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According to the San Francisco Tribune, ’Economists say that obesity costs the economy 190$ billion dollars annually in health care and productivity. A scary number that dictates the issue at hand with obesity for Americans. It’s a hard choice to choose between supporting government regulation however because of the strain obesity has on our society today, the effectiveness government regulation have on keeping people healthy and because America is really fat. I support government regulation to the extent needed. First off, obesity has a large strain on our society.
Situational Analysis Health care costs in the United States are rising at an alarming rate. The reason behind this is because obesity contributes to other types of disease such as heart disease, stroke, and diabetes (Fortunato, 2011, p. 21). Medical costs related to obesity range anywhere from $147 billion to $210 billion (Trust for America's Health, 2012). Obesity has become a major epidemic in the United States. By the year 2030, estimates of lost economic productivity are as high as $580 billion per year (Trust for America's Health, 2012).
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Is the recession making us fat? It’s no secret that Americans, as a whole, are fatter than ever before. Obesity transcends all ages, cultures, and religions. While some question the role that the current economic recession pays in this epidemic (Campbell, 2009), the evidence of this connection is clear. The side effects of hard economic times, increased poverty, stress, and lack of free time as people juggle second and third jobs to make ends meet, push Americans toward the cheapest and quickest meals.
Jodi Atwal Leech Eng 1A Essay 1 28 September 2011 Poverty: Shaping a nation of it’s own. Poverty has been around forever in every corner of the world; it is just that many of us here in America might have not noticed it as much until the last decade or so. Sure enough poverty is growing, and it isn’t taking its sweet little time at all. Is there a safe explanation for this that cannot be proven false? Many may argue that the falling economy and the wealthy not wanting to share their shares is to blame for the raising rates of poverty here in the states.
The broken food system is an issue derived from the access to food; it is an uncanny crisis pertinent to 870million people (Oxfam 2012). Society’s endeavour to alleviate this crisis leads to an array of issues such as poverty, nutrition and environmental degradation. The existence of the broken food system is inextricably linked to a “wicked problem”, a cycle of insoluble problems that continually exists. The characteristic of a wicked problem has no absolute solution (Rittel & Webber 1973). A broken food system arises from the inability to purchase food due to poverty, "There is food on the shelves, but people are priced out of the market" (Lean 2008, p. 1).