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greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
it changed the way that Canadians looked at money. It also changed life as it was known. During the depression of the thirties, ...
Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...
with the group existed with two people, and compliance and conformity existed with the third one. On the one hand, two were confor...
The paper will start by consider the problem, looking at the issue and the current gaps; it is only when the context of the issue ...
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While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...
and adolescents from 1990 to 2000. Furthermore, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey revealed that 7 percent of in...
2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...
"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...
This research paper presents an extensive discussion of childhood obesity that addresses prevalence, the negative effects of overw...
to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...
self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...
a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...
factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...
This research paper pertains to the problem of childhood obesity. The writer discusses the need for intervention and describes an ...
This essay pertains to a Healthy People 2020 topic, nutrition and weight status and specifically discusses the problem of childhoo...
low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...
This research paper presents a PICO question that pertains to the problem of childhood overweight/obesity. Six pages in length, fi...
This literature review adds to a previous review that was formulated to address a PICO research question. The problem (P) address...
Another important area of research is obesitys impact on childhood from health, psychosocial and cognitive development standpoints...
In five pages this paper considers 3 contemporary problems from the theoretical perspectives of Emile Durkheim including infant ab...
hookers to the doorsteps of the local drug pusher, who would get a visit from a SWAT team an hour or so later" (Demers, 1993, p. 1...
Self-efficacy is a concept that refers to the degree to which individuals perceive themselves as having the ability and capability...
The results supported the authors hypotheses by illustrating the correlation between certain social measures. Low income, limited...
This paper examines social problems' causes and effects from a theoretical perspective in five pages....
The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...
negative health impacts are felt. This means that there is a lag in the conditions as well as the associated costs. The short term...
the ideas to learning, and finally B.F. Skinner who really made an impact. Skinner argued that development is affected by external...