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

and between 30 to 34.9 one is in the first class of obesity; with 40 or more points one is considered to be severely obese (2002)....

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

of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...

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

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

claims with some skepticism. However, understanding the basics of nutrition and how it affects the mind and body is relevant for e...

had a disease, there would be a widespread and enthusiastic campaign to find a cure. However, because obesity is not considered a ...

a personal decision and the effect is not singular but one of accumulative effect. For many it is deemed that the weight gain is s...

goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...

Within the last thirty years in the United States, the rate of childhood obesity has more than doubled as it was estimated that on...

2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...

common occurrence for the American adolescents in particular, with findings indicating how not only are American teens less active...

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

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

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

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

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

This paper contends that the measures that are needed to address obesity are the same as those needed to address binge eating, ano...

Post highlights what is ostensibly a growing problem in the United States: the rising prevalence of childhood obesity. In the firs...

This paper pertains to chronic disease and its causes, focusing specifically on the influence of environmental factors, such as ac...

This paper offers an abstract for study that pertains to the under-diagnosis of obesity. One page in length, no sources are cited....

This essay offers an overview of health and safety in Richmond County, NY (Staten Island). Demographic data and health data are in...

This paper pertains to the Precede-Proceed model and its applicability to intervention development that addresses the overweight/o...

their functioning around food, including monitoring their fat and sugar in-take and improving their diet as a whole. The whole fa...

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...

generalized research which took place many years ago. In more recent years there has been research that can be seen as specificall...

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...

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