Before revision: In turn, although social pressure to lose weight has adverse effects on some individuals who do not need to lose weight, those adverse effects are arguably outweighed by social pressure's positive effect on the overall population, without which the recent increases in obesity and associated health and social problems ( described in both popular and academic parlance as an "obesity epidemic" ) would be even more severe than they already are .
After revision: Some argue that the social pressure to lose weight has lessened what is described in both popular and academic parlance as an "obesity epidemic" , despite the adverse effects .