Childhood obesity

Childhood Obesity
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Abstract
Obesity is one of the major health concerns in the world today. It is responsible for the majority of the lifestyle diseases. Those who are classified as obese are at high risk of developing some of the serious heart conditions such as cardiac arrests and diabetes type 2. Hence, dealing with obesity has been one of the major research issues in the recent times. One of the major issues is the differences in ideologies when it comes to dealing with obesity. Doctors confident that obesity is a social disease. On the other hand, the media and other experts have their opinions on obesity. There have been many publications on the topic and the ways in which it can be reduced in the society. Most of the literature about obesity and the ways in which it can be reduced is mostly differing in terms of opinion and ideologies. One of such publications is the article on the Atlantic website on the variations of ideologies about childhood obesity. The paper analyzes the article “Body Weight, Clash of Ideologies” that was published on the Atlantic website.
Keywords: childhood obesity, ideologies, cardiac arrest, overweight

Different Ideologies
The article “Body Weight, Clash of Ideologies” by James Hamblin was published on the 16th of June 2015 on the Atlantic website, and it talks about the different ideologies that are held by different groups of people about obesity and body weight. The article highlights the main causes of …