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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...

Obesity in Brooklyn

formed in 2003 to push forward clinical research (NIH, 2010). National measures have been undertaken, but they need to be suppor...

Addressing Childhood Obesity in One Alabama County

Interventions Recent research contends that the nations school lunch program is actually "exacerbates" the...

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...

Causes and Solutions of Childhood Obesity

including an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, believe instead that the plateau has happened simply because...

Preventative and Curative Health Care: An Economic Approach

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

Availability of Junk Food in Schools

2010). Frieden, Dietz and Collins (2010) point out that policy interventions promote encouraging children to make healthy food c...

Creating a Campaign to Reduce Obesity in Brooklyn - Background Information on the Target Audience and Existing Campaigns

ongoing health problems later in life. 2. Target Population The campaign will be aimed at young adults, which we will define as...

Ethics, Healthcare and Obesity

treatment of the sick, then undertaking preventive measures to reduce obesity before illness occurs may be beyond that duty, as it...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

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...

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...

Brazil's Obesity Problems

in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...

Gluttony and How Dante Would Punish It

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...

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...

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...

Treatment Options for Eating Disorders

In ten pages the components of bulimia, anorexia, and obesity eating disorders are examined in terms of treatment alternatives. T...

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...

Contemporary Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In five pages this paper considers 3 contemporary problems from the theoretical perspectives of Emile Durkheim including infant ab...

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...