Obese Essays

  • Responsibility is Escaped by Obese People

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    Responsibility is Escaped by Obese People missing works cited “It’s important to preserve notions of individuals accountability and responsibility (Parks ).” Responsibility and accountability are attributes that many people believe should be part of everyone, but this is not what is happening if you take a look at the court systems. In today’s society people pressing lawsuits is readily accepted, and companies are looking out for it all of the time. There is almost always someone else that

  • Obesity in America

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    It is not necessarily junk foods that make people obese and fat. Too many carbohydrates and foods with lots of starch in an individual’s diet can also cause them to gain undesired weight. It is not always someone’s dietary decision that makes him or her obese. Genetics play a monumental factor in a person’s weight. For example, if a child is born with two obese parents there is an 80 percent of a chance that the child can be born or become obese later in his or her life. Pregnancy can make the mother

  • Obesity as a Disease

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    Abstract As a health care professional it is our position statement that obesity should be considered as a disease. Overweight and obese adults are considered at risk for developing diseases such as type II diabetes, hypertension, high blood cholesterol, coronary heart disease, and certain type of cancers. An average of 300,000 deaths is associated with obesity and the total economic cost of obesity in U.S. was about $ 117 billion in 2000. As health care professionals it is our responsibility to

  • Gastric Bypass Surgery Essay

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    A Second Chance at Life: Gastric Bypass Surgery In the recent years, American adults and even children have become morbidly obese, which has fueled a campaign for an effective intervention. The intervention that is beginning to receive widespread popularity is gastric bypass surgery. According to Tish Davidson and Teresa G. Odle in the article ‘Obesity Surgery,’ “gastric bypass surgery [is] probably the most common type of obesity surgery; gastric bypass surgery has been performed in the United

  • Review of Stearns’ Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West

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    past century in both the United States (arguably the most obese Western country today) and France (arguably the slimmest); he also attempts at explaining why such contrariety exists between these two countries, despite both being heavily infatuated with body and beauty. It is Stearns’ stance that this modern struggle against fat is actually very deeply rooted within our American culture, and dieting and rampant hostility toward the obese continue to become one of the underlying themes in our society

  • The Obesity Epidemic in America

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    Imagine a world where a school aged child can step out of their school and walk into a McDonalds. A world where soda companies make millions of dollars a year by placing soda machines in schools. A world where 30.5 percent of adults are considered obese. A world where obesity is killing more people than smoking. What if I told you this world is not in your imagination but is the world we live in today? Where would you turn to seek help for this epidemic? Some say the government should take charge

  • eating disorders

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    regarding obesity, for instance, those who are obese eat more than the non obese. A study in 1979 proved that 19 out of 20 obese individuals eat the same amount as the non obese. People believe that obese individuals are emotionally disturbed, but although they deal with immense social pressures, they do not posses more or less emotions then others. Body fat is said to be unhealthy but in actuality some body fat is beneficial. Another myth is that the obese are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease

  • Dune

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    honesty while their enemies, the Harkonnen's, were ruthless killers. The Harkonnen home planet, Gedi Prime was very desolate and dark. It represented the immorality and darkness within the Harkonnens. Their leader Baron Vladimir Harkonnen was very obese and inhuman. He killed his own slaves for fun and hated the Atreides with a passion. He hated their peaceful and honest ways. Most of all he despised their coming to Dune. This Harkonnen leader appeared the typical tyrant leader. Vladimir Harkonnen's

  • Impact of Obesity on Self-confidence and Self-esteem

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    Because of the trend of the beauty or values has changed, people think that obese people as another type of people, like blocking them out and stuff like this; on this paper I am going to talk about how do they think about themselves and how obesity affect their daily life. Being over weight is not a crime. People have often talked about people who are being fat, and thinking of them as an alien or even a freak. Obese people are just the same as you and me. All of us think the same, there is some

  • Fast Food Companies Are NOT Responsible For Obesity

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    many people who eat fast food, but aren't obese. They may do some exercises for burning calories, or try not to eat fast food as much as they can, caring for their health. Moreover, some fast food companies serve relatively healthy foods, such as Baja Fresh, Subway and so on. Even though people don't have enough money or time to eat except for fast food, they can choose those fast food shops. Therefore, the responsibility of obesity should be taken by obese people, though fast food companies should

