There’s nothing new about the idea that governments should intervene in the food business. One of the earliest examples was in 1202, when King John of England first banned the adulteration of bread. Governments and people seem to agree that ensuring the safety and stability of the food supply is part of the state’s job. But obesity is a more complicated issue than food safety. It is not about ensuring that people don’t get poisoned; it is about changing their behaviour. Should governments be trying to do anything about it at all?
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| Question | Answer | |----------|--------| | What is the passage mainly about? | (Option D) | | What is true about starvation according to the passage? | It affects as many people in the world as obesity (Option B) | | What does the author seem to feel about the problem of obesity? | It won't be disappearing anytime soon (Option A) | | What could replace the word "skyrocketing" in paragraph 3? | Increasing (Option C) | But obesity is a more complicated issue than food safety
Historically, obesity was linked to wealth, but now it is increasingly affecting poorer populations.
Farming today is much more productive than even twenty years ago, and it is due to this increase in that famine in this time has become much less common in the world. However, it has led to a new problem of obesity, which has become the most significant global (10) _____________ concern. It is generally agreed that the government should be responsible for protecting the (11) _____________ of society’s food supply. However, obesity is a more complicated issue and it raises the question of whether governments should try to alter people’s (12) _____________ . Many disagree that the duty of the government is to take care of society by encouraging (13) _____________ . Surely, people have a choice whether to eat healthily or not. Those who favour government’s involvement in our food consumption think it is more effective to try to change people while they are still at (14) _____________ . There should therefore be restrictions on junk food being advertised to children. The problem, though, is that this has already been tried in Sweden, and there is no difference between there and (15) _____________ .