...In the essay “An American Childhood” written by Annie Dillard, Dillard describes her mother and the influence her mother had in her. Her mother main purpose was to teach her daughters to be open their eyes and find out thing for themselves. The mothers odd way of behaving it’s main purpose is to teach her daughter. Dillard’s mother was an intelligent individual and never took a no for an answer. In the essay Dillard said, “When we moved across town, she persuaded the U.S Postal Office to let her keep her old address-forever-because she’d had stationary printed”. Her daughter seeing this think if she can do that then anything is possible. Even Dillard said,”I don’t know how she did it. Every new post office worker, over decades, needed to learn that although the Doaks’ mail is addressed to here, it must be delivered to there”. It takes a person with determination in order to change the policy for just one person and Annie Dillard’s mother made that happen....
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...Quantitative Research Methods Term Project - Childhood Obesity Purpose Statement The purpose of this project is to determine the effect of physical activity, dietary patterns, and family/environmental factors on children with the overall outcome of obesity. The dependent variable childhood obesity is determined by independent variables physical activity, dietary patterns, and family/environmental factors. The most important independent variable in this relationship is physical activity, because the leading cause of childhood obesity is physical activity; or the lack there of. Children are not getting the exercise that they need in order to burn the high-calorie foods that they consume. Insufficient calorie expenditure through exercise is due to an increase in television, video games, and the low number of safe playgrounds (Collins, 2007). Only about one-third of elementary children have daily physical education, and less than one-fifth have extracurricular physical activity programs at school (Ross & Pate, 1987). This variable was chosen because it directly determines the fate of an inactive adolescent. A child’s diet/nutritional intakes also a link in the grand chain of childhood obesity bearing impact on the lives of unsuspecting children. Definition of Variables The model is: Y = X1 + X2 + X3 (Childhood Obesity) = (Physical Activity) + (Dietary Patterns) + (Family/Environmental...
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...English 1101 8 October 2015 Food Health Research: An Annotated Bibliography Hill, Donna, S. "Health Benefits Of A Plant-Based Diet." Maryland Nurse 16.1 (2014): 6-7. CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Web. 5 Oct. 2015. Donna S. Hill’s article, “Health Benefits Of A Plant-Based Diet (2014),” explains that following a plant-based diet prevents health risks such as cholesterol and diabetes versus an animal-based diet. Hill uses studies of Chinese plant-based diets and American animal-based diets by comparing and contrasting the cause and effect of each dietary preference to back up her claim. Hill’s purpose is to specify the cause and effect of each dietary preference in order to impact the awareness of the reader into considering the health risks that could be associated with his or her own personal dietary preference. Given the medical terminology and statistical analysis in the article, Hill is writing to an audience in the medical field. Messina, Virginia. "Nutritional And Health Benefits Of Dried Beans." American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition 100 (2014): 437S-442S. Environment Complete. Web. 7 Oct. 2015. Virginia Messina’s article, “Nutritional And Health Benefits Of Dried Beans (2014),” asserts that the underutilized consumption of dried beans provide health benefits and reduce health related risks while playing an important role in many diets throughout the world. Messina uses quantitative and qualitative data collection methods to support her claim of pointing out ...
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...Bibliography Daniels, S. R. (2006). The consequences of childhood overweight and obesity. The Future of Children, 16(1) Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1519298841?accountid=35812 This article discusses the heavy toll that the obesity epidemic is taking on the health of the nation’s children. The immediate risks associated with childhood obesity and the long-term risks that children and adolescents may face along with the chances of becoming obese adults and suffer other health problems as a result is described. Daniels provides details on how obesity affects various important body systems such as the cardiovascular system. Being overweight or obese during childhood can accelerate the development of obesity-related cardiovascular disease well into adulthood. Daniels wraps up with the possibility of the increasing childhood obesity rates reversing the modern era’s steady increase in life expectancy, with today’s youth on average living less healthy and ultimately shorter lives than their parents, if childhood obesity cannot be controlled. Larsen, L., Mandleco, B., Williams, M., & Tiedeman, M. (2006). Childhood obesity: Prevention practices of nurse practitioners. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 18(2), 70-9. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/212806669?accountid=35812 The study presented here attempts to address the prevention practices of nurse practitioners (NPs) regarding childhood obesity. Then compare the practices of NPs by...
