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In nine pages this research paper examines the problem of overweight Americans in a consideration of determining factors and what ...
In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...
also associated with adolescents who have been diagnosed as having binge eating disorder. Unquestionably psychologically related,...
In twelve pages the growing problems of obesity in children and adolescents in the United States are considered in terms of presen...
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...
In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. obesity in a consideration of various contributing factors with socioeconomic, psychologica...
In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...
In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...
an apple shape with body fat accumulate in the bellies. This is not a universal as individuals storage of body fat may differ than...
of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...
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)....
a false ideal body weight, there is an epidemic within the psychological world of those adolescents and indeed, people of all ages...
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...
health. There are morbidly obese people who appear to enjoy being the way they are and actively seek to maintain their stat...
to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...
his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...
and asked why he had been gaining weight, the doctor might have brought up his diet. Indeed, it seems common knowledge that fast f...
2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...
unhealthy no matter which perspective one takes. Just how unhealthy is fast food? How does it contribute to obesity? The U.S. Sur...
Within the last thirty years in the United States, the rate of childhood obesity has more than doubled as it was estimated that on...
goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...
common occurrence for the American adolescents in particular, with findings indicating how not only are American teens less active...
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...
obesity, research includes differences in reports between teens and their parents (Goodman, Hinden and Khandelwal, 2000); and stud...
greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...
is the largest non-profit healthcare organization in the United States and currently oversees the operations of 8 million particip...
speaker can establish a certain intimacy with the audience by asking them if they have seen the movie Shallow Hal. Audience member...
may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...
Lingering Myths about Content and Process Models As shown above, recent research is starting to dispel the myths of one-sid...
of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...