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In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...
In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. obesity in a consideration of various contributing factors with socioeconomic, psychologica...
In twelve pages the growing problems of obesity in children and adolescents in the United States are considered in terms of presen...
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...
in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...
In ten pages the components of bulimia, anorexia, and obesity eating disorders are examined in terms of treatment alternatives. T...
care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...
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...
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...
in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...
respiratory conditions, such as asthma and obstructive sleep apnea (Thorpe, et al, 2004). The long-term consequences of childhood ...
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...
the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...
- 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...
endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...
decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...
and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...
instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...
is obese children (Neff 2359). Other health risks associated with obesity include, but are not limited to: high cholesterol, hea...
above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...
that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...
obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...
as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...
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...
Dutch, Swedish, Native American and Russian ("Dallas, Texas," 2005). What does this mean? It seems that the largest demographic is...
(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....
topic under discussion. Difference between primary and secondary sources : One source was selected in order to help illustrate th...
wherein children become obese. Interestingly enough, two authors argues that the caloric intake of children and adults is ...