Everything you know about Obesity is wrong
This article explains the issues concerning the various effects and people’s perceptions about Obesity. The article is written for an extended period. Many people have had negative ideas about Obesity, with some people stigmatizing the obese around them. Obesity, according to various medical communities, occurs as a result of individual failing that ends up straining people’s health care system; it also shrinks a country’s Gross Domestic Product as well as affecting the strength of the military. The author of this article, however, proves such perceptions otherwise and finds no harm with the state of being obese.
The article explains the level and rate at which large populations of American citizens are affected by Obesity. This follows research done by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention that found out that nearly 80 percent of adults, as well as a third of children in America, are obese. The author, however, stands in defense of the victims of Obesity that the condition is not that serious as people make it be. So the title of the article, what you know About Obesity is Wrong. The author recognizes the various challenges that the victims of Obesity pass through majorly being stigmatization by the people around them as well as themselves since many of them do not accept this condition.
The author proves that all these views that people have about Obesity are wrong. He bases his arguments on several research findings. Research showed that when people lose their body weights by just three percent, the weights of their bodies resulted in a 17 percent slowdown of metabolism. This means that prolonged starvation stimulates the hormones responsible for hunger, thus dropping the internal temperature of a person. The implication of keeping weight off, therefore, means fighting the energy-regulation system of the body as well as coping with a hunger for a long duration of the day throughout a person’s life. This is very dangerous for the proper body system functioning.
The other supportive evidence that condemns people’s wrong perspective of Obesity is that weight and health are not the same thus cannot be compared. Here, it is argued that even though studies from various population levels do always find that the fat people have dangerous cardiovascular health conditions as compared to the thin people, human beings, however, are not averages. Various researches have also proved that most of the people grouped as obese are metabolically healthy. This is because these people show no signs of blood pressure elevation; they also do not show signs of resistance to insulin or even increased cholesterol. Most of the people who are exposed to such challenges are non-overweight persons. He, therefore, concludes that it is appropriate to look at is the nature of the lifestyle of a person. This involves considering things such as the foods that people take and the activities they perform.
In my opinion, Obesity has a lot of defects in a person’s life, and obese people should not be considered healthy. This is because various studies have proved multiple defects that obese people are always exposed to. Examples of such problems include heart defects, abnormalities in the limps, failure of various organs in the body such as the anal openings as well as interference with the development of the lungs, thus causing breathing difficulties. People should, therefore, engage in various health recommended activities that can help them avoid the condition.