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of her life, and was taken by her mother to her first weight-loss center at age 10, when she already weighed 125 pounds (West and ...
mm Hg or greater and a diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm HG or greater, hypertension can have a number of serious pathophysiologic...
Diet Revolution in 1972. It was at about the same time that Americans were just accepting the official notices that saturated fat ...
and follow. There are diet that recommend eating high protein/low or no carbohydrates. Diets that recommend eating high carbohydra...
one hundred thirty-six grams consumed on a daily basis by each individual. Whether or not the related health concerns pose any wo...
management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...
other organs. Renal damage is of particular concern. Addressing hypertension first demands identifying the condition. Unfortun...
and gender groups between 1999 and 2004, in African American women this incidence of hypertension increased by 14 percent (Taylor,...
in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...
days and will lose between two and seven pounds. However, as soon as the client goes back to eating normally, all of the weight is...
In twenty one pages the Atkins safe diet program is examined in a consideration of calories, carbohydrates, protein, and other wei...
documented that "total cholesterol levels were reduced in patients following the DASH diet by an average of 7.3 percent and LDL-C ...
differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...
This essay provides a newspaper-style article that describes the basic facts of hypertension. The writer addresses what hypertensi...
This essay explains and reports many issues related to this condition. The four categories related to diagnostic criteria are repo...
camp (Anonymous, 2009). The kitchen, which was recognisable by the long row of 12 brick chimneys was painted white during the oper...
and are also interested in fashion trends. The trucks are shown as then being sued by a ranger of stars, keys being given to val...
in terms of physics, i.e., take in fewer calories than burned in exercise and the individual will lose weight. Then, there are tho...
track and cross-country runners, that physicians need to take note of amenorrhea and/or a history of stress fracture, and have sus...
of customary carbohydrates, the body is slowly reintroduced to complex carbohydrates in order to determine how much a particular p...
For most people who are obese, their condition is long-term and requires a lifetime of attention even after formal weight-loss tre...
and when carbohydrates are restricted, weight loss naturally results (Atkins, 2009). The Atkins Diet stresses eating protein and i...
are allowed, such as whole grain bread and wild rice (Schweigert, 2003). Where the South Beach Diet differs from the Atkins is pri...
Three independent research studies were done on the low carb diet and it was found that people who had been quite resistant to oth...
of also consuming appropriate amounts of carbohydrates is going against the bodys fundamental composition. One can clearly see th...
a combination approach, appears to be more in the low carbohydrate camp because Dr. Sears supports many of the same assumptions as...
In twelve pages this paper examines the low carbs and high protein Atkins diet in a comparison with other diet approaches, success...
In five pages diet fads are discussed in terms of their medical dangers with such issues addressed as social and psychological inf...
him sluggish, listless and prone to lack of concentration, inasmuch as a great deal of blood is sent to the digestive tract in ord...
pressure There are three types of high blood pressure observed in children. The first type is called "white-coat" high blood pres...