Childhood obesity

Childhood Obesity
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Abstract
Obesity is one of the major health concerns in the world today. It is responsible for the majority of the lifestyle diseases. Those who are classified as obese are at high risk of developing some of the serious heart conditions such as cardiac arrests and diabetes type 2. Hence, dealing with obesity has been one of the major research issues in the recent times. One of the major issues is the differences in ideologies when it comes to dealing with obesity. Doctors confident that obesity is a social disease. On the other hand, the media and other experts have their opinions on obesity. There have been many publications on the topic and the ways in which it can be reduced in the society. Most of the literature about obesity and the ways in which it can be reduced is mostly differing in terms of opinion and ideologies. One of such publications is the article on the Atlantic website on the variations of ideologies about childhood obesity. The paper analyzes the article “Body Weight, Clash of Ideologies” that was published on the Atlantic website.
Keywords: childhood obesity, ideologies, cardiac arrest, overweight

Different Ideologies
The article “Body Weight, Clash of Ideologies” by James Hamblin was published on the 16th of June 2015 on the Atlantic website, and it talks about the different ideologies that are held by different groups of people about obesity and body weight. The article highlights the main causes of obesity as a major health concern to different people.

It’s claimed that childhood obesity is caused by biological and social issues and the belief of the doctors, that obesity is more of a social disease (Hamblin, 2015). To support this argument, the article states different lifestyles and the lack of exercises done by the children as a major issue in obesity. Biologically, the article states that there are those that are born to be obese. To counteract his argument, the author states that the media is responsible for the increased cases of obesity as the media promotes argument such as “Did you know that chewing gum could increase a person’s metabolic rate by as much as 20 percent?” (Hamblin, 2015, Par. 3). Such arguments are responsible for the increased rates of obesity, and they are promoted by the media for the benefit of the cartels as well as the people who would want to sell the fast food to the public. There are those who believe that obesity is a personal choice as a result of the social lifestyle they choose. It is this same argument that is believed by the doctors that those who are obese are assuming the roles that are played by the physical exercises in the human body. This popular opinion is not shared by the masses who believe that obesity is a concern that can be dealt with medically in the hospital.

Reference
Hamblin J. (2015). Body Weight, Clash of Ideologies: Doctors understand obesity as a social disease, even if most other people don’t. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/body-weight-clash-of-minds/384514/