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Obesity and Television Viewing: A Review of Literature

factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...

Action Plan; Reducing Obesity in 18 - 25 Year Olds

of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...

Food Addictions, Symptoms and Treatments

took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...

Obesity in the United States

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

Obesity in American Children

While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...

Obesity

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

Contributing Factors to Adolescent Obesity: A Research Proposal

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...

Critique of Qualitative Study/Nutrition

their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...

Potential Strategy to Reduce Obesity in Scotland

guidelines that these should be used only as a last resort when all other options have failed, with the possible exception of surg...

The Need to Improve School Lunches

need to eat healthy food in order to feel good and, therefore, learn better. The American lifestyle of sedentary occupations and l...

Public Health Program

obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injuries and violence, environmental quality, i...

Study on Obesity - An Analysis

relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood. The abstract of that paper says that the study was of young a...

Health: Fast Food

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...

Fast Food and Obesity

exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...

Obesity and Health

on around the stomach) (Nazario, 2009). Obesity is linked to heart disease and stroke because it often causes high blood pressure...

Exercise and Vitamin Supplement to Combat Obesity

not using vitamin supplements (Nachtigal et al., 2005). B6 and B12 vitamins increase the metabolism, which is an important factor...

Childhood for the “Fat Kids”

of people who are constantly trying to lose weight, if they were heavy as adolescents they are at increased risk of dying younger ...

THE UNITED STATES AND OBESITY

The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...

Childhood/Adolescent Obesity Research Article Comparison

thirty-five percent of nonobese peers, with a higher number of those being boys of ethnic backgrounds. II. GERALD ET AL Th...

Proposal for a Project to Tackle Obesity in Adolescents

need to be the skills, including cooking skills, the ability to design menus, and the approaches taught also need to be available ...

The Paradox in the World Food Crisis

different part of the globe, "hundreds of millions eat too much, or consume the wrong sorts of food, and it is making them ill," a...

Obesity in Brooklyn

formed in 2003 to push forward clinical research (NIH, 2010). National measures have been undertaken, but they need to be suppor...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...

Creating a Campaign to Reduce Obesity in Brooklyn - Background Information on the Target Audience and Existing Campaigns

ongoing health problems later in life. 2. Target Population The campaign will be aimed at young adults, which we will define as...

A Health and Nutrition Education Plan

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

Addressing Childhood Obesity in One Alabama County

Interventions Recent research contends that the nations school lunch program is actually "exacerbates" the...

Fast Food and Fat Foodies

link between the unhealthy, fat-laden meals served by fast food restaurants and the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. However, commo...

Popular Editorials and the Rhetoric That Drives Them

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

Childhood Obesity/The Role of Schools

and adolescents from 1990 to 2000. Furthermore, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey revealed that 7 percent of in...