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have in promoting her citizens wellness while Alberta still lags behind in her recognition of the importance of education in promo...

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....

Control and Prevention in conjunction with the work of state health departments (Mokdad et al, 1999, p. 1519). This survey is des...

Another important area of research is obesitys impact on childhood from health, psychosocial and cognitive development standpoints...

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...

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

Dutch, Swedish, Native American and Russian ("Dallas, Texas," 2005). What does this mean? It seems that the largest demographic is...

as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...

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

instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...

This paper pertains to chronic disease and its causes, focusing specifically on the influence of environmental factors, such as ac...

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

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

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

This research paper argues that early childhood obesity prevention programs are the best approach. Four pages in length, six sourc...

This essay offers an overview of health and safety in Richmond County, NY (Staten Island). Demographic data and health data are in...

This paper pertains to the Precede-Proceed model and its applicability to intervention development that addresses the overweight/o...

This essay pertains to a Healthy People 2020 topic, nutrition and weight status and specifically discusses the problem of childhoo...

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 10 page paper gives an overview of childhood obesity. This paper includes how combining mental health treatment with family h...

This paper pertains to low-income community assessment, and then presents statistics on childhood obesity prevalence. Three pages...

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

This research paper presents a PICO question that pertains to the problem of childhood overweight/obesity. Six pages in length, fi...

This literature review adds to a previous review that was formulated to address a PICO research question. The problem (P) address...

This research paper pertains to data on the prevalence of obesity among American adolescents. This information reveals that it is ...

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

This research paper focuses on Belvedere Community Regional Park (BCRP), which is located on E. Cesar Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles...

This research paper discusses the health benefits associated with exercise in regards to cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and ...