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in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...
the research team will use a convenience sample of women recruited from a specific geographical area, and the team may choose to l...
of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...
took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...
balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...
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...
Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...
the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...
genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...
would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...
activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...
In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...
an apple shape with body fat accumulate in the bellies. This is not a universal as individuals storage of body fat may differ than...
of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...
are two very separate elements within the definition of developed. Not all countries with a low standard of living have low rati...
Such junk food is apparently readily available in many high schools, perhaps with the understanding that high school students are ...
population, for example, present unique cultural concerns in terms of how to direct a public relations campaign that targets obesi...
food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...
Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...
country, the often ate "traditional diets ... high in grains, fruit and vegetables and low in fat" (Hoffman). Once they arrived in...
of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...
topic under discussion. Difference between primary and secondary sources : One source was selected in order to help illustrate th...
(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....
In ten pages the components of bulimia, anorexia, and obesity eating disorders are examined in terms of treatment alternatives. T...
in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...
In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...
- 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...
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...
In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. obesity in a consideration of various contributing factors with socioeconomic, psychologica...
and contest the idea that their weight is problematic. They contend that they are healthy the way they are and there is a fat acce...