Girls carry 26% more SC fat than boys, which may contribute to relative insulin resistance in the female population. Girls are less insulin sensitive than boys are as early as 5 years of age (Pediatrics 113:82–86). Heart disease is also a problem that can occur, by high blood pressure by eating foods high in salt and fat. Asthma can also occur in obese children, Excessive weight can keep a child’s lungs
Girl get distracted easily and so do boys. Having them on the same team will basically send the team in the defeat because everyone is distracted. These are the three main reasons why girls and boys shouldn’t play on the same sports team. Boys are more competitive. Boys
I do agree with Drevno in this article. It seems like everybody is trying to look like the ideal figure, but as we all know the majority is not ideal so we try to become that attractive figure that we think everybody wants. Drevno says in her article “Everywhere you look you will find images of women and men who typify what our society considers “beautiful”(P.2). What that quote means is that “unreal” beauty is all around us because our world believes that that is the true meaning of beauty when according to Drevno it is not. A friend of mine named Moe, was in a sense overweight and he didn’t like it because of what other people thought about it.
As a result, women seek health care in much greater proportion than men. Men, on the other hand, traditionally shy away from the health-care system, and we are only now starting to understand why that is. Men tend to view partners and friends as primary health sources. When they do reach a physician, men tend to focus more on physical problems, and are less likely to discuss deeper emotional issues -- particularly if the physician is female. Perhaps most influential are perceptions around male masculinity.
A Rhetorical Analysis on Media’s Influence on the Ideal Body Image Everywhere we look media seems to be portraying body images that lack what used to be known as “sexy curves” and possess more bone than anything else. Whether it be an advertisement in magazines or reality shows such as America’s Next Top Model on television, word has traveled that the thinner you are the better. The roles that obese characters play in movies or on television are negative more often than not. They are viewed as unsuccessful, lacking friends, family, and love. The slender, “beautiful” women are regarded as influential, successful, and erotic.
Growing up in America is not easy, emotionally. From a young age, a child is taught that they must look nice and have a certain body image. As they grow older, this idea is only engraved deeper into their consciousness until they feel it is normal to look in the mirror and think, “Gee...I look fat” or “If I could just lose a few pounds here…” Society’s constant reaffirmations that we are not good enough, not “pretty” enough or “manly” enough to be accepted are continuously there, nagging at everyone. In “Veiled Intention: Don’t Judge a Muslim Girl by Her Covering” by Maysan Hadar and “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender” by Aaron H Devor, both illustrate how men and woman face stereotypical roles in society,
Kendler 1995 studied twins in Virginia. He found women are predisposed to depression, meaning their twin already has been diagnosed, are far more likely to develop symptoms when faced with negative life events than women who are less at risk. Adoption studies provide the best way of disentangling genetic factors from environmental as they are brought up away from biological families. Caron and Zhang 2005 found that the neurotransmitter serotonin is important in mood regulation and low levels of serotonin in the brain have long been associated with depression. This mutant gene has been found to be 10 times more likely to occur in depressed patients.
People who carry most of their weight around the waist (apple shaped) have a greater risk of heart disease and diabetes than do people with big hips and thighs (Intellihealth, 2009). Unfortunately, people tend to get BMI mixed with body fat percentages. While both are a great way to test for obesity, BMI can a little misleading. A body fat test is done using a skin caliper. A skin caliper measures the thickness of one’s skin.
Obese individuals might suffer from social insecurities and emotional suffering. Hollywood makes clear the emphasis on looks. Since looks are “very important,” obese people may become the butt of many jokes. Obese children are often ridiculed in school and many times suffer psychological damages. Obese teenagers may be hesitant to socialize with their peers since most people this age are self conscious and will likely make fun of the overweight teenager to make them feel better.
Society’s perception throughout history has put extremely unhealthy looking women in the media spotlight as the ideal image of beauty. “The desire to fit the cultural ideal of thinness drives many women to diet severely. In some vulnerable young women, this leads to bingeing and purging or self-starvation,” says Terence Wilson a psychologist at Rutgers University (Smolack). “The general public seems to have an unhealthy obsession with celebrities. The media is constantly bombarding us with images of celebrities with extremely thin bodies.