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Summary Of Too Much Of A Good Thing By Greg Critser

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Greg Critser, the author of the op-ed article published in the LA Times “Too Much of a Good Thing”, argues in the paper that stigmatizing overeating in the United States is not a bad thing. He argues instead that it could in fact solve the obesity epidemic. Critser starts his article by introducing the fact that the U.N. for the first time in history declared that obesity was an unmet global health epidemic. He believes that the 25% increase in obesity among teens in the U.S. is due to parents not knowing how to control their child's eating habits. Parents tend to follow the outdated and over-generalized nutritional idea that kids restricted from overeating will rebel and in fact eat more food than they would have before. Critser cites four
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