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0618593942 Editorial Reviews\n\nFrom School Library Journal\nGrade 7 Up An important addition to most libraries. Useful for health classes and nutrition units, it will also be an ... eye-opener for general readers who regularly indulge at the Golden Arches. An adaptation of Schlosser's Fast Food Nation (Houghton, 2001), Chew on This covers the history of the fast-food industry and delves into the agribusiness and animal husbandry methods that support it. From the 37-day life of the pre-McNugget chicken to the appallingly inhumane conditions of slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants, the author lays out the gruesome details behind the tasty burgers and sandwiches. Equally disturbing is his revelation of the way that the fast-food giants have studied childhood behavior and geared their commercials and free toy inclusions to hook the youngest consumers. The text is written in a lively, lay-out-the-facts manner. Occasional photographs add bits of visual interest, but the emphasis here is on the truth about soda pop and obes ... Read more Show Less

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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 ...

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Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

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This book needs to be in every library. It is a revealing look at the fast food industry and its effect on the health of our children. The chapters on the meat industry alone will likely keep anyone who reads it out of fast food restaurants forever. The impact of sugary soft drinks and the gigantic servings has increased obesity across all ages, and especially affected our children. Fast food hasn't only influenced the American diet, but has spread to cities around the world. What is really frightening is that Americans spend more money on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, and recorded music combined. It is statistics like this that may influence YA readers to become healthier eaters, but it's the grossness of the chapters on livestock and chicken raising and slaughtering that may actually get them to change their habits. Parents and teachers will appreciate the extensive notes and index, but what is especially useful are the discussion questions and activities recommended for different classes—English, social studies, math, science—and action steps students can take. The two journalists who've written this book (adapted and updated from Schlosser's Fast Food Nation) have done an excellent job researching their subject. They are especially good at persuading the reader to take what they say seriously without boring them.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780618593941
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 4/23/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 318
  • Sales rank: 58,582
  • Age range: 12 years
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Eric Schlosser has been a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and The New Yorker. He has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting. In 1998 Schlosser wrote an investigative piece on the fast food industry for Rolling Stone. What began as a two-part article for the magazine turned into a groundbreaking book: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001). The book helped to change the way that Americans think about what they eat. Fast Food Nation was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than two years, as well as on bestseller lists in Canada, Great Britain, and Japan. It has been translated into more than twenty languages. Schlosser's second book, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (2003), explored the nation's growing underground economy. It also became a New York Times bestseller. In 2003, Schlosser's first play, Americans, was produced at the Arcola Theatre in London. Hoping to counter the enormous amount of fast food marketing aimed at children, Schlosser decided to write a book that would help young people understand where their food comes from, how it's made, how it affects society, and how it can harm their health. Co-written with Charles Wilson, Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food became a New York Times bestseller in the spring of 2006. Later that year, Fox Searchlight Pictures released a major motion picture based on Fast Food Nation, directed by Richard Linklater and co-written with Schlosser. "It's a mirror and a portrait," the New York Times said of the film, "as necessary and nourishing as your next meal." Schlosser is currently at work on a book about America's prison system.

