Radley Balko Analysis

In this article, Radley Balko’s, main argument is whether obesity should be personal issue or whether the government should take action. As I was reading this article I did agree to Radley Balko to some of the things he was talking about. Such as when he said,” instead of manipulating or intervening in the array of food options available to American consumers, our government ought to be working to foster a sense of responsibility in the ownership of our own health and well-being.” In my opinion is your choice what goes in body. You should be responsible of what you eat. I also don’t agree with him when he said, “the best way to alleviate the obesity public health crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health.” Because obesity
I agree with him on this when it comes to teenagers, because I can understand how teenagers now days all they want is fast food. I have a teenager niece who is struggling with overweigh and is not her fault because, her mother died when she was four years old and she was raised by her grandmother who can’t read or write English so that give her the opportunity to get eat what she wants. One of the other main paint David Zinczenko talked about was that in 1994, diabetes in children was only about 5 percent of childhood case were obesity related or type 2 diabetes. “Todays, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood cases of diabetes in this country.” This means the percentage isn’t decreasing it is increasing a lot from what we sow. In summer, David Zinczenko argues that, particularly for teenagers, unhealthy food and fattening fast food is almost unavoidable.
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