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have in promoting her citizens wellness while Alberta still lags behind in her recognition of the importance of education in promo...

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

respiratory conditions, such as asthma and obstructive sleep apnea (Thorpe, et al, 2004). The long-term consequences of childhood ...

Control and Prevention in conjunction with the work of state health departments (Mokdad et al, 1999, p. 1519). This survey is des...

Another important area of research is obesitys impact on childhood from health, psychosocial and cognitive development standpoints...

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...

Dutch, Swedish, Native American and Russian ("Dallas, Texas," 2005). What does this mean? It seems that the largest demographic is...

in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

interrupted by the First, and especially the Second World War, when women in large numbers went to work for the first time. Many ...

- 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...

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...

In six pages this essay contrasts and compares these early Meso American civilizations in terms of organizational, agricultural, r...

In five pages this paper discusses the still accurate premise for American business articulated by a text originally published bac...

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

are two very separate elements within the definition of developed. Not all countries with a low standard of living have low rati...

of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...

This paper examines the 1895 to 1898 Spanish American War in an overview of its global consequences past and present in 10 pages....

In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...

an apple shape with body fat accumulate in the bellies. This is not a universal as individuals storage of body fat may differ than...

wherein children become obese. Interestingly enough, two authors argues that the caloric intake of children and adults is ...

create such programs (The American College of Surgeons, 2006). There is the Committee on Trauma which "works to improve th...

target children as their principle demographic also have Web sites that market to children (Cowdrey 19). A child who gets bored wi...

who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...

Such junk food is apparently readily available in many high schools, perhaps with the understanding that high school students are ...

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...