In few words, Radley Balko conclues that obesity in America should not be treated as a public health problem; and that its extreme involvement in public life to eradicate obesity would generate only a waste of money and enable people who make poor health choices to keep making poor health …show more content…
Yes, obesity itself can lead to a range of other health problems. Certainly our society must get better at giving people healthier alternatives in their food supply, and in healthcare education. But there are public health issues that could require very sudden, serious attention in order to ensure they do not get out of hand. +++++++++++
At the same time, it is true as Balko’s critique of obesity as a public health issue would show, a more elaborate, even more regulated and better funded healthcare system cannot ensure that people will make better health decisions on their own. If people want to help themselves overcome their own particular health problems, then it is up to them, primarily, how much they are going to help themselves—not the healthcare institutions that serve them.