Obesity Over the last decade children and adults, in the United States, have been gaining more and more weight. Obesity is rapidly becoming an epidemic in our youngsters’ lives. Whether it’s all the fast food or lack of exercise, adults and especially children are heavier than ever. This increase in the national girth is giving way to such debilitating and chronic disease diabetes, joint and muscle ailments, and even heart disease. Beside that, there is a result from statistic says that disability due to obesity-related type 2 diabetes will increase particularly in industrializing countries, as insulin supply is usually insufficient in industrialized countries. To anyone delivering health care to adults in the United States, the impact of obesity on physical and emotional health is obvious.
Because of the trend of the beauty or values has changed, people think that as another type of people, like blocking them out and stuff like this; on this paper I am going to talk about how do they think about themselves and how obesity affect their daily life. Being over weight is not a crime. People have often talked about people who are being fat, and thinking of them as an alien or even a freak. Obese people are just the same as you and me. All of us think the same, there is some stuff that we cannot change, and all we could do is to just live with it. Obese people cannot live their lives worry about what people think about them, they just live normal.
Obese people are like girls with small breasts. They will always wanted to have a bigger breasts, but they will learn to get use to what they have. So, on the same way, the people who are obese do want to do something about their look and body shapes. There are questions to be asked, what do they really think inside in mind? How do they feel when people talk about them? And what do they expect the way of people looking at them? Sometime being fat is very unpredictable. Somehow the obese people cannot change the way they are, but inside themselves they always wanted to be skinnier and look better. They do not want people to look at them funny, or make stupid comment about them or their bodies.
Being Obese does make them feel guilty and ashamed, they do want to do something to change the way they look. As a lady who has been told that she is being overweight said to me that “I don’t like people call me fatty”, with a strong tone voice. I know how it’s feel when people called you name. She then told me that, “Did you know how embarassed is that when I try to get through an ariel with my body size? You would never know understand how bad I feel internally.” During the talk with this lady, I can tell that people who are obese don’t feel good about themselves, not only this, they also try to hide themselves from public, get a rid of people talking about them, and stay away to those skinny people. Personally, I am not obese; but it doesn’t change any of my view points to look at obese people.
I look at them as normal, I don’t talk anything bad about them, because I know that the look of a person is not that important, the beauty is inside the heart. To me, I would still be friends with them and go out with them, because I don’t see no difference between they and I. I think it is wrong for those people who keep on gossiping about fat, and mix with those words like ugly, huge, big, etc. This is really degrading and lower the self-esteem of a person; those people who say bad stuff should change the way that they look at people, and don’t just people by looking at the outside. There is another thing that related to the values of people looking at obesity, which is the trend of the society. We all know that people in our global society tend to be skinny, they think that thinner would look better and could make a person look more beautiful.
I would say that they don’t know what is the real beauty is, not only this, but they also try to blame on people who are fat and ugly; these people need to change their values to look at things, maybe they need to think about how would they feel when the people that you don’t know call you freak, ugly, huge or words like this. Body weight influences more than just socioeconomic status. It also affects dating habits and opportunities for marriage but not necessarily satisfaction in marriage. It begins with dating.
Sobal’s study of the attitudes of high school students toward overweight members of the opposite sex revealed, particularly in young men, a reluctance to establish a relationship with someone who is fat. Since body type affects dating preferences, it’s no surprise that it affects marriage opportunities as well. Many studies have shown that obese people have more difficulty attracting a marriage partner, marry later, marry less desirable partners, and marry heavier partners. Once married, people tend to put on weight, increasing their chances of becoming obese. In most cases, both husband and wife tend to put on weight together, a pattern researchers call ‘marital synchrony.’ Overall, married men in particular are heavier than unmarried people. The obesity of one or both partners can affect marital satisfaction.
Conflict can arise over weight gain, and partners can experience a decline in romantic interest. Attempts to lose weight can also cause problems. Family dynamics can be interrupted. Men whose wives lose weight may feel threatened if they perceive their wives as becoming attractive to other men. Some studies have found that the weight loss of a spouse can lead to divorce. Others have discovered attempts by family members to sabotage the weight loss attempts of an individual in an effort to maintain the status quo.
Once again, obesity is not a transmitted disease, you won’t get sick or anything by going out with them, on the other hand, we should give support to them and help them to build up their self-confidence and self-esteem.