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Studying Lifestyles of Sedentary and Teenage Obesity

obesity, research includes differences in reports between teens and their parents (Goodman, Hinden and Khandelwal, 2000); and stud...

Society, Weight, and Popular Culture

and 1990s, "the percentage of Americans suffering from an eating disorder has doubled, according to the U.S. Public Health Service...

Weighted Average Cost of Capital and the Ohlson Model

reflect a required return on the firms entire assets (Hamm, 2002). If the firm uses of debt and equity financing for example, the ...

Article Review of Barbara A. Dennison's 'Television Viewing and Television in Bedroom Associated with Overweight Risk Among Low Income Preschool Children'

significantly to the problem. The allure of the silver screen, whether that screen be that of a television or a game pad, has tra...

Colgate Palmolive Weighted Average Cost of Capital

rewards that are associated with the higher risks should only be present when there is now way that this risk can be avoided (Anon...

A Community Health Plan for Obesity

goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...

Problem of Obesity

common occurrence for the American adolescents in particular, with findings indicating how not only are American teens less active...

American Epidemic of Obesity

is obese children (Neff 2359). Other health risks associated with obesity include, but are not limited to: high cholesterol, hea...

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...

An Article on Obesity, Diabetes, and the Effect of Estrogen Reviewed

instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...

Obesity and America's Youth

obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...

Children and Obesity

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

Obesity Research and Motivation

Lingering Myths about Content and Process Models As shown above, recent research is starting to dispel the myths of one-sid...

Latin America and Obesity

of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...

US Children and Obesity

need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...

Childhood Obesity and Public Health Nursing

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

Contemporary Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In five pages this paper considers 3 contemporary problems from the theoretical perspectives of Emile Durkheim including infant ab...

Adolescent and Child Obesity

In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...

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...

Increasing Problem of Obesity in Children and Adolescents

In twelve pages the growing problems of obesity in children and adolescents in the United States are considered in terms of presen...

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...

Weighted Average Cost of Capital and Capital Asset Pricing Model

"variance-averse agents" leading them to conclude that Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorems related to market excess demand functio...

Case Study Analysis of Disease and Heredity

which would have put him at greater risk for dying of heart disease, regardless of his genetic makeup. Smoking is considered the ...

Global Epidemic Prevention of Obesity

a false ideal body weight, there is an epidemic within the psychological world of those adolescents and indeed, people of all ages...

Women and Obesity

to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...

Obesity Problem and Solutions

and between 30 to 34.9 one is in the first class of obesity; with 40 or more points one is considered to be severely obese (2002)....

American Obesity and Fast Food

unhealthy no matter which perspective one takes. Just how unhealthy is fast food? How does it contribute to obesity? The U.S. Sur...

America and Obesity

2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...