This story opens with a long and fact-filled introduction. The reader learns why Americans are fat and what challenges they face. The author then indicates that a certain change must be made to combat this "epidemic."
This article contains a huge amount of facts, which at times, seem to get confusing. However, this is a long article which is dealing with a hefty topic. Learning about obesity and how to beat it is hardly a new topic. Marc Ambinder surely had difficulty trying to make this article different than others like it, and I feel like he did a good job. The article covers a lot. We learn about the history of obesity, and just about every way there is to beat it from diet and exercise to bariatric surgery. I found it interesting how blunt Ambinder was in his remarks. He has no trouble explaing exactly what the issue is regardless of how others may feel. Perhaps he can do so because he actually came from a similar place, being obese once himself. In the end though, I don't feel like I came away with a definite answer to "beat obesity." I suppose we learn that everyone must cooperate in order for change to occur by the end, but is that really possible?
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