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Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Obesity in the United States

balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...

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 ...

Epidemiology of Obesity

activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Media's Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic

would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...

Delimitations, Summary Sections for Proposed Study

the research team will use a convenience sample of women recruited from a specific geographical area, and the team may choose to l...

What Schools Can Do to Stem the Obesity Epidemic

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 3 Lifestyle...

Obesity

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

Contributing Factors to Adolescent Obesity: A Research Proposal

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...

Obesity in the United Arab Emirates

the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...

Action Plan; Reducing Obesity in 18 - 25 Year Olds

of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...

Variables and Clusters in Research

those who have a body mass index of below 35 m-2 tend to have similar activity patterns when the energy expenditure levels are cor...

Obesity and Television Viewing: A Review of Literature

factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...

Food Addictions, Symptoms and Treatments

took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...

Critique of Qualitative Study/Nutrition

their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...

Fast Food, Microwaves and Society

metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...

Health Promotion/Childhood Obesity

14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...

High Fructose Corn Syrup and Obesity

prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

Fast Food Nation

environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...

Persuasive Essay on Why People Should Not Eat Fast Food and Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation

products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...

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...

Teen Obesity

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

Proposed Study, Obesity, Adolescent Hispanics

This research paper has two major sections. The first pertains to a proposed research study and the second pertains to a proposed ...

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 ...

Determining Statistical Tests

Different types of tests may be used for differing purposes and with different types of data. This paper looks at how univariate ...

PICO Question, Childhood Obesity

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

Expanding a Lit Review, Childhood Obesity

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

Final Project Proposal, Childhood Obesity Research

This paper offers an overview of the plans for a research study that pertains to childhood obesity. The study will target a specif...