do need to realize that obesity is not just a biological/physical disease. Obesity affects a person psychologically, socially, culturally, and politically, as well as just physically. Treatments for this disease should be non-biased and encouraging. Ive seen many weight-loss gimmicks so far and it seems to me that it only brings peoples hopes down because the diets fail and then their disease seems impossible to cure. In the first article, it states, permanent weight loss is impossible to achieve, that dieting makes them fatter, that many of them are healthy, and that valuing thinness over fatness is a cultural bias. I believe valuing thinness over fatness is a cultural bias and I blame the media in part for that. Now a days, all we see on the television is images of models with the ideal body and it makes many of us sad because we have tried to reach those goals, and cannot. In reality only a very small percentage of people look like those models, and those are the models themselves. I believe that before a doctor can begin to cure someone with obesity, they have to start in the psychological department before they can focus on having the person lose weight. Just as in an addiction, the person had to be able to see their goals and believe they can reach those goals. The person has to be convinced that the change they have to make is for the bettering of their life. Since we cannot change our culture, we have to change the attitudes of each individual. The person needs to see that they are beautiful regardless of what they look like, but that they need to lose the fat for health reasons. Obese individuals, often, do not know just how bad things can get until its too late and they are facing some of the many complications that were mentioned in article two. One thing I realized about both articles is the underlying fact that something needs to be changed in the lives of obese individuals. The difference in the two article...
