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Although many employers don’t mean to discriminate against their obese employees, it is still happening as their is a lack of awareness regarding this topic. Employers need to be more aware of how to help out their obese employees so they don’t discriminate against them. Raising awareness would be benificial because, by encouraging them into having a healthy lifestyle with incentives rather than feeling excluded. There should be more awareness that it is a big problem right now.
Claim: Research shows, that more than one-third of US adults do have obesity and that number is quickly on the rise. by 2030, this number will increase to half, a new study by the Robert Wood Foundation found. 2030 isn’t
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Establish Evidence: Their are some great people out in the workplace, and you know that some of them are overweight but still keep their jobs because there employers know that they are hard working and do what they are told and expected to do. Research Evidence: Obese women have a greater chance (5.8%) of losing their jobs while men have a greater chance (4.8%) than of their non-obese co-workers (@MyBarasticLife) Analysis:This proves my topic because, there is a greater chance of getting discriminated and fired by your employer rather than your fellow co-workers as they aren’t overweight. Research Evidence: Overweight women are paid less than their male colleagues. (Martin) Analysis: This proves my topic sentence because, you as the employer know that you would be letting go to one of your most valuable employees because you are afraid that they would have health problems later on just because you didn’t pay all of your employees the same. Research Evidence: Cassandra Smith, an employee at a Michigan Hooters, filed a lawsuit against the restaurant chain in 2010 because she believed that the Manager that she was working for told her that if she didn’t end up losing weight in the 30 days that she was given, she would face a “Separation” from the company. Soon after that, another employee, Leanne Convery said the same issue had happened to her also. (Martin) Analysis: This proves my topic sentence
Brody, Jane E. “Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out Its Cause.” New York Times. 12 September 2011. Print.
This is an essay written in the MIT Sloan Management Review that presents the correlation between businesses and the issue of obesity in order to persuade businesses to take action in regards to preventing the issue. Therefore, its target audience is anyone who currently works in business or plans to do so in the future. In this review, the author begins by citing four internal and external reasons for which businesses should care about obesity: self-preservation, public criticism, employee productivity, and opportunity. The author proceeds by providing an idea as to how businesses can assist in reversing the trend. In order to do so, he analyzes what he considers to be the two sides of the obesity problem: physical activity and food consumption.
...ence, but the author gathered data from those who are educated in those areas of study. Digging deep in past research, the writer finds experts from areas of study, relating to obesity and other health fields. Since the researchers are experts in those areas, this makes their data solid and reliable to use in her argument (Hall, 2004).
Obesity is a huge problem that needs to be resolved because it affects all people, unlike most issues. People of every gender, every age, and every race are at risk of being obese. Obesity rates in America have nearly doubled within the last twenty years. Something must be done not only to prevent obesity rates continuous rising, but also to dramatically increase the percentage of obese people in America altogether.
It is natural for a society to be concerned for the future generations. With the rate of obesity growing in adults and children, many begin to see it as an issue that needs to be addressed. New reports show “ childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years” (cdc.gov). Overweight and obese are not actually the same. Overweight is defined as “having excess body weight for a particular height from fat,” and obesity is defined as “having excess body fat” (cdc.gov). With obesity comes the chance for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Both can be
We need to acknowledge that our methods to control overweight and obesity may commence, but must not conclude with individual accountability. Only a number of diseases require a general approach, other than the effort to hold and decrease the levels of overweight and obesity, and in few places are the stakes higher. Employers seem to have accepted this and are attempting to develop programs to address it.
Jaslow, R. (2012, May 8). Obesity to affect 42% of Americans by 2030 with $550 billion in coast, say researchers. [CBS News] Retrieved from: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obesity-to-affect-42-of-americans-by-2030-with-550-billion-in-costs-say-researchers/
Interest in the social aspects of obesity is nothing new. Jeffrey Sobal has written extensively about the social and psychological consequences of obesity , including the stigmatisation and discrimination of obese and even overweight individuals (Sobal 2004).
I read a statement not too many years ago “According to the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity “today’s generation of America children will live sicker, grow fatter, and die younger” (2010). To stop and think about what that really says is beyond disconcert. Two years later, this evidence showing little to nothing has improved, is crippling.
Engler, Yves. “Obesity: much of the Responsibility Lies with Corporations.” They Say I Say. Ed. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst. New York. W.W. Norton, 2009. 172-181. Print.
"Obesity." Current Issues: Macmillian Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.
These sources include a research on obesity from 1989-2004 and the help from a cardiologist, gastrologist, and general practitioner. Utilizing these sources help boost Morgan’s credibility by showing that he has done research and the information he provides are professional. In addition, Morgan also utilizes his project of eating Mcdonald's for a month to portray the devastating effects of fast food places such as by listing how he has gained 24 lbs and 8% of body fat. By including these statistics, Morgan is able to display to the audience the terrible effects of eating fast food constantly and set an example of what would happen if they don’t stop. Thoroughly by utilizing these sources, the claims of America being the fattest country and fast food being unhealthy for the regular body can be seen as very true, as his results and research has thoroughly proved his
There is no question that obesity is a big problem in today’s society, but whom or what's to blame? Is it the big food corporation, lack of education, or are the people to blame? The fact of the matter is that the obesity epidemic is caused of many different factors. All it means is that it will be a harder problem to fix, but it shouldn’t deter anyone from tackling this problem head on. If people don't, the consequences from ignoring something this immense can be devastating—it’s time to stop talking and time to take action. The burden of fixing this problem lies heavily on the Millennial generation, this proposal will show how to solve it.
...omething to go. I found out that college student’s want foods that are quick, taste good, and cheap. The limitation to my research was that I only passed out ten surveys all at the cafeteria. Perhaps if I did more or passed them out at a different location I might have gotten different results. I also only interviewed two people, and a larger sample might have changed my results. Also only observing my roommates shopping might have limited me to what I always eat, other college students might buy healthier foods when they shop. Take a minute now and think about what you eat in an average day and see if you fall into the categories of eating unhealthy with the majority of college students. Next time you buy something to eat take a second and look what’s in it and think to yourself. Should I be eating this? Or is there something healthier that I could be eating?