Obesity
This term derives from the Latin (obesus, meaning "to eat up"), and it came into use in English in the early 1600s to mean a condition characterized by excessive bodily fat. Exce...
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Dietary Treatment for Overweight and Obesity
We rarely repent of having eaten too little.
—Thomas Jefferson
Americans have long been consumed with losing weight, seemingly willing to suffer d...
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Political, Legal, and Social Issues of Overweight and Obesity
The politics of obesity demand that we revisit campaign contribution laws and advocate for a government agency—independent of indu...
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Preventing Overweight and Obesity
As a society, we can no longer afford to make poor health choices such as being physically inactive and eating an unhealthy diet; these choices have led to a tremend...
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Obesity
Definition
Obesity is an abnormal accumulation of body fat, usually 20 percent or more over an individual's ideal body weight. Obesity is associated with an increased risk of illness, d...
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Obesity, Genetic Factors
In the United States, more than 60 million adults are obese, meaning they are 20 per cent or more above the ideal weight for a person's height. Complications from obesity can ...
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Obesity
Obesity is defined as weight at least 20% above a person's "ideal": Twenty-40% over ideal weight is considered mildly obese, 40-100% over ideal weight is considered moderately obese, and more ...
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Obesity
Term describing a condition where the ratio of body fat to total body mass is higher than accepted norms.
Obesity is a relative term used to describe the condition where the ratio of body fat,...
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Obesity has existed throughout human history. Archaeologists have even uncovered statues depicting extremely obese people dating from prehistoric times. One of the oldest such statues discovered is kn...
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OBESITY IS AN escalating epidemic of alarming proportions and one of the most severe health problems in the United States. Since 1980, when the number of overweight Americans hovered at about 25 perce...
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In past years, there has been a great deal of concern throughout North America about the prevalence of certain conditions, which affect teenagers more than any other age group. Eating disorders, drug...
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Aside from being a serious health risk, children that suffer from obesity are subjected to social consequences that often continue into adulthood. The United States has been known for the larger pop...
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Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
Almost everybody in the world is affected by a disease, may this disease be fatal or not, well recognized or not. And some of these diseases are inter-related, that is if...
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According to CAMWEST - a cycling community which promotes physical exercise to improve cardiovascular health in Australia, state on their website that 14-18% of Australian children are overweight, wit...
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Public Health Policy Final Paper: Obesity
The first effective policy to battle the prevalence of obesity in the United States would be to look at weight loss programs and diets. The dietary gui...
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"Obesity is defined as an excessively high amount of body fat relative to lean body mass. Overweight is defined as a high body weight relative to height." In the past 10 years, fast food has become ...
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It is not difficult to notice that over the past 30 years, America's waistline has been growing. According to the American Obesity Association (AOA), close to 127 million adults in the U.S. are overw...
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Obesity has become a popular, yet debatable subject in the past century. Over 22% of the U.S. adult population is obese based on body mass index (Koplan and Dietz 440). 80% of these obese adults have ...
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Over the decades, obesity has become an increasingly severe and expensive setback. D. Milton Strokes commented in "The Impact of Obesity on Healthcare Delivery" that in the year 2000, the United Sta...
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If gluttony is one of the seven sins then we have many sinners in this country. Obesity is a large problem in this country and its of an increasing concern. More needs to be done to combat obesity. ...
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Fast food, or junk food as some call it, is becoming more popular than ever; it's convenient, predictable and fast. It has become a part of the busy American lifestyle. Eating at McDonalds once every ...
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In the United States, obesity, a chronic disease associated with the presence of too much body fat, has risen at an alarming rate during the past 20 years. According to the Centers for Disease Control...
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A Growing Epidemic
While you're driving and you pass a McDonalds, have you ever had the urge to eat everything in sight? I have, and so have many other kids. It's hard to resist that feeling...
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In today's world, society have brought up an entire generation to believe its someone else's fault for everything, and instead of dealing with it, one sits back, does nothing, and blames someone else ...
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Phillip Robinson
Professor Will "The Thrill" Kovach
English W131
August 1, 2004
A Fattening Lifestyle
American's today are plagued with a deadly situation. Sixty percent of the nation faces a ra...
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Are you at risk of dieing form a deadly health problem? Over 30% of the population in the United States are obese or at the risk of being obese. Obesity is a growing concern among docters. Obeseity do...
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A man arrives at work and enters his office building to find that the elevator has been shut down for repairs. He is forced to walk up two flights of stairs to his office, but by the time he arrives ...
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Critique of Greg Crister's "Too much of a Good Thing"
Greg Crister, the author of the op-ed essay that was featured in the Los Angeles Times, "Too Much of a Good Thing," argues that in order to stop ...
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Those of us that live in suburbia have not been as physically active as the "city dwellers." Three specific reasons that this could be happening are that the suburbia people are not located close ...
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Serious But Overlooked
Today obesity is one of the most common, but also the most neglected health problems is the world. If this is not taken care of many people will become very sick, since the...
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Over 15% of kids ages to 6-19 are overweight and another 15% are headed that way. With a severe lack of exercise and poor eating habits, we are just asking to put on the pounds. While many younger k...
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Femi Ademuwagun Independent Research with Dr. Gray
05/17/05 Final Paper
The Sociological Aspect of Obesity
ABSTRACT
Much has been written to explai...
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The problem of obesity is one that has plagued Canada. Canadians on an overall have increased there calorie count by almost 921 calories (Marnie pg.1) and with little to no exercise this is putting th...
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From a normal view, the famous cartoon character Fat Albert could be seen as an amusing person giving out great social messages with some moral fiber attached. From the point of science, people would ...
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America today is based on media and the people involved. The marketing of fast food restaurants is constantly running through the average American's mind. In America many busy people usually choose...
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Dietary Treatment for Overweight and Obesity
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