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There are more than one in five people qualifying as obesity, by 2030 a predestined 38% of the world’s adult population will be overweight and another 20% will be obese. What is obesity? Obesity is the state that the person is overweight. There are so...
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Obesity is when our bodies store more than the acceptable amounts of fats that might have a powerful effect on our health. Therefore, People become obese for many reasons. moreover, the most trending habits that cause obesity are indiscretion nutrition, and sedentary lifestyle, stop exercising....
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Obesity is a common and preventable disease of clinical and public health importance. It is often a major risk factor for the development of several non-communicable diseases, significant disability and premature death. Obesity is defined as a condition of abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in...
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The cause of obesity varies within different people but for most cases it starts when a person consumes or intakes more calories than they are burning through physical activity whether it be exercise or everyday normal activities that require you to move around. Because they...
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There are six main reasons that can be explained why there is an increasing in obesity both in adults and children in United States. First of all is technological change. Technological change is seem to be a positive change to society. It improve agriculture, transportation,...
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The population of the United States grew very fast because there was more food due to improvements in farming technology. The resulting overproduction of food has forced agrocompanies to find more ways to market their products, which has led Americans to become fat in an...
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Obesity is when our bodies store more than the acceptable amounts of fats that might have a powerful effect on our health. Moreover, People become obese for many different reasons. Besides, the most trending habits that cause obesity are indiscretion nutrition, and sedentary lifestyle, not...
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The social consequences of being overweight and obese are serious and pervasive. Person who are over-weight or obese, they will being targeted of stigma. Then, they also being exposed negative impression in their life such as at employment setting, at university, at medical facilities, at...
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There has been a large increase in the number of children who are obese in the USA in last three decades. According to Cunningham (2014), the percentage of overweight children increased from 4.2% to 15.3% in 1963 and 2000 respectively. Obesity is a disease in...
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Obesity is a growing concern in both personal and public health that has been identified as a lifestyle condition accelerated by poor living and eating habits. Obesity has been identified as a predisposing factor diabetes, cardiac infections, cancer and high blood. Obesity lies as a...
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Childhood obesity is not a matter to take lightly. In fact, it has proven to be a very serious health problem not just within our state, but within the United States as a nation. Just as the size of our residents have, the issue of...
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Obesity and insulin resistance have been issues of great concern and huge communal wellbeing impact. Various articles are published annually to focus on the possible mechanisms that underline the connection between obesity and the resistance of insulin. There is, therefore, the need to highlight literature...
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Body mass index (BMI) Obesity is a medical condition defined as an accumulation of an excess of body fat that leads to many health problems and reduced life expectancy. Obesity usually associates with hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and dyslipidemia (Grundy, 2004). Obesity is commonly...
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Like most parents, my parents were keen on providing good food for us as we grew up. My siblings and I grew up with different types of cuisines since my father was a chef. He always made a point of preparing at least two different...
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Childhood obesity is becoming an ever-larger issue in today’s society, not just in the UK but many others such as the U.S and Canada one marvelling statistic that proves such a thing truly is an issue is that the obesity rate in children has almost...
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“Fast food chanins must bear some of the blame for the antion’s weight problem” (Goode 427). Corporations are not the cause of he growing obesity epidemic among children is caused by irresponsible parents not properly taking care of their children, not companies that are trying...
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“Fast-food chains and food manufacturers must bear some of the blame for the country’s weight problem (Goode, 426).” All over America, people are surrounded by TV commercials and advertisements for the tastiest, cheapest and unhealthiest food you can find. With so many people being targeted...
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There are some studies that have been done in the Arab world, which showed a relationship between certain genes and obesity. A study of the association of leptin with obesity and metabolic syndrome was done in Tunis on 160 obese and 169 non-obese (BMI less...
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Obesity is defined as the abnormal condition and increased fat deposition in adipose tissues. The main aim of this study is to identify the main factors of spreading of obesity among university students. As university students do not follow healthy eating patterns, in terms of...
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Obesity was once known to be a personal problem to individuals across the nation. At a very rapid pace, obesity has become one of the most talked about social problems in America. There are many different theories and questions as to why obesity has grown...
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When most people think of contemporary social problems, usually obesity is out of the equation. Many people will think of corruption, racism and poverty. However, the rate at which obesity cases have grown in the modern society has made obesity one of the major social...
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The overweight or obese among the U.S. citizens is inclining at a shocking rate. Currently, it stands at 74.1% which is almost ¾ of our country’s population. It is a frightening truth that needs to be acknowledged by the entire society. Obesity seems to be...
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Both hypertension and obesity, as important public health challenges that are increasing worldwide. Obesity is increasingly recognized as one of the most important risk factors for the development of hypertension. Excess body weight is the most important risk factor contributing to the overall burden of...
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Overweight and obesity in children is epidemic in North America and internationally. Approximately 22 million children under 5 years of age are overweight across the world. In the United States, the number of overweight children and adolescents has doubled in the last two to three...
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According to the State of World (2004) report, China, UK and Western Europeans have had a bar on untenable over- consumption for decades. Roughly 1.7 billion people globally now fit in to the “consumer class” the group of people distinguished by diets of extremely processed...
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Introduction There are significant healthcare issues that can be addressed within my area of specialty and thus the focus in healthcare should be to create a better environment where better healthcare decisions can be made. The understanding of these healthcare issues provide a better environment...
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Child obesity is progressively rising around the world, affecting kids from ages of life. Pediatric obesity can cause a few health, mental and social issues including the pulmonary system, gastrointestinal system cardiovascular system, and orthopedic. Managing pediatric obesity can be a challenge to guardians and...
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There are many diseases that have taken over, some are even considered epidemics. In the U.S. some of the deadliest diseases that are taking over are obesity and cardiovascular diseases. Both of these diseases are actually very related. People that are overweight or obese are...
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Early Childhood services are affected by this nutritional issue as they are responsible for the care of the obese child. Because the child has limited mobility(unlike the other pupils who will exercise and play outside), it is the responsibility of the ECE service provider to...
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Nutritional issue that is affecting the well being of New Zealand society is childhood obesity. Around 11 percent of the child population is obese and around 21 percent are overweight. This is a problem as new zealand has the fifth highest rate of childhood obesity....