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African American Obesity, PRECEDE-PROCEED Model

This paper pertains to the Precede-Proceed model and its applicability to intervention development that addresses the overweight/o...

Delimitations, Summary Sections for Proposed Study

the research team will use a convenience sample of women recruited from a specific geographical area, and the team may choose to l...

Obesity

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

Child And Adolescent Development

not completely so This author states: "Personality development occurs by the ongoing interaction of temperament, character, and en...

Contributing Factors to Adolescent Obesity: A Research Proposal

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...

Approaches To Environmental Protection

The 7 page paper looks at the approaches to environmental protection. The first part of the paper discusses the latest environment...

Variables and Clusters in Research

those who have a body mass index of below 35 m-2 tend to have similar activity patterns when the energy expenditure levels are cor...

Obesity in the United Arab Emirates

the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...

Obesity in the United States

balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...

Action Plan; Reducing Obesity in 18 - 25 Year Olds

of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...

Food Addictions, Symptoms and Treatments

took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...

Epidemiology of Obesity

activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...

SURFBOARD RIDING AND OBESITY

And obesity is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed in Australia. Though the issue is a high-profile one in the nation, ...

Problem of Obesity

Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...

Fast Food Nation

environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...

Social Justice : Hiv/Aids, Obesity, Aging

HIV/AIDS cannot be spread through hugging or touching someone with the virus, Americans are still very much afraid of this disease...

The Link Between Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity

ESTIMATED TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE IN THE US ALONE SUFFERED FROM DIABETES IN 2005 (DESHPANDE, HARRIS-HAYES, AND SCHOOTMAN, 2005). AS...

Fast Food, Microwaves and Society

metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...

High Fructose Corn Syrup and Obesity

prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...

Major Issues in Obesity

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...

Persuasive Essay on Why People Should Not Eat Fast Food and Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation

products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...

Article Critique/Dypsnea in the Obese

review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...

Timothy Braun/Angelina

that while the boys have the bodies of adults, including the raging hormonal sexuality of adolescence, cognitively there is still ...

Public Health Program

obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injuries and violence, environmental quality, i...

Fast Food and Fat Foodies

link between the unhealthy, fat-laden meals served by fast food restaurants and the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. However, commo...

Potential Strategy to Reduce Obesity in Scotland

guidelines that these should be used only as a last resort when all other options have failed, with the possible exception of surg...

Popular Editorials and the Rhetoric That Drives Them

Post highlights what is ostensibly a growing problem in the United States: the rising prevalence of childhood obesity. In the firs...

A Health and Nutrition Education Plan

their functioning around food, including monitoring their fat and sugar in-take and improving their diet as a whole. The whole fa...

THE UNITED STATES AND OBESITY

The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...

Obesity and Health

on around the stomach) (Nazario, 2009). Obesity is linked to heart disease and stroke because it often causes high blood pressure...