Everyone would want to have a magical pill that could make him or her lose weight. Eight score and 13 years ago, at the dawn of the dieting craze, when Americans began to consider a thin, supple figure to be the epitome of beauty and vitality, such a pill was either unheard of or was a placebo. Exercise and a strict diet plan had been the only ways to achieve the desired weight loss, at least until the invention of dietary pills by Stanford University physicians in the 1930s. Along with dietary pills, an increasing amount of innovations that induce laziness, are being introduced into the markets of our increasingly susceptible population. For the sake of shortening further readings, which will help the reader to help prevent his eyes from becoming too lazy to continue reading, I will innovatively construct a new word that will embody a certain meaning. This word shall be “lazitivityTM,” which means, the factor, level, or amount of desired laziness pertaining to a person, group, or object (desire to be lazy). Innovations, especially ones that produce quick results, often lead to a dangerous increase in a person’s lazitivity, which by extension is detrimental for that person’s mental and physical state. The increasing alternative options, as provided by innovations, for each problem, have allowed a person to choose the easiest option as the solution. It must be kept in mind that what determines if an innovation remains and whether it becomes a standard of everyday life is dependent on the consumers who use that innovation. What would convince consumers to keep using an innovation? A possible cause may be that the innovation makes a person’s life more convenient. Laziness is often linked to a lack of motivation to work hard and so, ... ... middle of paper ... ... him. People like Mason believes that they can be as lazy as they want and their country will take care of them such as when he received his gastric bypass surgery and since lost an unhealthy 600 pounds to which he plans to have liposuction to get rid of the excess skin. Mason and the rest of the developed world has been too reliant on modern convenience, that even though it may give some of us a second chance, it is getting closer and closer to ruling our life by making all our lives, a life of lazitivity. Even the word lazitivity, though it is a grammatically accepted word in this peace, partially due to convenience, it offers no benefit in society, rather it acts as a restraint, because from now on, you will always wonder, is lazitivity an actual word? Do you now understand, how even the similest innovations, may prove to become a mental and even physical burden?
Recently, another weight loss supplement has stepped into the ever-increasing market. This drug, called Stimulife 750, is a supposedly all-natural herbal supplement that promotes weight loss without any effort from the client. Both the parent company – Stimulife International – and various distributors of Stimulife 750 make bold blanket statements such as “Stimulife 750 has everything good and nothing bad,” which set the success of the pill far higher than is possible. Furthermore, these individuals attempting to sell the product use a variety of marketing techniques to encourage purchasing the supplement; however, they provide no scientific evidence to support the claims they make regarding the safety and effectiveness of the product. By appealing to the clients’ desire for a natural and easy way to lose weight, providing pseudo-scientific statements to convey a sense of authenticity to the product, and befriending the client by seeming to care for their best interests, the distributers attempt to woo more clients. However, Stimulife 750 contains many ingredients included in other “unsafe” weight loss supplements and scientific research shows no clear evidence that Stimulife 750 is any more effective or safe as other diet pills.
American health, specifically our obesity epidemic, has grown into a trending media topic. A quick Google search will bring up thousands of results containing a multitude of opinions and suggested solutions to our nation’s weight gain, authored by anyone ranging from expert food scientists to common, concerned citizens. Amongst the sea of public opinion on obesity, you can find two articles: Escape from the Western Diet by Michael Pollan and The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food by Michael Moss. Each article presents a different view on where the blame lies in this public health crisis and what we should do to amend the issue. Pollan’s attempt to provide an explanation pales in comparison to Moss’s reasonable discussion and viable
Companies realize what people need and they take it as sources to produce commodities. However, companies which have famous brands try to get people’s attention by developing their products. Because there are several options available of commodities, people might be in a dilemma to choose what product they looking for. In fact, that dilemma is not real, it is just what people want. That is what Steve McKevitt claims in his article “Everything Now”.
Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) Theory has been used successfully in many fields including communication, agriculture, public health, criminal justice, social work, marketing, and nursing (Boston University of Public Health, 2013; Doyle, Garrett & Currie, 2013 ). There are five adopter categories: (1) innovators who want to be the first to try the innovation and counts for 2.5% of a specific population, (2) early Adopters who represent opinion leaders and counts for 13.5%, (3) early majority who are rarely leaders, but they do adopt new ideas before the average person and counts for 34%, (4) late majority who are skeptical of change, and will only adopt an innovation after it has been tried by the majority and counts for 34%, and (5) laggards who are bound by tradition and very conservative, and counts for 16%. The stages of innovation adoption include awareness of the need for an innovation, decision to adopt (or reject) the innovation, initial use of the innovation to test it, and continued use of the innovation. There are five main factors that influence adoption of an innovation: (1) advan...
