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the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...
that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...
obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...
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...
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...
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...
Tunica media. This is the middle layer of the artery wall, composed of smooth muscle and elastin. It is the muscle of...
and asked why he had been gaining weight, the doctor might have brought up his diet. Indeed, it seems common knowledge that fast f...
2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...
unhealthy no matter which perspective one takes. Just how unhealthy is fast food? How does it contribute to obesity? The U.S. Sur...
Within the last thirty years in the United States, the rate of childhood obesity has more than doubled as it was estimated that on...
common occurrence for the American adolescents in particular, with findings indicating how not only are American teens less active...
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)....
a false ideal body weight, there is an epidemic within the psychological world of those adolescents and indeed, people of all ages...
are two very separate elements within the definition of developed. Not all countries with a low standard of living have low rati...
This paper offers an abstract for study that pertains to the under-diagnosis of obesity. One page in length, no sources are cited....
This research paper focuses on cultural factors that are associated with the development of obesity. The writer reports on an inte...
This paper contends that the measures that are needed to address obesity are the same as those needed to address binge eating, ano...
This paper pertains to the Precede-Proceed model and its applicability to intervention development that addresses the overweight/o...
This paper pertains to chronic disease and its causes, focusing specifically on the influence of environmental factors, such as ac...
This research paper pertains to data on the prevalence of obesity among American adolescents. This information reveals that it is ...
This research paper has two major sections. The first pertains to a proposed research study and the second pertains to a proposed ...
This research paper pertains to three research studies, which pertain to overweight/obesity in Hispanic adolescents, and reports ...
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 (...
balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...