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Community Obesity and Health Promotion

his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...

How 911 Changed America's Political Landscape

In a paper consisting of 8 pages the impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 is discussed and includes such issues a...

Obesity and Childhood

to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...

Children, Obesity, and Its Impact

Within the last thirty years in the United States, the rate of childhood obesity has more than doubled as it was estimated that on...

American Obesity and Fast Food

unhealthy no matter which perspective one takes. Just how unhealthy is fast food? How does it contribute to obesity? The U.S. Sur...

America's 'Super Maximum' Prison Security

held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...

America's Enlightenment Still Exists

great extent, people still cling to religious notions. The observation made more than a century ago is still valid. Not only that,...

Fast Food Industry Obesity Case of Caesar Barber

and asked why he had been gaining weight, the doctor might have brought up his diet. Indeed, it seems common knowledge that fast f...

A Community Health Plan for Obesity

goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...

Spending Allocations of America's Defense Budget

brought us images of war, live and in color. Regardless of whatever political ideologies concurrently exist, no reasonable, think...

Problem of Obesity

common occurrence for the American adolescents in particular, with findings indicating how not only are American teens less active...

America's Huge Trade Deficit and its Causes

health of the general economy, and that any evidence to the contrary merely represents a lag in cause and effect. The...

Black Studies and America's Cultural Assumptions

home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...

Cuba and America's Occupation

and Spain, along with the Paris treaty, had been reviewed for the purpose of showing the relation of the United States to Cuba as...

Studying Lifestyles of Sedentary and Teenage Obesity

obesity, research includes differences in reports between teens and their parents (Goodman, Hinden and Khandelwal, 2000); and stud...

Nutrition and Health Science

claims with some skepticism. However, understanding the basics of nutrition and how it affects the mind and body is relevant for e...

Article Review of Barbara A. Dennison's 'Television Viewing and Television in Bedroom Associated with Overweight Risk Among Low Income Preschool Children'

significantly to the problem. The allure of the silver screen, whether that screen be that of a television or a game pad, has tra...

Ben Franklin, America's Colonial Printer

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

Corporate Conspiracy of 'Junk Food'

had a disease, there would be a widespread and enthusiastic campaign to find a cure. However, because obesity is not considered a ...

Latin America's Neoliberalism, Informal Economic Sector, and Migration

In four pages this paper examines Latin American economies and countries in a consideration of 3 economic concepts. Three sources...

1990 to 1995 Conditions of America's Working Class

verses the tenth percentile had increased to over four times as much. The discrepancy for women increased as well, from 3.1 in 19...

The End of Affluence The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma by Jeffrey Madrick

In five pages this 1995 economic text is examined. There is 1 source cited in the bibliography....

Workplace and Obesity

speaker can establish a certain intimacy with the audience by asking them if they have seen the movie Shallow Hal. Audience member...

America's System of Justice and the Influence of the British Examples

during the seventeenth century, where jurors were disqualified from judging if they had a precious knowledge of that case (Smith ...

America's Involvement in the First World War

of Britain, France and Russia, US President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring American neutrality (Kennedy, 1991). Ho...

Overview of America's Juvenile Court System

serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...

America's Ailing Healthcare as Depicted in Michael Moore's Documentary 'Sicko'

have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...

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...