Most people care about what others think of them and especially teens; there are people that support Freind’s method of stigmatizing by using this social accusation to shame people into losing weight and eating right to obtain an acceptable social image. Society places a pressure on its youth to look a certain way by eating healthy and being fit, yet juxtaposes its goal for the youth by making fast food and laziness the norm. Christopher Freind believes that Americans are becoming too concerned with hurting people's feelings and supports the use America’s insecurity as a tool to shame people into losing weight. If obesity is ignored then it is being accepted and embraced as an alternative lifestyle, and this is not the message that should be
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Yet the kids are the ones eating that McDonald’s Big Mac, and their parents are the ones buying the food for them. There has never been a restaurant like McDonald’s, or any other fast food chain, force their food down the throat of a customer. The purpose of stigmatizing obesity is not to humiliate insecure kids; the purpose is to use as a tool in order to improve what really matters: their health. Georgia and Minnesota have started campaigns such as “Stop Sugarcoating It” and “Big Bones Didn’t Make Me This Way… Big Meals Did”, among others using this tactic (Freind). He also gives a great example of this working in the past with cigarettes and tobacco. Cigarettes used to be considered cool, but now smokers are perceived as disgusting because it smells and it kills. Much like smoking cigarettes, people do not want to be associated with obese people because it is they’re gross, it they're smells, and their lack of care for their health kills. Society used these unpleasant characteristics of smoking as leverage to stigmatize the people that do smoke, not to ridicule them but to attempt to make cigarettes …show more content…
Twenty-two percent of the patients begin to have complications before they even leave the hospital. Bariatric surgery is inviting and seems safe; the advertisements and success stories seem to sell it to the people that are ashamed of their obesity. People are unable to pass up the opportunity of having the body they are promised, but the eye can be deceiving and the body that people see on magazines and in success stories does not show the complications going on inside the body. Eileen Wells was one of these hopeful Gastric Bypass patients ignorant of the dangers and blinded by the success stories of those that had lost hundreds of pounds. Eileen shares her story in Sabrina Erdley’s article, “Gastric Bypass Surgery Can Be Dangerous and Ineffective”. At 5 foot 3 inches and 290 pounds she was beyond overweight, and this caused complications besides just obesity: sleep apnea, dieting, sore joints, and lack of physical fitness. She wanted the surgery in order to give her a new life. The Roux-en-Y bypass surgery sectioned off her stomach and connected it to a deeper area of the small intestine in order to limit the amount of food consumed, and to limit the amount of calories absorbed. She had to greatly change the way
Yet the kids are the ones eating that McDonald’s Big Mac, and their parents are the ones buying the food for them. There has never been a restaurant like McDonald’s, or any other fast food chain, force their food down the throat of a customer. The purpose of stigmatizing obesity is not to humiliate insecure kids; the purpose is to use as a tool in order to improve what really matters: their health. Georgia and Minnesota have started campaigns such as “Stop Sugarcoating It” and “Big Bones Didn’t Make Me This Way… Big Meals Did”, among others using this tactic (Freind). He also gives a great example of this working in the past with cigarettes and tobacco. Cigarettes used to be considered cool, but now smokers are perceived as disgusting because it smells and it kills. Much like smoking cigarettes, people do not want to be associated with obese people because it is they’re gross, it they're smells, and their lack of care for their health kills. Society used these unpleasant characteristics of smoking as leverage to stigmatize the people that do smoke, not to ridicule them but to attempt to make cigarettes …show more content…
Twenty-two percent of the patients begin to have complications before they even leave the hospital. Bariatric surgery is inviting and seems safe; the advertisements and success stories seem to sell it to the people that are ashamed of their obesity. People are unable to pass up the opportunity of having the body they are promised, but the eye can be deceiving and the body that people see on magazines and in success stories does not show the complications going on inside the body. Eileen Wells was one of these hopeful Gastric Bypass patients ignorant of the dangers and blinded by the success stories of those that had lost hundreds of pounds. Eileen shares her story in Sabrina Erdley’s article, “Gastric Bypass Surgery Can Be Dangerous and Ineffective”. At 5 foot 3 inches and 290 pounds she was beyond overweight, and this caused complications besides just obesity: sleep apnea, dieting, sore joints, and lack of physical fitness. She wanted the surgery in order to give her a new life. The Roux-en-Y bypass surgery sectioned off her stomach and connected it to a deeper area of the small intestine in order to limit the amount of food consumed, and to limit the amount of calories absorbed. She had to greatly change the way