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    Question Bank for QT -1 –POQ 511 Topic : A) Descriptive Statistics : A1. A bank recorded the age at which an individual first opened a Savings Bank Account and were as follows: 42 44 52 32 23 25 34 33 37 18 19 18 14 16 18 18 23 21 18 23 24 24 26 28 32 43 33 34 19 23 22 21 18 19 18 22 25 24 54 20 21 17 22 24 25 22 23 5 8 29 18 16 17 15 19 21 32 33 34 35 36 37 23 24 25 21 22 33 33 43 27 28 29 30 31 33 17 25 23

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    Research Paper: Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified Jennifer Tankard Liberty University COUN 646 D04 Dr. Westmeier April 28‚ 2013 Abstract There are more individuals that die from an Eating Disorder than any other mental illness in the United States (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2000). Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified is the most common and least talked about among other Eating Disorders (Mainz.‚ Schulte-Ruther.‚ Fink.‚ & Herpertz‚. 2012). Identifying the disorder

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    because they are so vulnerable at this time. This vulnerability makes it very easy for adolescents to be manipulated by media sources such as magazines‚ television‚ movies‚ and music. Adolescent females witness many things in the media such as underweight models‚ provocative clothing‚ and inappropriate behavior. The images shown by these media sources can create many different self-esteem and body image issues amongst adolescents. Adolescence is a crucial time in a person’s life because there

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    deficits at the end of the first year of life indicating the need to identify growth status prior to its manifestation as malnutrition (11‚12) Anthropometric indicators such as weight-for-height (wasting)‚ height-for-age (stunting) and weight-for-age (underweight) are important in evaluating the health and nutritional status of children in low-income countries where malnutrition is still a large public health problem (13). Based on international literature on the causes of poor growth and how they are interrelated

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    access to enough nutritious food to live a healthy life. B. The effects of malnutrition can be severe and even include death as I previously stated. The 3 most common ways that malnutrition appears in children are stunting‚ wasting‚ and being underweight. Stunting is being too short for their age‚ wasting is having a low weight for their height (also have a markedly increased chance for death)‚ and

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    increase in being overweight. Orbach discusses many reasons and ways of obesity in women and how it has increased in the past years. She mainly focuses on women and why they are overweight and the reasons that cause obesity in women’s society. Susie talks about how women’s magazines always include a diet column‚ which can be very biased to many women and people. Overall‚ Susie Orbach believes that women are obese due to certain reasons like; a woman blaming a victim for her being overweight‚ how after pregnancy

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    1.0 Background Worldwide‚ children less than five years of age are known to be vulnerable and susceptible in many respects‚ especially on matters of health. Nutritional deficiencies and malnutrition have been identified to generally affect children more than any other group. This is primarily due to poor nutrition which has been identified to occur most in developing countries‚ as well as in more prosperous areas of the world. WHO Progress Report (2002) indicates that hunger and malnutrition remain

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    She is at risk for malnutrition. One physiological risk factor is that Dorothy is already underweight. Another risk factor for older adults is that they usually have lost some of their teeth‚ which makes eating more difficult. A reduced sense of smell and taste is also common in older adults and results in diminished desire to eat. Psychosocially

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    Despite the corruption involved in dispersing of funds in poverty alleviating programs‚ the Government‚ the World Bank and the U.S. are helping India eradicate poverty through dispersing funds to build the economy‚ battle disease and also improve infrastructure. Corruption can occur through bribes and red tape from low level government levels to high levels. Even though there is corruption detected by politicians and bureaucrats. The Government of India has presented strategies to alleviate poverty

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    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 particular height from fat‚ muscle‚ bone‚ water‚ or a combination of these factors.3 Obesity is defined as having excess body fat.4 Overweight and obesity are the result of “caloric imbalance”—too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed—and are affected by various

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