YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Obesity in Brooklyn
Essays 211 - 240
In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...
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 twelve pages the growing problems of obesity in children and adolescents in the United States are considered in terms of presen...
In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...
an apple shape with body fat accumulate in the bellies. This is not a universal as individuals storage of body fat may differ than...
of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...
are two very separate elements within the definition of developed. Not all countries with a low standard of living have low rati...
In ten pages this paper discusses U.S. obesity in a consideration of various contributing factors with socioeconomic, psychologica...
In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...
significantly to the problem. The allure of the silver screen, whether that screen be that of a television or a game pad, has tra...
may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...
Lingering Myths about Content and Process Models As shown above, recent research is starting to dispel the myths of one-sid...
speaker can establish a certain intimacy with the audience by asking them if they have seen the movie Shallow Hal. Audience member...
highest prevalence of overweight teens (British Medical Association, 2004). Research indicates the prevalence of overweight and o...
a personal decision and the effect is not singular but one of accumulative effect. For many it is deemed that the weight gain is s...
claims with some skepticism. However, understanding the basics of nutrition and how it affects the mind and body is relevant for e...
obesity, research includes differences in reports between teens and their parents (Goodman, Hinden and Khandelwal, 2000); and stud...
greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...
had a disease, there would be a widespread and enthusiastic campaign to find a cure. However, because obesity is not considered a ...
health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...
which would have put him at greater risk for dying of heart disease, regardless of his genetic makeup. Smoking is considered the ...
and between 30 to 34.9 one is in the first class of obesity; with 40 or more points one is considered to be severely obese (2002)....
a false ideal body weight, there is an epidemic within the psychological world of those adolescents and indeed, people of all ages...
to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...
Tunica media. This is the middle layer of the artery wall, composed of smooth muscle and elastin. It is the muscle of...
to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...
his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...
and asked why he had been gaining weight, the doctor might have brought up his diet. Indeed, it seems common knowledge that fast f...
2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...
unhealthy no matter which perspective one takes. Just how unhealthy is fast food? How does it contribute to obesity? The U.S. Sur...