Obesity

David Zincenko is staring at the new Pizza Hut opened in Downtown Manhattan, when Radley Balko passes by and recognizes him.

Radley Balko: “Mr. David Zincenko! Hi, I am Radley Balko and I recently wrote an article called What You Eat Is Your Business. However, before I wrote it, I did read several articles based on nutrition and obesity, which is what my article is based on as well, and I came across your article! Your perspective on the subject is quiet interesting.”

David Zincenko: “Don't you believe the government should do something about all this obesity? There are always more and more sick people! The government is just watching the whole nation get fat!”

Radley Balko: “I believe the government has bigger things to worry about. It needs to stop spending so much money on such things as obesity.”

David Zincenko: “Are you saying it’s a waste of money to help obese people?”

Radley Balko: “I say that instead of helping them the government is making them rely on the money given, as in they are making obese people comfortable in the situation they are in. They’ll always stay obese since they know they can count on free money to help them out.”

David Zincenko: “Well just to point out, I proposed adding calorie labels to all food in my article, to make people more aware of what they are eating. It was done on most but, it has not really helped much. What do you think should be done?”

Radley Balko: “Well first of all, the government needs to stop giving money out to obese people, that’ll give them a reason not to get obese, since they’ll know they’ll have to spend a lot of money from their own pockets, on medicine and other necessary things. But most importantly, people need to be more responsible of what they eat; the government should not have to intervene. Every person should learn to eat healthy on their own. If anything the government should reward the healthy and penalize the unhealthy!”

David Zincenko: “Do you really believe Americans can be that responsible some day?”

Radley Balko: “Yes! Eventually they’ll realize what is best for them because the sicknesses will just get worse and then Americans will snap into reality.”

            I agree with Radley Balko.  I say every American needs to be responsible of what we eat. There is no need for the government or anyone to tell us what to eat; we should know what makes us feel energized and healthy. I agree that too much money is being spent on this subject, it's money that could be used more wisely (like on education or creating more jobs). I do truly believe one day all Americans will eat healthy because we will finally understand what is truly good for us.