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    Obesity Article Review

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    Research Article Review Intro to Graduate Research/ Cameron University June 15‚ 2010 Summary of Article This study examined obesity in the school systems and the factors of the trial were food consumption‚ wellness activities‚ and stress management. Sixteen schools were chosen for the study‚ eight control‚ and eight intervention. At the schools only the staff were measured and took part in the study such as teachers‚ administrators‚ teacher aides‚ and others. The study was testing two hypotheses

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    Childhood Obesity Quiz

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    Multiple Choice Questions 1. Which of the following is a conclusion reached regarding childhood obesity? A) Food advertising has not been found to influence children’s food choices. B) The FTC has determined that it is primarily marketers’ fault that childhood obesity has increased. C) Over the decades that childhood obesity has increased‚ so too has the amount of advertising. D) Marketers are doing nothing to curb this problem. E) all of the above Answer: C Page: 717 Difficulty:

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    It is 11:59‚ and seven year old Johnny sits anxiously in his seat‚ entranced as he stares at the second hand slowly creeping around the clock and awaiting the moment when the minute will pass and lunchtime will begin. The bell rings‚ and Johnny dashes from the seat that has confined him from the freedom that can only be found in the school cafeteria. He reaches in his pocket‚ filtering through various candy wrappers‚ and pulls out the five-dollar bill his mother gave him on his way out the door.

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    Obesity and Mr. Garcia

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    can cause severe damage to the body ’s organs‚ including the brain‚ heart‚ blood vessels‚ and kidneys. Risk factors for hypertension include: increasing age‚ male‚ race (African Americans‚ Hispanics)‚ diabetes‚ family history‚ high sodium diet‚ obesity‚ physical inactivity‚ alcohol‚ and tobacco use. The goal for treating people with this chronic condition is to decrease mortality and increase quality of life (Wang‚ MD & Vasan‚ MD‚ 2005 ).   In Mr. Garcia case‚ he was asymptomatic and was found

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    Obesity in Older Women

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    Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease OBESE WOMEN AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Jo Marino HCS/465 Date Dr. Ivone Bruno Abstract Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States‚ having actually the same prevalence in women and among men. A study based on obese women and cardiovascular disease risk was performed. Weight loss in the program was not following along with the reduction of other cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular disease

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    Systems Thinking and Obesity

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    Systems Thinking and Obesity Heather Chrissis Systems Thinking‚ OLAM 310 Professor Don Solomon May 2‚ 2010 Systems Thinking and Obesity From the time I was 6 years old I have wanted just one really personal thing for my life and that is to be thin. I was always the girl who thought she weighed more than anyone else in the class. I have been plagued my entire life by this overwhelming issue of being overweight. True understanding of why I was overweight and what caused it has for many

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    Childhood Obesity: An Overview Dora Matagić‚ PO2 recent research evidence on a number of aspects of childhood obesity:  definition and prevalence  consequences  causes and prevention body mass index (BMI) as a means of defining obesity in children and adolescents it does matter to physical and psychological health there are adverse health risks for both the obese child and the adult who was obese as a child Introduction and aim Strategies to combat childhood obesity have been overtaken

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    Is Obesity Really a Disease? The controversial debate on whether obesity should be classified as a disease has been around for some time. Recently‚ the American Medical Association officially classified obesity as a disease. Disease is generally defined as an abnormal condition that results from developmental errors and/or unfavorable environmental factors that cannot be controlled. It can be caused by an external source‚ such as some sort of pathogen or an internal dysfunction of cells. Obesity

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    English-103 18 October 2014 Is Obesity a Disease? More than two-thirds of U.S. adults‚ and about one third of school aged children are overweight or obese. Obesity rates have more than doubled in adults and children since the 1970s. Becoming obese is based on ethnicity‚ gender‚ socioeconomic status‚ and diet. Obesity is a way of life that is determined by one ’s decisions‚ obesity is not a disease and is 100% preventable. There are many factors that contribute to obesity‚ including larger portion sizes

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    Video Games V. Obesity

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    Some people can actually be diagnosed with a condition called: obesity. There are some medical professionals out there that say that Obesity qualifies as a disease. Whether obesity is a condition or disease‚ Obesity is an abnormal high proportion/percent of body fat. A doctor can assess the percentage of body fat simply and easily by measuring body weight in proportion to height‚ which is the usual way of determining if an individual is overweight‚ obese‚ or at normal‚ healthy weight. A physician/doctor

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