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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, 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...

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...

HIV Prevention for Youth in Rural Areas

sex (Dunn, et al, 2007). Statistics, such as this, indicate the clear need for HIV prevention programs that specifically target ad...

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...

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...

American Epidemic of Obesity

is obese children (Neff 2359). Other health risks associated with obesity include, but are not limited to: high cholesterol, hea...

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...

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...

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, ...

Problem of Obesity

Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...

The Link Between Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity

ESTIMATED TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE IN THE US ALONE SUFFERED FROM DIABETES IN 2005 (DESHPANDE, HARRIS-HAYES, AND SCHOOTMAN, 2005). AS...

Article Critique About Childhood Obesity

The results supported the authors hypotheses by illustrating the correlation between certain social measures. Low income, limited...

Treating Obesity with Nutrition

heavier than men), genetics, environment (lifestyle), illness, medication and the level of ones physical activity ("Obesity"). Psy...

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 ...

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...

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...

OBESITY IN AMERICA: PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

to hypertension. The problem is that most people havent been motivated to lose weight under the old regime, which has focused on l...

Obesity and Health

on around the stomach) (Nazario, 2009). Obesity is linked to heart disease and stroke because it often causes high blood pressure...

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...

U.S. and How to Address the Public Health Crisis of Obesity

body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...

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...

Public Health Program

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

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...

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...

Popular Editorials and the Rhetoric That Drives Them

Post highlights what is ostensibly a growing problem in the United States: the rising prevalence of childhood obesity. In the firs...

A Health and Nutrition Education Plan

their functioning around food, including monitoring their fat and sugar in-take and improving their diet as a whole. The whole fa...

The Paradox in the World Food Crisis

different part of the globe, "hundreds of millions eat too much, or consume the wrong sorts of food, and it is making them ill," a...