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Pull open the glass door and feel the rush of cool air. Step inside. Look at the backlit color pictures of food above the counter, look at the cardboard ads for the latest Disney movie, get in line, and place your order. Hand over some money. Put the change back in your pocket. Watch teenagers in blue-and- gold uniforms busy working in the kitchen. Moments later, grab the plastic tray with your food, find an empty table, and sit down. Unwrap the burger, squirt ketchup on the fries, stick the plastic straw through the hole in the lid of your drink. Pick up the burger and dig in.
The whole experience of eating at a fast-food restaurant has become so familiar, so routine, that we take it for granted. It has become just another habit, like brushing your teeth before bed. We do it without even thinking about it—and that’s the problem.
Every day about one out of fourteen Americans eats at a McDonald’s. Every month about nine out of ten American children visit one. McDonald’s has become the most popular fast-food chain in the world—and by far the most powerful. In 1968 there were about 1,000 McDonald’s restaurants, all of them in the United States. Now there are more than 31,000 McDonald’s, selling Happy Meals in 120 countries, from Istanbul, Turkey, to Papeete, Tahiti. In the United States, McDonald’s buys more processed beef, chicken, pork, apples, and potatoes than any other company. It spends more money on advertising and marketing than any other company that sells food. As a result, it is America’s most famous food brand. The impact of McDonald’s on the way we live today is truly mind-boggling. The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
Despite McDonald’s fame and all the money it spends on advertising, every day the vast majority of its customers don’t plan to eat there. Most fast-food visits are impulsive. The decision to buy fast food is usually made at the last minute, without much thought. People generally don’t leave the house in the morning saying, “I’m going to make sure to eat some fast food today.” Most of the time, they’re just walking down the sidewalk or driving down the road, not thinking about anything in particular. Maybe they’re hungry; maybe they’re not. Maybe they’re in a hurry and don’t have time to cook. And then they see a great big fast-food sign—the Golden Arches, the red-and-blue of a Domino’s pizza box, the picture of Colonel Sanders—and they suddenly think, “Hey, I want some of that.” So they stop to eat fast food. They do it because they feel like it. They just can’t resist the impulse.
The point of this book is to take that strong impulse we all feel—our hunger for sweet, salty, fatty fast foods—and make you think about it. Chew On This will tell you where fast food comes from, who makes it, what’s in it, and what happens when you eat it. This is a book about fast food and the world it has made.
Food is one of the most important things you’ll ever buy. And yet most people never bother to think about their food and where it comes from. People spend a lot more time worrying about what kind of blue jeans to wear, what kind of video games to play, what kind of computers to buy. They compare the different models and styles, they talk to friends about the various options, they read as much as they can before making a choice. But those purchases don’t really matter. When you get tired of old blue jeans, video games, and computers, you can just give them away or throw them out.
The food you eat enters your body and literally becomes part of you. It helps determine whether you’ll be short or tall, weak or strong, thin or fat. It helps determine whether you will enjoy a long, healthy life or die young. Food is of fundamental importance. So why is it that most people don’t think about fast food and don’t know much about it?
The simple answer is this: the companies that sell fast food don’t want you to think about it. They don’t want you to know where it comes from and how it’s made. They just want you to buy it.
Have you ever seen a fast-food ad that shows the factories where French fries are made? Ever seen a fast-food ad that shows the slaughterhouses where cattle are turned into ground beef? Ever seen an ad that tells you what’s really in your fast-food milk shake and why some strange-sounding chemicals make it taste so good? Ever seen an ad that shows overweight, unhealthy kids stuffing their faces with greasy fries at a fast-food restaurant? You probably haven’t. But you’ve probably seen a lot of fast-food commercials that show thin, happy children having a lot of fun.
People have been eating since the beginning of time. But they’ve only been eating Chicken McNuggets since 1983. Fast food is a recent invention. During the past thirty years, fast food has spread from the United States to every corner of the globe. A busssssiness that began with a handful of little hot dog and hamburger stands in southern California now sells the all- American meal—a hamburger, French fries, and soda—just about everywhere. Fast food is now sold at restaurants and drive-throughs, at baseball stadiums, high schools, elementary schools, and universities, on cruise ships, trains, and airplanes, at Kmarts, Wal-Marts, and even the cafeterias of children’s hospitals. In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food. In 2005, they spent about $134 billion on fast food. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on college education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, and recorded music—combined.
Fast food may look like the sort of food people have always eaten, but it’s different. It’s not the kind of food you can make in your kitchen from scratch. Fast food is something radically new. Indeed, the food we eat has changed more during the past thirty years than during the previous thirty thousand years.
In the pages that follow, you’ll learn how the fast-food business got started. You’ll learn how the fast-food chains try to get kids into their restaurants, how they treat kids working in their kitchens, how they make their food. And you’ll learn what can happen when you eat too much of it. These are things you really need to know. Why? Because fast food is heavily advertised to kids and often prepared by workers who are kids themselves. This is an industry that both feeds and feeds off the young.
For the most part, fast food tastes pretty good. That’s one of the main reasons people like to eat it. Fast food has been carefully designed to taste good. It’s also inexpensive and convenient. But the Happy Meals, two- for-one deals, and free refills of soda give a false sense of how much fast food actually costs. The real price never appears on the menu.
Hundreds of millions of people eat fast food every day without giving it much thought. They just unwrap their hamburgers and dig in. An hour or so later, when the burger’s all gone and the wrapper’s been tossed into the garbage, the whole meal has already been forgotten. Chew on this: people should know what lies beneath the shiny, happy surface of every fast-food restaurant. They should know what really lurks between those sesame seed buns. As the old saying goes: you are what you eat.

