Obesity Ethical Dilemma

The topic I chose to explore is obesity and would like to look closer at effective tools and strategies to facilitate weight loss in overweight and obese adults. While a long-term commitment to healthy eating patterns is a good strategy to promote weight loss, for many people, it seems that the commitment to this type of change is too much. Therefore, providing obese individuals with a single modification or technique that is effective may help to increase motivation and adherence to change. Lately there has been a great deal of media promotion on high protein breakfasts as an effective weight loss tool and I would like to explore this further. The research question I would like to pose: Is consuming a high protein breakfast an effective strategy …show more content…
Participants would have the opportunity to ask questions and have their concerns addressed and would have the option to withdraw from the study at any time without penalty. Regarding beneficence, the research would be designed in a way to minimize risk. The sample could be made up of obese, but otherwise healthy individuals who would not be harmed by the proposed research. Changes to participants’ diet would be limited and still fall within established guidelines for a healthy macronutrient intake to minimize any potential harm. The potential benefit would outweigh the risk. Finally, the study would account for justice in that it would equally distribute potential benefit and burden. The participant sample would be representative of the greater population and no one group would stand to benefit significantly more by participating in the research. If a control group is used, participants would be assigned randomly to further ensure that the potential benefits of the study would be equally