Analysis Of Sam Dolnick's 'The Obesity-Hunger Paradox'

Many people in thousands of communities believe that the word poverty and the word obese don’t even belong in the same category. Obesity is defined as being overweight or grossly fat. Nearly one-third of the world’s population is obese or overweight , which is 2.1 billion people and 30 percent. People becoming obese have increased substantially in the past 30 years. In “The Obesity-Hunger Paradox,” by Sam Dolnick the article discusses how poverty and being insecure of food increases the cause of obesity. Many people argue over this topic and how it can end up being wrong or right. Adults and children have many opinions over this huge topic. Many people have different and somewhat descriptive viewpoints on this topic and many articles believe in how poverty is somewhat connected with obesity because cheap food is unhealthy, healthy food is highly taxed, and lunch programs can be healthy,but include less food. Supermarkets supply many unhealthy and healthy products with the …show more content…
Poverty is defined as extremely poor, which means people still have little money. People that suffer poverty spend their money on unnecessary and unhealthy foods. Obesity can be caused by many aspects throughout the lives of people. He also discusses how people who suffer from poverty have multiple jobs and eat all the time and don’t have time for exercise. This is a big reason why the poor may suffer from obesity. Dolnick also describes a survey that was made to show the increases and decreases in food hardship throughout states nationwide. Dolnick explains how people try to help the poor and bring coupons and vegetables and fruits into their lives, but the poor will take advantage and buy a massive supply and then they continue to buy these foods and decreases the chance in staying healthy. Although, Dolnick gives many reasons how obesity can occur; he leaves out some