Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food Author: Charles Wilson | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BE64WTE | Format: EPUB
Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food Description
In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants—and what lurks between those sesame seed buns.
Praised for being accessible, honest, humorous, fascinating, and alarming, Chew On This was also repeatedly referred to as a must-read for kids who regularly eat fast food. Having all the facts about fast food helps young people make healthy decisions about what they eat. Chew On This shows them that they can change the world by changing what they eat.
Chew on This also includes action steps, a discussion guide, and a new afterword by the authors.
- File Size: 3147 KB
- Print Length: 316 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0618710310
- Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (February 26, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BE64WTE
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,887 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #5
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Personal Health - #15
in Books > Children's Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Health > Diet & Nutrition - #20
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Social Issues
- #5
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Personal Health - #15
in Books > Children's Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Health > Diet & Nutrition - #20
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Social Issues
I really like this book. I bought it (even though it's geared more to kids) because I am a fan of Fast Food Nation (can't wait till the movie comes out) and wanted to hear what he had to say this time around.
He's targeted 9-15 year olds mainly because American kids are so unhealthy and out of shape - he wanted to not tell them what not to eat, but in fact enlighten them about what they are actually eating. Because the stats are so high for being obese at age 35 if you were obese at 13, he wants to try to stop kids getting obese by age 13 in the first place.
He takes shots at the soda industry as well as fast food restaurants. There is a chapter dedicated to the sodas making kids fat/unhealthy.
1 out of 3 toys in America come from fast food restaurants he states, showing the 'marketing skills' of these chains to lure kids to want to eat there.
Chew On This is really designed to make people (especially the kids) aware of what they are buying and eating and awareness is key to the choices you make.
I loved this book. It's eye opening and interesting and does in fact make you chew on his thoughts. I think he's done a great job here. I hope this message sinks in to kids heads and make them reconsider what they would rather eat.
By Little Miss Cutey
Personally I think the authors book Fast Food Nation is better, even for kids ages ten and up, since kids can handle the contents which hold your attention.
The chapter on soda pop interesting since it spoke of Glennallen Alaska and other areas in Alaska where most kids have lost teeth or have rotting teeth because of beverage companies pushing Pepsi, Coke etc.
Also interesting was page 121 and the chapter titled The Bugs In Your Candy which is about color additives in processed foods like cochineal extract also known as carmine or carminic acid which is made from dead bodies of small bugs harvested mainly in Peru and the Canary Islands. The author notes these 'little bugs are collected, dried and ground into coloring additive which makes processed foods look pink, red or purple. Dannon yogurt gets its color from camine, as do many candies, frozen fruit bars, fruit fillings, and Ocean Spray pink grapefruit juice drink'.
This is especially troubling to those of us who strive to not eat animals of any kind. Being vegetarian or vegan to me means NO animal meat, bodies etc, and I detest companies who sneak animal bodies into food one should assume are safe.
So just remember this book is geared to young people, while I think his other book Fast Food Nation is geared to all ages.
By Beth DeRoos
HALL OF FAME TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE VOICE
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