In the article “Being Fat Is Ok,” Author Paul Campos argues that lies about fat, fitness, and health helps fuel America’s $50 billion-per-year diet industry. He considers himself to be in good health due to the fact that he runs 35 to 40 miles per week. But according to the Body Mass Index (or BMI) charts when his height and weight are factored in, he is considered to be overweight. According to the government, who use these BMI charts, over 61 percent of Americans are overweight. Campos believes that the diet industries with help from the government are being dishonest to the American people. He discusses the three lies that are most noticeable to him. The first one is that fat people are less healthy than thin people because they are fat. Campos feels that this is a lie because there is no solid scientific basis. The second lie Campos speaks of is that of fat people would be as healthy as thin people if they lost weight. There are some studies that show an increase in death in people who have lost weight. The last thing the author considers to be a lie is that fat people can choose to be thinner. Statistics have proven that a group of dieters will weigh more than a group that never began dieting.
The question remains if being fat causes serious health problems. And if losing weight can be good for someone or bad for them. Things such as Diabetes and High Cholesterol problems have been linked to obesity. Not to mention the high risk of a heart attack someone who is obese has. More studies are needed to get Americans on a healthier track.
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Felecia,
ReplyDeleteYou have done an excellent job with summarizing the sources that we've read thus far.
Here's what I would like to see you do with the remaining summaries. Be sure that you are simply summarizing the author's text exactly as he/she presents it. Your opinion of his/ her article is not necessary when you are simply writing a summary of what you've read.
Also, instead of simply summarizing the entire article, begin to only summarize those parts of the article that interest you as a writer. For example, an author may discuss A, B, C and D in his article; however, you may be only interested in C and D; therefore, you would only summarize C and D on your blog. For more help with this, refer back to chapter two of the TSIS.