The lack of knowledge about diet contributes more significantly to the obesity epidemic in America than the lack of exercise. While physical activity is an important factor in maintaining a healthy weight, the overwhelming commonness of misinformation on nutrition pushed on us by exploiters who want your money plays a crucial role in the rising rates of obesity.
Background: This article supports the argument that exercise is not the solution to extreme or healthy weight loss. It debunks the myth of exercising to burn calories and not care about what you are necessarily consuming.
How I Intend to Use it: I intend to use this article to debunk the idea that exercise is used as a way to counteract food intake. Many people believe that engaging in physical activity primarily serves to burn off the calories consumed through meals, promoting a cycle of guilt and compensation. However, I propose a different perspective that instead of viewing exercise solely as a means of weight maintenance or calorie control, it should be embraced as a holistic practice that enhances overall well-being and mental health.
2. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.atv.0000186208.06964.91
Background: This article titled “Fast Food, Central Nervous System Insulin Resistance, and Obesity” explains the relationship between fast foods and how they affect the human body. The article describes the link between fast food and obesity and how society over the past 30 years has given into the unhealthy lifestyles that are normalized by the food industry now, more than ever.
How I Intend to Use it: I intend to use this article to define what insulin resistance is and describe how it works and plays an important role in the issue of obesity. The article provides more factual and statistical evidence that will support my hypothesis.
3. https://www.arianehundt.com/post/what-the-fitness-industry-doesn-t-want-you-to-know
Background: This article titled “What the Fitness Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know”, talks about the skewed belief that exercise is the key to weight loss and that the fix is the eat less and exercise more.
How I Intend to Use it: I intend to use this article to show the audience how fitness sources can give harmful advice. Telling people that they need to exercise more and eat less just leaves them miserable, as this process of living will only last so long. It keeps the obese person on a loop, trying more plans, exercise routines, and gyms. When in reality, Americans need to follow a more whole foods diet.
4. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-fitness-industry-gets-rich-doing-nothing/
Background: Titled “How the Fitness Industry Gets Rich Doing Nothing“, this article sheds light on the truth behind gym membership plans, and dietary pills.
How I Intend to Use it: This article helps my claim that the gym industry and fitness equipment ads are scams, as they lure obese people looking to lose weight by showing them an easy fix to their problems. Instead of emphasizing a healthier diet, they tell them to buy gym memberships and equipment or dietary pills, which are a fast but temporary fix to the issue. It never truly fixes their problem but instead has them continuously returning and paying more money.
Background: Titled “Diet vs. Exercise for weight loss”, this article supports the hypothesis that diet is more effective than exercise. It explains how both diet and exercise can be used for weight loss success but how it is more effective for a person to make changes in their diet for long-term health.
How I Intend to Use it: I intend to use this article to show how both diet and exercise are effective ways of solving the obesity epidemic and living a healthier lifestyle, but that they should be used in different ways. Diet is a long-term way to solve the issue, while exercise should be used for leisure activity, mental health success, or therapy.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
This is a capable Proposal+5, Yardie. You’re making good progress here on developing your hypothesis. The accounts are brief, and I hope they’ll expand as you actually consult these sources. By the time this post goes into your Portfolio as your Annotated Bibliography, you’ll want the How I Used It sections to be much more fully developed.