This article illustrates a modern average man's body. The author explains how this image is a avatar that was created to represent the average American's physical structure. The body is the average of U.S. males of age 30 to 39 with a body mass index of 29, at five-feet-nine- inches tall and a waist of 39 inches. The author illustrates and describe all this in order to compare this average American adult with average adults of other nationalities. With the picture and the passage we can see differences of height and of width between the people displayed. They compare average body by different countries. They use this information to emphasize the reality of the American population's high rate of obesity. THe author shows how Americans are also gradually losing weight and how Dutch people are still going to grow in height. He says that obesity depends on culture and genetics.
They author is successful in trasmitting what the author wanted to transmit. The author changes the usual route of having to write everthing to showing what is needed to be shown with pictures. The essay was revolved around these pictures that prove the differences of body structre depending on ethnicity. This different style was certainly effective because I only read traditional articles that only have points with evidences and etc. This essay gives us examples that give credibility to the images and to what he is saying. It was successful and I found it very interesting.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/this-is-the-average-mans-body/280194/
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