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regards to the obesity epidemic in America. It seems that over the last few decades, the numbers has risen more dramatically than ...
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...
In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...
"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...
also associated with adolescents who have been diagnosed as having binge eating disorder. Unquestionably psychologically related,...
This research paper presents an extensive discussion of childhood obesity that addresses prevalence, the negative effects of overw...
thirty-five percent of nonobese peers, with a higher number of those being boys of ethnic backgrounds. II. GERALD ET AL Th...
to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...
a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...
The percentage of obese children between the ages of 6 and 11 was 18 percent in 2012 while 21 percent of adolescents are obese. Th...
pressure) is a chronic condition that constitutes a major risk element for both coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease...
negative health impacts are felt. This means that there is a lag in the conditions as well as the associated costs. The short term...
This is a paper consisting of six pages that examines suicide statistics among adolescents between the ages of 15 and 24 to determ...
This research paper presents an overview of adolescent suicide. Gender and causal factors, warning signs and symptoms and preventi...
Obesity is a global issue that is nearly an epidemic. The CDC reported that over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled ...
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 ...
the company with violating the Consumer Protection Act when their ads focused on the toys that came with the Happy Meal (Burke 200...
their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...
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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 ...
factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...
researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...
The results supported the authors hypotheses by illustrating the correlation between certain social measures. Low income, limited...
factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...
In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...
issues on that front? First, it should be said that although the government does have policy on health related issues, some compl...
low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...