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on around the stomach) (Nazario, 2009). Obesity is linked to heart disease and stroke because it often causes high blood pressure...
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...
The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...
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...
exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...
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...
obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injuries and violence, environmental quality, i...
guidelines that these should be used only as a last resort when all other options have failed, with the possible exception of surg...
need to eat healthy food in order to feel good and, therefore, learn better. The American lifestyle of sedentary occupations and l...
genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...
a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...
activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...
of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...
low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...
country, the often ate "traditional diets ... high in grains, fruit and vegetables and low in fat" (Hoffman). Once they arrived in...
Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...
2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...
wherein children become obese. Interestingly enough, two authors argues that the caloric intake of children and adults is ...
that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...
population, for example, present unique cultural concerns in terms of how to direct a public relations campaign that targets obesi...
obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...
and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...
is obese children (Neff 2359). Other health risks associated with obesity include, but are not limited to: high cholesterol, hea...
instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...
greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...
health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...