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In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. obesity in a consideration of various contributing factors with socioeconomic, psychologica...
an apple shape with body fat accumulate in the bellies. This is not a universal as individuals storage of body fat may differ than...
In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...
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...
and between 30 to 34.9 one is in the first class of obesity; with 40 or more points one is considered to be severely obese (2002)....
to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...
Tunica media. This is the middle layer of the artery wall, composed of smooth muscle and elastin. It is the muscle of...
a false ideal body weight, there is an epidemic within the psychological world of those adolescents and indeed, people of all ages...
to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...
his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...
and asked why he had been gaining weight, the doctor might have brought up his diet. Indeed, it seems common knowledge that fast f...
have in promoting her citizens wellness while Alberta still lags behind in her recognition of the importance of education in promo...
care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...
as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...
Another important area of research is obesitys impact on childhood from health, psychosocial and cognitive development standpoints...
Control and Prevention in conjunction with the work of state health departments (Mokdad et al, 1999, p. 1519). This survey is des...
determine what is normal or clinically notable. For example, a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m ( Must, Spadano & Coakley et al., 19...
Dutch, Swedish, Native American and Russian ("Dallas, Texas," 2005). What does this mean? It seems that the largest demographic is...
away from parents who are blamed for abuse or neglect if a child becomes too fat. In the old days, this was unheard of. Families t...
(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....
food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...
population, for example, present unique cultural concerns in terms of how to direct a public relations campaign that targets obesi...
the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...
Self-efficacy is a concept that refers to the degree to which individuals perceive themselves as having the ability and capability...
wherein children become obese. Interestingly enough, two authors argues that the caloric intake of children and adults is ...
can be used to test they are also very able to generate new hypothesises which may be tested in the same research or lead to furth...
Such junk food is apparently readily available in many high schools, perhaps with the understanding that high school students are ...
by 5% each week. Longer-term goals focus on reductions in absenteeism and illness which, in turn, will lead to a reduction in insu...
include many violent or negative acts. Cartoon characters are killed all the time, only to return immediately without explanation....