should I blame Burger king or Wendy's for me being fat?

Question

in the news today "Chains refuse to put calories on menus "
Come On...everyone knows what's good and what's bad for him to eat...but we people like to blame others for everything bad we do.

Answer 1

You shouldn't blame either company for you being fat, it's your fault because you didn't get enough exercise, didn't drink regularly and never ate healthily. It could also be stress, depression, etc.

Answer 2

You are absolutey right. Most consumers have an idea about what is good and what is bad, but I think in the average lives of many people these lessons aren't reinforced very well. When most adults are badly overweight in the U.S., then what message does that send to the kids? That somehow that is okay. I think everyone, including fast food companies, need to participate in the reeducation campaign. We all suffer from this, even if we are doing our very best to take care of ourselves and our families.

I believe it was part of the food labelling law passed during the Clinton administration, but all fast food companies provided calorie and other nutritional information on their websites. They are not all easy to find (because the company would prefer you didn't), but they are there Here is the one for Burger King:
http://www.bk.com/#menu=3,-1,-1

On that page, click the link for "National Brochure". This will give you the option of downloading the PDF with all the usually label information, like calories, fat, cholesterol, etc.

Answer 3

I agree that people like to blame something/someone other than themselves for their problems. thats not going to change. people should take responsibility for their choices, food or otherwise.

However, I think that Im a pretty smart and conscious person. I had no idea that I was putting so many calories into my body each day just from going out to eat. I was younger and didnt think about it that much, but some of these places are just horrible. How can you consciously serve a meal thats 1600 calories! One meal! And that's definitely not the worst Ive seen. The restaurant industry needs to take some responsibility in the product they put out there and the education they put out there. And on top of that, knowing that one meal is equal to some people's calorie intake for the day, maybe they should stop selling everything to the impressionable youth. Do you know how many millions of dollars goes into finding out what kids want/desire and how to get them to force their parents to buy it. And last, we as people need to take responsibility to educate ourselves.

How bout we stop being a people of excess and start to open our eyes. and realize what we do impacts the world- as an industry as a whole and as individuals.

Answer 4

Blaming Burger King or Wendy's is nothing more than failure to accept responsibility for your own decisions and actions.
Once again, self-pity raises it's ugly head. Stop making bad decisions and EAT FRESH!

Answer 5

to answer your question: blame yourself!!!! it dont matter what type of number they put up on the menu's besides the prices like you indicated already we know that eating wendy's, burger king, & mcdonalds all the time cant be good for anybody not even me but i am skinny as hell (with a little thickness)

Answer 6

Haha, I like this. Yeah, as if fat people are suddenly going to say "Whoa! Holy cow! This triple bacon cheese, 1 1/2 lbs burger with blue cheese, fries and seasoned lard stuffed in it with my supersized milk shake made with with 99% Oreo Cookie Double Stuff cream and monster sized bowl of starchy double fried onion rings and cheesecake are fattening??? What the h*ll! I think I'll go eat a grilled chicken salad and have an apple for desert instead."

Not likely.

The US population of really fat people won't even get dinged if the fast food companies put signs on their wrappers like they have on cigarette packs. You could have signs that read "this will make you fat, and fat people are not attractive to fit people", or "if you eat this, you will cost tax payers a lot of money that they would rather spend on education", or "eating fatty foods negates the popular effects of beer, please eat responsably".

Oooowie, I crack me up!

Answer 7

It may not be on their menus, but you can get all that info online. And like you said, you know a milkshake probably isnt going to be nutritionally beneficial, especially compared to a salad. If people cared so much they'd skip the fast food and make a freaking meal at home.

Answer 8

Sure because they made you eat it in the first place. Customers these days know that 99% of all fast food is not good for you, so when you eat it you take your own risks. People do stupid things then look for someone to blame for what they did in the first place.

Answer 9

NO...that's called be an irresponsible moron. People should be responsible enough to know that eating too much of this crap will eventually kill you, know that guns aren't the problem it's people, etc..you get the point..but because people rather blame something else for their ills they blame objects. No wonder our country is going down hill.

Answer 10

No. No one makes anyone else eat at BK or Wendy's or anywhere else for that matter!

We are responsible for our own actions whether we like to admit it to ourselves or anyone else. There is enough media coverage about fast food being bad for you that people should know this by now. Of course, in today's society personal accountability counts for less and less. It seems no one is responsible for their own actions any more. It's a shame.