  • Bullying In Obese Children

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    Bullying is High in Obese Children Bullying has become an epidemic that is life-threatening, destabilizing the peace and harmony that is well-known in our world. What is hurting most is the fact that young children are the victims of this heinous act just because they are obese. The rates of children with obesity have increased in the whole world with US leading at an alarming rate (US News & World Report.).In United States Obesity has been recorded high in families that have low incomes such as

  • Obese Or Disability Summary

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    titled Distaste or Disability? Evaluating the Legal Framework for Protecting Obese Workers by Jennifer Bennett Shinall takes a look at obese people in the work place and whether they are discriminated in the workplace due to distaste or actual physical disability. The article also examines the situation from a gender discrimination point of view, and whether or not gender plays a factor in employers discriminating against obese workers. Back in 2008, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was amended

  • Anesthesia and the Obese Patient

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    use on the obese is particularly complex, posing dangers to the patients. As complications continue to arise from the use of anesthesia on the obese, mandatory measures such as additional anesthetist training should be implemented on all perioperative stages to reduce risks to this growing patient population. Obesity is now considered a global epidemic, with particularly concentrated numbers in the United States. In 2011-2012 more than one-third of U.S. adults were estimated to be obese (National

  • Obese children in America

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    2003). It affects everyone everywhere. In today’s society, one out of every three children are considered obese (“overweight and obesity,” 2009). Child obesity has become a raging conflict and solutions must be presented to reduce it. One might think that the reason so many children are obese is from eating too much food, but in reality there are many more variables. The chance of being obese increases forty-one percent if a child has a TV in his or her bedroom and watches more than two hours a

  • Obesity in America

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    obesity? Obesity is a heath condition where the subject has an abnormally large amount of fat for their height. A person who has a body mass index of over 30 is classified obese by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. Who does obesity affect? Obesity affects 1/3 of all classes of Americans. However, the highest percentage of obese people per captain can be found in the lower class. The lower class typically eats more cheap, highly processed, high-calorie foods. What causes obesity? Overweight and obesity

  • Obese Case Study

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    Children that live an unhealthy lifestyle are more prone to becoming obese later in life. Furthermore, the cause of children becoming more obese includes; children that do not participate in physical activity, children that eat lots of snacks, play video games or watch TV, and that do not eat a healthy balanced meal. In addition, the parent or guardian of the child also plays a role in whether the child becomes obese or not by “What” they offer the child to eat, and the type of environment the food

  • Weight Loss for the Obese

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    Weight Loss for the Obese Today’s children are faced with a severe epidemic. Day after day, children are growing in size. The number of obese children is growing severely and scientists are perplexed. Obesity is a disease affecting thousands of people every day. While conducting my research, the argument that I found was most prominent was the debate between whether obese individuals should become fit vs. just losing weight. Most articles I found continued to say that obese people need to lose

  • Abilities Of People With Disabilities

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    Abilities of People With Disabilities Chris Moore Assumption: A person with mental retardation cannot be trained to perform a job as well as an employee without a disability. Fact: Over two thirds of Pizza Hut employees have mental retardation. The average turnover rate (the rate at which workers quit) of these employees is a modest twenty percent compared to a one hundred and fifty percent turnover of employees without disabilities. It is this kind of thinking that limits the ability of people

  • The Problems of Too Much Fat in a Body

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    production, but too much fat can have severe affects. One of the biggest problems is by far heart disease and heart attacks, two of the biggest killers in the UK. Heart attacks are often common is obese people who have eaten too much fat without taking regular exercise ie overweight or obese. As you eat more fat containing products and do not exercise fat builds up and fat accumulates in the arteries, which may cause high blood pressure. Fats stick in and around the arteries and so the space

  • Comparing Japanese and American Diets

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    Comparing Japanese and American Diets The typical diet of the average Japanese citizen is much healthier than that of an average American citizen. The Japanese diet is vastly different than the common western diet in terms of ingredients used, portion size, preparation, and relationship between its users and their food. While Americans commonly opt for unhealthy food high in calories, fat, cholesterol, and sodium, many people of Japan benefit from their healthy choice of rice, fish, vegetables