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would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...
activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...
Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...
a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...
genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...
$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...
In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...
eating. This will help empower them to make decisions regarding their own diet. It will also placed pressure on the companies to c...
negative health impacts are felt. This means that there is a lag in the conditions as well as the associated costs. The short term...
factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...
balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...
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 ...
causes of obesity catching children when they can still be influenced. Children who are overweight are one of the groups that ha...
researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...
for one full of simple sugars, worthless carbohydrates and empty calories, a cycle perpetuated by parents who fail to provide thei...
Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...
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 UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...
the company with violating the Consumer Protection Act when their ads focused on the toys that came with the Happy Meal (Burke 200...
in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...
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at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...
a drug sold under the brand name of Glucophage) in treating obesity. Finally, nursing intervention will be proposed based on the ...
Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...
for "population, intervention, comparison intervention and outcome" and therefore offers nurses a structure that prompts nurses t...
mother who do not follow a strict diet only ask for further complications, since their bodies have already endured a lot of damage...
And obesity is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed in Australia. Though the issue is a high-profile one in the nation, ...