CHEW ON THIS: EVERYTHING YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FAST FOOD by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson. Copyright (c) 2006 by Eric Schlosser. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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  • Posted April 9, 2010

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    Think Before You Chew

    McDonald's has become the most powerful, popular, and potent fast food chain in the world. Their ubiquitous symbol, the golden arches, is now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. McDonald's spends more money on advertising and marketing than any other brand of food to ensure than each and every American (especially small children) not only recognize the golden arches, but also associate them with clean, cheap, convenient food and skinny, laughter-filled, satisfied eaters. Food is the most common and important thing we ever purchase, but most people never think (literally) about what they buy to put in their mouths. How many diet plans include ways to avoid "mindless eating"? The food we eat plainly becomes part of us as soon as it enters our bodies so why is it that we don't know much about it-especially when it comes to fast food? Why is it that parents meticulously worry and think about every aspect of their child's life except what they are buying them for dinner after the little league baseball game?

    Eric Schlosser believes that when it comes to fast-food, there is a simple answer, "the companies that sell fast food don't want you to think about it. They don't want to know where it comes from or how it's made. They just want you to buy it" (3). His purpose for writing this book is to have open and honest documentation of the where's, how's and when's of fast food so that younger consumers (Chew on This is geared toward a younger audience whereas Fast Food Nation toward adults) can make educated food choices and know exactly what they are putting in their bodies. The answers aren't pretty, but they are painstakingly researched and written in an interesting, "gross-young-readers-out" style that will leave you wishing this book were in the fiction section.
    "Ewww don't tell me, I don't want to know!" so says most fast food eaters when Chew on This or Fast Food Nation is mentioned. But, how many of those "not-want-to-knowers" would say those same words when a doctor was getting ready to explain what he was injecting into them or their child? Americans expect, and even demand, to be informed about almost every aspect of their lives from the new government health care proposal to every minuscule mineral in their child's Fred Flintstone Vitamin. Parents have the ability to keep in contact with their teenager at any given time via texting, calling, skyping, emailing, facebooking, myspacing, chatting, etc.-they even have the ability to trace the exact location of their child through a mobile GPS device. However, if the quadrants showed their teenager pulling into the local McDonald's, they would be oblivious to real physical safety of their equally unaware, still-growing and developing child. Chew on This will open your eyes and close your mouth to your daily fast food fix. Even though you might not want to know, the truth is that you need to know. Then, like in all other aspects of our lives, make an informed decision about eating that next box of "chicken" McNuggets or feeding them morsel by greasy, edible pasted, fried, frozen, reheated, hormoned, morsel to your child while she distractedly walks her latest Disney figurine across the porous playground table top.

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  • Posted March 13, 2010

    Something to think about

    This book definately gives you something to think about before you eat your next fast food meal or put something in your grocery cart. The content of the book is centered around foods that you would typically encounter in the fast food industry including the potatoes and beef, but many of the things you learn about fast food roll over into the food production industry as well.
    The book opens with the history of fast food and that in itself is an interesting section. It is interesting how fast food developed from drive ins that used real silverware and glasses with carhops to a walk up restaurant that is what we are familiar with today. It is also interesting to see the development of McDonald's alongside Disney World. It was also interesting to see how the original owners of McDonalds ended up losing out when they sold the rights to their idea.
    It is amazing how that one restaurant has shaped the modern food industry and turned into a manufacturing machine that doesn't consider the animals it produces or the people who work hard to make the food we eat. It is also an eye opening look at the amount of control just a few business have on our food and the influence they have on Congress.
    The book is well written and doesn't get bogged down in facts, but has the research and data to back up the message. I suggest it for anyone who eats out on a regular basis or for the person who does the lion's share of grocery shopping for a household.

