Analysis Of Too Much Of A Good Thing By Greg Critser

Comparative Critique
Jamie Oliver tells us that obesity is the leading cause of death in America and Greg Critser tells us that obesity is getting so bad that the United Nations are meeting to discuss the issue. Obesity is a serious issue. “I went to the eye of the storm. I went to West Virginia, the most unhealthy state in America” (Oliver 3:27). In Jamie Oliver’s Teach Every Child about Food, Oliver sums up his experiences of helping obese families to give solutions to help cure obesity. In comparison to Oliver’s piece, Greg Critser has published an article titled, “Too Much of a Good Thing”. In this piece, Critser analyzes some current health issues to show how America has become obese. While both authors address how obesity in America

In Critser’s “Too Much of a Good Thing”, he argues that children are obese because they are told to eat unhealthy units of food by their parents. Critser believes that teaching the parents to feed children better is the best strategy while Jamie Oliver might have a different solution to the same problem. Oliver’s approach is more involved with the kids. Oliver went to Huntington West Virginia and helped the community become healthier. He sees that this can be done anywhere because he helped to unhealthiest place in the United States. To relate to the different authors, in a school system, Critser is an administrator that sits in his office and theorizes solutions for the problem at hand. While the administrator does care about the school and tries to help it, the teachers are there to help the future generations by constructing courses that are fitted to the children. Oliver represents the teachers because he goes to kids and families to teach them how to live better lives while Critser designs theoretically perfect proposals to cure

Critser talks about how the US is fighting obesity but, “the most important foot soldiers against obesity are increasingly paralyzed by years of media induced food hysteria” (Critser 161). This means that no matter how much the US tries to be healthy, the enormous media prevails to broadcast large corporation fast food restaurants. This runs completely parallel with Oliver’s claim that obesity is benefiting from the media. Oliver says that, “Fast food has taken over the whole country: we know that. The big brands are some of the most important powers, powerful powers, in this country” (Oliver 6:18). They make the exact same claim which just shows the severity of the media controlling what goes into peoples’ mouths. This evidence puts Oliver and Critser in the same world with the same problems, they just have to help people live healthier lives by decreasing