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their functioning around food, including monitoring their fat and sugar in-take and improving their diet as a whole. The whole fa...

different part of the globe, "hundreds of millions eat too much, or consume the wrong sorts of food, and it is making them ill," a...

ongoing health problems later in life. 2. Target Population The campaign will be aimed at young adults, which we will define as...

2010). Frieden, Dietz and Collins (2010) point out that policy interventions promote encouraging children to make healthy food c...

treatment of the sick, then undertaking preventive measures to reduce obesity before illness occurs may be beyond that duty, as it...

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

include many violent or negative acts. Cartoon characters are killed all the time, only to return immediately without explanation....

by 5% each week. Longer-term goals focus on reductions in absenteeism and illness which, in turn, will lead to a reduction in insu...

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

population, for example, present unique cultural concerns in terms of how to direct a public relations campaign that targets obesi...

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

topic under discussion. Difference between primary and secondary sources : One source was selected in order to help illustrate th...

(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....

away from parents who are blamed for abuse or neglect if a child becomes too fat. In the old days, this was unheard of. Families t...

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

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

genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...

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

This research paper focuses on the problem of overweight/obesity and its prevalence among Canadian youth. The writer also discusse...

This research paper discusses the content and purpose of three studies that focus on the problem of overweight/obesity among Hispa...

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

the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...

This research paper focuses on Belvedere Community Regional Park (BCRP), which is located on E. Cesar Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles...

This research paper pertains to current literature that investigates the relationship between nutrition, obesity and atherosclerot...

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

This research paper focuses on cultural factors that are associated with the development of obesity. The writer reports on an inte...

This paper contends that the measures that are needed to address obesity are the same as those needed to address binge eating, ano...

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

This paper pertains to chronic disease and its causes, focusing specifically on the influence of environmental factors, such as ac...

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