In the article “The Tories must tackle the real cause of obesity: inequality” on the newspaper called “theguardian” from 18 August, Polly Toynbee is writing about serious problems in connection with social status and obesity. She describes that it´s almost always the poor people who are fat and the rich people who have good looking muscular or just skinny bodies. Obesity is a social class issue and is mainly not a responsibility about food industry. The author describes the situation from several points of view. The aim is to find out what obesity´s causes are in a modern society. First of all, she analyses the problem from the most common aspects. Unhealthy food, lack of training, mobility and advertisements during children´s programs should be changed because proper information has great importance.
She then discusses the negative picture that media paints of fat people and how the food industry tries to take advantage of this. It´s always the fat people who are selfish and mean and who are absolutely undesirable. To tackle this problem, they offer slimming products, diet- fads and sometimes good but mostly fake nutrition experts. Terms like “fat cats” suggest that rich people are obese, but the truth is that slim and well- trained body is
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It´s not healthy food prize and that poor families can´t afford these kinds of meals, but meanly a cycle logical question. Those who are poor have no long perspective in their life, but most of them do have a chance to premiate themselves with small temporary gifts like smoking, drinking and eating trash food. Even people with stable social status or even higher life quality can fall to these temptations. It´s not hard to realise that those who have very little or nothing at all can much easier give up their resistance. There are also scientific articles that have verified the connection between growing waistbands and expending social