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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...

Customers, Weight Gain, and Restaurant Accountability

a personal decision and the effect is not singular but one of accumulative effect. For many it is deemed that the weight gain is s...

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...

US Culture and Youth

cultural relativism and the impact that relativism has on defining methods of separation from the dominant culture. Both T...

Modern Youth and Education

failure. Before delving into suggestions on how to improve education in the United States, it pays to explore the rights of studen...

Media Violence

In five pages this paper discusses how values and America's youth are affected by media violence and criminal acts. Eight sources...

Suicide and the Youth of America

In seven pages this paper examines America's youth between the ages of fifteen and nineteen and the incidences of suicide among th...

Youth Morality and Public Figures' Influence

In five pages this paper discuss how public figures influence the morality of America's youth. Five sources are cited in the bibl...

Obesity in Adults

negative health impacts are felt. This means that there is a lag in the conditions as well as the associated costs. The short term...

Planning an Obesity Education Program for 16 - 18 Year Olds

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 ...

McDonald's And Obesity

the company with violating the Consumer Protection Act when their ads focused on the toys that came with the Happy Meal (Burke 200...

Adolescent Obesity in Canada

This research paper focuses on the problem of overweight/obesity and its prevalence among Canadian youth. The writer also discusse...

Actual Experience and the Application of Techniques in the Classroom

This paper consists of five pages and presents a personal essay on a Youth Advocate Center internship and application of social mo...

Caribbean and the Foreign Policy of the United States

America's foreign policy in Central America, most notably in the Caribbean, is analyzed in a paper consisting of five pages....

Hispanic Youth, Obesity, and Research

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

WHY THE U.S. JOINED WORLD WAR I

1917. The overt, and simple, explanation for Americas entry into the European conflict was the May, 1915 sinking of the Bri...

John Schwarz's America's Hidden Success Winning The War On Poverty

This text on winning America's war on poverty is analyzed in five pages....

Analysis of Jack Nelson Pallmeyer's The School of Assassins

In five pages this paper analyzes the text that recommends closing the 'School of the Americas' that contributes to Latin American...

Federalism and the Writings of William Manning

of the progress which the process of democratisation was making in America in the eighteenth century. It could be asserted that Ma...

Managing Weight and the Influences of Environmental, Psychological, and Physiological Factors

highest prevalence of overweight teens (British Medical Association, 2004). Research indicates the prevalence of overweight and o...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

U.S. and How to Address the Public Health Crisis of Obesity

body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...

Problem of Obesity

Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...

Youth Gangs in American Society

areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...

American Youth as Crime Victims

for a few days. They engage in many risky behaviors. Further, juveniles are not rational actors who look at the potential results ...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Progress of Fat and Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

health. There are morbidly obese people who appear to enjoy being the way they are and actively seek to maintain their stat...

Depression and Obesity

emotional problems are likely to emerge. The relationship between obesity and depression is one that is not exactly clear (Stunka...