Monday, April 25, 2011
Fear of Obesity
The blog that we chose is called Obesity and can be found at http://fast-food-obesity-obesity.blogspot.com. The purpose of this blog is to inform readers about obesity and how things can contribute to obesity. The headline of the blog could induce fear about being obesity where it creates sense of awareness about food that could contribute of becoming obesity. The facts that are posted in the blog could help people to think twice about their food intake and eventually will help to lead a healthy lifestyle.
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ReplyDeleteIn the overall picture, this blog has had very, very few comments on all their blogs. Due to this I would, myself, question the credibility of the bloggers blogs and therefore the overall effect that this blog has. However, the article titled "Childhood Obesity" had the most comments. This article was about ways to make fast food eating healthier. All three of the commenters seemed more informed on choices to make at fast food restaurants. One blogger says "I didn't know that the number of childhood obesity was growing like this." this proves that they learned something from the article. This article created a discussion amongst the three bloggers about to to cure obesity in children, one said it is the schools fault. This article had an effect on people's knowledge, but to me the overall blog is not effective at all due to the lack of comments, and the poor grammar in the title even.
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ReplyDeleteAfter looking through the obesity blog, I noticed that there were very few comments on the articles. It seems that most of the information contained in the articles is understood by the general population so it makes us wonder if the blog actually contains useful information. One article, “Childhood obesity,” did have three comments and seemed to inform the readers about childhood obesity. All three of the commenters spoke about how they had no idea of the child obesity problems. So it appears that the blog was able to have some effect on the readers. However, the lack of overall comments and the basic knowledge contained in the blog, leads us to believe that the blog had little effect on most of the readers.
As i look at the blog, I notice that fear is not emphasized in this blog as much. So i would wonder about the bloggers intention on this blog being affective. However, on this blog I notice that the background only has a few colors and no graphic image. There are two main colors that are shown on the site, a pinkish purple color and a tanish orange color, which could be a varity of foods such as yogurt for the pinkish purple color that can lead to obesity.
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ReplyDeleteThe author directly references the audience several times throughout the blog. The word you is used several times in each post to get the audience's attention and focus toward what the author is saying. The author believes her audience is people who want to lose weight but are too busy in with their everyday lives to choose healthier choices. The audience is thought to value their health and family. The author positions themself as a helpful friend to the audience, who with her extra knowledge on the subject can help you.
7.) The “Obesity” blog delivers information in the nature of avoiding obesity. I believe that the blog will have an effect on some people’s knowledge, values, and ideas. Some of the articles list consequences of poor health-related habits. For example, an article concerning gum disease relates the disease to similar effects of obesity. The writer, discussing a conference he or she went to writes: “[a recent] study has proved the connection between gum disease, brain infarction, cerebral accident, pneumonia, heart attack, premature birth, low-weight baby birth, and diabetes.” These consequences are designed to make the reader question his or her health-related decisions and how they can avoid suffering the listed consequences. I think this is a good method to induce fear as factual unbiased information is used. Written by the author are other posts that list habits that have been found to lead to obesity. For this reason, I believe that the blog will affect some people. However, I think that some readers will find the scare tactics ineffective and simply disregard the information which is presented. Unfortunately, there were very few comments on the posts, so it is impossible to know for sure what people are thinking about the topics. For the most part, this blog seems to balance persuasion quite well, using legitimate information to induce fear.
ReplyDelete5) This blog over problems concerning obesity in America included several instances of inclusive language, using the pronoun "we" to refer to Americans. The blog mainly serves as an informative piece with some comments on how to react to information provided to the audience in the form of what should be done to help prevent or lessen America's obesity problem. Some research is done by the author on America's eating habits and history, but is weak in supporting how such research is the reason for an obesity problem in America. In other words, information on America's eating habits is given, but analysis of this information is lacking. Comments that follow after provided research usually take form of "we should..." followed by the author's personal suggestions instead of "one should..." or "one who wishes to lose weight should...". This implies that the author's values are shared by the majority of America and not by a select group of people. This is reflects the author's values. Because of the author's focus on "the problem of obesity" one can infer the author and audience values being healthy.
