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SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

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

An Intervention: Family Health, Fitness

This research paper pertains to the problem of childhood obesity. The writer discusses the need for intervention and describes an ...

Treating Childhood Obesity

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

Childhood Obesity Statistics, Public Health Assessment

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

African American Obesity, PRECEDE-PROCEED Model

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

A Prevention Approach, Early Childhood Obesity

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

Killer Sofa, A Health Message

This essay describes an ad that warns parents about the risks associated with childhood obesity. Five pages in length, one source...

Importance of Nutrition and Weight Status

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

Health in Richmond County NY

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

Obesity: Under-Diagnosis

This paper offers an abstract for study that pertains to the under-diagnosis of obesity. One page in length, no sources are cited....

Polish Culture

the war. One author notes, in relationship to the agricultural workers and the type of society that exists in Poland, that "Althou...

School Counseling

with "relatively well-adjusted" individuals (Hood and Johnson 213). It measures "everyday characteristics," such as "soci-ability,...

Ethical Issues with Regard to Marketing Prepackaged Foods to Schools

of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...

Childhood Obesity and Public Policy

issues on that front? First, it should be said that although the government does have policy on health related issues, some compl...

Health Promotion Proposal/Childhood Obesity

low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...

Obesity Worldwide

country, the often ate "traditional diets ... high in grains, fruit and vegetables and low in fat" (Hoffman). Once they arrived in...

Marine Pollution

processing and burning fossil fuels, among others (Marine pollution questions). Rainwater also carries "significant concentrations...

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

Childhood Obesity in America

wherein children become obese. Interestingly enough, two authors argues that the caloric intake of children and adults is ...

Controversial Evidence

involving torture or the killing of a law enforcement officer, is a plan that does not require scientific proof (Daley, 2004). "Ra...

Junk Food and Children

Such junk food is apparently readily available in many high schools, perhaps with the understanding that high school students are ...

Food Advertising & Children

target children as their principle demographic also have Web sites that market to children (Cowdrey 19). A child who gets bored wi...

Counseling a Dysfunctional Family with Obesity

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

Childhood Obesity

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

Dallas, TX and Obesity Prevention

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

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...

The First of Eight Articles on Human Resources and Workplace Issues Reviewed

to change. The author analyzes conflict theory, positivism and the development of spurious dichotomies, as well as positivism as ...

1991 to 1998 Obesity in America

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

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...