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This paper introduces the concept of childhood obesity and why it is important for the CDC to address the issue. Communication met...
This 10 page paper gives an overview of childhood obesity. This paper includes how combining mental health treatment with family h...
a false ideal body weight, there is an epidemic within the psychological world of those adolescents and indeed, people of all ages...
(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....
The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...
"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...
Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...
This research paper presents an extensive discussion of childhood obesity that addresses prevalence, the negative effects of overw...
a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...
to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...
negative health impacts are felt. This means that there is a lag in the conditions as well as the associated costs. The short term...
It is no secret that a large percentage of the American population is overweight or obese. The tragedy is that a large proportion ...
The paper will start by consider the problem, looking at the issue and the current gaps; it is only when the context of the issue ...
the company with violating the Consumer Protection Act when their ads focused on the toys that came with the Happy Meal (Burke 200...
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While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...
factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...
their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...
In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...
This research paper argues that early childhood obesity prevention programs are the best approach. Four pages in length, six sourc...
Different types of tests may be used for differing purposes and with different types of data. This paper looks at how univariate ...
This essay describes an ad that warns parents about the risks associated with childhood obesity. Five pages in length, one source...
This research paper pertains to the problem of childhood obesity. The writer discusses the need for intervention and describes an ...
This paper pertains to low-income community assessment, and then presents statistics on childhood obesity prevalence. Three pages...
This essay pertains to a Healthy People 2020 topic, nutrition and weight status and specifically discusses the problem of childhoo...
The results supported the authors hypotheses by illustrating the correlation between certain social measures. Low income, limited...
of people who are constantly trying to lose weight, if they were heavy as adolescents they are at increased risk of dying younger ...
need to eat healthy food in order to feel good and, therefore, learn better. The American lifestyle of sedentary occupations and l...