Post B: Text to World

“Would you like to supersize that meal?” These same words are heard world-wide at every fast food restaurant. This book addresses this growing problem, and looks at it through a teenage view. The main character Troy happens to be the only one of his friends with an obesity problem, yet this problem is a huge growing concern. It might be only his character within this book, but in reality obesity is growing. There are facts everywhere that support this and yet we are ignoring it. This was easily seen on a government website that gives facts on obesity. (http://www.cdc.gov/PDF/Facts_About_Obesity_in_the_United_States.pdf) Here it stated that since “...overweight rates have doubled among children and tripled among adolescents – increasing the number of years they are exposed to the health risks of obesity” (unknown). It is also leading to many new cases of diabetes, heart conditions, and lack of general physical ability. It doesn’t help that media is always showing images of things being better, if they are bigger. In this book, one can see first hand the negative effects of over eating. For Troy this resulted in lack of self esteem, less friends, less confidence, etc. He also thought at all times that everyone was always looking at him. It was not until his friend Curt pointed out that he was just being paranoid.