ReplyDelete7. This obesity blog, whose goal is to try to fight obesity, does not accomplish its goal of using fear to stop people from making unhealthy choices to not become obese. I could not find any article that induced fear in me or that I can imagine would induce fear in people. Even the article about childhood obesity was more informative than fearful. There is also the lack of comments which makes me question the relevance of this blog, not to mention that it seems like the last post by the blog was in 2007, almost 4 years ago. It could be because we have heard so much about this issue in America that people have become immune to hearing about it. Either people have already heard about it and care or they have heard about it and do not care. Either way this blog fails in trying to get across its message as it is not fearful in the least.
ReplyDelete1. The first thing when you access this blog is how everything is so neutral. This fits very well with accompanying the cruel topic of obesity. By putting a mild scheme of pink, tan and light orange colors, a sense of neutrality is achieved and thus those who are trying to lose some weight will not be repulsed to reading a blog like this. Although obesity is a great topic of fear, this blog does an excellent job of thwarting the sense of fear and allowing the audience to just focus on what's important.
ReplyDeleteI understand the reason for such color schemes for this blog however i feel that the blog itself is still very ineffective, the layout is sloppy and the colors really aren't inviting for an audience. Neither do i feel this blog exemplifies our course theme "fear" very well.
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ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of blog articles in here that are short and do not give lengthy information. The information that they do give is info that many people already know or can figure out for themselves, such as "fast food causes obesity". There are not many comments on the blogs, and the ones that there are seem like they were meant to be jokes. I think this blog could do a better job at informing people and giving better advice and statistics rather than "fast food leads to obesity". I don't believe that this blog is effective.
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ReplyDeleteThe immediate attention grabber of this blog is the pastel shade of pink background covering almost all of the page. Pink is commonly known as a feminine color. It's usually considered pretty or preppy; quite the opposite of obesity. This color choice suggests that the target audience of this blog site is mainly women. This trend is followed by the font colors throughout the articles. The author uses combinations of magenta, blue, lime green and other bright colors that might appeal to the woman eye. Perhaps the author feels that they will be more successful targeting women because they are typically more concerned about the way they look. This trend follows in some of the pictures and article titles throughout the blog. Many women eat yogurt as a snack, so having a picture of yogurt at the top of the blog is going to draw in the attention of that group. Also, the article about children is going to attract the attention of concerned mothers. Overall, the interface of this blog has a womanly feel that indicates that that is the intended audience.
#6 From the homepage of the blog, I selected the interesting article “Traffic light labeling” posted by Mika. The author begins the post by mentioning that many Americans want to make healthier choices, but find it difficult to make due to their busy life styles. A fact is provided, defining a healthy diet as a reduction of fats, salts, and added sugars from consumption. Recently in many grocery stores of English speaking countries, food products are now labeled with the three notorious traffic light colors, which is the reason why a large picture of a typical traffic light is integrated into the post. By just glancing at a product, one can see the nutritional value as it is ranked according to the amount of salt, sugar, and fat it contains. Similar to a traffic light for drivers, the color displayed is a symbol representing a command followed by most. A red label suggests that particular product should be avoided, an amber labeled product is okay to consume, and a green labeled product is a recommended healthy choice. I personally think that it is sad that our society must rely on a label system to make healthy choices. On the other hand, I, like the author, also believe that this action is a great suggestion for reducing the fear of obesity. Most drivers have an automatic reaction to seeing a red light, causing a jerking reaction to brake. This same reaction is hoped to be translated into the food industry when the customer sees a red light on a label, creating a fear that causes them to stop before picking up the product. As the author comments with the last sentence, one should select more of the amber and green colored items and not the red in their diet.
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ReplyDeleteThe article provides some credible information. However, the information does not provide any length of detailed information so I do not believe it influences the reader's knowledge, values, or ideas. The article would need to provide more persuasive information to effect the reader. The blog does use one graph, but more statistical information could be used. The blog provides basic information on the dangers of fast food and benefits of dairy products. However, none of the information is detailed enough to use fear or another tactic to inspire change. The ending of the article is also unnecessary. By turning the blog to animal obesity, the article further loses credibility. The article needs to build up its ethos and provide persuasive information before the reader's values or ideas would be effected.
