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This research paper constitutes the literature review portion of a project addressing the global vitamin D deficiency epidemic. Ar...

Obesity is a global issue that is nearly an epidemic. The CDC reported that over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled ...

eating. This will help empower them to make decisions regarding their own diet. It will also placed pressure on the companies to c...

methods of book reading; given the multitude of students who have at least some level or type of learning and/or attention disorde...

in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...

the research team will use a convenience sample of women recruited from a specific geographical area, and the team may choose to l...

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...

the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...

those who have a body mass index of below 35 m-2 tend to have similar activity patterns when the energy expenditure levels are cor...

balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...

of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...

took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...

review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...

metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...

environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...

products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...

Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...

And obesity is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed in Australia. Though the issue is a high-profile one in the nation, ...

obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injuries and violence, environmental quality, i...

exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...

relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood. The abstract of that paper says that the study was of young a...

is well known that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world. It has become such a problem that it also affe...

to hypertension. The problem is that most people havent been motivated to lose weight under the old regime, which has focused on l...

guidelines that these should be used only as a last resort when all other options have failed, with the possible exception of surg...

link between the unhealthy, fat-laden meals served by fast food restaurants and the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. However, commo...

different part of the globe, "hundreds of millions eat too much, or consume the wrong sorts of food, and it is making them ill," a...

formed in 2003 to push forward clinical research (NIH, 2010). National measures have been undertaken, but they need to be suppor...