Obesity a Disease
Ida Casey
Dr. Travien Capers
Philosophy 210
October 26, 2015

Abstract

The term disease suggest that bodies, physiology, and genes are malfunctioning. By invoking physiological explanations for obesity, the disease label encourages the perception that weight is unchangeable. Obesity a disease that is increasing at an alarming rate in the United States. This research study investigate that recognizing obesity as a disease will help change the way the medical community tackles these completely issue that affects approximately one in three Americans. A study show in the three experiment found that presenting obese people with a passage that described obesity as disease decreased the dissatisfaction they reported about their own bodies. The term disease suggest that bodies, physiology, and genes are malfunctioning. By invoking physiological explanations for obesity, the disease label encourages the perception that weight is unchangeable. A way to talk about obesity is that it reduces blame and dissatisfaction.

In this paper I will be discussing how individuals that are obese overcome obstacles throughout their lives. I consider obesity to be disease because some people cannot control what or how much they eat. Over one-half of all Americans are overweight or obese. If you are overweight or obese, carrying this extra weight puts you at risk for developing many diseases. Women generally have more subcutaneous fat than men, but appear to suffer a greater cardiovascular risk from a given degree of fat than women. Obesity is the net result of an excess of energy consumption over expenditure. Factors that must be considered as contributing to causation are: heredity, and altered metabolism of adipose tissue, the list goes on and on. Overeating is clearly a prominent contributor to obesity. Feeding behavior occurs in response to