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Obesity in Adolescents

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

Overview of Childhood Obesity

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

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...

Knowing the Signs of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

regards to the obesity epidemic in America. It seems that over the last few decades, the numbers has risen more dramatically than ...

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...

Depression and Obesity

emotional problems are likely to emerge. The relationship between obesity and depression is one that is not exactly clear (Stunka...

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...

Adult Obesity

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

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...

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...

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...

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 An Explanation

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

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...

Healthy People 2010/Obesity Objective

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

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 ...

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...

Measuring Success of Project

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

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 ...

Overview of Mad Cow Disease

In five pages this paper discusses mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy in an etiology overview that includes the 1...

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...

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...

Epidemics and Civilization

course, pregnancy is not contagious and while there may be something occurring in large numbers it is not the same thing as focusi...

Homelessness and Children's Health Issues

is the factor which many of these children are denied due to their living conditions or lack of them. Most builders or carpenters...