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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...
care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...
Control and Prevention in conjunction with the work of state health departments (Mokdad et al, 1999, p. 1519). This survey is des...
determine what is normal or clinically notable. For example, a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m ( Must, Spadano & Coakley et al., 19...
away from parents who are blamed for abuse or neglect if a child becomes too fat. In the old days, this was unheard of. Families t...
have in promoting her citizens wellness while Alberta still lags behind in her recognition of the importance of education in promo...
as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...
in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...
- take the weight of the patient in pounds, divide this number by the square of the height in inches, and multiply this value by 7...
and contest the idea that their weight is problematic. They contend that they are healthy the way they are and there is a fat acce...
highest prevalence of overweight teens (British Medical Association, 2004). Research indicates the prevalence of overweight and o...
may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...
of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...
Lingering Myths about Content and Process Models As shown above, recent research is starting to dispel the myths of one-sid...
need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...
decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...