Dan Szuba
Dr. Wielgos
Research Paper Topic
29 March 2014
Over the recent
years, fitness and general health have become a main focus for many people in
their lives. Individuals set out with high hopes to lose weight and create
healthier bodies. The only problem being that many times these individuals get
discouraged that they have not lost weight or reached a specific goal they had
in mind. After contemplating on whether it is their fault or not, individuals
try to find different methods to help them try and lose those undesired pounds.
Walking into the nearest health and fitness store, the individual’s eyes
automatically see the flashy/colorful labels with terminology on them like
“hyper-shred” and “metabolic-matrix”. These flashy labels, unfortunately, are
diet pills. Diet pills have been around since the early 20’s and since then
have been altered and changed into hundreds of different forms with hundreds of
different ingredients. The only problem here is that those pills have so many
ingredients in them that individuals have never heard of or the fact that the
individuals do not know the side effects. Some diet pills have even caused
headaches, heart attacks, and even in some cases death.
I
want to present the facts about diet pills and hopefully come to the conclusion
that diet pills are not very safe. I do not want to make this a one sided
rhetorical essay; instead I want to present the information and make it self
evident that diet pills are not safe. My audience is going to be my classmates
along with my English professor. I want
to look credible and knowledgeable in this essay. I want the audience to be
able to come to their own conclusion and have an “AHA” moment after reading the
essay. I am still contemplating on the sort of arrangement and medium I am
going to use. Seeing that it has to be 10 full pages of text, I am most likely
going to use a standard Microsoft word document. I will start with an
introduction on the topic, then move onto any discrepancies that society has
developed on the topic. Then I will go onto showing research that has been done
on the topic and how much research has been done in total to show that my
sources and claims are reliable. In the research I will provide different
statistics with definitions and even stories related to the topic. I will make
sure that all my sources are reliable and have credibility upon them so it is
reflected upon my professionalism.
By
the end of this rhetorical paper I hope to inform people that diet pills are
not what they are made to look like. Diet pills may claim to actually work and
be safe but in most cases it takes a well balanced diet and workout plan for
diet pills to work. Also I want individuals to understand that diet pills act
very different according to each person. Everybody’s bodies work differently
and not one single diet pill can have the same results on multiple individuals.
The same pill that helps someone lose five pounds may also be the same pill
that puts someone else in the hospital bed.
I
feel like others would have a hard time agreeing or disagreeing with me only
because the amount of knowledgeable and reliable information out there on diet
pills is not comparable to the amount of different kinds of diet pills. I am
sure that most people will agree with me that diet pills are not necessary to
loosing weight and if given the chance to take them, they would most likely say
no. But this is the same story with most individuals when relating to any
topic, not just diet pills. It’s the fact that the small majority of
individuals who knows little about diet pills are the same ones who will
disagree with me and then they will end up having migraines and diarrhea for
days.
As
a fitness fanatic, I have heard a lot about diet pills from people in the gym.
Many people have claimed that the diet pills have worked but at the same time
those same people are eating healthy and working out. To be completely honest I
feel like they are all just placebo effects. Also I have tried diet pills at
one point and from my own experience I can say that for the time I was using
them, I did not feel good at multiple times and found myself having ridiculous
mood swings.
To
conduct my research I plan on looking at a variety of research studies of
individuals on diet pills. I want hard evidence to prove whether they actually
work. Then I also want hard evidence that tests the side effects of diet pills.
I feel like there is a lot of research in the field of diet pills because
people are actually interested in whether they are helpful or not. I will also
look in books for the specifics of how diet pills work and how there are
multiple forms of them.
By
the end of this research paper I want to know exactly how diet pills work on a
scientific scale. (Pertaining mainly to what they affect in the body and how it
supposedly causes fat burning) I also want to know how strong the evidence is
to back up my argument. It would be interesting to learn more about what goes
into the FDA’s process of legalizing different diet pills for individuals.
Another thing I want to learn is what the FDA believes it takes to be an over
the counter diet pill as opposed to a diet pill that requires a doctor’s
prescription.
I
do not want to just inform somebody about this topic or even get someone to
side with my final argument, instead I want to take someone who believes diet
pills are safe and make them see they are not what they are made to look like.
