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prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...
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...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...
their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...
balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...
of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...
took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...
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...
factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...
HIV/AIDS cannot be spread through hugging or touching someone with the virus, Americans are still very much afraid of this disease...
And obesity is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed in Australia. Though the issue is a high-profile one in the nation, ...
products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...
metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...
Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...
ESTIMATED TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE IN THE US ALONE SUFFERED FROM DIABETES IN 2005 (DESHPANDE, HARRIS-HAYES, AND SCHOOTMAN, 2005). AS...
The results supported the authors hypotheses by illustrating the correlation between certain social measures. Low income, limited...
heavier than men), genetics, environment (lifestyle), illness, medication and the level of ones physical activity ("Obesity"). Psy...
thirty-five percent of nonobese peers, with a higher number of those being boys of ethnic backgrounds. II. GERALD ET AL Th...
need to be the skills, including cooking skills, the ability to design menus, and the approaches taught also need to be available ...
on around the stomach) (Nazario, 2009). Obesity is linked to heart disease and stroke because it often causes high blood pressure...
The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...
body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...
not using vitamin supplements (Nachtigal et al., 2005). B6 and B12 vitamins increase the metabolism, which is an important factor...
relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood. The abstract of that paper says that the study was of young a...
is well known that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world. It has become such a problem that it also affe...
to hypertension. The problem is that most people havent been motivated to lose weight under the old regime, which has focused on l...
obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injuries and violence, environmental quality, i...
exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...
their functioning around food, including monitoring their fat and sugar in-take and improving their diet as a whole. The whole fa...