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This 6 page paper examines the obesity epidemic from both sides of the spectrum. The paper argues that the problem is not as bad as some experts claim. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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newspapers or television time. Doctors also, realizing that a slim physique is preferred and is deemed healthier, have perhaps wrongly attributed overweigh as being solely responsible for certain health problems.
While obesity is contributory to some ailments or diseases, it is usually not the sole indictor of a health problem. There is now a movement for overweight people to
experience good health too as they eat healthy fare and exercise. They experience much torment at the hands of media, their families, their physicians and strangers as well. While some
people believe they have just cause for making fun of fat people, it seems as if obesity is something that is difficult to control. Further, it is not the be
all and end all of healthful living. Body size is something that may contribute to certain conditions, but certainly does not deserve the epidemic label, like polio or influenza.
In London, it is believed by some that a toddler actually died of obesity (ONeill). She officially died of a heart attack when she was three years old, but many
blamed her large waistline for her demise (ONeill). Increasingly, around the world, there seems to be an obesity epidemic. There are children taken away from parents who are blamed for
abuse or neglect if a child becomes too fat. In the old days, this was unheard of. Families tended to be either fat or thin or in the middle. People
accepted overweight as part of a natural genetic tendency. Today, this is not the case and having an obese child may be construed as child abuse. Obesity then seems to
be a clinical term to denote someone who is remarkably overweight and falls into a category where health may suffer. Of course, overweight in general, even at the pre-obese stage,
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