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Preventing Obesity

(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....

Literature Reviews of Studies on Heart Failure and Obesity

topic under discussion. Difference between primary and secondary sources : One source was selected in order to help illustrate th...

Criminal Justice Policy Change: Open-System

each community and asking about individual "safety concerns and security needs" (Greene, 2000, pp. 299-370). One particular commu...

Food Advertising & Children

target children as their principle demographic also have Web sites that market to children (Cowdrey 19). A child who gets bored wi...

Obesity Worldwide

country, the often ate "traditional diets ... high in grains, fruit and vegetables and low in fat" (Hoffman). Once they arrived in...

Ethical Issues with Regard to Marketing Prepackaged Foods to Schools

of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...

Childhood Obesity and Public Policy

issues on that front? First, it should be said that although the government does have policy on health related issues, some compl...

Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

Hispanic Teens, Overweight/Obesity

This research paper discusses the content and purpose of three studies that focus on the problem of overweight/obesity among Hispa...

PICO Question, Childhood Obesity

This research paper presents a PICO question that pertains to the problem of childhood overweight/obesity. Six pages in length, fi...

Expanding a Lit Review, Childhood Obesity

This literature review adds to a previous review that was formulated to address a PICO research question. The problem (P) address...

Hispanic Youth, Obesity, and Research

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

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...

Cardiovascular Disease, Research on Contributing Factors

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

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...

Obesity and Nutrition

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

Childhood Obesity and Effective Treatment

respiratory conditions, such as asthma and obstructive sleep apnea (Thorpe, et al, 2004). The long-term consequences of childhood ...

1991 to 1998 Obesity in America

Control and Prevention in conjunction with the work of state health departments (Mokdad et al, 1999, p. 1519). This survey is des...

Adolescents and Health

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

Consumerism and Television for Children

endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...

Brazil's Obesity Problems

in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...

Gluttony and How Dante Would Punish It

and contest the idea that their weight is problematic. They contend that they are healthy the way they are and there is a fat acce...

Preventative and Curative Health Care: An Economic Approach

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

Causes and Solutions of Childhood Obesity

including an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, believe instead that the plateau has happened simply because...

Ethics, Healthcare and Obesity

treatment of the sick, then undertaking preventive measures to reduce obesity before illness occurs may be beyond that duty, as it...

The Paradox in the World Food Crisis

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...

Availability of Junk Food in Schools

2010). Frieden, Dietz and Collins (2010) point out that policy interventions promote encouraging children to make healthy food c...

Statistical Methods

to be used depending on hoe many of the variables are dependent and the type of dependence, for example, where only one or more v...

Creating a Campaign to Reduce Obesity in Brooklyn - Background Information on the Target Audience and Existing Campaigns

ongoing health problems later in life. 2. Target Population The campaign will be aimed at young adults, which we will define as...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...