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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...

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...

Obesity in the United States

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

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...

SAS 85: FURTHER EXPLANATION

letter also confirms managements responsibility for the financial statements, while encouraging tailoring the communication to the...

AN EXPLANATION ABOUT INTEREST RATES

But what causes interest rates to move over time, between institutions and across borders? A great deal depends on what is set by ...

Explanation and Adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In seventeen pagest this research paper commences with an original Hamlet adaptation and then focuses upon contemporary social inf...

Adolescent Obesity Interview and Discussion

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

Factors of Obesity

In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. obesity in a consideration of various contributing factors with socioeconomic, psychologica...

Evolution Explanation and Complexity Theory

In five pages the ways in which the theory of evolution are supported by complexity theory are discussed with references to Comple...

Obesity Research and Motivation

Lingering Myths about Content and Process Models As shown above, recent research is starting to dispel the myths of one-sid...

Obesity, Surgery for Weight Loss, and Their Psychological Impacts

may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...

An Article on Obesity, Diabetes, and the Effect of Estrogen Reviewed

instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...

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...

US Children and Obesity

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

Latin America and Obesity

of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...

A Reinforcement Explanation

quite well known. For instance, the first principle is to reinforce the target behavior and only when the behavior is exhibited. T...

Preschool Children and Explanations of Dying and Death

go to sleep (VanClay, 2004; Vernon, 2002). As LesStrang said: "Grandpa did not go on a long journey; he did not pass on; he is not...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

Occupational Pay Diversity and Economic Theory Explanation

social workers. This group had a 24 percent turnover rate" (Ryan, 2004) and social workers were not awarded the same type of pay i...

Explanation of Java Platforms

separately. We had mentioned above that Java makes use of small webpages (applets) to help add a little more pizzazz to wh...

Obesity and America's Youth

obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...

Children and Obesity

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

Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

An Individual's Explanation on Why He Wants to Become a Doctor

in most cases much better compensated than any other professional. Others want to become a physician simply because of the societ...

Total Quality Management and James W. Cortada's Explanation

cultures, one must first understand the classification of culture and leadership. Cortada emphasizes several issues when assessin...

An Explanation and Possible Solutions Regarding a Seven Year Old Child's Antisocial and Aggressive Behavior

(Papert, 1999, p. 104+) - believed that children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the ...

Case Study Analysis of Disease and Heredity

which would have put him at greater risk for dying of heart disease, regardless of his genetic makeup. Smoking is considered the ...

Women and Obesity

to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...

Narrowing Protection and Arteries Structure

Tunica media. This is the middle layer of the artery wall, composed of smooth muscle and elastin. It is the muscle of...