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Post highlights what is ostensibly a growing problem in the United States: the rising prevalence of childhood obesity. In the firs...
body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...
on around the stomach) (Nazario, 2009). Obesity is linked to heart disease and stroke because it often causes high blood pressure...
not using vitamin supplements (Nachtigal et al., 2005). B6 and B12 vitamins increase the metabolism, which is an important factor...
thirty-five percent of nonobese peers, with a higher number of those being boys of ethnic backgrounds. II. GERALD ET AL Th...
heavier than men), genetics, environment (lifestyle), illness, medication and the level of ones physical activity ("Obesity"). Psy...
ESTIMATED TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE IN THE US ALONE SUFFERED FROM DIABETES IN 2005 (DESHPANDE, HARRIS-HAYES, AND SCHOOTMAN, 2005). AS...
The results supported the authors hypotheses by illustrating the correlation between certain social measures. Low income, limited...
The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...
of people who are constantly trying to lose weight, if they were heavy as adolescents they are at increased risk of dying younger ...
exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...
relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood. The abstract of that paper says that the study was of young a...
is well known that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world. It has become such a problem that it also affe...
to hypertension. The problem is that most people havent been motivated to lose weight under the old regime, which has focused on l...
This essay offers an overview of health and safety in Richmond County, NY (Staten Island). Demographic data and health data are in...
This paper pertains to chronic disease and its causes, focusing specifically on the influence of environmental factors, such as ac...
This paper offers an abstract for study that pertains to the under-diagnosis of obesity. One page in length, no sources are cited....
This paper pertains to the Precede-Proceed model and its applicability to intervention development that addresses the overweight/o...
Provides an overview of a fictitious school and the methods by which its organizational behavior can be changed. There are 7 sourc...
This essay pertains to a Healthy People 2020 topic, nutrition and weight status and specifically discusses the problem of childhoo...
HIV/AIDS cannot be spread through hugging or touching someone with the virus, Americans are still very much afraid of this disease...
And obesity is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed in Australia. Though the issue is a high-profile one in the nation, ...
In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...
In five pages the issue of religion in public schools are examined in the case progression of Everson v. Board of Education, Engel...
proposed prison design by eighteenth-century reformer Jeremy Bentham but what distinguished this structure had been an architectur...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...
settings (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). Preschool teachers most often begin as an assistant teacher and progress to the leve...
is obese children (Neff 2359). Other health risks associated with obesity include, but are not limited to: high cholesterol, hea...
instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...