Analysis Of Sarah Boseley's Article 'How Britain Got Fat'

Obesity has steadily become a fatal problem among the people in the western societies, to the point where more than half of the population are suffering. The factors and consequences are very well-known, and although the solution may vary from one person to another, there cannot be a definite approach to battling obesity, before the root of the problem is made clear. Who is responsible and who is to blame? Perhaps it is the parents, or maybe the government as a whole, or the actual companies that produce the fast food and market it to children. All these questions are relevant to the Guardian’s article “How Britain got fat” by Sarah Boseley.
The article begins with a teenager called Georgia Davis; they demolish her house in order to get her
10 l. 145-147). They are all victims, they all have a false understanding of obesity and they are all being exploited by Diet Industries. This specifically appeals to pathos, and each reader would draw courage from this sense of unity, and feel less alone. Perhaps that will lead them to their first step to recovery, and although much of the encouragement and positivity are sub-textually, it does not mean that the article is not inspirational. After all Boseley, successfully deconstruct myths by the Food and Diet
However, the unhealthy lifestyle should not be presented as something that is thoroughly impossible to tackle, before the food and diet industry have been brought to their knees. Each individual can change the society, since currently; everyone can gain a powerful voice through social media. This supposed helplessness that the people have grown accustomed to, this feeling of inferiority in the face of the big food companies is completely erroneous, and the way around it is not a ban on sugary sweets and a rise in sales, but plainly regulating your food and watching out for yourself. Boseley focuses on the wrong people throughout the article, when the real culprit in this story was in front of her the whole time. Georgia is not to blame for her obesity and neither is the company producing the fattening food, but her mother, who did not bother to give her daughter a balanced diet, but instead was irresponsible. She is far from the only parent or guardian in the western societies, who neglect their children in a subtle but harmful way, and it would not make Sarah Boseley’s other points any less true, if she simply admitted this