Heather Battaly Virtue Ethics

In Michael Pollan’s essay, “The American Paradox”, Pollan argues that American’s hold falsified ideas if one is more focused on nutrition. Americans have too much going on in their head with trying to be healthy, that they do not actually become healthy. The notion that “a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with nutrition and the idea of eating healthy” (Pollan 268) is what Pollan defines as the “American paradox”. The amount of time spent focusing on healthy eating habits decreases the joy one contains. Pollan identifies many issues that contribute to what is wrong with the way Americans think about eating today. For instance, we spend too much time and money trying to be healthy, we have strayed away from the past as new inventions occurred and last being we listen to “flawed science”. Despite the fact that many may say they see positive results from focusing on nutrition and health, Americans actually receive negative outcomes from nutrition and health.

In America’s society today, Individuals are taking the blame off of themselves and shifting it onto the food industry. The food industry does indeed put up a very tempting environment for Americans, targeting unhealthy choices, but nevertheless, it is up to the customer as to what they spend their money on. Even with attempted changes in nutrition within the food industry, most people take no interest in it. But, when someone is motivated, results of a healthier lifestyle is shown in multiple ways. Americans need to realize that dedication can overcome temptation and not only lower numbers on the scale, but better their overall

This seems simple enough but the vast majority of people today jump on fad diets due to their lack of resources and time. They want the quickest way to lose weight fast.

Apart from healthcare issue, the country has adopted the fast-moving life style, which has pushed most of our citizens to succumb to obesity as a result of fast foods. In fact, a recent report by the UN has ranked the United States as the most obese country in the world. Parramore (2012) outlines that, “Obesity is currently being considered as a national crisis in the United States and that it contributes 100,000 to 400,000 deaths per year. Statistics at the CDC and Prevention in 2010 indicate that 35.7% of the American adult is obese.” Many input trends exist in the American society, “First and foremost, people are highly used to fried foods, sugary drinks, and processed meats among others. There is also the sedentary lifestyle that has been adopted by many,” (Huffington Post, 2013). In fact, most of us love relaxing without exercise and too much television watching. These are some of the factors that contribute to obesity. The result is health complications problems such as diabetes, stroke, and heart disease just to mention but a few. These affect the longevity of life.

The United States is a great country in many aspects, but when it comes to health everything changes. The United States is best known as one of the worst unhealthy countries in the world. People in the Unites States are embracing “the fast food culture” rather than home-cooked culture. Eating unhealthy can cause bad health problems like obesity, which leads to the change in people’s behavior, and causes a variety of diseases. In the long term, these problems can be deadly.

According to Alyssa Brown, “51% of adults want to lose weight, [but] barely half as many (25%) say they are seriously working towards that goal. This discrepancy between Americans’ weight-loss desires and behaviors has existed for years”(Brown). According to society, the definition of a healthy person is someone who exercises often and eats healthy foods. Even though people want to be healthy, becoming healthy is a hard task. Surely it is much easier to lay around at home and eat chips than to work out at the gym. Maybe this is why obesity rates are on the rise. A medical study estimates that “75% of the U.S. population will be classified as overweight or obese or obese by the year 2020” (NewsMax). People wonder, what is the solution to this

In “What’s Wrong with Fat-Shaming?” by Lesley Kinzel and “Solve America’s Obesity Problem with Shame,” by Chris Friend share two different ideas about shaming against obesity. Body-shaming happens to everyone at some point in their lifetime, it sometimes includes inappropriate negative statements and attitudes towards a person weight or size. Fat-shaming is a term made by obese people to avoid their responsibility in taking care of their body. These people make themselves victims in society by pretending they are being discriminating like an ethnic group.

One of the most unhealthy diets in the world is that of an American. It is made up of processed foods and a good amount of television. America easily has the most fast food restaurants in the entire world. Leave it to McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King or any other fast-food restaurant to serve extremely cheap and even unhealthier food at any time during the day or night. ”It tastes good so why not?” That seems to be the question many people are asking now-a-days. Because it is so easily accessible and processed, it is made to be very tasty and extremely unhealthy. Many Americans find his or herself indulging on the these fatty foods of America on a day-to-day basis. While it may taste good at the time, it has a terrible effect on your body

Many people refer to the problem of overweight Americans as an epidemic, and rightfully so. “The National Center for Health Statistics (2002) estimated that in 1999, 61% of U.S. adults were overweight” (Dean 303). The main reason so many Americans are overweight is that food is everywhere. We see advertisements for food constantly, such as commercials, billboards, food trucks, restaurants, and grocery stores. With so much food around us, it can be hard not to want to eat all the time. This reality of food everywhere is a very new concept. People have not had access to food in the way they do today ever before in history. Fasting has been shown to quickly and effectively get weight off.

Since the inception of this mode of research, peoples’ perception of what constitutes moral behavior

Virtue ethics is a normative theory whose foundations were laid by Aristotle. This theory approaches normative ethics in substantially different ways than consequentialist and deontological theories. In this essay, I will contrast and compare virtue ethics to utilitarianism, ethical egoism, and Kantianism to demonstrate these differences. There is one fundamental aspect of virtue ethics that sets it apart from the other theories I will discuss. For the sake of brevity and to avoid redundancy, I will address it separately. This is the fundamental difference between acting ethically within utilitarianism, egoism, and Kantianism. And being ethical within virtue ethics. The other theories seek to define the ethics of actions while virtue ethics does not judge actions in any way. The other theories deal with how we should act, while virtue ethics determines how we should be.

Throughout the United States it may be normal to eat fast food and junk foods all the time because it is something we see as normal, however, this is far from it. In the US 32.2% of men are overweight and 35.5% of women are heavier than they should be. Now in 2017, many have made it a goal for them to work out more often, eat healthier, and maintain a better health. When people hear the word ‘diet’, they think of starving yourself and eating salad all the time. However, a diet is just the food consumed by an organism. Many people use healthier diets to help reach their goals.The way you eat now, will affect the way you feel ten minutes from now and for the rest of your life.

Have you ever wondered why it's so easy for people to eat unhealthy, but they find it extremely difficult to eat healthy. There are literally so many reasons why people seems to have a hard time eating healthy foods. The first reason may be the fact that people are so busy that their schedule is actually interfering with their lifestyle. Unfortunately, some people are just too busy to eat on time, and they are most likely going to fast food since they could get food a little quicker there even if it's unhealthy, for them it's better than being late. If you happen to be one, then this is now the time to prioritize your health among other things, here are a couple of tricks you can do when it comes to trying to resist the temptation of unhealthy foods.

Unfortunately, Americans today are obsessed with losing weight. Everybody wants to be thin! Everywhere I go, there’s someone counting calories, cutting "carbs", and running themselves to death on a treadmill. Dieting can be beneficial, when done properly and with discussion with a doctor. Sadly, some people fall into these bad habits when the desperation to lose weight has become tremendous.

The modern way of life…We sit for hours at work; travel to work by car or public transportation, and then sit some more at home in front of the TV eating foods loaded with calories. Lack of physical activity and over eating year after year results in muscle atrophy and fat pads on our stomach, arms, buttocks, thighs and slowly leads us to obesity. Then, one day we look at ourselves in the mirror and realize it is time for change. Of course, we want this change to happen overnight. We seem to forget we did not gain weight overnight.  So, we start conducting Spartan regime and manage to lose few kilos but this drastic change causes our body starving, slowing of our metabolism and in the end to feeling fatigue and dizziness.  This fast diets usually end in gaining more