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Variables and Clusters in Research

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

An Article on Obesity, Diabetes, and the Effect of Estrogen Reviewed

instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...

American Epidemic of Obesity

is obese children (Neff 2359). Other health risks associated with obesity include, but are not limited to: high cholesterol, hea...

American Children and Obesity

In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...

Obesity in America

genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...

Obesity and America's Youth

obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...

Children and Obesity

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

Preventative and Curative Health Care: An Economic Approach

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

Causes and Solutions of Childhood Obesity

including an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, believe instead that the plateau has happened simply because...

Ethics, Healthcare and Obesity

treatment of the sick, then undertaking preventive measures to reduce obesity before illness occurs may be beyond that duty, as it...

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...

Availability of Junk Food in Schools

2010). Frieden, Dietz and Collins (2010) point out that policy interventions promote encouraging children to make healthy food c...

Statistical Methods

to be used depending on hoe many of the variables are dependent and the type of dependence, for example, where only one or more v...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/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...

Treating Obesity with Nutrition

heavier than men), genetics, environment (lifestyle), illness, medication and the level of ones physical activity ("Obesity"). Psy...

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...

OBESITY IN AMERICA: PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

to hypertension. The problem is that most people havent been motivated to lose weight under the old regime, which has focused on l...