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Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

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...

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...

American Epidemic of Obesity

is obese children (Neff 2359). Other health risks associated with obesity include, but are not limited to: high cholesterol, hea...

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...

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 ...

Studying Lifestyles of Sedentary and Teenage Obesity

obesity, research includes differences in reports between teens and their parents (Goodman, Hinden and Khandelwal, 2000); and stud...

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...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Workplace and Obesity

speaker can establish a certain intimacy with the audience by asking them if they have seen the movie Shallow Hal. Audience member...

Managing Weight and the Influences of Environmental, Psychological, and Physiological Factors

highest prevalence of overweight teens (British Medical Association, 2004). Research indicates the prevalence of overweight and o...

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...

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...

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...

1991 to 1998 Obesity in America

Control and Prevention in conjunction with the work of state health departments (Mokdad et al, 1999, p. 1519). This survey is des...

Childhood Obesity Control Measures

Another important area of research is obesitys impact on childhood from health, psychosocial and cognitive development standpoints...

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...

Brazil's Obesity Problems

in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...

Methodology Proposal on Depression and Obesity

- take the weight of the patient in pounds, divide this number by the square of the height in inches, and multiply this value by 7...

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...

Alberta, Canada's Health Concerns

have in promoting her citizens wellness while Alberta still lags behind in her recognition of the importance of education in promo...

Dallas, TX and Obesity Prevention

Dutch, Swedish, Native American and Russian ("Dallas, Texas," 2005). What does this mean? It seems that the largest demographic is...

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

Obesity and Nutrition

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

Childhood Obesity and Effective Treatment

respiratory conditions, such as asthma and obstructive sleep apnea (Thorpe, et al, 2004). The long-term consequences of childhood ...

Literature Reviews of Studies on Heart Failure and Obesity

topic under discussion. Difference between primary and secondary sources : One source was selected in order to help illustrate th...

Obesity is Not a Problem of Epidemic Proportions

away from parents who are blamed for abuse or neglect if a child becomes too fat. In the old days, this was unheard of. Families t...