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According to an article in the American Heart Association (2016), “[...] Nearly 78 million adults and 13 million children in the United States deal with the health and emotional effects of obesity every day [...]”. Another one of the good reasoning arguments made by the author is the one that proposed that calorie intake is dependent on the age and activity level of each individual. The term calories refer essentially to units of energy to the human body. Now, it is really simple to deduct that the energy required by a professional athlete to perform is definitely not the same that the amount of energy required by an elderly person because of the enormous difference in physical activity levels. Another place where Woolston makes a great argument is when he mentions that moderation is the key to weight control. This argument is based on a matter of basic math; if an individual consumes more calories than the ones he uses on daily basis, that individual is going to gain weight. The opposite situation to this is also