I remember hearing stories when I was a child of how my mothers’ mind was possessed by demons. In this day of age some people still believe these old folk tales. I also remember a story of how my father would take my mother to a “curandera” where they would perform rituals in order to have the demons leave her mind and soul. The passing of my father when I was 5 years old triggered my mothers’ bipolar disorder to go into full effect. Thanks to medical advances she was diagnosed correctly by a true
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Obesity looming into a disease Bigger means better. However‚ this saying is not always accepted as true. Take obesity as an example. The bigger you are‚ there is nothing better you get. Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat. A person is considered obese when his or her weight is 20% or more above normal weight. A person is considered overweight if his/her body mass index is between 25 and 29.9; a person is considered obese if his/ her BMI is over 30 (“What is obesity?”‚ 2013). People
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Obesity (Causes‚ effects‚ and treatment) Obesity is a complex and serious disease. Overeating that is due to emotions‚ habits‚ and the availability of food is the cause of obesity. It is important to remember that there are other‚ underlying causes that can cause obesity. • If the food you eat provides more calories than your body needs‚ the excess is converted to fat. Fat cells increase in size. When they can no longer expand‚ they increase in number. If you lose weight‚ the size of the
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Present day American culture promotes unhealthy eating habits in children. “Childhood obesity is a major public health concern‚ and has more than doubled since the 1970’s” (Ludmila 1). This can be a big dilemma because kids are developing an unhealthily lifestyle so young. America’s public schooling system needs to be held responsible for the causes of child obesity and make changes to accommodate the effects. Changes should be made in schools lunch menus and the types of foods found in vending machines
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Another model that evaluates health-related behaviors for childhood obesity is The Health Belief Model. The Health Belief Model is one of the first theories developed exclusively for health related behaviors and today is one of the most popular models as it provides specific guidance at the micro level for planning the “how to” part of intervention (Sharma & Romas‚ 2012‚ p. 74). The constructs of The Health Belief Model places a strong emphasis on perceived issues contributing to behaviors followed
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Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis Sameera Karnik‚ Amar Kanekar1 Correspondence to: Ass. Prof. Amar Kanekar‚ Department of Health Studies‚ East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania‚ East Stroudsburg‚ PA‚ USA. E‑mail: akanekar@po‑box.esu.edu Date of Submission: Sep 17‚ 2011 Date of Acceptance: Oct 27‚ 2011 How to cite this article: Karnik S‚ Kanekar A. Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis. Int J Prev Med 2012;3:1-7. ABSTRACT Introduction: Childhood obesity
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Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years.1‚ 2 The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2010. Similarly‚ the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to 18% over the same period.1‚ 2 In 2010‚ more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.1 Overweight is defined as having excess body weight for a
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No matter how you tip the scales‚ Americans are getter wider every year. What’s worse is that many nations are following suit. In a list of the countries with the greatest percentage of overweight people‚ Nauru tops a list of countries with the greatest percentage of overweight people‚ with an alarming 94.5% of its adult population (ages 15+) classified as such‚ based on the most recent estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO). The Federated States of Micronesia‚ Cook Islands‚ Niue and Tonga
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comments‚ and whispering that can interfere with living a normal life. Teenage obesity is rising significantly. One third of all kids between the age of 2 and 19 are overweight or obese. Experts call this “obesity epidemic.” In the early part of the 1990s doctors and other health providers did not show much interest in this issue. By 1994 this was the growing global problem. Younger people are now developing health problems that used to affect only adults; high blood pressure‚ high cholesterol‚
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critical evaluation of a public health intervention – Movember 1.0 Public Health Issue 2.0 Movember 3.0 Movember and its relation with Social Marketing health promotion theory 3.1 Policy drivers 4.0 Global Collaborators 5.0 Partnerships 5.1 Men’s health partners 5.2 Major Partners 5.3 Support Partners 5.4 Promotional Partners 5.5 Engaging with the target population 6.0 Effectiveness of Movember campaign 6.1 Health Outcomes 6.2 Health Inequalities 6.3 Sustainability
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