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...AP Photo/LisA BiLLings Confronting America’s Childhood Obesity Epidemic How the Health Care Reform Law Will Help Prevent and Reduce Obesity Ellen-Marie Whelan, Lesley Russell, and Sonia Sekhar May 2010 w w w.americanprogress.org Confronting America’s Childhood Obesity Epidemic How the Health Care Reform Law Will Help Prevent and Reduce Obesity Ellen-Marie Whelan, Lesley Russell, and Sonia Sekhar May 2010 Contents 1 Fast Facts on Childhood Obesity 3 Introduction and summary 6 Provisions included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that address childhood obesity 6 Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project 7 Nutrition labeling 7 Community Transformation Grants 9 Broader measures in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to tackle childhood obesity 9 Prevention and public health 15 Primary care and coordination 18 Community-based Care 20 Maternal and child health 22 Research: Doing what works in obesity prevention 23 Data provisions that will help with tracking and providing improved outcomes to measure obesity prevention 25 What else is needed? 27 Beyond health care 29 Conclusion 30 Appendix: The White House Childhood Obesity Initiative 32 Endnotes 34 About the authors Fast Facts on Childhood Obesity Our nation’s children today are on track to have a lower life expectancy than their parents The obesity epidemic poses serious health problems for children including cardiovascular disease,...
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...Children and Obesity Sharletta Guy-Pope SOC490: Social Science Capstone Raqota Berger June 18, 2012 Introduction Due to the growing concern and increase prevalence of childhood obesity around the world the population of children as it relates to childhood obesity indicates that these children will suffer even greater as adults. This increasing concern has become a public health issue and a social issue with children. Furthermore, research shows that the media plays an important role in the current epidemic of childhood obesity, which also has become a social issue with children. The increasing amounts of junk food and fast food advertisements, that target children and adolescents, have an effect on the outcome of their health and nutritional habits; these advertisements shift away from good nutritional practices. Food advertisements that advertise unhealthy foods such as foods high in saturated fats and cholesterol (junk foods) puts children at risk for high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol, both of which causes heart disease later on in life, which are precursors of cardiovascular disease resulting in childhood obesity. Sociocultural Factors Gender Society, culture, and the media send children powerful messages about body weight and shape ideals. For girls; ideas that are stressed in the media include the "thin ideal" and urging to diet and exercise, which can put pressure on girls to be thin, putting them...
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...Bibliography for Childhood Obesity Cuthbert C Cuffy DeVry University The many forms of interventions that are cur¬rently being used to prevent and control childhood obesity are not effective thus and a new paradigm shift is required. The complexity of fighting childhood obesity needs stepper legislation and changes in health policies. A multipronged, integrated and collective approach will be need to achieve acceptable results in today’s society with an added benefit of a reduction in the health care expense. Knight, Judith. Strauss, Richard. (1999). Influence of the Home Environment on the Development of Obesity in Children. Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, 103(6) pg e85. Retrieved from http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/103/6/e85 Strauss and Knight (1999) investigation of the socioeconomic factors and parental practice effects on children’s obesity, was conclusive in its negative influence. It was revealed that when a conscious effort was made by the parents of low income household income, develop a stimulating home environment the result was a lowest rate of childhood obesity development. The need for parental education in creating a stimulating home environment and increasing household income level was the key factors in future reduction of the rates of obesity in children My Assessment: This article, although provide a reasonable analysis to the effects of low income on the cause of death through childhood obesity...
