Obesity Speech

      This speaker does a great job with his speech on obesity. He starts off by grabbing the audiences attention with some horrible, but true, statistics on obesity. He clearly states his intention of his speech and asks the audience some questions as to "why" are people not taking care of themselves. After his introduction, the speaker follows his speech with statistical facts of the early 1990's and compares them to current statistics. He uses percents to compare his statistical analysis. I really like how the speaker compares fast food items to portion sizes. He compares 4 slices of pizza from Pizza Hut, which totals 1700 calories, and how that much food can sustain a younger adult for the entire day. Phrases such as, “tip the scale” are used to describe food. This helps portray, to the audience, how huge the portion sizes are. The speaker, not only blames food for obesity, but also the lack of physical activity and the increase in the amount of time spent on playing video games. He does a great job by backing up his arguments with scholarly statistics. Health related diseases are also used in his speech to show that obesity is doing more damage than just “ruining someone’s physical appearance.” Finally, the speaker uses statistics to describe death in relation to obesity.
      I like how he saved the death statistics for the closing argument in his speech. By saving them until the end, the speaker was able to grab the audience’s attention and drive home his argument with statistics involving death. Death applies to everyone. By including a number of statistics that pertain to everyone, The speaker was able to keep the audience interested until the very end. Best of all, the speaker relates his own personal success story to the audience to show everyone that he has committed to a change and that there is no reason why everyone can’t start their success story.
      There are very few points that the speaker could do to improve on his speech. Overall, the speech was excellent! His voice was the same tone the entire speech. He also stumbled over a few words, but it wasn’t enough to take away from his presentation. His eye contact was great, and he spoke at a reasonable speed. The speaker did an amazing job on his speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPm9ZrJLJww