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took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...
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...
factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...
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the research team will use a convenience sample of women recruited from a specific geographical area, and the team may choose to l...
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...
researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...
their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...
the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...
Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...
of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...
"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...
vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...
Whether typical in nature or fraught with learning difficulties, Sameroff (1975a) contends the extent to which parental involvemen...
if this is non bias is present in reality it should be reflected in the way fathers rights are interpreted. However, in UK law and...
to occur in someone who has had diabetes for many years" (Federal Citizen Information Center, 2006). Type 1 diabetics walk ...
with such aspects as homework (Patten, 1994; Bryan et al, 2004; Cooper et al, 1994). Reaching the special needs student req...
Accordingly, each parent represents a much-needed entity in the growth of a child: The mother provides stability and sanctity, whi...
literacy, it is axiomatic that these adults need to possess reading skills themselves. Consequently, education levels obtained by ...
controversial - examples of how the spoken language has fallen victim to the lazy tongues of many bi- and multilingual societies. ...
Art is such a universally recognized method of this statement that there exist no barriers with regard to interpretation. Infants...
of creating magical outdoor spaces and healing gardens - not the least of which includes Burpee Seed Company and the University of...
future, 2007). This comment begs the question, what happened to the civic center, and does it have anything to do with the demogra...
connections to finding after school day care, as well as connections to paying bills and locating special needs information. There...
For other health issues, such psychiatric help, aside from the Philadelphia Childrens Hospital which offers such services, there i...
methods of book reading; given the multitude of students who have at least some level or type of learning and/or attention disorde...
2005). Of these 6,371 are in emergency shelters, 5,471 are in transitional housing and 5,031 are unsheltered (U.S. Department of H...
were voracious readers not only while they were children but even today. Each states that she was captivated with such things as ...
and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...