Obesity America's Enemy No. 1 Rhetorical Analysis

The author of Obesity – America’s enemy No. 1, Jake Steinfeld, uses careful and precise wording to make the audience understand and believe the claim at hand. He stays within the aspects that contain him and within what he believes in. This makes his argument more believable. Picking apart the article with rhetorical analysis a reader can see how Steinfeld makes his claim acceptable.

In the op-ed piece, Jake Steinfeld, responds to the problem of opioid and the obesity epidemics. He first, brings up the opioid problem and makes a statement that leads to the overall point of the story, the obesity epidemic. His article indirectly focuses on parents with young kids, teachers and schools to help stop this obesity problem. Since Steinfeld is writing for the deseretnews.com he has to worry about his language and attitude toward the claim. He cannot just say whatever he wants or his article would not have seen the light of day. He may have had physical constrains such

In the book Fat by Deborah Lupton, she deals with the idea of what is normal. Meaning that no one really knows what is morbidly obese, obese, overweight, normal and underweight. No one can really know if there is an obesity epidemic. On page four of the book Fat it states, the increasing incidence of illness and diseases means there are more overweight and obese people making it an epidemic (Lupton). This idea that just because disease and illnesses have increased that means obesity has increased is crazy. There are so many different factors that could lead to these illnesses to be present not just obesity. Lupton also states that giving labels helps people see things better. On page eight she states, “bodily characteristics should be given this label” meaning obese people are given this label so we can see them clearly. Lupton again brings up the point that no one can say exactly what is overweight, obese or fat so there should be no