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Dr. Christina Nagao
English 1A
5 October, 2016
Watch What You Eat In “What You Eat is Your Business,” Radley Balko argues that the individual is responsible for America’s obesity epidemic not the government. Balko explains that the government has attempted to help solve the battle on obesity, but their efforts have not been successful.With individual Americans’ becoming a matter of “public health” instead of simply a matter of individual responsibility, Balko argues that America’s health care system is moving towards socialism and that people are becoming more responsible for others’ health and less responsible for their own health.For example, laws have been passed that require some people to pay for others’ medicine. Balko argues …show more content…
Balko concludes by asserting that individual citizens would make healthier food choices if someone else was not paying for the consequences of those choices. The main point of Balko’s essay is that it is no one’s business but our own what we consume.Ultimately, Balko insists the way to tackle America’s obesity epidemic is by focusing on personal responsibility rather than government interference. My feelings on the issue are mixed. I do support the position that the fast food industries are responsible for America’s obesity epidemic, but I find Balko’s argument about personal responsibility being the key to good health to be equally persuasive and also more logical. Yes, fast food industries are guilty of contributing greatly to the obesity problem with their unhealthy products and deceiving calorie charts, but I will be adding to Balko’s position agreeing that the main problem to the America’s obesity epidemic is that individual’s must learn to be responsible for their own health and what they eat.By analyzing Balko’s essay proves that the government should start to make consumers responsible for their choices so that an individual can live a healthy life style instead of trying to change what foods are accessible to
Dr. Christina Nagao
English 1A
5 October, 2016
Watch What You Eat In “What You Eat is Your Business,” Radley Balko argues that the individual is responsible for America’s obesity epidemic not the government. Balko explains that the government has attempted to help solve the battle on obesity, but their efforts have not been successful.With individual Americans’ becoming a matter of “public health” instead of simply a matter of individual responsibility, Balko argues that America’s health care system is moving towards socialism and that people are becoming more responsible for others’ health and less responsible for their own health.For example, laws have been passed that require some people to pay for others’ medicine. Balko argues …show more content…
Balko concludes by asserting that individual citizens would make healthier food choices if someone else was not paying for the consequences of those choices. The main point of Balko’s essay is that it is no one’s business but our own what we consume.Ultimately, Balko insists the way to tackle America’s obesity epidemic is by focusing on personal responsibility rather than government interference. My feelings on the issue are mixed. I do support the position that the fast food industries are responsible for America’s obesity epidemic, but I find Balko’s argument about personal responsibility being the key to good health to be equally persuasive and also more logical. Yes, fast food industries are guilty of contributing greatly to the obesity problem with their unhealthy products and deceiving calorie charts, but I will be adding to Balko’s position agreeing that the main problem to the America’s obesity epidemic is that individual’s must learn to be responsible for their own health and what they eat.By analyzing Balko’s essay proves that the government should start to make consumers responsible for their choices so that an individual can live a healthy life style instead of trying to change what foods are accessible to