Obesity: The Epidemic When you're in a local fast food restaurant and you see a child in the play area and they are out of breath due to being obese.Or, when the media forecasts that the rate of heart disease has more than doubled since 1962 in children. Through the help of media and advertising, fast foods have become a phenomenon. Many Americans have witnessed or have at least been affected in one way or another by the emotional and / or health issues caused by obesity. America is the richest but also the fattest nation in the world hence, solutions are needed because obese children are seriously becoming a danger to the human population. Now there is a distinctive difference between being obese and being overweight.The Center for Disease Control Website differentiates between the terms overweight and obesity. The term overweight refers to a person with a weight that is high compared to others his/her same height and strictly have nothing to do with an individual’s amount of body fat (Defining).Obesity on the other hand is defined as “an excessively high amount of body fat…in relation to lean body mass” (Defining).
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Rimm and David Studdert discuss the case filed against Mcdonald's.In August of 2002, the Pelman v. McDonald’s, case was brought on behalf of children who consumed McDonald’s products and allegedly became obese and developed diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol intake and other health effects as a result.Although the case was dismissed,Pelman plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s had engaged in deceptive advertising, sales, and promotion; produced food that was unreasonably unsafe; and failed to warn consumers of the dangers of its products.Now the question at hand is who is accountable for the obesity epidemic in