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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...

Overview of Heart Disease

and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...

Elderly Living Alone and the Dangers This Poses

they were raised in an era of conservation and sacrifice (the 1940s and 1950s) and believe they should be able to live through it ...

Nutrition and Children

* Child poverty is highest among black families, 30 percent, then, among Hispanic families, 29 percent; it is 13 percent among whi...

Overview of Nutrition

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

Acute Renal Failure and Dialysis Patients, Nutrition, and Nursing

infinitely more to the aspect of nursing than administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise the ...

Nutrition and Aging

25 and 30 percent of residents are underweight (Matrix). Data collected from 255 nursing homes in ten states revealed that 31 perc...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Population Growth and Capitalism's Influence

In six pages this report discusses how such widespread issues as nutrition, economic production and consumption, and government co...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Nutrition and Heart Disease

to reduce heart disease by many medical and nutritional practitioners for the past 50 years is the very diet that causes it!" He ...

Infant Nutrition and Breastfeeding

including components which provide anti-bodies for the infant. According to one definition, colostrum is "The milk produced by mot...

Overview of Raynaud's Disease

hands while waiting for the streetcar during cold weather (Lehman, 2001). The color progression which he noted among some women w...

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension a.k.a. DASH

documented that "total cholesterol levels were reduced in patients following the DASH diet by an average of 7.3 percent and LDL-C ...

ADD and Nutritional Supplements

II. CAUSES Assessing the cause and extent of ADD, as well as determining the applicable methods of nutritional supplementat...

Runners and Exercise and Diet Training and Conditioning

The benefits of well thought exercise are uncontested when it comes to so-called "crash building". Improperly conducted, however,...

Children with Disabilities and a Health Promotion Program

of developing healthy habits in children with the expectation that these habits will continue throughout life (2003). The high rat...

Older Adults and Diabetes

is by far the most common form of the disease. In addition, it is common for those adults who develop the disease later in life t...

Child Development Activities 2

floor so the babies can crawl inside and play" (Miller, 1991) Begin to spark imagination "Have blankets and scarves for infants ...

Future Possibilities of Foods That Are Genetically Engineered

engineered food crop, the "Flavr Savr" tomato, had made it to the buying public (The Economist, 1997). Early proponents o...

Health Challenges to U.S. Children

serious health challenge for keeping Americans children healthy is the fact that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportion...

Controlling Weight, Diet, and Physical Fitness

One pound of body weight is the equivalent of 3500 calories (The Fitness Club, 2001). The individual who consumes more calories t...

Impoverished Children and Better Nutrition Promotion

spiral effect of poor nutrition, Americas obesity epidemic now has led to the emergence of a developing diabetes epidemic as well ...

Impoverished Children and West Harlem's Better Nutrition Promotion

effect of poor nutrition, Americas obesity epidemic now has led to the emergence of a developing diabetes epidemic as well (Mason-...

Obesity and Nutrition

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

Poverty and Poor Nutrition

the United States have the ability to obtain free food supplements for their babies and young children. Despite these programs, a...

Topics for a Course in Health

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

Youth Fitness

This problem is one that does not look like it will go away in the near future. It is also an emotionally sensitive...

Patients with Diabetes and Diet

other organs, such as the heart, kidneys and eyes (Visalli, 1996). Although individuals with Type I diabetes must take insulin, d...

Overview of San Diego's Project 'Jump Start'

enter for up to a full year. Because obesity is a family problem as well as one of society, project Jump Start has the potential ...