’’How Britain got so fat’’ is an edited extract from Sarah Boseley’s book ‘’The shape we’re In’’ published in 2014. The article mainly discusses the issue of obesity in England.
Sarah Boseley focuses on the effects of obesity ‘’This is about a very real threat to our health. Obesity is a life shortening condition’’ and whether or not the issue with obesity is caused by the manufactures, the government or people themselves.

Everyone is concerned with his or her health. ‘’Am I going to die because of a heart attack?’’, ‘‘will I be able so see my grandkids’’, ‘’do others think I look fat?’’, ‘’Am I a bit overweight?’’ These are all questions most people ask themselves at some point in their life. Sarah Boseley’s article ‘’How Britain got so fat’’ speaks to a broad audience, since most age groups concerns about their health. Obesity is a phenomenon we hear about in the radio, see on the television or read about in articles. “Obesity looks like Georgia, we think. It doesn’t look like us’’. Sarah Boseley states that most people associate obesity with the way we look and the size of the clothes we wear. But obesity is something very serious and should be considered a threat to the life expectancy of humans.
The big question Sarah Boseley is searching for is ‘’who is to blame?’’.

Obesity is not only one sided, there are many causes to the problem. Sarah Boseley starts her article with an example of an extreme degree of obesity. Georgia Davis a teenage girl weighing 400 kilos, had a wall torn down, in order for a medical team to bring her out of her house and into a hospital. Georgia had to be treated because her organs we failing due to her overweight. Sarah Boseley uses this extreme example to show how much influence family and friends has over an individual. In this case Georgia Davis’s mother Lesley seems to be the main influence of Georgia Davis obesity