In the article‚ “Let them eat fat”‚ the Author‚ Greg Crister explained how fast food have grown aggressively targeting customers for their product in the poor neighborhood‚ where most of their customers are young black kids. He further explained how these fast food incentive their customers to eat the super-size meal for only a few cents more‚ and also points out the bad quality of food they serve and the high number of calories a meal has. The author studied that most inner-city consumers are cheerfully
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Teenager only think of partying‚ not attending school five days a week will hinder them in the long run. What will they learn? How will they get a clean understanding of what they are
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society‚ and doctors as obesity climbs toward becoming an epidemic‚ claims Mary Ray Worley. Worley‚ a member of National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)‚ believes that today’s society is now obsessed with being fit/thin to the point of people “would rather die or cut off a limb than be fat” (163). In her article‚ “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance‚” she is on a mission to dispel the belief that society should stigmatize overweight people to coerce them into losing weight; she
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Mary Worley in her article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance‚” argues that it is acceptable for fat people to be comfortable in and happy with their bodies (492-496). Worley attended a NAAFA convention and was given a culture shock (492). When she arrived Worley saw a pool party where the oversized people were all in beautiful bathing suits and comfortable‚ also as she wandered through the convention she saw vendors selling an array of plus-sized clothing‚ clothing that was so gorgeous
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Which is better? Stay fat to keep a good friend or being able to get skinny and make new friends. That is one of the main questions shown throughout the story. In this book “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes.” Eric‚ one of the main characters‚ is one of the ugliest kids in the school along with a girl named Sarah Byrnes who has scars on her face from when she ‘supposedly’ knocked a pot of boiling water on her face when she was younger but as we find out later throughout the story we learn that it was
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yet effective‚ marketing of fatty foods toward the American youth led to her unhealthy weight and lifestyle. The complaint also noted that McDonald’s failed to properly disclose the ingredients and nutritional information of their products. Similarly‚ in 2003‚ a male in California filed a lawsuit against Nabisco for their use of trans fats ingredients in their snack products‚ primarily the popular—and delicious—Oreo cookies; he argued that the company knew trans fats cause tremendous and undesirable
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Testing Food Substances for the Presence of Lipids Aim: To establish which food substances contain lipids. Hypothesis: 1. All diary products will contain lipids. 2. All animal tissue will contain lipids. 3. All plant storage organ products‚ i.e. seeds‚ will contain lipids. Introduction: Lipids are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents. Ethanol is an example of an organic polar solvent which will dissolve lipids to a limited extent. However ethanol is miscible with water so when
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“Love Your Fat Self” Response Paper In “Love Your Fat Self” (2008)‚ Courtney Martin uses her obese friend as an example of someone who is amazing in every other way‚ but seen as flawed because she’s fat. Her point is to make society take responsibility for its part in the problem with obesity. She mentions that being fat is pretty much always seen as a physical health problem‚ and that most people‚ including the doctors that attempt to treat overweight people‚ don’t know the psychology behind
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One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte‚ is a very good book for teenagers that feel insecure about themselves and have low self-esteem. In the book they will read about a young boy name‚ Bobby who overcomes his fears of being fat and being bullied by Willie‚ one that is much stronger then him physically‚ but not emotionally. The basic theme of this story is to stand up for yourself no matter the situation. <br> <br>Willie‚ the antagonist of the story accidentally makes Bobby overcome his fears and stand
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding Characterization: Gus Portokalos In the movie‚ ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding”‚ Gus Portokalos is the father of the main character‚ Toula Portokalos‚ and is the patriarch of the Portokalos family. He is portrayed as a man who has a lot of pride for his country and can be ethnocentric if his ideas are different from others. He wants Toula to marry a Greek man and doesn’t want Toula to leave him. However‚ Toula falls in love with a non-greek man‚ Ian. This causes Gus to show ethnocentrism
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