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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 the components of bulimia, anorexia, and obesity eating disorders are examined in terms of treatment alternatives. T...
in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...
his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...
2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...
and asked why he had been gaining weight, the doctor might have brought up his diet. Indeed, it seems common knowledge that fast f...
goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...
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...
significantly to the problem. The allure of the silver screen, whether that screen be that of a television or a game pad, has tra...
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...
In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...
Tunica media. This is the middle layer of the artery wall, composed of smooth muscle and elastin. It is the muscle of...
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)....
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...
of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...
are two very separate elements within the definition of developed. Not all countries with a low standard of living have low rati...
prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...
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...
metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...
review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...
Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...
products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...
environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...
The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...
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...
And obesity is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed in Australia. Though the issue is a high-profile one in the nation, ...
guidelines that these should be used only as a last resort when all other options have failed, with the possible exception of surg...
their functioning around food, including monitoring their fat and sugar in-take and improving their diet as a whole. The whole fa...