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Mind Map #11 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - I think that it was so interesting to be able to talk to the guest speaker and it was also important to talk about who comic strips don't reach and what their purpose is specifically. We spoke about how important it is to make sure that the information is being distributed to the correct audience and how humor is implemented and used as a tool in communicating effectivley.
        
        We were handed magazine titled "Health and Wealth" which analyzes the history of the hospital system in America as well as how it works with paying for medical help and who has access to that level of care.
        
        We then looked at a specific 4 panel comic that depicted a woman going to the doctor with a serious problem with her arm. The problem being that her arm was entirely detached from her body but all the doctor could see and comment on was that she was overweight. We focused on the issue of the doctor not being able to help with the actual issue because the patient was overweight but then the conversation shifted to the final panel of the comic.
        
        The final panel was of the doctor after the appointment writing that her patient was angry and out of control because the patient clearly got angry because the doctor was only addressing the weight of her patient not the actual problem.
- - - - Within the research I have been doing about weight and fatphobia in america I have been able to recognize that the fear that I have isnt mine alone, it is a fear that has been instilled in me from a society that doesnt believe that an individual has any worth if they are overweight.
        
        Weight, aside from the color of someone's skin, is a physical characteristic that people feel like they can gather information about that person by just looking at them physically. There is a connotation with fatness in america that is that they are lazy and don't care about themselves.
        
        The truth of the matter is, in our country it is easier and more cost effective for people to eat unhealthy foods than take the time to pay for fresh produce and things that have nutritional value. This is not the common trend of people across the world as in most other countries if someone is in a lower class they have a harder time accessing food. But in America, where there is a McDonalds on every corner it is easier for people to reach a McDonalds than a grocery store.
- - - - In the article the author mentions that while there is an issue with weight management in America as the binds of capitalism strangle the people in situations where they cant find themselves food to live a healthy lifestyle off of they are not focusing on that more so the limitations that are presented in the way that measurements are collected on people like Body Mass Index.
        
        Social Constructivism- argues that people have not necessarily gotten bigger throughout history but have been viewed through a different framework such as BMI forcing them into boxes which are labeled "unhealthy" and "healthy"
        
        One of the major flaws that are asociated with BMI is tat there is no way to measure what kind of weight the person is carrying. For example a person who is a man who is tall who has gone into the doctor to see whether or not they were at a healthy weight might be confronted with a result that says the person is overweight without taking their level of physical activity into account.
        
        If you were a body builder coming into the doctor for a BMI test and compaired it to a person who is naturally at a lower weight than the body builder, the body builder would be seen as extremely over weight because their body mass index puts them into a higher weight bracket than someone who doesn't. Both individuals are healthy just one has a higher amount of muscle mass.