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  • Posted January 19, 2010

    A Fast Food Nation

    This book is all about fast-food and how it has changed our history and economy throughout time. If you are interested in finding about the truth of fast-food, such as where it comes from, and what is really in it, then you will find this book very intriguing. I couldn't stop reading. I highly recommend it.

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  • Posted January 19, 2009

    Chew on This - RRMCeng4-4

    "Chew on This" is an eye-opener into the world of fast food. As Schlosser promises, he showed me everything I did not want to know about fast food. The book made me look at my own dining habits, and then showed me why I should reform them. What I enjoyed about the book was that it had a great flow, from page to page, chapter to chapter, and that Schlosser didn't brutally slant the information he gave with his own feelings. Of course, his negative feelings toward fast food industries were evident in the pages, but the book seemed to present the information, and allowed me to make up my own mind on whether eating (literally) crap was something I should continue to do. I also liked that "Chew on This" was edgy enough to make me pay attention, but not too disgusting to make me put the book down. Schlosser does a great job of revealing the aspects of fast food I had never considered or questioned, like its roots, brutal effects on Native Americans, or the number of chemicals in one ingredient of a milk shake. I definitely recommend this book to anybody looking to become informed about what they are eating every time they step under the golden arches.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 26, 2012

    Amazing!

    We read this in my English class and it is phenomenal everyone in the class loved it. I would recomend it to all ages

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  • Posted December 1, 2011

    Highly Recommended!

    In the bestselling book, ¿Chew On This,¿ authors Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unmask what really lies in the fast food industry- secrets that many restaurant chains wish not to reveal. This book highlights different aspects of fast food, such as its history, the way it attracts children, the way fries are made, the negative effects of soda, the way animals are turned into meat at slaughterhouses, the customers, and the expansion of different restaurant chains. While sharing stunning facts about the fast food, Schlosser and Wilson intend on creating awareness in people and to persuade ordinary citizens to put less money (and therefore power) into the fast food industry. I liked it how the authors did great research and used great word choice, as well as provide real-life examples as to how fast food affected everyday people. However, I disliked it when the writers used McDonald¿s as a prime example; there were probably many other restaurants that had the same issue, and the authors could have been a little more specific and provide evidence that all of fast food has its issues. ¿Chew on This¿ is a great novel for any given person to read, because a lot of people are unaware exactly how many negatives fast food has. Overall, this is a great book to read because it reveals how fast food industries go about doing their business, and the many dangers that lie within it.

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  • Posted April 26, 2010

    This book is great!

    Ever wanted to know what really goes on with your fast food? If so, jump right on in Chew on This. There are so many fantastic and interesting facts in the book, starting with some interesting ones on the first page. Like, for instance, did you know that every 1 in 3 toy given to a child everyday is from a kids meal? This book gives you an inside look on where your food is and how it's treated before you bite in. But, it's not all bad news that makes you want to run away from fast food resteraunts, there's also the history of the hamburger and of many fast food joints you know and love today. This book is one everyone who likes a good read and a good meal should read.

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  • Posted October 27, 2009

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    This book shares everything you should know about fast food and how it affects your body.

    When you walk into a fast food restaurant you're probably thinking about what to order. What's the best thing on the menu? Something that most people don't stop and think about is where the meat and other products come from. Or how many calories are in a cheeseburger and fries. In Chew On This, by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson, you will learn everything you need to know about fast food restaurants.
    Chew On This brings you a behind-the-scene look of fast food restaurants and the lives of the cows that they cook. It will teach you who and how the first cheeseburger was invented.
    As the chapters go on you will learn the way the burgers and greasy food affects the body and how it may cause serious health issues. Schlosser and Wilson did their research well, and reading this book will make you think twice before stepping into a fast food restaurant.
    I really enjoyed this informational book about fast food. There is so much that the average person can learn from this book. The authors even use real life stories about people that developed health problems, and how they are trying to recover. After reading this book you will walk away with a different perspective on fast food, and i strongly recommend it.

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  • Posted October 17, 2009

    this is a great book!

