This article reflects on the stigmas of obese people and how obese people are treated because of it. According to this article‚ obese people are not viewed as equals to thin people. The average person connect being obese with being lazy and ugly. This is perpetuated through openly ridiculing obese people for attributes that most likely are not true to their character. Most of society does not take into account the factors of genetics‚ environment‚ and poverty when calling someone repulsive or unmotivated
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I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic‚ while it is medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.” --Dean Ornish‚ M.D. In the Theory of Leisure Class: Conspicuous Consumption‚ Thorstein Veblen once wrote‚ “The ‘successful’ are thin to show that they are assured of their next meal.” This sentence gave insight to why people wanted to be thin. Furthermore‚ it tends
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Should obese people pay higher health insurance premiums than people who are not obese? - Rishard Rheyas Obesity has become a serious problem with more than one third of adults being obese in the United States. Obesity is seen as a self-destructive behavior accompanied with smoking and use of other drugs thus‚ government officials and other business bureaucrats expressed the need to impose higher health insurance premiums on the obese. Obesity is not always due to the personal behavior of people and
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Should Obese People Have Higher Premiums The Obesity epidemic affects millions people of the United States every day. According to the National Institutes of Health‚ “obesity” refers to any individual with a BMI of more than 30 and BMI is simply a calculation that assesses weight relative to height (NIH). In the past decades‚ the number of obese Americans has increased dramatically. Based on the data from Nation Health and Examination Survey‚ about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese and approximately
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adults are now considered obese. Even though some Americans are in the healthy category‚ others enter the underweight‚ overweight‚ and even obese categories. Not only is obesity unhealthy‚ but it is also considered unacceptable. People have been labeled and made fun of their entire lives do to obesity. For some this is an uncontrollable way of life. An example of this are shirts which say "No Fat Chicks"‚ showing that overweight people are unacceptable and undesirable. People are made fun of‚ often
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Charging Overweight Passengers by the Pound In the world today‚ obesity is becoming a serious problem that affects one’s life in different situations. One of these situations is flying in the airplane. David Landsel in his article "Some Airlines Make Obese Passengers Buy Two seats" pointed out that different airlines are taking some policies concerning this issue. However‚ united airlines are not taking any policies. Southwest and Midwest airlines claimed that overweight passengers should buy an extra
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J.T. Scott Engl: 191 Rough draft Flight of the Obese Imagine this…You worked overtime shifts for the past 3 months to be able to afford this vacation. You struggled to get time off and you are now ready to relax and enjoy yourself on the trip. The time has come to take your seat on the plane and low and behold‚ you can’t even have a seat to yourself because the person next you is overweight and therefore over the armrest. Not only is this affecting your ability to enjoy a comfortable flight
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not believe in the good use of packing healthy lunches for school. Now day’s kids eat what they find not realizing the atrocious conditions that might become a problematic factor in their future. Fast food is to blame for the amount of increments obese children‚ the growth of financial expenses as well as harming our environmental habitat. It’s ridiculous to think how fast food is making a big impact on students. Not only is fast food a waste of money but also a waste of life. Schools should downright
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Should parents lose custody of their morbidly obese children? One of three American children is morbidly obese. Morbid obesity is when weight gain is getting out of control effecting children physical and emotional is damaged. Obesity can cause numerous health problems like high blood pressure‚ cholesterol‚ and sleep apnea. Over the last years Americans obese continues to rise and neither parents nor society is doing anything about it. Government or society needs to do something about it if parents
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AN OBESE SOUTH AFRICA South Africa records the highest rates of obesity in Africa with statistics that dsindicate that 29% of men and 56% of women are either obese or overweight‚ according to the World Health Organisation (Morris‚ 2011). The increase in prevalence of obesity has seen it become a primary risk factor for sedentary lifestyle related diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. Obesity as a health issue in South Africa will be discussed. Rates of obesity in South Africa have progressively
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