractive to everyone and specially to the poor people.But these meals have very dangerous effect on health and has increased the huge amount of caloric content of 680 calories to 1340 calories per meal. According to the passage " U.S dietary guidelines,1340 calories respresent more than half of a teenager's recommended daily caloric consumption and the added calories themselves are protien-poor but fat and carbohydrates-rich" . These huge caloric meals have a easy availibility and they cause the physical activity become more less or about half among the teenage boys and girls.
I never realized that fast food chains are becoming so much popular in poor communities and their increasing need for cheap meals outside the home.In the paragaraph,Greg Crister explains that the sales gimmick known as "SUPER SIZING" starts at 5 PM when various workers of poor communities get off from work and head for a quick meal to the fast food restaurants where they are cheerfully encouraged to Super-size their meal for some extra pennies. As quoted in the paragraph :"the fast restaurants have signs saying , If we don't recommend a supersize,the supersize is free!" A supersize meal order becomes the twice of the size regular meal.
These supersizing meals seem very cheap and very attractive to everyone and specially to the poor people.But these meals have very dangerous effect on health and has increased the huge amount of caloric content of 680 calories to 1340 calories per meal. According to the passage " U.S dietary guidelines,1340 calories respresent more than half of a teenager's recommended daily caloric consumption and the added calories themselves are protien-poor but fat and carbohydrates-rich" . These huge caloric meals have a easy availibility and they cause the physical activity become more less or about half among the teenage boys and girls.
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