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in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...
in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...
apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...
as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...
1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...
fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...
care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...
Control and Prevention in conjunction with the work of state health departments (Mokdad et al, 1999, p. 1519). This survey is des...
of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...
Lingering Myths about Content and Process Models As shown above, recent research is starting to dispel the myths of one-sid...
2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...
subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...
need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...
who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...
may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...
to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...
From this perspective, we can see...
primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...
speaker can establish a certain intimacy with the audience by asking them if they have seen the movie Shallow Hal. Audience member...
highest prevalence of overweight teens (British Medical Association, 2004). Research indicates the prevalence of overweight and o...
2. The Problem In this section we will first consider the scope of the problem, its impact and the reason that this subject merit...
health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...
Nutritional needs will be a part of the effort. The hypothesis is that "educating women will empower them making them less ...
party where contact may result in exposure of a risk. For a small company with no employees the lessons of the health...
and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...
that gives patients more options while maintaining fewer requirements (McKelvey, 2004). It is something that should strengthen the...
instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...
that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...
obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...