Argumentative Essay On Obesity

Obesity is an epidemic that’s affecting much of our society today, including children. According to the Center for Disease Control, more than one-third of American adults today are dealing with obesity. Obesity is more common amongst middle aged adults, because as you age your metabolism slows down, which helps you break down chemicals when you eat. When your metabolism slow down, this leads to chemicals being stored as fat, which leads to obesity. The disease also leads to other health risks; including hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Experts claim that obesity can be prevented by daily exercise of at least thirty minutes and a healthy diet. Contrary to what these experts think, even though it’s true a statement that we should

A great deal of people tend to believe it’s the government responsibility to help people fight obesity. In 2012, the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg took a huge step to help fight obesity and received a vast amount of criticism and some praise for doing so. Mayor Bloomberg pushed through a ban that prohibited the sale of sugary drinks above 16 ounces (Wall Street Journal). Many people felt as if the ban took away their freedom of choice, but the ban only prohibited the ban of sugary drinks over 16 ounces. In this case, people can buy as many sugary drinks as they want, but none of them will be over 16 ounces. Dr. Michael Tanner stated in the Wall Street Journal that “there should be no doubt that government policies contribute to the obesity epidemic in this country.” Government policies have contributed to the obesity epidemic in a few

A fair amount of people felt as if businesses/employers should take responsibility and even explained why they felt that way, while including ways businesses are trying to help. On the contrary, others felt as if businesses shouldn’t take responsibility, because they weren’t the cause of the obesity epidemic, the government was. The people who argued that the government was responsible for the obesity epidemic had one common reason as to why they are responsible, which were subsidies. There is no doubt that both factors have played a role in this epidemic, from government subsidies to employers making their employees work longer hours, in turn those employees rarely have time to prepare a healthy meal and exercise. As stated earlier, while these arguments do have valid points, I believe that it’s everybody’s responsibility to help fight this epidemic. Obesity is a very serious matter, in which we all have to come up with a solution to resolve it. Since the 1970’s the number of obese people in America has doubled, and continues to grow rapidly. So rather than saying it’s this person’s responsibility to help, we all need to lend a helping hand and defeat this problem. We as strong Americans can overcome this obesity epidemic, the question at hand is; can we all come together and accomplish this