“One hundred and thirty-thousand computers are thrown out every day in the U.S., and over one hundred million cell phones every year” (CBS News). We live in a materialistic society where more is good and the newer the better. In our fast paced lives companies used this to their advantage to continual bring out newer upd...
One of the reasons could be the emergence of technology in our day to day life. AS, we know that more and more organization are encouraging its customers to use “online” services and minimize use of paper as much as possible. Since our hypothesis was not supported by the test, we can assume that people with higher education might want to use “online” services than to use any of the offices. For example, when looked at the various ways to renew the driver license, we found out that there are 4 different methods one can renew the license. Method 1 and 2 ...
Due to the growing information out there about healthy eating and exercise the obesity epidemic is gradually changing. Zinczenko claims is that he “got lucky,” because he went to college, joined the Navy Reserves, and got involved with a health magazine,” (392). It seems, that he failed to realize and/or recognize, is that he made those choices to change; and others also have the ability to make good choices. They now have the knowledge and ability to exercise better and make better food and life style choices.
Obesity rates have skyrocketed within the last 10-20 years. This is in direct correlation with the diet and exercise habits of cultures. As cultures begin to incorporate different culture’s cuisines into their own cultures, the obesity rate starts to increase. This is most likely caused by their heritage history being accustomed to their culture’s cuisine history. Then diet and exercise come into play as well. We live in a time where technology has almost taken over our lives. In modern day, we can drive wherever we need to go, we do not have to walk everywhere anymore; we do not have to even go to the grocery store anymore because Amazon.com has now made their website into a grocery store in select parts of the country where we pick what we need online and it is delivered to our house. This program is set to go nationwide soon, and eventually globally. This is the epitome of laziness and why different cultures are becoming obese; especially America. Diet and exercise have almost become a thing of the past in America. Yes, there is still a large amount of humans that still exercise daily, but not the average American. The most active age group, worldwide, is 22-34 year olds with an average salary of $20,000 or less (Thompson 2013). Cultures such as the Native Americans, Mexicans, Chileans, and the culture that tops the list; Americans, are among the world’s most obese cultures (Downey 2011).
"Anorexia nervosa... strike(s) a million Americans every year and... one hundred fifty thousand die annually" (Brumberg 20). This outrageous number of deaths has unfortunately been increasing since the 1970's. This deadly disease focuses its attention on young teenage girls. The media gives out messages to promote their products and, knowingly or unknowingly, sends the message to young girls that they should and can look like the models on T.V. Immense pressure put on young girls to look good and to be thin. The unfortunate consequence is that society's pressures to be thin cause girls to become anorexic.
In today’s day and age, we want everything now, not later but now. We humans, have tendency to make our lifestyles as easy as possible. Hence, we created cars, trains, video games, Internet, computer and so many other things that make our lives hundred times easier. However, this has come at a cost. In our technologically advanced world we are following a dangerous course, involving a gradually increasing caloric intake and a steady decline in physical activity. We humans used to farm and hunt in order to get food. However, we grew out of that and now we have the luxury of having food brought to us, at our doorsteps. We don’t waste any energy in obtaining food, and this has caused us to have a sedentary life. This is a huge risk factor for development of chronic diseases.
“…So many people want to know about diets because so many people are going to try them, but they don’t work … some weight will be lost temporarily.” Harvey Diamond, author, was speaking. “But let me ask you something – do you want to be healthy temporarily? No. But you want to lose weight temporarily. They’re – They have failures built right into them.”
Obesity and overweight remain the two major social problems in the United States. Apart from the fact that obesity and overweight are dangerous by themselves, they also cause a variety of negative health consequences. Our lives our overloaded with tasks and obligations, and we often choose to eat something fast. “Fast”, however, does not necessarily imply “useful”, and more and more people face the risks of becoming obese even at young age. Because obesity has already become a national i...
According to recent statistics, every year Americans spend about $50 billion on products and services promoted to help them lose weight. Many of the overweight and obese people that join commercial weight loss programs are looking for a quick fix to lose the weight, such as fad diets and dietary supplements that are marketed to burn fat fast. However, many of these diets offer little success or success for a short time, resulting in many gaining the weight back a short time afterwards. Fad diets are “a trendy practice that has widespread appeal among a population. After a period, however, people lose interest in the practice, and it becomes no longer fashionable. People often lose weight while following fad diets, but usually regain much of
A sad fact in American society is that thousands of people search for the elusive dream of being thin. On any given day, one finds neighbors, friends, and relatives on some kind of diet. Dieters assume various disguises, but the noteworthy ones are the "bandwagoneer," the "promiser" and the "lethal loser."
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