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Reducing Stress and Nutrition

In eleven pages this paper discusses how stress can be reduced through proper nutrition. Ten sources are listed in the bibliograp...

Population Growth and Capitalism's Influence

In six pages this report discusses how such widespread issues as nutrition, economic production and consumption, and government co...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Elderly Living Alone and the Dangers This Poses

they were raised in an era of conservation and sacrifice (the 1940s and 1950s) and believe they should be able to live through it ...

Nutrition and Children

* Child poverty is highest among black families, 30 percent, then, among Hispanic families, 29 percent; it is 13 percent among whi...

Overview of Heart Disease

and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...

Nutrition and Health Science

claims with some skepticism. However, understanding the basics of nutrition and how it affects the mind and body is relevant for e...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Nutrition and Aging

25 and 30 percent of residents are underweight (Matrix). Data collected from 255 nursing homes in ten states revealed that 31 perc...

Acute Renal Failure and Dialysis Patients, Nutrition, and Nursing

infinitely more to the aspect of nursing than administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise the ...

Overview of Nutrition

are two very separate elements within the definition of developed. Not all countries with a low standard of living have low rati...

Nutrition and Heart Disease

to reduce heart disease by many medical and nutritional practitioners for the past 50 years is the very diet that causes it!" He ...

Infant Nutrition and Breastfeeding

including components which provide anti-bodies for the infant. According to one definition, colostrum is "The milk produced by mot...

ADD and Nutritional Supplements

II. CAUSES Assessing the cause and extent of ADD, as well as determining the applicable methods of nutritional supplementat...

Overview of Raynaud's Disease

hands while waiting for the streetcar during cold weather (Lehman, 2001). The color progression which he noted among some women w...

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension a.k.a. DASH

documented that "total cholesterol levels were reduced in patients following the DASH diet by an average of 7.3 percent and LDL-C ...

Two Lesson Plans on Nutrition

about healthy foods. Students will then be asked to create a menu for one meal a day that includes foods that are healthful. Stu...

Third Graders and Nutrition Diary

an actual third graders diary (Forstadt, 2008), a third-graders natural inclination is to write brief, one-to-three sentence entri...

Community Nursing: Positive Impacts on Nutrition and Lifestyle

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

Living With AIDS

combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...

The China Study

and the way we perceive the world" can be instrumental in treating sickness. In order to address the adequacy of The China Stud...

Poverty and Poor Nutrition

the United States have the ability to obtain free food supplements for their babies and young children. Despite these programs, a...

Gaining Weight for the Young Athlete

nutritious meals per day. Sepe (2006) explains that the meals should be balanced between carbohydrate, protein and fat. He explain...

Nutrition and Exercise Plan

family history of diabetes are significant risk factors. (If the student is black, Native American or Asian Americans, this is als...

Review of Qualitative Research on Childhood Obesity

a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...

Topics for a Course in Health

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

Obesity and Nutrition

as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...

Examination of Diabetes

causes behind the increased incidence of this disease (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Experts feel that, in general, the risk for type 2...

Health Challenges to U.S. Children

serious health challenge for keeping Americans children healthy is the fact that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportion...

Controlling Weight, Diet, and Physical Fitness

One pound of body weight is the equivalent of 3500 calories (The Fitness Club, 2001). The individual who consumes more calories t...