Contemporary debates

Contemporary Debates

Table of Contents
TOPIC: What are the arguments for taking a public health approach to obesity rather
than addressing the problem as it arrives for individuals?................................................3
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................9

TOPIC: What are the arguments for taking a public health approach to
obesity rather than addressing the problem as it arrives for
individuals?
INTRODUCTION
Obesity can be referred to as a chronic situation in which the body of a person
has excessive fats and the Body Mass Index (BMI) reaches to 30.0 or over that. This
condition tends to place a negative impact over the body of a human being (Stanford,
Tauqeer and Kyle, 2018). Obesity results into increment of risk to which a person is
exposed to in terms of health problems along with other diseases such as diabetes,
certain types of cancers, high blood pressure, heart disease, and so forth. The efflux of
time has demonstrated and highlighted a substantial increase in the number of
individuals that are affected by this chronic condition on a daily basis. The constantly
increasing toll of obese people has made the government centre its attention upon the
issue and take effective measures by way of which the spread of obesity in the
population can be duly controlled. Owing to this, the government comes up with a public
health approach to the issue so that the problem can be countered in a rapid course of
time without any kind of discretion. The formulation as well as implementation of a
public health approach does not imply a decrease in the individualistic approach to
reducing obesity, rather it reinforces a rather stronger and better approach to deal with
the issue collaboratively at a national level. The following essay seeks to put forth the
arguments which demonstrate the importance of facilitating a public health approach to
obesity instead of addressing the issue as it appears for the individuals.
MAIN BODY
Obesity is a disorder which involves the body of a person consisting of fats
exceeding the acceptable limit and posing harm to the health of the individual. This is
caused as a result of consumption of more than required calories. Once upon a time,
this issue was only affecting the high income nation; however, with the passage of time,
this issue is affecting the population of low and middle income nations also. Now, wide
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