Obesity is a huge problem in the United States. With the increase of portion size of food and advertisement attracting many children, we can see that this is a problem. People of every gender, race and age are at risk of being obese. However, children and adolescents are more at risk of being obese because of many problems. This raises a question whether the government should or shouldn’t be involved with childhood obesity. There are many health issues that can develop when an individual is obese. In Lainie Rutkow’s article, she reported that obese children are more likely to develop health risks than adults. These health risks could be cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and/or psychological or social problems (450). As for females, they tend to develop different types of different disorders. These disorders can be develop when females watch television show and wants to be like their role model. Their role model would be someone who is very thin, skinny, beautiful and much more. However, to achieve this body, they decided they need to lose weight and be like them, which these disorders are then …show more content…
But, making and passing new laws isn’t as easy as it is. In Demetrios Kouzoukas’ journal article, he pointed out that the government has three principles to provide an agenda to produce a law on obesity. The first is that obesity is a personal decision of an individual. These individuals gets to decide what and how much to eat and if they need to engage in physical activity or not. Secondly, obesity is like smoking (26). Smoking is addicting to do. Once an individual smokes one cigarette, he or she will get hook to it. Even if someone say quit smoking, they will not be able to, because it is very addicting. It is the same thing as being obese. It is very hard to not eat and starve oneself, which is also unhealthy. However, there are options that could help lose