Author Daniel Weintraub’s article “The Battle against Fast Food Begins in the Home,” states that parents are the ones to blame for America’s obesity problem, not companies and not the government. Weintraub said, “It’s time to get parents to take some responsibility to protect their children from unhealthy foods and lack of exercise.

Parents are not the ones to blame but fast food companies are. They are the ones that tempt teenagers to eat food that the teenagers are unaware of what the ingredients is. If teenagers do not know the dangerous than they only think about the taste.

McDonalds hamburgers and other fast food products are cheap, big and delicious. Due to these cheap prices and great interest, “Many school districts are facing budget shortfalls, and a quick solution has come from offering more profitable fast food from outlets like McDonald’s, KFC, and Pizza Hut,” states author, David Barboza, in the article “If You Pitch It, They Will Eat.”

Parents are not in control of what their children have for lunch. They do not know where the school is receiving their childres food from.

MHS is an example of a school that sells fast food, as we all know Chick-fil-A is available to us in the morning.

At this age most teenagers do not understand the consequences of something until it is done. The fast food companies have the responsibility to stop addictions to their fast foods that they are producing, not parents. The role of parents, I agree, is to encourage them to exercise but not tell them what not to eat.