Analyse af 'How Britain got so fat' af Sarah Bosely

Obesity is a huge problem around the world, and has over the years increased a lot. It has coursed a lot of health problems as heart attacks, diabetes and even cancer. In the article “How Britain got so fat” the mainly issue is obesity, and the writer; Sarah Bosely uses many examples to illustrate how big the issue is. In the very beginning of article she tells about a young girl, Georgia Davis, who is extremely obese. She has become so morbidly obese that she cannot fit any of her clothes, and even the door, which caused that she had to be extracted through a demolished wall. Bosely also writes about how early in life Georgia Davis became obese, and how her family affected her life-style. Davis actually manages to loose half her bodyweight at a weight-loss camp in North Carolina, but already eight weeks after returning from the camp, she drifted off the plan because her family’s life-style still were the same as when she left.

Besides the story about Georgia Davis, Bosely also implicates different Food industries and doctors to discuss whether it society or people themselves to blame. In the article there are multiple opinions if it is people who eat too much of the food, and have themselves to blame, or if it is society who should not sell all the unhealthy foods.