important to consider that fast food is not just bad for children but they are able to serve food very quickly‚ replacing meals that could be made at home. Because fast food are advertising children with unhealthy meals‚ it causes them to become overweight‚ and can cause them to have future problem: this can be reduced if Fast food will stop targeting kid and parents to take extra cautious to what kids see. To begin with‚ Fast Food used advertisement‚ such as newspaper‚ school billboards
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Count: 1‚516 Queensland Health. (2001). Towards Health Growth and Development: Issues of overweight‚ Obese and Under-nutrition among children in Queensland. Retrieve March 18th‚ 2011 from http://www.health.qld.gov.au/publications/infocirc/11229.pdf This article presents and overview on two major issues related to child health. Firstly‚ it focuses on childhood obesity then the emerging issue of overweight becoming critical public health problem as in many industrialised countries of the world today
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David Croteau and William Hoynes (2014) authors of Media/Society: Industries‚ Images‚ and Audiences (2014) challenged their readers when they asked this thought provoking question: “how do media representations of the social world compare to the external ‘real’ world?” It is a fact that creators of media content have often reproduced the inequalities that exist in society based on race‚ gender‚ and social orientation. It is also fair to say that these creators have also been reproducing the inequalities
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stigmatisation‚ particularly in adolescents and in girls). Obesity in children and adolescents has adverse effects on the cardio- vascular system: an abnormal blood lipid profile; chronic low-grade inflammation and higher blood pressure. In addition‚ overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence have adverse effects on the metabolism of glucose and obese adolescents in particular are at higher risk of type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes. Type 2 diabetes was once thought of as ‘adult onset diabetes’
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Race and Ethnicity in Childhood Obesity Abstract Many early life risk factors for childhood obesity are more prevalent among blacks and Hispanics than among whites and may explain the higher prevalence of obesity among racial/ethnic minority children. Eliminating racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care is a national priority‚ and obesity is a prime target. During the last 30 years in the United States‚ the prevalence of obesity among children has dramatically increased‚ sparing no
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Therefore‚ most professionals accept the guidelines published on body mass index (BMI) to measure cases of overweight in children and adolescents. The increase of obesity among children in 2008 increased from 5 percent to 17 percent in the same year. This paper will focus to explore the causes of obesity in children and give methods on how it can be prevented. One is considered as obese or overweight when his or her body mass index BMI exceeds 30 kg/m2) (Flegal‚ 2000). Body mass index is obtained by measuring
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much of the wrong things. Why are we not like the Oriental Cultures‚ who eat good nutritional food and of course are not overweight. You think that we would catch on‚ and notice that we have a problem. If 1 out of every 4 people are overweight‚ think about it‚ we definitely have a problem. Our nation should do everything in its power to prevent this from happening. Being overweight leads to disabilities‚ chronic heart problems‚ respiratory problems‚ diabetes‚ etc. It is affecting so many people out
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AN OBESE SOUTH AFRICA South Africa records the highest rates of obesity in Africa with statistics that dsindicate that 29% of men and 56% of women are either obese or overweight‚ according to the World Health Organisation (Morris‚ 2011). The increase in prevalence of obesity has seen it become a primary risk factor for sedentary lifestyle related diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. Obesity as a health issue in South Africa will be discussed. Rates of obesity in South Africa have progressively
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that roughly 69 percent of adults are considered to be overweight and over 41 percent of adults are considered obese? An estimated 112‚000 deaths are related with obesity each year. Gastric Bypass procedure promotes a typical weight loss of 65% of excess body weight in the first year and 80% of excess weight lost by the second year. II. Relevance to the audience: Now that I told you that almost 69 percent of adults are considered overweight‚ take a look around. Considering the facts‚ that means
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Types of Prejudice PSY322 Intergroup Relations Jonathan Cadieux Outline • • • • • Model of Prejudice Sexism Overweight Sexual Orientation Ageism Fiske Prejudice Model 4 Types of Groups Based on Competence and Warmth Competence: perceived group status Warmth: perceived competition Group 1: Incompetent but warm Low status‚ not competitive Results in Paternalistic Prejudice Group 2: Incompetent and not warm – Low status‚ competitive – Results in
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