An article “Doctors Also Biased Against Fat People‚” by Neal Colgrass talks about how doctors are prejudiced against overweight patients. Colgrass wrote‚ “Turns out doctors are about as biased as the general public.” The general public is usually quick to make judgments against overweight people without thinking about their circumstance. I understand that weight is something one can control‚ however there are a lot of external influences that should be considered before making judgments. According
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“Fat Tax” Imposing a fat tax on saturated fat‚ junk foods‚ sodas‚ etc. would be best because of many health and money related issues that it could possibly solve. A fat tax could help control many health problems the United States is facing today by giving some incentive to buy healthier foods. Taxing these certain foods may help control the way people eat and in turn change lifestyles to much healthier ones than there are now. The healthier lifestyles would help lower the amount of money spent
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also have my own. I am a person who is far from over weight and I know how I eat and maintain myself and I can afford to. I can’t imagine it’s easy for someone who doesn’t have the fast metabolism that I have. Reading the article “Why We Hate Fat People” by: J. Eric Oliver‚ I can understand both sides. Although obesity is currently a hot topic among policy movers‚ it is certainly not a new issue and has been a topic of concern since the early 1950s‚ with U.S. government agencies and health organizations
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Food is important to human. Which provides energy and nutrients to human body to make the body functions. In today’s society many people have an unhealthy life. An unhealthy life can cause by many different ways but‚ the most important cause is the food problem. There are many types of food in the world‚ can be good and bad. Consuming bad foods can have negative effects in human body. Food contains fat and fat is the long termed energy for human body. carbohydrates also is the energy for human
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I picked the second quote‚ “trans fats should not be banned. Consumers should make their own choices about what they eat. The government should educate the population about the risks of eating foods with Trans fats‚ but then let people make their own decisions.” The way I look at this situation is‚ we do a lot of bad things to our bodies. We eat fast food‚ sugars‚ drink alcohol and plenty more. Everything that we take into our body systems‚ has some type of effect on our bodies‚ whether it be causing
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a. SATURATED FATS FROM NONSATURATED FATS An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain. A fat molecule is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond‚ and polyunsaturated if it contains more than one double bond. Where double bonds are formed‚ hydrogen atoms are eliminated. Thus‚ asaturated fat has no double bonds‚ has the maximum number of hydrogens bonded to the carbons‚ and therefore is "saturated" with hydrogen atoms. In cellularmetabolism
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consumption of high-fat foods and obesity is well established. Mounting concern about the increasing incidence of obesity in many countries has sparked debate about the merit of an explicit ‘fat tax’‚ aimed at either taxing foods according to their fat content or‚ more practically‚ taxing certain foods with a high fat content. Discuss the implications and effectiveness of a fat tax for reducing the consumption of high-fat foods? There are many implications and effectiveness of a fat tax an example
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Trans Fats There is lots of controversy going on about should the trans fats be banned by the government or not. On one side are people who are for ban of trans fats‚ while their opponents think that they should not be prohibited. What are the trans fats? Are they really bad for our health‚ should they be replaced with another substance and why there are so many people against them? Producers have the power over us‚ as well as opportunity to put trans fats into food in small amounts‚ without
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Fat or fit? Which is normally preferred? Working out and living a healthy lifestyle not only benefits one’s body‚ it also helps motivate the people around them. It also benefits their way of thinking. Stress relief and concentration‚ self-confidence‚ strength and endurance‚ and longevity are just a few benefits which can be expected as a result of working out. People can stress over the simplest thing. Writing an essay is a great example. One can get writer’s block or overwork their mind
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titled‚ "why a fat tax will have no effect on obesity levels” Lefever state‚ “Taxes on smoking and drinking do not change the behavior of nicotine addicts or alcoholics.” (Why a fat tax). Lefever is trying to say with this is no matter what is done to prevent something as long as a person wants it or desires it they are still going to get it no matter what they have to do for it‚ addictive smokers still smoke‚ alcoholics still drink. I think that taxing fatty foods will not really make a difference
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