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Cultural Cohesiveness and Distinction in the Latino/Hispanic Population

a multitude of cultural groups. Consider, for example, the tendency of the dominant US culture to lump all people of Asian herita...

Child & Adolescent Obesity/U.S.

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

Women and Obesity

to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...

American Obesity and Fast Food

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

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Contributing Factors to Adolescent Obesity: A Research Proposal

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

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

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

Childhood Obesity and Parental Factors

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at childhood obesity. The epidemic is analyzed in terms of parental factors. Paper uses...

Childhood/Adolescent Obesity Research Article Comparison

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

Obesity/Chronic Disease

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

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...

Children, Obesity, and Causes

In a paper consisting of five pages the causes of children's obesity is examined with factors such as lack of exercise and diet di...

Factors of Obesity

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

Managing Weight and the Influences of Environmental, Psychological, and Physiological Factors

highest prevalence of overweight teens (British Medical Association, 2004). Research indicates the prevalence of overweight and o...

Determining Statistical Tests

Different types of tests may be used for differing purposes and with different types of data. This paper looks at how univariate ...

Obesity in America and Around the World

arguably around the world. 2. Approximately 22 million children worldwide who are under the age of five are thought to be obese...

Knowing the Signs of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

regards to the obesity epidemic in America. It seems that over the last few decades, the numbers has risen more dramatically than ...

Depression and Obesity

emotional problems are likely to emerge. The relationship between obesity and depression is one that is not exactly clear (Stunka...

Action Plan to Reduce Obesity in 12 - 18 Year Olds

causes of obesity catching children when they can still be influenced. Children who are overweight are one of the groups that ha...

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

Progress of Fat and Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

health. There are morbidly obese people who appear to enjoy being the way they are and actively seek to maintain their stat...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

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...

Obesity in Adolescents

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

Adult Obesity

a drug sold under the brand name of Glucophage) in treating obesity. Finally, nursing intervention will be proposed based on the ...

An Important Public Health Issue, Obesity

This paper pertains to obesity and the writer specially discusses how the terms "epidemic" and "pandemic" are defined in regards t...

Obesity, Social Marketing

This research paper pertains to a social marketing campaign, the Campaign to End Obesity and the writer also discusses obesity pre...

Overview of Childhood Obesity

This research paper presents an extensive discussion of childhood obesity that addresses prevalence, the negative effects of overw...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

Exposure To A Different Culture

towards culturally different practices. 2. The Event In order to understand the ritual it is important to understand a i...