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Essay On Obesity In America

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“He’s a little chubby, but he’s young he’ll grow out of it.” Many parents hear this about their children. American children are experiencing the biggest percentage of children obesity. One of the many reasons that children are experiencing such a high percentage of obesity is that they are drinking so many sugary drinks, whenever they want. Children are able to go to a store and purchase a sugary drink because it is the cheapest thing to buy. These sugary drinks easily become addict to a child because of all the caffeine, not only are they addictive but they are horrible for their health. Some of the health problems that obesity brings are high cholesterol, Diabetes, tooth decay, heart problems and many more. The world organization urges to tax on sugary drinks, like soda, fruity drinks, and energy drinks to cut down on obesity. if you were to go on a search engine and search American …show more content…

These articles, newspapers, magazines are considered “secondary sources”, a secondary source are not the original source. I was looking at the New York Times which is a secondary source which gave me the writers personal view on the subject. The secondary source is typically a summary of the primary source. In the secondary source, it focuses more on the main information, facts that will shock people. Another thing authors of secondary sources usually do is put pictures that can relate to yourself, the vocabulary is more reader friendly as well. In the secondary source, the opinion of the writer could also be given in this article. The main purpose of the secondary source is to entertain people but still inform people of what is happening in the world. The secondary source could be bias or non-bias depending on the writer, meanwhile in a primary source it has to be strictly

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