In the article "Study Links BPA, Obesity in Kids" Genervra Pittman discusses a common issue obesity in kids. Obesity is often talked about as an unstoppable issue, people usually think that there is no way to control what kids eat. However Genervra discusses a new discovery that BPA a chemical banned in baby bottles is in fact used in cans and can cause deformations in the body. The main reason its bad for kids is because kids respond differently to chemicals, their bodies and hormones are effected. Dr. Leonardo Trasande from New york University says "Children are uniquely vulnerable to environmental chemicals" meaning that chemicals change kids differently by stunting growth of hormones their brain and metabolism. "Unhealthy diets and poor physical activity are still the biggest causes of obesity" Dr. Trasande says but small chemical changes like this can change metabolism hugely.
The author Pittman believes that this is a great discovery and does not like obesity in children. He wants you feel the same by making children look innocent. He isolates kids from everyone else and says that they are "involuntarily" getting harmed. He wants you to believe that kids are becoming harmed by this a lot but fails to give any information about its affect on adults. I Think he did this to make the kids come across as more susceptible to this problem. Most likely it effects adults just as much as kids but most people reading the article are moms which means that most of them care more about there kid.
When I read this article i felt a mixture of feelings, i felt both sad because obesity is such a shunned issue but happy because with one stoppable cause of obesity it will help stop it completely. With help of people like me around the world if we that acknowledge that chemicals like BPA cause growth problems like obesity soon enough they will be outlawed and taken out of certain beverages and cans
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