Analysis Of Obesity By Eric Oliver

In “ how obesity became an epidemic disease” J. Eric Oliver discusses the negative impact the perception of obesity as a disease can have on the American people. Oliver begins by explaining the advent of the description of obesity as a disease and explains the fallacies in the argument that supports this description. The author argues that the data was misleadingly presented in a biased way to suggest that obesity is a spreading epidemic rather than a consequence from personal lifestyle choices. Oliver then delves into the ever-changing role of the CDC, explaining that many aspects of the human condition have slowly been medicalized and deemed diseases in need of a cure. According to the author, it appears that the inflation of the severity of obesity is often due to the commodification of the health care system promoted by the weight-loss industry and the need for passing the CDC budget through congress. The author argues that there is no clinical evidence linking some of the most abundant diseases in America to obesity.The author then makes the

She states a simple statistic that claims that obesity ifs the number one killer in America and then proceed to analyze reasons this problem could have arisen. The primary focus of this paper is on the health care disparities in minority communities. She also attributes increase in obesity to increase in high fructose corn sysops in food products, sweetened beverages, dietary habit changes in the past decades, changes in activity levels, governmental policies like farm subsidies. Her focus is in contrast to the other papers because instead of questioning the medicalization of obesity, she is question the changes in society that have led to the increasing obesity. She takes the lethality of obesity as an obvious fact backed by statistical