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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...

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...

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...

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...

Obesity and Nutrition

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

Literature Reviews of Studies on Heart Failure and Obesity

topic under discussion. Difference between primary and secondary sources : One source was selected in order to help illustrate th...

Preventing Obesity

(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....

Obesity is Not a Problem of Epidemic Proportions

away from parents who are blamed for abuse or neglect if a child becomes too fat. In the old days, this was unheard of. Families t...

Food Advertising & Children

target children as their principle demographic also have Web sites that market to children (Cowdrey 19). A child who gets bored wi...

Childhood Obesity in America

wherein children become obese. Interestingly enough, two authors argues that the caloric intake of children and adults is ...

Junk Food and Children

Such junk food is apparently readily available in many high schools, perhaps with the understanding that high school students are ...

Australian Perspectives on Public Relations and Obesity

population, for example, present unique cultural concerns in terms of how to direct a public relations campaign that targets obesi...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

Obesity and Childhood

to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...

Fast Food Industry Obesity Case of Caesar Barber

and asked why he had been gaining weight, the doctor might have brought up his diet. Indeed, it seems common knowledge that fast f...

America and Obesity

2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...

American Obesity and Fast Food

unhealthy no matter which perspective one takes. Just how unhealthy is fast food? How does it contribute to obesity? The U.S. Sur...

Children, Obesity, and Its Impact

Within the last thirty years in the United States, the rate of childhood obesity has more than doubled as it was estimated that on...

Problem of Obesity

common occurrence for the American adolescents in particular, with findings indicating how not only are American teens less active...

Increasing Problem of Obesity in Children and Adolescents

In twelve pages the growing problems of obesity in children and adolescents in the United States are considered in terms of presen...

Customers, Weight Gain, and Restaurant Accountability

a personal decision and the effect is not singular but one of accumulative effect. For many it is deemed that the weight gain is s...

Article Review of Barbara A. Dennison's 'Television Viewing and Television in Bedroom Associated with Overweight Risk Among Low Income Preschool Children'

significantly to the problem. The allure of the silver screen, whether that screen be that of a television or a game pad, has tra...

Studying Lifestyles of Sedentary and Teenage Obesity

obesity, research includes differences in reports between teens and their parents (Goodman, Hinden and Khandelwal, 2000); and stud...

Nutrition and Health Science

claims with some skepticism. However, understanding the basics of nutrition and how it affects the mind and body is relevant for e...

Children, Obesity, and Causes

In a paper consisting of five pages the causes of children's obesity is examined with factors such as lack of exercise and diet di...

Factors of Obesity

In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. obesity in a consideration of various contributing factors with socioeconomic, psychologica...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Workplace and Obesity

speaker can establish a certain intimacy with the audience by asking them if they have seen the movie Shallow Hal. Audience member...

Managing Weight and the Influences of Environmental, Psychological, and Physiological Factors

highest prevalence of overweight teens (British Medical Association, 2004). Research indicates the prevalence of overweight and o...

Adolescent Obesity Interview and Discussion

In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...