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This research paper constitutes the literature review portion of a project addressing the global vitamin D deficiency epidemic. Ar...

Obesity is a global issue that is nearly an epidemic. The CDC reported that over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled ...

in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...

methods of book reading; given the multitude of students who have at least some level or type of learning and/or attention disorde...

eating. This will help empower them to make decisions regarding their own diet. It will also placed pressure on the companies to c...

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

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

activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...

genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...

the research team will use a convenience sample of women recruited from a specific geographical area, and the team may choose to l...

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...

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...

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...

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...

metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...

review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...

products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...

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

Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...

And obesity is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed in Australia. Though the issue is a high-profile one in the nation, ...

HIV/AIDS cannot be spread through hugging or touching someone with the virus, Americans are still very much afraid of this disease...

an apple shape with body fat accumulate in the bellies. This is not a universal as individuals storage of body fat may differ than...

not using vitamin supplements (Nachtigal et al., 2005). B6 and B12 vitamins increase the metabolism, which is an important factor...

body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...

heavier than men), genetics, environment (lifestyle), illness, medication and the level of ones physical activity ("Obesity"). Psy...

The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...