Living in an obese society would promote self acceptance. Schwartz presents how society would differ if it were dominated by overweight people; the obese population would no longer have the struggle to find fitting clothes, competition with jobs, or even struggle with self esteem issues. Bringing the minorities to the top of the food chain could potentially eliminate humiliation and secrecy. Schwartz strongly argues that a fat society would be more ideal for self-acceptance, but disregards the use of logos to support his claim. Logos is the use of logic for further support on a particular subject.
The omnipresent issue of childhood obesity was always tentative ground for the politicians, but the reigniting of the topic via the new move by the government to restrict and/or limit the sales of “junk food”, and rumors are circulating that the government will monitor the weight of children in the country. “Parent ban may be useful” by Geoff McLean’s letter to the editor; argued that the advertising saturation levels are not technically the major problem, but that the real problem lied with the parents. McLean’s uses an exasperated tone in his letter; this fully comes into play in the last two paragraphs, “instead farming them out to childcare centers or using television or video game as a de-facto
It is mainly undertaken in Western, individualistic cultures. However, such a criticism might in turn be criticised, because it forgets that it is in these cultures that obesity is most prevalent. Obesity is often linked to factors existing more in these countries, such as availability of high-fat foods and more indoor activities. As opposed to other kinds of eating behaviour research, criticisms of cultural bias in obesity research is much less severe because obesity is, for the most part, culturally specific. However, what cultural differences do exist hasn’t been explored sufficiently.
A new size-health perspective Media has created an unrealistic image of the ideal weight for individuals. More people are engaging into unhealthy diets and extreme workouts either to reach the "perfect size" or to escape the criticism of being overweight. Under the new perspective of the ideal weight, obese ad overweight people are viewed to lack self discipline and self control by the society. However, they need to understand that genetics and medications contribute to a person's size. That's why the idea "healthy" weight varies from one person to another.
Chips, candy, etc) and fast food. It is very convenient to go through a drive through, call for takeout, or lounge in a restaurant. But what is not realized are the harmful starches and calories being put into their body that in the long-run will have negative effects on the person’s health. Therefore, if Americans became more proactive, and increased their physical exercise, the risk of obesity would
Mostly after 9/11 people were stereotyping most Muslims in the USA. Some people discriminate against race, beliefs, sexual preference, employment, religion, gender, size, and even health. Obese individuals are highly stigmatized and face multiple forms of prejudice and discrimination because of their weight (Brownell KD,2005). In the work place obese people are viewed as unhealthy, and pose possible liabilities for the company, thus some companies are discriminating on employing these people. Many airlines discriminate against obese people by creating policies such as if you don't fit in a seat with an extension seatbelt and the armrest down, you will be charged for two seats or removed from the plane.
“African Americans play sports and run really fast, Latinos join gangs, Native Americans drink a lot, brown skin people are extremely intelligent but easily fooled, homeless people are drug addict's, rich people make there way through money.” Unfortunately, these stereotypes we see in the media are the result of what sells. It’s difficult portraying a wide group of non-stereotypical persons in just one bit of advertisement. That’s why some companies are cautious of using a minority within their advertising because they don’t want to present a false representation. Not only in paper advertisements do we see stereotypes, but also in television ads as well. For instance, the African American niche station BET (Black Entertainment Television) was found to, “represent a venue of minority voices, [but] it is also a source of problematic representations of gender” according to Melinda Messineo.
Whatever they argue or use to explain obesity, functionalists would say that it is valid and important to society and is better for society as a whole. Conflict theory is based entirely in power and how those in power do all they can to hold the majority of the population down and to keep them from gaining power, so as to secure their own position. Conflict theorists would say that obesity is a product of the living conditions, stress and poor quality of food and health education that those in power choose and enforce for those that aren't in power. Conflict theorists might say that those that are in power (those that make laws, those that own companies, etc) willingly set up society so that the cheaper the good is, the more unhealthy it is, and so the poor might only be able to afford cheap, unhealthy bulk food and become susceptible to obesity. Conflict theorists might say that food education might be controlled by larger government forces (like the Food and Drug Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, American Diatetics Association, etc), who look out for their own bottom line and corporate interests from sponsors and lobbyists.
These stories are reflections of the roles social pressure plays in today's culture. George Orwell and John Updike both explain how social pressure affects individuals and their choices in varying positions of authority. In today’s culture more individuals suffers from obesity and are bullied whether knowingly or not. As a culture, American individuals grow more insensitive to one’s emotional capacity. As more derogatory terms are used when describing another being, social choice is inevitable.
Effects of Being Fat Each person can not be born with equal life conditions with other people in life. Some can be rich and some are poor, some can be beautiful and some are ugly or some can be fat and some are tiny whatever they eat. However, although being fat can be with time. Nowadays, perhaps Tv programmes show lots of women who are affected negatively by their fatness and these Tv programmes try to help people to loose weight with their guests who experienced about obesity of fat. Jennifer Grossman and Laura Meade who work in health industry, mention “Far Acceptance Movement” (FAM) and its effects on people on Web and some newspapers.