The more fat people there are, the more being fat is seen as normal. A half century ago, when obesity and overweight were relatively rare in this country, fat people were regularly ridiculed by entertainers, and this ridicule helped to keep people thin. As more and more people become fat, fatness becomes more normal-seeming, and the ridicule ceases (though another factor is the march of "political correctness," which discourages criticism of people's weaknesses).
But separating out common causes from social influence is difficult. My social network consists almost entirely of affluent, educated people who are knowledgeable about calories and about the health effects of overweight, who can easily afford both expensive alternatives to junk food and may be owned exercise equipment, and who (this of course is related to their affluence and education) have a low discount rate and thus do not neglect long-term consequences of current behavior. One expects these people to be thin even if they are uninfluenced by the weight of the other people in their network. And likewise at the other extreme, with networks composed of people who are poor and badly educated and have high discount rates, all of which are correlated with obesity.
Still, it is plausible that there would be some social influence within these networks. The reason is that there is no clear notion of an optimal weight. Nobody bothers to compute his body mass, which requires translating one's weight from pounds to kilograms and then dividing by the square of one's height in meters. (What’s with the calculation?? just wanna look smart haha) If you weigh 180 pounds, though you should weight only 150, but your friends weigh 200 pounds, you will tend to think of yourself as thin. Overweight may also be related to a decline in social conformity. There is more variety in people's dress, hair length, etc., than there was fifty years ago. Maybe it has become easier to make judgments about people without relying on crude signals, such as physical appearance. Then the costs of a non-normal appearance would fall, and this would help to explain the increase in overweight.
A further point has to do with sedentary life style. That is rightly regarded as a risk factor for obesity. But in addition, being sedentary reduces the cost of being obese, since the less active one is; the less one is impeded by being obese. Fatness tends to creep up on one, and the less costly it is, the less incentive one has to lose weight, which is difficult. Whichever our actions are, there will be consequences that is going to be regardless of how you are going to solve it. There are certain times when this issues would bring about the one we call it’s the "weirdness" and "awkwardness" to any situations that we are in currently in. Sometimes bringing these issues would also produce a negative feedback to ourselves, having said that we must ensure this feedback would also be integrated into the solutions. Learn from whatever the feedback that can came up. Yes, not all issues are to be brought against us or others, but there are also positive outcomes based on bringing about those unresolved issues. It is just a matter of choosing the right actions into the unresolved issues.That is why we need to focus also the issues and matters at hand before we try to solve unresolved issues in the past. One issue at a time.
But separating out common causes from social influence is difficult. My social network consists almost entirely of affluent, educated people who are knowledgeable about calories and about the health effects of overweight, who can easily afford both expensive alternatives to junk food and may be owned exercise equipment, and who (this of course is related to their affluence and education) have a low discount rate and thus do not neglect long-term consequences of current behavior. One expects these people to be thin even if they are uninfluenced by the weight of the other people in their network. And likewise at the other extreme, with networks composed of people who are poor and badly educated and have high discount rates, all of which are correlated with obesity.
Still, it is plausible that there would be some social influence within these networks. The reason is that there is no clear notion of an optimal weight. Nobody bothers to compute his body mass, which requires translating one's weight from pounds to kilograms and then dividing by the square of one's height in meters. (What’s with the calculation?? just wanna look smart haha) If you weigh 180 pounds, though you should weight only 150, but your friends weigh 200 pounds, you will tend to think of yourself as thin. Overweight may also be related to a decline in social conformity. There is more variety in people's dress, hair length, etc., than there was fifty years ago. Maybe it has become easier to make judgments about people without relying on crude signals, such as physical appearance. Then the costs of a non-normal appearance would fall, and this would help to explain the increase in overweight.
A further point has to do with sedentary life style. That is rightly regarded as a risk factor for obesity. But in addition, being sedentary reduces the cost of being obese, since the less active one is; the less one is impeded by being obese. Fatness tends to creep up on one, and the less costly it is, the less incentive one has to lose weight, which is difficult. Whichever our actions are, there will be consequences that is going to be regardless of how you are going to solve it. There are certain times when this issues would bring about the one we call it’s the "weirdness" and "awkwardness" to any situations that we are in currently in. Sometimes bringing these issues would also produce a negative feedback to ourselves, having said that we must ensure this feedback would also be integrated into the solutions. Learn from whatever the feedback that can came up. Yes, not all issues are to be brought against us or others, but there are also positive outcomes based on bringing about those unresolved issues. It is just a matter of choosing the right actions into the unresolved issues.That is why we need to focus also the issues and matters at hand before we try to solve unresolved issues in the past. One issue at a time.
Be selective when trying to resolve them. Think before we do it..
i think that's it for now. you don't know how much i hurt my finger right now! haha i'll post again tomorrow! GOOOD DAYYY EVVEERRYYYOONNEEE!!
p/s This is NOT OVEERR YET, this is just the BEGINNING of A BITTER SWEET IN GP JOURNEY! =)
3 comments:
Gd Day Wasilah! what a WOW pics. Hehe.
Was~~ what a nice pic.. well i guess there's too many information here but i enjoyed reading it... Nice... :)
hello wasilah..nice post and more detail information about obesity..I am impressed :)
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