rhetoric

Obesity:

Obesity is a global problem when look at the numbers in America one third of its population is suffering from the disease Obesity. This not only a big problem in the United states, but also all over the world and this becoming global health crisis. Obesity is a disease which occurs when a to high percentage of your bodyweight is fat. A lot of health institutions see this as the biggest health issue crisis for the 21th century. More and people are getting Obese, since we all get wealthier and can afford to eat more food. The poor people as well, because they want to grab something quick which fills up the stomach immediately. It can lead to a lot of different serious chronic diseases like Arthroses, cancer, type 2 diabetes and Asthma. There is a difference between being overweight and having obesity is that there is in your body mass index. The percentage of the people who are suffering from obesity is getting higher and higher especially in Africa and South east Asia. This is, because these countries/continents were used to be quite poor and now they are starting to become wealthier, so this means they have access to more food. There diet was completely different than in the past, because now they eat more Hamburgers, Pizza and other fatty food where the body is adapted to. The poor people in Africa are suffering more and more of Obesity, because those people are almost always hungry, and they want something which stops the hunger immediately. They see vegetables and fruits as food which is not for them which needs to be served to children and rabbits. When you closely to Europe, you will recognize that this is a big problem especially for the poorer people, because the difference in price between healthy and unhealthy is starting to get bigger and bigger. Which makes that lots of families cannot afford fruit and vegetables and can only afford unhealthy food. This will get even worse in the future, because the difference between the poor and rich is starting to extent. This is not only in Europe, but also all around the globe. We need to bring more awareness to the people what is good to eat and what you really do not need to eat too much. We need to bring awareness how dangerous it can be when you are so fat and what kind of life-threatening diseases you can get. We need to start with children and other young people to teach on school, how they can life a healthy life, so less people in the future must suffer from Obesity. So, that will pick in the supermarket the healthy food over the unhealthy. We then also have support playing sports, so that they get used to doing sports, so that they the future have a sporty lifestyle. As solution for the poorer people, you can secure that they can sport for free or that the price is lowered. The big problem is unhealthy food is cheap and that healthy food such as vegetables, fruits and other healthy dairy products. On all food is a tax in the Netherlands and that is tax 9%, this means that 9% is added on the original price of the product and this money goes to the government. There are some products that have a higher tax than the normal tax. This are products that are really threatening for your health of them such as cigarettes and alcoholic drink who contain more than 1% alcohol. How, do you stop disease, Of course it starts with awareness and the recognition of Obesity. People need to be helped unintentionally such as with stopping the tax on healthy products. When you higher tax on unhealthy products to 20% this will cost no extra money but will tackle the problem slightly. The people who are poor can then easier afford to buy vegetables. This tax is not only meant for food, but also for sugary drinks which are not good for someone’s health and add 0.50 cents extra on fizzy drinks. Another big problem is that fast food chain and the supermarkets have too much power this means they have a to high market share in our economy. partly choose what we eat. They do this by having a lot of advertisement of unhealthy, you see them everywhere on television, the radio and the internet. I think you all see all throughout the internet. This must stop, and I think television channels have to stop accepting the advertisement of big brands on unhealthy such as the Burger King. All over the world governments must take their responsibility, so that they then create advertisement of showing the danger of a really an unhealthy diet. Also, that have to recognize that obesity is a danger to the community. I hope, in the future less people will suffer from obesity and will live a happy life without too much excess weight. With less chronic diseases and will feel good about themselves, without too much worrying about their health.

Analysis:

In my speech I used some stylistic devices, the one I used the most was propaganda. To make sure I could confidence the audience, so that we need to life more healthy. Propaganda is important to make sure that do not consider to many other arguments and really believe and listen where you are talking about. I also used different in sentence lengths and that my speech becomes more lively. However, when I heard and looked closely looked at other speeches on the internet which have a quite comparable subject.

Next time, I have to use more metaphors and other stylistic features, so that my speech becomes more lively and will probably come across better. I presented my speech to an audience which the same age as me which made I used quite simplistic words, so that could really understand the topic and where I was talking about. Sometimes I want to put quite difficult and when then adjusted my speech before I was going to present, one day before hand. I thought these are difficult words which not everyone would understand. When, I would had an older audience I would have used way more complex words.