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Cardiovascular Disease, Research on Contributing Factors

This research paper pertains to current literature that investigates the relationship between nutrition, obesity and atherosclerot...

Childhood Obesity and Parental Factors

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at childhood obesity. The epidemic is analyzed in terms of parental factors. Paper uses...

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...

Proper Nutrition and Exorcise to Eliminate Eating Disorders

This paper contends that the measures that are needed to address obesity are the same as those needed to address binge eating, ano...

Cultural Causal Factors for Obesity

This research paper focuses on cultural factors that are associated with the development of obesity. The writer reports on an inte...

Determining Statistical Tests

Different types of tests may be used for differing purposes and with different types of data. This paper looks at how univariate ...

Factors of Obesity

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

Overview of Nutrition

are two very separate elements within the definition of developed. Not all countries with a low standard of living have low rati...

Obesity and its Many Costs

of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...

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...

Study on Obesity - An Analysis

relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood. The abstract of that paper says that the study was of young a...

Health: Fast Food

is well known that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world. It has become such a problem that it also affe...

Public Health Program

obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injuries and violence, environmental quality, i...

The Need to Improve School Lunches

need to eat healthy food in order to feel good and, therefore, learn better. The American lifestyle of sedentary occupations and l...

Potential Strategy to Reduce Obesity in Scotland

guidelines that these should be used only as a last resort when all other options have failed, with the possible exception of surg...

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...

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 for the “Fat Kids”

of people who are constantly trying to lose weight, if they were heavy as adolescents they are at increased risk of dying younger ...

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...

Fast Food and Obesity

exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...

Persuasive Essay on Why People Should Not Eat Fast Food and Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation

products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...

Fast Food Nation

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

SURFBOARD RIDING AND OBESITY

And obesity is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed in Australia. Though the issue is a high-profile one in the nation, ...

Social Justice : Hiv/Aids, Obesity, Aging

HIV/AIDS cannot be spread through hugging or touching someone with the virus, Americans are still very much afraid of this disease...

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...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

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...

Obesity and Childhood

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

Community Obesity and Health Promotion

his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...

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...