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Adult Obesity

a drug sold under the brand name of Glucophage) in treating obesity. Finally, nursing intervention will be proposed based on the ...

Obesity in Adolescents

also associated with adolescents who have been diagnosed as having binge eating disorder. Unquestionably psychologically related,...

Progress of Fat and Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

health. There are morbidly obese people who appear to enjoy being the way they are and actively seek to maintain their stat...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Overview of Childhood Obesity

This research paper presents an extensive discussion of childhood obesity that addresses prevalence, the negative effects of overw...

Action Plan to Reduce Obesity in 12 - 18 Year Olds

causes of obesity catching children when they can still be influenced. Children who are overweight are one of the groups that ha...

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

Obesity/Hispanic Women in Tillman County, OK

$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...

Obesity and American Health

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...

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...

Adolescent and Child Obesity

In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...

Article Critique/Dypsnea in the Obese

review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...

American Obesity An Explanation

define obesity is based on an individuals height verses their weight. The calculation of Body Mass Index (BMI), for example, is s...

Obesity in American Children

While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...

American Obesity and Fast Food

unhealthy no matter which perspective one takes. Just how unhealthy is fast food? How does it contribute to obesity? The U.S. Sur...

A Program to Reduce Overweight Kids

The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...

Overweight Children

It is no secret that a large percentage of the American population is overweight or obese. The tragedy is that a large proportion ...

Healthy People 2010/Obesity Objective

in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...

Measuring Success of Project

There is an international epidemic of overweight, obese, and morbidly obese adults and children. Programs that would be successful...

Stop the Fat Epidemic

Being overweight, obese, or morbidly obese has become one of the major causes of illness across the globe. Childhood obesity is no...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

The Epidemic Proportions of AIDS

In this paper consisting of twelve pages the evolution of the AIDS epidemic is discussed. There are twelve bibliographic sources ...

Today's AIDS Victims' Treatment and the Plague Depicted in Boccaccio's 'The Decameron'

In four pages this paper compares the social problem of the Black Plague that is the subject of 'The Decameron' with the modern da...

Bioethics Advanced Essays

This paper contains ten pages and discusses the complexities of bioethics by summarizing the biology of HIV and the disease produc...

Personal Account of the Black Death

In five pages this paper represents an historically true personal portrait of the effects of London's bubonic plague epidemic. Tw...

AIDS and the Bubonic Plague

insects is the rat flea." As the disease progressed, the victims heart beat wildly as it tried to pump blood through the swollen...

AIDS and HIV

bodily fluids such as semen and blood, usually through sexual contact or the use of dirty needles for injecting drugs, and is not ...

American Army and the 1918 Spanish Influenza Outbreak

In fifteen pages this paper discusses epidemiology, problematic prevention and treatment associated with the epidemic of Spanish I...