In the article “Rethinking Weight,” author Amanda Spake clarifies the issue of obesity and how individuals struggle to lose weight in a society consumed with false prophets. America's stomachs continue to grow as our communities immerse themselves in one of the greatest and most abominable markets: the weight supplement cartel. Spake questions who should cover the overall cost of weight loss programs, and she challenges the policy insurance companies institute regarding the expenses obese people encounter. The writer explains obesity is a biological "disease" (283); therefore, the general population as well as medical professionals should handle and subsidize treatment options for overweight individuals like any other critical illness. Although
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Altogether, the author recognizes the connection between insurance companies and how the government ought to fund health problems associated with weight; in contrast, Spake fails to present the importance of physical activity, healthy habits, and will-power by focusing on unsuccessful dieting and poor genetic makeup.
Amanda Spake constructs her work tactfully, while leaving no stone unturned, in order to capture her readers’ minds in precisely the manner she would like. The use of personal accounts by overweight individuals, whom struggle to bandage their habits with new philosophies, derails the reader into pity party thrown to reward them of their poor decision making skills and denial of blame derived from their weight failures. Mrs. Spake gives accounts, such as Samantha Moore’s, while fully subjecting her audience to the bias and statistically barren of average folk. Spake confuses the reader when she includes the quote from Mrs. Moore when she exclaims, “It’s shocking to me that the insurance company keeps saying, essentially, ‘You’re not sick enough to …show more content…
Spake steals the hearts of her readers through her structure and her language despite several important omitted ideals. Her employment of subtitles facilitates her thoughts in a manner in which the viewer may easily navigate the piece while fully understanding her main ideas. The author, however, elaborates too far on a few topics such as gastric bypass surgery and how the body mass index relates to the study of nutrition. Gastric bypass surgery only makes up a minute portion of the medical options available to overweight men and women, and the body mass index does not accurately measure the body compositions and proportions of all individuals. The writer attempts to hid her opponents claims when she reveals, “Still, biology is not destiny. Overweight results from one thing: eating more food than one burns in physical activity,” (285). She includes the statement providing the counter argument that biology does not ultimately determine our fate, and we all have choices in life. However, the length to which she described gastric bypass surgery procedures completely outweighed the truth behind obesity that could unravel the very stitches of Spake’s
Altogether, the author recognizes the connection between insurance companies and how the government ought to fund health problems associated with weight; in contrast, Spake fails to present the importance of physical activity, healthy habits, and will-power by focusing on unsuccessful dieting and poor genetic makeup.
Amanda Spake constructs her work tactfully, while leaving no stone unturned, in order to capture her readers’ minds in precisely the manner she would like. The use of personal accounts by overweight individuals, whom struggle to bandage their habits with new philosophies, derails the reader into pity party thrown to reward them of their poor decision making skills and denial of blame derived from their weight failures. Mrs. Spake gives accounts, such as Samantha Moore’s, while fully subjecting her audience to the bias and statistically barren of average folk. Spake confuses the reader when she includes the quote from Mrs. Moore when she exclaims, “It’s shocking to me that the insurance company keeps saying, essentially, ‘You’re not sick enough to …show more content…
Spake steals the hearts of her readers through her structure and her language despite several important omitted ideals. Her employment of subtitles facilitates her thoughts in a manner in which the viewer may easily navigate the piece while fully understanding her main ideas. The author, however, elaborates too far on a few topics such as gastric bypass surgery and how the body mass index relates to the study of nutrition. Gastric bypass surgery only makes up a minute portion of the medical options available to overweight men and women, and the body mass index does not accurately measure the body compositions and proportions of all individuals. The writer attempts to hid her opponents claims when she reveals, “Still, biology is not destiny. Overweight results from one thing: eating more food than one burns in physical activity,” (285). She includes the statement providing the counter argument that biology does not ultimately determine our fate, and we all have choices in life. However, the length to which she described gastric bypass surgery procedures completely outweighed the truth behind obesity that could unravel the very stitches of Spake’s