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

"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...

In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

It is no secret that a large percentage of the American population is overweight or obese. The tragedy is that a large proportion ...

The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...

$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...

population of employment opportunities and thereby increases the level of socioeconomic deprivation (Massey and Denton 154). Inner...

unhealthy no matter which perspective one takes. Just how unhealthy is fast food? How does it contribute to obesity? The U.S. Sur...

In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. obesity in a consideration of various contributing factors with socioeconomic, psychologica...

This paper pertains to chronic disease and its causes, focusing specifically on the influence of environmental factors, such as ac...

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

of all ethnicities, races and socioeconomic groups is high, as there were roughly 9 million new infections among young people aged...

also associated with adolescents who have been diagnosed as having binge eating disorder. Unquestionably psychologically related,...

This research paper has two major sections. The first pertains to a proposed research study and the second pertains to a proposed ...

This research paper pertains to three research studies, which pertain to overweight/obesity in Hispanic adolescents, and reports ...

America (1986) CWLA Standards of Excellence for Services for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Pregnant Adolescents, and Young Pare...

and, thus, in the religious duties and responsibilities of being an adult male within this community. The boy, in turn, receives a...

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

This paper is a research proposal for the identification and assessment of governmental factors which impact on the success of aid...

This research paper pertains to current literature that investigates the relationship between nutrition, obesity and atherosclerot...

This paper presents a research proposal that is written in a sentence outline format. The research study it describes would invest...

need to be the skills, including cooking skills, the ability to design menus, and the approaches taught also need to be available ...

- take the weight of the patient in pounds, divide this number by the square of the height in inches, and multiply this value by 7...

through a consensual process, each member of the team feels that they had an input into the decision, whereas the process of votin...

14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...

In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...

This research paper pertains to data on the prevalence of obesity among American adolescents. This information reveals that it is ...

thirty-five percent of nonobese peers, with a higher number of those being boys of ethnic backgrounds. II. GERALD ET AL Th...