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America, land of the free and home of the obese. Today, the United State’s obesity rate has skyrocketed causing a health crisis. Obesity is a medical condition where a person has so much body fat, it affects their health as a whole. To determine if someone is obese or not, their BMI (body mass index) is measured. BMI is a tool used to indicate if a person is underweight, overweight, or obese by measuring your body fat based on your height and weight. Obesity is generally caused by having a bad…

Can obesity spread through social ties? Yuxi Ye 1 Introduction Though The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years has received various critiques from the society since it first published, in which, the author Christakis and Fowler (C&F) claimed that obesity appears to spread through social ties, I think this article and the controversies it has brought still worth to discuss, as a good example of the possible misuse of social networks analysis and statistical analysis. In this…

In ancient times, being obese was a sign of health, wealth, and high social status. Being hefty meant that particular person had enough money to buy food, and they were better off than the peasants of a lower class. However, today being obese can be embarrassing and potentially life threatening. Obesity is a condition that affects many people, and it is a major health concern throughout the country. The statistics of obesity cases are startling. Also, obesity is a condition that affects…

“Do we really want to live in a society where people are denied their basic humanity if they don’t subscribe to some arbitrary form of acceptable?” (p. 2, ll. 31-32) This is one of many questions raised by Kelli Jean Drinkwater, a woman who is a self-proclaimed “confident, fat woman” (p. 1, ll. 10-11). The speech held in May 2016 confronts how and why fat people are met with multiple preconceptions about how and why they are fat on an every day basis, and that these prejudiced assumptions must…

Facts About Clenbuterol: In the recent times, many people have become health conscious and they have great knowledge about health problems cause by their excess body weight. Hence they are looking for a reliable way of losing their unwanted weight within a short span of time. Even though there are lots of ways to reduce your excess weight, most people expect to lose their weight much faster by using weight loss supplements. When you search online, there are several medications available on the…

Often there is more to many situations then what can be seen even ones as cut and dry as weight. A major trending topic is obesity with many people split on two different sides of the topic. One side claims obesity is completely due to a lack of will-power, and people just need to put down the fork, eat healthier, and exercise, while the other side claims it is a disease or a medical condition and should be treated as such. In some way, both camps are right, but there is more to eating then just…

Keeping the Weight Off For Good It has always been a struggle after you have become over weight to lose the weight and keep the weight off for good. I personally am a living witness once being thirty pounds overweight. In my personal experience I lost the weight, but still struggle to keep the weight off, I keep putting it back on. After maintaining a low calorie diet, and remaining active I continue to struggle to maintain my ideal figure. Studies have shown that majority of people that lost a…

University of Mississippi department of biology had recently conducted and studied an experiment on DNP’s within the body. It was compared with an obese human’s fatty tissue and a normal human with healthy tissues. The DNP was cut open and injected into the tissues through a syringe, and what occurred was an abnormal loss in fatty tissues from the obese person’s sample. The other sample was left the same, what was notably different was that the obese persons sample shrunk in size from 6 inches…

insulin will no longer be produced. Without insulin the human body will receive the benefits of glucagon and growth hormones.Upon understanding the importance of glucagon and growth hormone, “HGH promotes and increases the synthesis of new protein tissues, such as in muscle recovery or repair. This is the way new muscle is built. Recent research suggests its involvement in the metabolism of body fat and its conversion to energy sources. Tests were conducted in obese people, and medical use in…

Many people are unaware of the common yet preventable causes seen every day that obesity is capable of producing. Whether it may be because it is cheaper and/or convenient, many people today are not making healthy choices. Restaurants and fast food chains are now introducing bigger portions to satisfy their customers, which more likely will lead to over eating and poor diet. Lack of physical activity is also a key component to the root of obesity considering that those who tend to eat more than…