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Overview of San Diego's Project 'Jump Start'

enter for up to a full year. Because obesity is a family problem as well as one of society, project Jump Start has the potential ...

Patients with Diabetes and Diet

other organs, such as the heart, kidneys and eyes (Visalli, 1996). Although individuals with Type I diabetes must take insulin, d...

History and Contemporary Issues of African Americans

the population. The issue of environmental justice is one of great importance, since peoples health is at stake. "Environmental j...

Health Education Teaching Strategies

actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...

The Issue of the Extension of Slavery Reported in the American Whig

may be ill-timed or inhumane; it may be constitutional and yet smack of arbitrary power-of oppression: it may ... carry with it a ...

Risk and Hypertension, Pancreatic Cancer

and total energy intake"), the researchers determined that lycopene, which was provided primarily from tomatoes, could be associat...

Nutrition and its applicability to hypertension

mm Hg or greater and a diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm HG or greater, hypertension can have a number of serious pathophysiologic...

Psychological Dependence and Drug Abuse

craving for the drug (Edlin & Golanty, 2009). Someone who has never taken a recreational drug can understand what a craving is lik...

Obesity and Nutrition

as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...

Poverty and Poor Nutrition

the United States have the ability to obtain free food supplements for their babies and young children. Despite these programs, a...

2 Texts on Issues Pertaining to the American Educational System

topic should realize that neither socialism or communism are political system, they are, rather, economic systems. Counts argues t...

1960s' Social Issues and the Involvement of the American Government

help to support low-income parents with children. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT One of the most notable programs was the involvement of t...

Native Americans and End of Life Issues

people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...

Examination of Diabetes

causes behind the increased incidence of this disease (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Experts feel that, in general, the risk for type 2...

Nutrition and Exercise Plan

family history of diabetes are significant risk factors. (If the student is black, Native American or Asian Americans, this is als...

Two Lesson Plans on Nutrition

about healthy foods. Students will then be asked to create a menu for one meal a day that includes foods that are healthful. Stu...

Third Graders and Nutrition Diary

an actual third graders diary (Forstadt, 2008), a third-graders natural inclination is to write brief, one-to-three sentence entri...

Major Issues and Debates Leading to the American Civil War

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

Gaining Weight for the Young Athlete

nutritious meals per day. Sepe (2006) explains that the meals should be balanced between carbohydrate, protein and fat. He explain...

Review of Qualitative Research on Childhood Obesity

a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...

Topics for a Course in Health

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

Youth Fitness

This problem is one that does not look like it will go away in the near future. It is also an emotionally sensitive...

Community Nursing: Positive Impacts on Nutrition and Lifestyle

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

Case Study of an Older Adult

This research paper focuses on Betsy, a 79-year-old woman who has lost interest in normal activities and lost close to 20 pounds o...

Sarcomere Contraction

filaments and the thick myosin filaments allow the actin filaments to be drawn inwards so that the myosin filaments shorten the wh...

Importance of Nutrition and Weight Status

This essay pertains to a Healthy People 2020 topic, nutrition and weight status and specifically discusses the problem of childhoo...

Home Economics, Slater and Hinds (2014)

This paper offers an extensive overview of the research conducted by Slater and Hinds (2014), which addresses home economics food ...

African American Diabetes and Inner City

This paper suggests educational and community outreach projects that would help improve nutrition and level of activity among this...

Cancer Patients and Nutrition

This research paper/essay offers a discussion of the importance of nutrition and its effects on cancer survivors. Three pages in l...

Nutrition and Cancer, A Capstone Project

This paper describes a capstone project that focuses on the connections between nutrition and cancer. The project will also explor...