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What Schools Can Do to Stem the Obesity Epidemic

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Adolescents and Health

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

Methodology Proposal on Depression and Obesity

- take the weight of the patient in pounds, divide this number by the square of the height in inches, and multiply this value by 7...

Fast Food Nation

environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...

Fast Food, Microwaves and Society

metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...

High Fructose Corn Syrup and Obesity

prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...

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...

US Children and Obesity

need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...

Latin America and Obesity

of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...

Obesity Research and Motivation

Lingering Myths about Content and Process Models As shown above, recent research is starting to dispel the myths of one-sid...

Consumerism and Television for Children

endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...

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...

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 ...

Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

Factors of Obesity

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

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...

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...

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...

An Article on Childhood Obesity and Television Critiqued

In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...

Causes and Effects of Obesity in Adults

an apple shape with body fat accumulate in the bellies. This is not a universal as individuals storage of body fat may differ than...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

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...

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...

Obesity, Surgery for Weight Loss, and Their Psychological Impacts

may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...

Killer Sofa, A Health Message

This essay describes an ad that warns parents about the risks associated with childhood obesity. Five pages in length, one source...

An Intervention: Family Health, Fitness

This research paper pertains to the problem of childhood obesity. The writer discusses the need for intervention and describes an ...

A Prevention Approach, Early Childhood Obesity

This research paper argues that early childhood obesity prevention programs are the best approach. Four pages in length, six sourc...