    I am 12 years old, and I recently read this book. It tells you so much about the importance of a healthy diet, and why fast food is so awful! It prompted me to think about what some kids at my middle school are really eating when the buy lunch at school. i don't eat school lunch, but my friend does. It consists of tater-tots, a hamburger, and sometimes a pizza. I think this book should be required reading for all children. I really, really, really encourage you to buy this book. Trust me-you'll be glad you did when you see all the ways you could greatly improve you diet!

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  • Posted February 26, 2009

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    Best book ever

    Gross, disgusting, and stinking. All through Chew On This these three words come to mind. That is until you find the drink section.

    Would you like a burger or maybe a soda? Both of these things are not what you think that they are. When you read Chew On This, you will find out why.

    Would you like to learn what medical conditions too much fast food can cause? Or maybe who invented the hamburger or why the hamburger was invented? All the answers can be found in the book.

    Probably when you are done with this book you will want to be a vegetarian or a vegan! Young readers will not be disappointed by Eric Schlosser's new book Chew on this, it is as good as some of his other good books.

    Chew On This will make you think how the fast food chains get away with all these gross things.

    Gross disgusting, and bad for you. Maybe look between the sesame buns next time you eat a hamburger.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 26, 2009

    Great for all ages

    i totally recomand Chew On This for all ages. it is an awesome book! i got it for Christmas and i started reading it, now i take it with me everyday when i go to school!!! Now i tell all my friends and family to read it, and tell them how bad fast food really is. This book is very educational for people who love nonfiction books. I recomand this book for anyone who loves fast food, it will show them what it will do to them and what they do to their animals!!! :(

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  • Posted December 4, 2008

    chew on this

    chew on this was a great book were i picked up a lot of useful information from. it taught me a little about the wasy that these big time ccorprations work, like where thay open up new stores, how they cut costs on their products, like when they make unsanitatry living conditions for these terminal animals. what they also do is make reeally low wages for these workers or employees, well thats just a little of what i picked up while reading chew on this, agreat book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 2, 2008

    Chew on This

    Chew on This was a great book. I learned so much about the food that I was choosing to eat. I definitly don't eat as much McDonalds compared to what I use to. The book was very enlightening to the effects that the fast-food industry has on the U.S. as well as other countries. I definitly think twice about what I eat now. I was fascinated by all the meat and animal horror stories and about how much I really didn't know about the food that I was eating. I would definitly recommend this book to a friend.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 18, 2008

    Sick To Their Stomachs

    Chew On This by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson explains how fast food is made, what¿s in it, and its effect on us and our environment. It helps tell us kids about what we are eating and how unhealthy it is for us. It also tells how the fast food companies market their products to get you to buy them. This book contains the whole history of fast food and how it has changed over the last 50 years. It describes how these companies affect the working and living conditions of people and animals. How unhealthy and gross is fast food really? Once you read this book you might want to eat somewhere else. I definitely would recommend this book to all kids, ages 10-14, so they know what they are eating. When kids find out that they are eating artificial flavors and colors made from harmful chemicals and bugs, they will be sick to their stomachs. They will also realize that fast-food is loaded with fat, sugar, and salt. Eating foods with these ingredients can cause many different health problems and is also causing overweight and obese children. I don¿t think fast food companies care about you. I think they only care about your money. This is a great book. Joey S. Grade 6. Ms. Kawatachi

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 29, 2008

    intresting book

    The book Chew On This, by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson, was about what fast food restarants do to their food, what they put in it, and how it is made. It is also about the start of fast food. The authors do a pretty good job of engaging the reader because they find tons of digusting, mesmerizing, facts about fast food and fast food restarants and interwind them with the base of the story to create a really intresting book. Something I like about the book is the fact that the authors found the truths about the food that most of us eat on a daily basis. A question I have about the book is that if the fast food restarants are so powerful and have a lot of money, why don't they just pay the people who know about this to keep quiet? (not that I mind ) The people who I think would like this book would be vegeterians, ranchers, and people who enjoy fast food. These people might benifet from reading this book because then they could see what ff restarants do and also what [not vegetarians] are eating.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 2, 2008

