Have you ever wondered why the percentage of obese women in Canada is increasing? What do they feel about it? And, what are the complications on their health conditions they could get due to their obesity? In this thesis, we will answer these questions and will suggest how they could overcome this problem.
Canada is well-known for its campaign for healthy lifestyle but even though with its effort, there is an increasing number of obese Canadian adults with greater number recorded from the year 2000 to 2007 (Huffpost Living Canada, 2013). According to Martini, Ober, Bartholomew, Nath (2013, p.577), “obesity is defined as being 20 percent over ideal weight, because it is at this point that serious health risk appear.” In medical profession, obesity …show more content…
Self-esteem is defined by Zimbardo of Stanford University (1992, p. 533) as a generalized evaluative attitude toward the self, which can strongly influence our thoughts, moods, and behaviour. According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, in order for a person to achieve satisfaction on the needs of self-esteem, the person has first to adequately satisfy the lower needs, which are the physiological/biological needs that includes food, water, oxygen, sleep, etc.; safety needs; & belonging and love needs that includes the needs to affiliate with others and be accepted, before the higher ones can be considered (Wood, Wood, Boyd, Wood, & Desmarais, 2011, p. 284). Obese women in Canada can sometimes be low due to negative assessment from the other people that could lead to psychological disorder, like depression. As quoted by Dr. Wendy Duggleby (2010), “depression reduces happiness and well-being, contributes to physical and social limitations, complicates the treatment of concomitant medical conditions, and increases the risk of suicide” (p. 387). On the other hand, one of the risk factors for depression that Patsy Ruchala (2010) enumerated is “being a female” (p.374). According to the article Depression in Women written by Melinda Smith and Dr. Jaelline Jaffe that was updated last October of 2014, women is more likely to be depressed rather than men due to biological/hormonal change, such as premenstrual problems, pregnancy/post-partum depression, and menopause stage, and psychological/social causes. Most obese women also suffers bullying that includes harmful words that can affect their self-esteem and perspective in life. Verbal abuse are words, jokes, tune of the voice, and language that have been us to harm other people (Hartwell- Walker, 2013). According to Mamun, O’Callaghan, Williams, & Najman (2013), obese adults have greater chance of
Canada is well-known for its campaign for healthy lifestyle but even though with its effort, there is an increasing number of obese Canadian adults with greater number recorded from the year 2000 to 2007 (Huffpost Living Canada, 2013). According to Martini, Ober, Bartholomew, Nath (2013, p.577), “obesity is defined as being 20 percent over ideal weight, because it is at this point that serious health risk appear.” In medical profession, obesity …show more content…
Self-esteem is defined by Zimbardo of Stanford University (1992, p. 533) as a generalized evaluative attitude toward the self, which can strongly influence our thoughts, moods, and behaviour. According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, in order for a person to achieve satisfaction on the needs of self-esteem, the person has first to adequately satisfy the lower needs, which are the physiological/biological needs that includes food, water, oxygen, sleep, etc.; safety needs; & belonging and love needs that includes the needs to affiliate with others and be accepted, before the higher ones can be considered (Wood, Wood, Boyd, Wood, & Desmarais, 2011, p. 284). Obese women in Canada can sometimes be low due to negative assessment from the other people that could lead to psychological disorder, like depression. As quoted by Dr. Wendy Duggleby (2010), “depression reduces happiness and well-being, contributes to physical and social limitations, complicates the treatment of concomitant medical conditions, and increases the risk of suicide” (p. 387). On the other hand, one of the risk factors for depression that Patsy Ruchala (2010) enumerated is “being a female” (p.374). According to the article Depression in Women written by Melinda Smith and Dr. Jaelline Jaffe that was updated last October of 2014, women is more likely to be depressed rather than men due to biological/hormonal change, such as premenstrual problems, pregnancy/post-partum depression, and menopause stage, and psychological/social causes. Most obese women also suffers bullying that includes harmful words that can affect their self-esteem and perspective in life. Verbal abuse are words, jokes, tune of the voice, and language that have been us to harm other people (Hartwell- Walker, 2013). According to Mamun, O’Callaghan, Williams, & Najman (2013), obese adults have greater chance of