In the article “No Fear of Fat” by Solovay and Rothblum, human body fat is studied along with how people perceive those that are much thicker or fat being associated with obesity. Even though there are many events that may lead to a person becoming obese, obesity is simply “prescriptive in nature”, that human weight is changeable, but are nothing more than something perceive by social bias against fatness and fat people (Solovay and Rothblum 19). Which can explain why local authorities are constantly pushing the sugar beverage tax for the sake of public health. Those who believe that obesity is the cause of premature death, support the sugar beverage tax. …show more content…
So by placing a tax on sugary beverages, the amount of which people buy sugary drinks should decrease and have some sort of effect on obesity. That being said does not cover the full length of sugar being the main cause of obesity but instead play a role. The increase of sugar beverage intake was found to be associated with multiple health