Obesity Problem In America

Don’t know when it started, the obesity problem has already quietly come into the American’s vision. Now, the obesity problem is not a simple problem for individuals but an extremely serious and long-term troubled issue for the whole America. Since the obesity is a social problem, it needs social solution instead of individual solution to resolve.

People from all walks of life have made analysis and judgment on this issue; for example, the author of a media article named “Whose fault is our fat?” reported that the food companies and the government had to take the responsibility of the obesity problem in America. Besides, one statement at the end of the article from a poll said that the obesity was an individual problem. If Americans exercise

Those people who lived around the poverty line didn’t have enough money to purchase the expensive healthy food. They considered more about eliminating hunger instead of balancing nutrition diets. In this way, the poor got used to live on the junk foods with minimum expenses; which in the long run caused obesity. The short of the education should also be responsible for the obesity. The health courses in schools would stated the reason and emphasized the importance of avoiding the obesity; but just because of the lack of education in some areas, many fat people even didn’t know the harmful consequences of being obesity. According to Thompson, the social network can also cause the obesity. The risk of obesity is the largest when two people are mutual friends. (Thompson,

Besides, the statement in the “Whose fault is our fat?” that the obesity was a problem for individuals and can be resolved by exercising is not accurate. Since it results from various social causes; for example, the poverty, shortage of education, social networks, traditional structure and social forces of the job, the solution of the obesity must involve social actions. The “fat tax” policy mentioned in the media article was a good idea, and it could be improved by charging the revenue taxes of industries that produce the junk foods and implemented in the near future. Moreover, the healthy food subsidy to the poor and the improvement of fundamental community construction supported by the government are also feasible social solutions for the