YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Healthy People 2010 Obesity Objective
Essays 541 - 570
In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...
In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...
of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...
environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...
review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...
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...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...
the research team will use a convenience sample of women recruited from a specific geographical area, and the team may choose to l...
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their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...
factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...
that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...
took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...
the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...
Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...
researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...
factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...
While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...
balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...
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 (...
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...
Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...
of people who are constantly trying to lose weight, if they were heavy as adolescents they are at increased risk of dying younger ...
thirty-five percent of nonobese peers, with a higher number of those being boys of ethnic backgrounds. II. GERALD ET AL Th...
need to be the skills, including cooking skills, the ability to design menus, and the approaches taught also need to be available ...
on around the stomach) (Nazario, 2009). Obesity is linked to heart disease and stroke because it often causes high blood pressure...
heavier than men), genetics, environment (lifestyle), illness, medication and the level of ones physical activity ("Obesity"). Psy...