    great book

    Chew On This is about exploiting all of the things you thought you knew about fast food. There are really no main characters in the book because it talks about different things through the book. Another problem that Dr. Allgair finds in Yupik villages is called ¿baby bottle syndrome.¿ When mothers put soda or other sugary drinks in baby bottles, their children often fall asleep with the bottle in their mouth, creating a breeding ground for tooth decay. Baby bottle syndrome often causes the upper teeth to rot away into black nubs. This is a great book because it tells you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The only reason I wouldn¿t like the book is that it discouraged me from eating fast-food. This book is great for everyone older that 12 to read because anyone less that that would either not understand it or would get scared of ever eating fast food again. Additional information Title: Chew On This Name of author: Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson Name of publisher: Houghton Mifflin Number of pages: 264 Genre: nonfiction

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 22, 2008

    A reviewer

    Reading this book was truly a positive experience for me because I had always heard about how bad the fast food industries have become and now I know for myself. I can honestly say I have not eaten, and don't plan on eating fast food anymore when I can help it since the moment I started reading this book. The authors of this book were able to hold my interest throughout the book very well because of the way the authors organized the factual information. It wasn't just a long monotonous boring list of bad facts about the fast food restaurants, but actually a story being told aobut where they all started, what they have become, what happens in the factories, how the food is made, and what the 'innocent' food does to hurt your body. This book also kept me reading because of how shocking it all was. I never knew how these restaurants could be changing our nation for the worse, and how the citizens of the United States and all over the world don't even realize what they are contributing to. For this book, I don't think I would change one thing about it. I havn't read any other books on this topic before, but ever since my language arts teacher assigned this book to me, it's really changed the way I see fast food restaurants now. I recently drove by a Mcdonalds restaurant and saw the big gold arches that had a sign on it saying-famous hamburgers. Billions sold everyday. I thought to myself about how all of the people around the world who were giving their money to these restaurants at that exact moment and don't even realize how they could be damaging their bodies and their nation. I also liked the back of the book and how it had topic discussions for groups to read the book together, urging people to spread the word of the book and really discuss the problems together. I believe that if enough people read it and wanted to make a difference, we could be able to do so. I would definitely recommend this book to my friends, family, or anyone for that matter. This could really teach people and help make things better. I think people would be shocked to find out this information so I definitely think it would be good for whoever is reading this book review at the moment to actually read it and spread the word, to really make a difference.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 18, 2007

    Fast Food Can You Stand It!

    Is fast food bad? After reading the book Chew On This you would never ask that question again. The book Chew On This is based on a variety of concerns people have for fast food restaurants as well as some fast food historical moments. The book explains how the burger was created as well as who the owners of McDonalds were. Aside from these cool interesting facts there is the gross factor. The book details the diseases of the mouth and stomach fast food can cause and how the operations to fix them can be dangerous. The book also explains how the food is made and the inconsideration the fast food companies have for people¿s traditions of religion. I definitely recommend this book because it was phenomenal and is enjoyable. As I was reading this book I found it was like eating a burger, it was so gross yet I could not stop reading for it was so addicting. This book takes you with it as if you were on a tour at a factory. It shows you the pictures and clearly describes the unknown details. The book talks about the corporations involved with fast food, such as the frozen french-fry industry. This book evaluates service like a critic and gives clear examples how. One way it is like a critic is that they are pointing out the health concerns. Another is that they compare the fast food restaurants to each other. The book also has qualities such as interesting facts, like the longer you have been eating that tastes bad the less you notice. The book uses an example of two babies one who has had a disgusting formula since it was very little and one baby who is just trying it. The baby who has had it longer does not notice the bad taste. This book has many other interesting facts and qualities that can help people with their knowledge of what is good and bad for them. This book is fantastic and the quicker it is read the faster we get rid of fast food.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 15, 2007

    LOVED THIS BOOK

    I got this book a week after it came out and loved it. I think everyone teenager should read it. The stories at the end are the best! and very inspirational

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 28, 2007

    Awesome Book for Teens

    This book really changed my life. I used to eat fast food a lot but when ive read this book i promised myself that i will never eat in a fast food restaurant ever again. It really gives you an excellent insite on everything fast food. I highly recomend this book to teens.

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