21 Haziran 2013 Cuma

Article reflection- Supersize me: It is time to stop blaming fat people for their size

            There are lots of over-weight problems in today’s world in all countries of the world. Especially in United States of America, over-weight problems occur. Allison Motluk, writer of the article ‘Supersize me: It is time to stop blaming fat people for their size, gives us some clues about that problem with research results. However, she is not on the side of people that blame fat people for their bigger size. She gives us an example of it. She tells us about the airlines that plan to charge their passengers according to their weights. How can it be possible to value a person according to his/her weights? Are they meat? Are they going to be sold kilo by kilo? However, we cannot ignore the percentage of over-sized people. As Motluk says in her article, while it was 13 percent of Americans 10 years ago, now it is doubled and has come to 22 percent obese people. What is the reason for that rise? Actually we know the effects of the environment on individuals’ lives. The world is changing very fast and we are getting less space for our daily lives. There are a lot of cars and they need roads to go on. They are getting their space, but we are losing ours. It can be said that ‘no space, no health and lots of weight.’ People are becoming lazier day by day and putting weight all the time. However, people cannot be accused of being fat, because the reason of being fat actually is not the person. The environment is responsible for that. There are not enough pathways for people to do sport especially walking. Besides, the food industry has changed in time. As Motluk mentioned in her article, while a McDonalds’ ordinary menu had 59 calories in 60s, it has tripled in time and become 1550 calories. Now tell me a reason to blame a fat person for his/her appearance while there are lots of reasons to blame environment for that problem.     

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