History assignment help : Globesity Fat’s Frontier’ and the ‘Ngozi Okonyo

The videos at YouTube, ‘Globesity Fat’s Frontier’ and the ‘Ngozi Okonyo- How to help Africa? Do business there’, brought the two important topics of concern in a much scrutinised manner. The two are very significant in the social context as they are purely meant for the people and for the betterment of the society. The discussion in both the videos showed that the clear motive behind the both, was to actually make the people think and relate the present concerns of the society and to actually relate to them. The facts that I could get after viewing the videos be it related to growing obesity around the world or the African economy; with respect to the first video it can be said that the documentary actually sensitizes the me to save myself and spread awareness about the facts and figures which have lately been increasing with respect to obesity in the four countries worldwide and that how it can affect the neighbouring countries. In the second video it was a moving speech by Ngozi Okongo the Finance minister of Nigeria, the way she wants people to think beyond Africa as backwards and that really points to the realistic growth of the African economy today.

The video ‘Globesity Fat’s Frontier’, talked that it is not only the richer countries who spend more on food, in fact it is the poorer countries who are spending so much on food and along with that they are paying for their health. The facts astonished me that world is actually shifting in its malnutrition count where it was 700 million two decades ago and in the year 2000 it became 100 million. By the year two 2010, there were 500 million people who were malnutritioned and therefore they were wither driven to hunger or obesity. Obesity is the problem which is most prominent among the emerging countries; it is the passion for food and the laziness to remain active and work-out that is making people fat and fatter with each passing minute of the day. My understanding of obesity was only limited to only one fact that they probably some people have an extra liking for food that is something which drives them to eat more, but the ways the economy and the investors in the market have been coming up with their business tricks to tempt people to eat the food products is something very shocking. The video was helpful in even making me personally prepared about the consequences of being overweight. The countries which topped the list were Mexico, Brazil, China and India, with Mexico topping the list of growing obesity (Hellmich, N 2012).

The video showcases the case of Louis who has already been operated once or the stomach reduction and again he is going up for the second operation because of the obesity. Also, in the another shot it is shown that the mother’s day is being celebrate where the children are drinking excessive amount of coca-cola in that age when they should only be put to drink milk. According to the fact it really amazed me to know that an average Mexican intakes 1.5 litres of beverage (carbonated drink) in a day (Romo, R 2011). In china, the oil consumption is the greatest of the all the countries worldwide, the population is majorly dependent upon the fried foods, with huge amounts of sugar and the oil in it. According to the nutritionists, one is not consuming food but only the food products. The way the Chinese fast food joints were populated by the people was shocking and it showed that how the population of china is so much into the same. In fact I was surprised to know that the biggest weight lose program is being run in China which I earlier did not know. It is even estimated that around 380 million Chinese are obese.

The case in Brazil is such that more than 50% adults are obese and even children are highly being affected by the same. The facts enhanced my knowledge about the food products and in fact I am cautioned now because I learnt that sugar and the vegetable oil contain twice of the energy density than the normal food. According to the facts, the supermarkets are the ones who are indulged in the blind availability of the food products which people are so happy to buy and consume. The supermarkets provide processed and the packaged food, to the public and that is a shift from natural to artificial according to me. The villages of the Brazil who are away from the central supermarkets also have an easy access to the food products as boat is set for the visit to the villages and thus people are exposed to such food products all over the globe. In fact it is seen that that big companies like the coca-cola, Kraft, Mc. Donalds, Pepsico, earn their business out of North America and that they are even buying smaller companies who are indulged into the distributorship (The Harvard School of Public Health 2012). In Brazil, the obesity related illness causes the expense of $US 2.1 billion/year. India also is the one country which is increasingly being dependent upon the food products which have huge amount of oil, sugar and starch in them, thus it has been the one factor that causes Type II diabetes in the Indians and this in fact has been fatal lately. It is shocking to me to know that around 100 million people in the country would be falling prey to diabetes in the next two decades if the same trend of eating goes on. According to the thinker in the video it is believed that the factor of food marketing never can lead people to think critically.

The second video ‘Ngozi Okonyo- How to help Africa? Do business there’, was quite interesting in my point of view as that has helped me to get a better picture of Africa as a political continent. The video was a straight-forward account of the allusions which the other countries have of Africa. The Finance minister breaks those stereotypes when she brings that the African land if yet only know that it is the land of HIV, malaria, poverty, conflict and Disaster, but she says that it can be so as the Africans have worked real hard to come up with a  abetter economy. According to her the other countries have never given Africa a thought about changing its total scenario or by providing the country any opportunities because again the same has been seen as the land of corruption. This actually made me raise a question to myself that how such a treatment could is given to a continent on some baseless allusions. The long history of dictatorship on Africa has actually taught its people to fight and therefore she put all the claims that there is no reason to call African continent a backward one and should not only b categorised in terms of only being corrupted as there is a lot which the African countries have achieved and also the potential that it retains to achieve (South Africa.info n.d.).Thus she invite the other countries to break the typical mindset which they have for Africa and to come and invest for raising employment in the country, which should be the charity but the assistance to the country in a progressive way. The first is the decision to privatise the business in Africa, the second step that has been is the democratisation of the elections (multi-party system) and the third has been the management of the finances. I personally felt so happy to see that how the country has grown up with respect to the facts that were provided, that is since she has been the finance minister the GDP of the Africa has gone up from 2.5 to more than 5, the economic reserve has experienced the boon from 7 billion to 30 billion. This is indexical of the country’s growth and the continent should get the fair chance for taking up business in collaboration (Dugan, E 2012. There is a great scope for investment in agriculture, the solid minerals, housing and real-estate etc. These facts and the emotional content of the speech by Ngozi Okongo, raised important question which need to be answered for the healthy growth of the economy which is necessary for a healthy future of the nation.

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