Is Weight-loss maintenance possible? This is the topic of discussion on the article I am choosing to write about for this final reflection paper. Berkeley argues yes it is a possible task it just is not an easy one while Pope, on the other hand, disagrees and implies that biologically some people are genetically inclined to obesity. Before reading through the article and doing my own research on the topic, I would have immediately said yes, of course it is. After my opinion has now drastically changed. Obesity or being overweight can be defined by one’s body mass index (BMI). This is calculated by dividing the weight by the height of the person. Having a BMI of 25-29.9 indicates the person is overweight and a BMI of 30 or over indicates the
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The participants were put on extreme diets of only 500 calories a day for eight weeks (Page 232). After their program was over and they had successfully lost the weight, they had nutritionists counsel them on regular exercises and promoted healthier eating. She also talked about her own struggles with her and her mother’s weight. She even wrote how she felt that the odds of maintaining a healthy weight might have been stacked against her because of her family’s weight issues she might have inherited (Page 233). Pope also goes on to talk about another study done by Canadian researchers Claude Bouchard and Angelo Tremblay. They took 31 pairs of male twins ranging from seventeen to twenty-three. They fed them varies high in fat diets and took down the data that was reported. Their findings indicated that some of the brothers gained up to three times more than the others. When they did the experiment in reverse they found that some twins lost more pounds than the others doing the same regimens (Page …show more content…
She starts off talking about a group of people who by different means came to the same results, a healthier weight. She talks about her experience with working with overweight people and of how research on weight loss has changed and will continue to do so. Berkeley also talks about Pope’s views on obesity and maintenance an disagrees on many points. She does agree that after the point of obesity weight is much more difficult to deal with. I like that scenario she paints out for the reader on how if someone were to tell their family and friends that they were giving up meat they would be encouraged but had they said they were giving up sugar and grains they would most likely not get that same congratulating
The participants were put on extreme diets of only 500 calories a day for eight weeks (Page 232). After their program was over and they had successfully lost the weight, they had nutritionists counsel them on regular exercises and promoted healthier eating. She also talked about her own struggles with her and her mother’s weight. She even wrote how she felt that the odds of maintaining a healthy weight might have been stacked against her because of her family’s weight issues she might have inherited (Page 233). Pope also goes on to talk about another study done by Canadian researchers Claude Bouchard and Angelo Tremblay. They took 31 pairs of male twins ranging from seventeen to twenty-three. They fed them varies high in fat diets and took down the data that was reported. Their findings indicated that some of the brothers gained up to three times more than the others. When they did the experiment in reverse they found that some twins lost more pounds than the others doing the same regimens (Page …show more content…
She starts off talking about a group of people who by different means came to the same results, a healthier weight. She talks about her experience with working with overweight people and of how research on weight loss has changed and will continue to do so. Berkeley also talks about Pope’s views on obesity and maintenance an disagrees on many points. She does agree that after the point of obesity weight is much more difficult to deal with. I like that scenario she paints out for the reader on how if someone were to tell their family and friends that they were giving up meat they would be encouraged but had they said they were giving up sugar and grains they would most likely not get that same congratulating