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Depression and Obesity

emotional problems are likely to emerge. The relationship between obesity and depression is one that is not exactly clear (Stunka...

Knowing the Signs of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

regards to the obesity epidemic in America. It seems that over the last few decades, the numbers has risen more dramatically than ...

Overview of Childhood Obesity

This research paper presents an extensive discussion of childhood obesity that addresses prevalence, the negative effects of overw...

An Important Public Health Issue, Obesity

This paper pertains to obesity and the writer specially discusses how the terms "epidemic" and "pandemic" are defined in regards t...

Why Television Viewing for Children Should be Limited

include many violent or negative acts. Cartoon characters are killed all the time, only to return immediately without explanation....

Final Project Proposal, Childhood Obesity Research

This paper offers an overview of the plans for a research study that pertains to childhood obesity. The study will target a specif...

Consumerism and Television for Children

endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...

Children and Obesity

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

Media's Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic

would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...

Food Advertising & Children

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

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

Childhood for the “Fat Kids”

of people who are constantly trying to lose weight, if they were heavy as adolescents they are at increased risk of dying younger ...

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...

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...

Fast Food Nation

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

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Increasing Problem of Obesity in Children and Adolescents

In twelve pages the growing problems of obesity in children and adolescents in the United States are considered in terms of presen...

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...

US Children and Obesity

need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...

Childhood Obesity and Public Health Nursing

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

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...

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 ...

An Article on Childhood Obesity and Television Critiqued

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

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...

Gluttony and How Dante Would Punish It

and contest the idea that their weight is problematic. They contend that they are healthy the way they are and there is a fat acce...

Obesity and American Health

determine what is normal or clinically notable. For example, a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m ( Must, Spadano & Coakley et al., 19...

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...

Children's Language Development

This paper reviews and offers conclusions on empirical literature that pertains to young children's language development. Seven pa...

Surviving the Applegates by Stephanie Tolan

at this point, E.D.s Aunt Lucille intervenes and persuades Jakes social worker that he can be successfully home schooled with the ...

INTERVIEW: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

our doctors, for example, is able to discover some new kind of vaccines from cases, that looks pretty good on our experience list....