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of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...
In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...
factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...
balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...
While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...
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...
factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...
genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...
a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...
low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...
activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...
would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...
products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...
environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...
Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...
metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...
review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...
prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...
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...
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the research team will use a convenience sample of women recruited from a specific geographical area, and the team may choose to l...
on around the stomach) (Nazario, 2009). Obesity is linked to heart disease and stroke because it often causes high blood pressure...
exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...
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...
not using vitamin supplements (Nachtigal et al., 2005). B6 and B12 vitamins increase the metabolism, which is an important factor...
body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...
heavier than men), genetics, environment (lifestyle), illness, medication and the level of ones physical activity ("Obesity"). Psy...
The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...