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Constitutional Issues

Unfortunately oyez.org did not have any cases regarding childhood obesity (or obesity in general).

I was also unable to find articles about childhood obesity on @andersquad ‘s twitter so I used an article from CNN instead.

Childhood Obesity is Getting Worse, Study Says

SUBJECT

This article talks about the rise in childhood obesity. In the past years, it has seemed like childhood obesity rates were declining or at least remaining steady, but recent studies have shown it is in fact increasing in kids ages 2-5. This increase seems to be correlated with the exponentially increasing obesity rate among adults.

AUTHOR

The author of this article is Jacqueline Howard. Howard is a writer and on air broadcaster that specializes in topics such as health, nutrition, and education. She has a masters in journalism from USC and has worked at a number of news networkings, so it is reasonable to assume she is qualified to speak on this topic.

CONTEXT

This article was published in March of 2018 so it is pretty recent. That means that most of the information regarding increases in obesity rates are probably still accurate.

AUDIENCE

The intended audience are the American people. Rather than speaking of medical advances we need to make to prevent obesity she speaks mostly of the correlation between adult and child obesity rates. This implies that it is up to us as a society to fix this problem we have brought upon ourselves.

BIAS/PERSPECTIVE OF AUTHOR

The author used to work at Huffington Post. While CNN and Huffington Post tend to be fairly unbiased, they are sometimes viewed as skewed slightly left (Huffington Post in particular). It can be assumed the author takes on these similar views which would ultimately skew her view on the subject.

SIGNIFICANCE

This article is a wake up call to Americans. In fact, I believe Howard uses that exact phrase in her article. It shows just how out of control this epidemic has gotten. It is spiraling out of our reach, so we need to do something FAST.

DO YOU AGREE

I do agree with Howard. While she didn’t really offer a whole lot of solutions to the problem, she showed the frightening statistics on just how bad this problem has gotten. She essentially is just saying that this problem has gotten so out of hand, and something needs to be done. While people may argue over how that should be done, I think everyone would agree that this is a huge problem that needs to be addressed.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/health/childhood-obesity-in-the-us-study/index.html