Weintraub's Argument Analysis

All throughout America millions are suffering with many diseases that affect man of the obese people; obesity affects more than 35% of adults and more than 17% of children and each day that goes by more and more people have a chance of becoming obese. I read about Weintraub’s argument where he blames obesity on the parents, and that we shouldn’t blame fast-food companies nor the government. He thinks that parents should be held responsible for not teaching their children to exercise or eat healthy and that they let them sit around the t.v doing nothing. Weintraub’s argument that parents are completely to blame for their child’s obesity is true they should take responsibility but they aren’t the only ones to blame for this ongoing crisis, the others responsible for this crisis are food companies and the government.

I don’t agree that parents are completely to blame for their child’s obesity; but they should take some of the blame. They share some of the blame because they let their kids sit around doing nothing and they don’t take the time to actually cook healthy foods and prefer to just buy their kids fast food, and others don’t make them stay active and in shape. An article online that I was reading was saying “couch potato lifestyles, watching t.v, playing computer games and surfing

the internet are major factors” he meant to say that, that’s all that parents let their child’s do. Parents are the role models “kids learn from their parents, children often don’t eat fruits and vegetables because their parents don’t take the time to cook healthy meals for them”, if the parents don’t teach them about eating healthy at a young age then they might never learn. Studies have proved that parents do have some of the blame for their child’s obesity, this affects the children because if they don’t eat how they’re supposed to eat then soon it won’t be just about them being obese, this can lead to an even bigger problem, they can develop a health disease.
What would happen if food companies didn’t make their foods to expensive would that make a difference? I believe that it would make a tremendous amount of difference in everyone life and especially the child's. In some cases some parents do want to be feeding their child’s healthy foods but if you haven’t notice it’s all much more expensive, the parents don’t have the money to be buying a food or product that is twice as much as a regularly one. A woman being interviewed said “We pay more to get healthy and payless to get fat”, and this is very true we can pay a $1 for a hamburger at a fast food place compare that to like $10 for an organic healthy salad of course people are going to go for the cheaper one. Studies have proved that “the price of more healthy foods was consistently greater than that of less healthy foods” other people have noticed that healthier food is much more expensive. They have to realize that they complain about us becoming obese but what do they want us to do when part of the reason we are obese is because all the healthy food is expensive and the other food isn’t, but that food which is fast food is bad for us. It will continue to affect us because not all parents are financially stable to be buying expensive food and it will start to affect them because they will be buying food that will affect their children and even themselves.
What if the government paid more attention to everyday problems, what if he noticed that everyday things that are leading us to childhood obesity. The government does not give us healthy food at school they just give “highly processed foods, frozen food just heated up and fast food” and nowadays physical activity is becoming less and less important. I recently just found out that “5 out of 50 states still have mandatory p.e” that is making kids less active and there’s a high chance that they aren’t even being active at home and now with the schools not having p.e the risk of them becoming obese is getting higher. If they really don’t want kids becoming obese and want us to stay in shape then they should atleast make the p.e mandatory in all the countries to keep the children active and fix the school lunches and feed us more healthy food. If not this will continue to affect the children by feeding them unhealthy food and letting them stay out of shape.
Weintraub believes that parents should take total blame for their children’s obesity, but food companies and the government also share part of the blame.

The parents just let their children sit around and watch t.v and don’t take the time to cook them an actually healthy meal, food companies expect us to pay twice as more for a healthy product, when their is another product that we can buy for less money and, the government should change the food that we eat the school and reinforce the physical education at schools. This is what people don't understand: obesity is not a choice but it is a sign of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not

exercising