Devil's Advocate : Obesity In Developing and Developed Countires

  While researching my topic on obesity in developing and developed countries I couldn’t help to think of why exactly this is happening. Knowing that change is needed throughout the world, I will make “change in world dietary habits” a focal point of my thesis statement.

   As I researched the topic I found out that the most obvious reasons for the world becoming obese was not just food. I decided to ask myself what would the reader want to know?  Maybe they will ask why are people eating these foods? What kinds of foods are these so called “obese” and “overweight” people eating? Why is it important to know about this? These are very critical questions to be focused on. Simply explaining to the audience what overweight individuals consume does not explain or suggest how we can try to improve this epidemic.

    I decided look into specific aspects of different countries to understand why their diet is shifting toward high calorie foods and obesity.  These factors include: average incomes of overweight individuals, activity levels of overweight individuals, types of foods consumed by overweight versus normal weight individuals, and effects of globalization on individuals. Of course the obvious focus area could be the foods, but the reason why individuals eat the foods they do is an equally important question and one that I will cover.