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Major Issues in Obesity

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...

High Fructose Corn Syrup and Obesity

prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...

Obesity

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

Critique of Qualitative Study/Nutrition

their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...

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 ...

Food Addictions, Symptoms and Treatments

took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...

Action Plan; Reducing Obesity in 18 - 25 Year Olds

of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...

Obesity in America

genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...

Epidemiology of Obesity

activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...

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...

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...

Variables and Clusters in Research

those who have a body mass index of below 35 m-2 tend to have similar activity patterns when the energy expenditure levels are cor...

Obesity in the United States

balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...

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...

Australian Perspectives on Public Relations and Obesity

population, for example, present unique cultural concerns in terms of how to direct a public relations campaign that targets obesi...

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...

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...

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...

Junk Food and Children

Such junk food is apparently readily available in many high schools, perhaps with the understanding that high school students are ...

Counseling a Dysfunctional Family with Obesity

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

Factors of Obesity

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

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...

Obesity and its Many Costs

of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...

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...

Adolescent Obesity Interview and Discussion

In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

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

Treatment Options for Eating Disorders

In ten pages the components of bulimia, anorexia, and obesity eating disorders are examined in terms of treatment alternatives. T...

Persuasive Essay on Why People Should Not Eat Fast Food and Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation

products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...