Todays children are faced with a severe epidemic. Day after day, children are growing in size. The number of obese children is growing severely and scientists are perplexed. Obesity is a disease affecting thousands of people every day. While conducting my research, the argument that I found was most prominent was the debate between whether obese individuals should become fit vs. just losing weight. Most articles I found continued to say that obese people need to lose weight to reduce their chances of being affected by certain diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cancer, and heart attacks. In the first article I read which I gathered from the NAAFA (National Association for Advanced Fat Acceptance) argues that obese individuals do not need to lose weight to cure their disease. The NAAFA argues that obese patients can become physically fit without having to lose all the weight. Naturally when individuals become physically active and on their way to becoming physically fit, they lose weight, but what the NAAFA is arguing is that obese individuals shouldnt focus on just losing the weight to make their life better, they should focus on making their lifestyle habits more physically active and health conscious. This article also talks about the research done on obesity and its faults. NAAFA says that the obese research community makes hypotheses that are biased against fat people. Very-low-calorie diets are said to be unhealthy and that most research is focused on these types of diets and the weight loss caused by these. Weight is loss, but then regained and leads to an early death. This is said to prove that being fat is unhealthy, but the article states that in reality the VLC diets are whats bad for individuals. The article I gathered from the NAAFA is very set in its opinion of how obesity should be handled. This organization seems to have a very one-sided outlook on all the research being done. It seems to be implyin...
