Yeshambel Nigatu: A Literary Analysis

After a while, obese people can no longer take “accepting their physical appearance” or “avoiding certain social interactions”. There comes a point where these people cannot function correctly and the emotional problems catch up to them. While many people might not believe this would happen, the constant emotional strain that obese people through in their lives results in something that many people wouldn’t want to believe. Yeshambel Nigatu, main researcher at the BMC health association, explores the topic of obesity being linked to depression in obese adults due to the emotional strains they had to deal with their whole life as a result of no one helping them out out. When talking about the studies that he did, Nigatu writes that, “all of which found that baseline obesity had an increased odds of depression” (Nigatu 6).
The fact that Nigatu that was able to find evidence that obesity was linked to depression specifically, makes for an interesting discussion about how much of an impact this stigma around weight, that Tomiyama had defined earlier, actually has on a person. Nigatu’s findings create a parallel with her definition because by describing how the weight stigma is a “social devaluation” of people means that this devaluation could push people beyond their mental limits and their mind could respond