Summary Of What You Eat Is Your Business

An astounding amount of issues today cause varying types of controversy -ranging from legalizing same sex marriage to determining whether the second amendment should be modified or removed for good. However, one issue that has been slowly causing more controversy is obesity. Obesity is a rising dispute because people are approaching different ways on taking action towards it, many disagree on whether obesity is a choice, and numerous people are questioning the accuracy of measuring obesity rates today. Everyone has a different method on how obesity should be handled. Some believe that the government should carry responsibility and take action to reduce obesity rates. In the article, “What You Eat Is Your Business,” by Radley Balko, he states that, “Sen. Joe Lieberman and Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, among others, have called for a ‘fat tax’ on high-calorie foods and congress is now …show more content…
In the article, “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko, he writes, “By the age 15, I had packed 212 pounds with a lanky 5-foot-10 frame. Then I got lucky, I went to college, joined the Navy Reserves, and got involved with a health magazine which taught me how to manage my diet. But most of the teenagers who lived on a fast-food diet won’t turn their lives around.” Yes, we could eat a burger every now and then but we have to learn how to manage our diets with the proper amount of proportions we should eat and the amount of exercise we should do. Many people decide to eat fast food but they choose not to do some sort of exercise so they can burn the extra calories that they have gained because of the fast food they had just eaten. If you just sit around and eat fast food everyday of the week, gaining more and more pounds, who’s fault is it that you ended up with high blood pressure and obesity? In most cases, there have been cases when obesity rates are inaccurately