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to say no to pizza.” (Nancy O’Dell). At minimum breastfeeding burns about 500 calories a day. “People say, ‘You’re still breast-feeding, that’s so generous.’ Generous, No! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It’s sort of like natural liposuction. I’d carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.” (Helena Bonham Carter). After pregnancy breastfeeding helps the uterus contract and it helps stop post pregnancy bleeding. It has also proven to lower the risks of ovarian and…

Author's Note: Hello, how was your day? Hopefully it was just as amazing as you'd planned and not totally awkward like the day Phoenix was having in that prologue. By the way, this first chapter takes off a week after the starting prologue, anyway I'll continue on with the story and not my author note, from me. :) "So..." Maverick starts as I sit at the breakfast table. It was Monday morning, the dreaded day I had been trying to ignore. I was going back to my small town high school, the one…

Humans everywhere are so focused on the way they look in today’s society. A large percentage of humans feel they should alter their body for society to except them. About 15.6 million surgeries have been recorded in the year of 2014 just in the United States (Plastic surgery statistics show new consumer trend , 2015). Many over look the risks that plastic surgery could provide for the people. Plastic surgery risks are Medical, society issues, scarring, and anesthesia risks. Not only are there…

The United States is one of the most materialistic countries and that is because consumption has become a normal thing in today’s time. However, a few months of bliss is not a valid excuse for the damage consumption causes. The online article “Consumerism: Causes and Impacts.” written by Siddhant Sadangi, discusses the causes of consumerism and the negative impacts consumption has on society. In Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff, she elaborates on how consumption affects the environment. The…

promotional advertisements. Quickly, the benefits of supplements and beauty products are shown, showing a girl standing on a scale losing weight. Also, shown is a woman eating salads and exercising. Lastly, there are demonstrations of breast implants, liposuction, and other medical procedures to enhance physical appearance. At the end of the video, a powerful message is shown, “Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does.” (Squishy, 2008) Dove, a company within the beauty industry has…

unsatisfied if they do not see immediate results. Secondly, people use others who want to get fit by using weight loss pills to get rich. Many barely, or don’t help at all. They just use it to make money. Third of all, there are surgeries such as liposuctions that they take the fat out surgically. But operations like this can cost thousands of dollars. Without obesity numbers going down, we are putting ourselves in dangerous…

“When I grow up, I wanna be famous, I wanna be a star, I wanna be in movies…” These words begin the chorus of the infamous song “When I Grow Up” sang by the pop girl group, the Pussycat Dolls, that dominated radio stations in the early 2000s. The song’s lyrics symbolize a group of women who have made it to the big leagues by being sexy and are relishing in their wealth and success. In the early 2000s, the Pussycat Dolls were a symbol of power and sex and were a picture perfect group of women…

Obesity is Exhausting Economy... - Economists consider that overweight and obesity have come a major international economic problem as it caused by many factors. They are racing today with armed conflict and smoking in terms of generating greater economic impact of the negative human world. They impose significant costs on the health care systems, since the ratio of 2 to 7 percent of all spending on health care in all parts of the world are linked with measures to prevent and treat the condition…

I chose to watch Super-Size Me, which is a film about McDonalds and how a fast food diet can affect the health of consumers worldwide. In this documentary Morgan Spurlock puts himself at risk by placing himself on a 30-day McDonalds only diet. He was required to follow three rules. The first was that he could only consume products that were sold by McDonalds; the second that if they asked him if he wanted to super-size his meal he had to say yes, and finally he had to eat everything on the menu…

The United States as a country is very unhealthy. We as a population have developed very unhealthy eating, living, and exercise habits. The shear amount of processed, unhealthy food is gigantic and in today’s America it is near impossible to eat natural, healthy food. We live unhealthy because most of us are sedentary and rarely exercise. When we do decide to exercise, most of us go to the gym and aimlessly go machine to machine and try to figure out how to exercise. The average person does not…