[Verified Answer]: If you were interested in researching the…

If you were interested in researching the effectiveness of dieting on weight loss, identify below the most significant sociological impact that you could derive from this research Question 12 options: Weight loss diets have been high jacked by a multi billion dollar diet industry that has significantly changed Americans into chronic dieters and invariably into obsessive compulsive food bingers. Culturally this has created a people that do fear food and calories but that also hate food in general but also wholesome food in particular leading to potential problems of malnutrition. The chronic management of obesity in American society and the elevated diet failure rates has created an acceptance of obesity in a broad segment of society. This cultural adaptation has created a social embrace of obesity as a mere diversity issue, lending support not to a containment of the problem but rather to social expansion of the epidemic. The implications are a more sickly population rendered unable to work, raise families, educate and discipline children with serious ramifications on social order, economic performance indicators, and population growth. Obesity prevalence now represents 35% of US adults and is now socially costing Americans over $2 trillion dollars in medical expenses if secondary diseases are factored in. This dramatic hike in health care costs has brought our healthcare system to the brink of insolvency and seriously challenges the economic indicators of our nation as a workforce weakened by obesity-based disabilities have been exiting the workforce. Concomitantly with the rise of obesity prevalence there has also been a dramatic increase in chronic diseases such as hypertension, type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. These have translated into significant medical problems that have impacted the US socially. Consequently, it is not uncommon to see obese children in greater numbers, a phenomenon that is intimately linked to the fact that over 50% of pregnant women in the US are either overweight or obese