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ReplyDeleteThe interface of this blog unveils pictures of unhealthy foods as well as obese children and animals. The fear factor is not explicitly portrayed in this blog, but implicitly one can infer that the central theme of this blog is targeted toward parents. The central theme is raise awareness that obesity is an increasing problem in America and to solve this problem by eating healthier. These articles also make the reader think twice before eating food that may be considered unhealthy. This blog even has eight fast food tips to eat healthier while on the go at fast food restaurants. The author of this blog obviously thinks that Americans should be lean mostly for the health problems obesity brings such as diabetes. From the use of the pictures, I infer that the author values healthy eating habits and wants to preserve American culture before the obesity statistic sores to an unimaginable figure.
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ReplyDeleteThe absolute first thing I happened to notice on this blogs website was the pink color of it's back round. Since this color is the back round of a website focused on obesity, which is a dangerous symptom of being sedentary and not eating the right things and/or too much food, I thought that the color may be tied to breast cancer. This is because in recent years, breast cancer awareness has been symbolized by the color pink. Cancer is often found to be result of being obese. The implicit tie of these two themes together may also say something about how cancer can be prevented; by taking the following steps that this blog happens to suggest.
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ReplyDeleteWhen i open the blog the first few things that grab my atttention is how the entire page's background is pink and so is the yogurt in the dairy section. Dairy sections is suppose to be good for you but here it says that some are bad for you. It is trying to scare us and make us think that dairy food now is related to obesity instead of healthyness. Also, the pink is what breast cancer is symbolised as. The pink in the background is a reminder that eating healthy could help us prevent the breast cancer and obesity.
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ReplyDeleteFew of the articles had comments on the posts but one that did have a few comments was the article concerning childhood obesity. The article opens talking about the fact that obesity in children has grown due to all the computer and video game consoles and how all kids have access to one and that is more fun then running around any more. The Blog post affect the commenttors they all felt really informed as they were done ready the blog and seeing how there were "healthy" ways to eat at McDonalds. People walked away from the blog more informed and opinions were voiced on the issue of fast food in school lunches. the blog defiantly achieved the goal with the 3 people the commented and probably the others that read it because childhood obesity is a big issue in american if our youth cant be healthy what will the world turn into the fat people on chairs in wall-E vs a new age of great health in america
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ReplyDeleteI thought this blog went in depth in explaining certain ways to control obesity issues. I think that the details and facts of obesity could put fear into the reader. But first I feel that it’s not as large of a fear factor as global warming because it only affects a certain number of people. While global warming affects everyone on the planet. Second reason I would not consider this a fear based blog is because of the writing style of the blogger. He/she puts terms in more of a medical sense. So not as to induce fear, but to be a guide to help people with these issues. Lastly I feel the blog is not a good example of a fear based blog is because food is a necessity to human life. So by eating we gain energy and can live. But the people in the blog almost act like obesity is a disease. By doing this I personally feel they lose a lot of credibility because it’s common knowledge obesity is a choice, not something a person has to live with. So by posting this, it’s almost like me putting up a blog about how driving fast is bad. It tries to induce fear but because of common knowledge the comment isn’t taken as to be feared but as instructional.
once again sorry for the lateness of this post, and I in no way expect full credit if any. however I have been promised that my computer issues have been cleared up so this hopefully wont happen a third time. But any way
ReplyDelete7. It has been mentioned before I believe that this blog had very few comments and I actually went through and counted up how many articles have comments what I found was that nine articles had comments on them, the majority of which had just one. Now as I went through the one thing I noticed was that it seems as if the same core group of people were the ones largely commenting on the articles although they did take turns as different articles seem to interest them. However because of this rotating core group of commentators I have to wonder if anyone else reads the articles except for a small group of concerned people who know the blog actually exists. while I don't know if this is because of this blog or that blog I cannot formally say this might be a example of the difficulty to find the blog, but when I tried to follow the link several times it would not let me. i had to Google the exact URL or it did not take me to the right blog and all in all it left me feeling as if I had just done the majority of the work. That said I would say it does not matter because this blog ended production almost four years ago after a month of being active. With the short time span, the clearly small comment base and the hindrance in finding the blog I would say that yes it does something and that is nothing unless of course there is a sudden ground swell.