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...Social Analysis Report Children Obesity Mengtong Huang Holly Lachapelle Jung Ohyeon Professor Fidaa Shehada Global Citizenship (GNED500204) Due date: December 3, 2015 Introduction of children abesity and connected with GNED 500(by Holly Lachapelle) The topic of our social analysis is child obesity. As far as we know, childhood obesity is becoming a growing epidemic in the modern world. According to Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, “The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2012. Similarly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to nearly 21% over the same period.” (Ogden,2012) These numbers are concerning because childhood obesity leads to long term health risks including diabetes, heart disease and many cancers. As our society becomes increasingly technologically driven, our youth are becoming less and less physically active. Today’s children are more likely to send a friend a text rather than run over to their house and “call on them”. Modern conveniences and entertainment such as videogames, television, the internet, facebook and kid-friendly fast food joints play a major role in the growing rate of childhood obesity. Currently there are many efforts being made to slow down or reverse the negative effects of living in modern day society for our children. Some of these attempts include increased awareness about nutrition and...
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...The methodology of this review wasn’t very clear to me. The review had article names and percentages that didn’t quiet fit in with what their method approach should be. For example in the first table you see it only links to the number of articles that talked about different types of obesity problems, instead of showing different kinds of articles with examples of their key points, that would make it more clear to me. The results were explained really well in correspondence to their aims of the review. In the results portion they have numbered how many articles were based on different health views. They had a final analysis of 22 articles and out of those there were only 5 that focused on the Mexican American community and 2 on Mexican American...
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...Childhood lead poisoning is one of the most common pediatric problems currently in the United States, despite the fact that it’s very preventable. Lead poisoning is a danger because in most cases, it is without symptoms; therefore, it can go undiagnosed and even untreated. In statements published by the CDC in 1985, the threshold for blood lead level was 25 µg/dL, however it was noted that adverse effects occur at levels as low as 10 µg/dL [3]. Since health effects have been noted in levels even lower than 10 µg/dL, there is no set threshold as to what level of lead poisoning can be considered a danger. Therefore, primary prevention utilizes the involvement of pediatric health-care providers, public housing agencies, and public organizations...
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...CLC Yellow Team Health Issue Analysis: Childhood Obesity Yellow Group Grand Canyon University: NUR- 508 August 20, 2014 Cultural Beliefs and Influences Relative to Childhood Obesity According to Opalinski, (2013), childhood obesity is increasing in all racial groups. Cultural beliefs play a unique contribution in relation to this chronic condition. Evidence shows that place of origin is one of the factors contributing to having kids who are not as healthy as people were just a few decades ago. Based on the literature, minority populations specifically Hispanics (Hispanic) and African American children are at higher risk compared to other ethnicities. Pulgaron et al., (2013), explains the relationship of Hispanic children and cultural factors affecting the rate of obesity among this population. The literature shows that Hispanic children who have grandparents helping in their caretaking had a negative impact on food choices and feeding habits due to the fact that in the Hispanic culture bigger means being healthier. The perception applied to the African American culture generally believes that a larger body size is equal to being healthy. Opalinski (2013) also reported that further investigation must be performed to better understand the relationship of cultural beliefs and childhood obesity. Religious/ Spiritual Beliefs In the United States a few studies were performed to investigate the association of religion and obesity. Based on the literature, social...
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...Childhood Obesity HCS/465 Kim Rager Introduction In this paper we will discuss childhood obesity and the many ways parents and Pediatrician’s work together to help prevent it .This paper includes the study, research methods that helped with the research. The study was being done on kids under the age of 12. Pediatricians’ and parents are becoming more and more concerned with this epidemic among children. Its estimated about 10% of the kids between the age of two and five are overweight. In doing this study we wanted to come up with a way to make this disease in children preventable. This study was also used to give health advisors a way to help prevent this condition with methodology measures. Conducting this study is a way of coming up with different approaches of preventative care. In doing this research we had questioned different ways pediatricians could help prevent disease in children with education. Teaching new parents that breastfed children are more likely to healthier then bottle fed children. Keeping a record on how much their daily sugar intake is. The hypothesis is identifying with the CDC growth chart, this study was done over a four month period with the difference of healthy weight between children that were breastfed verses bottle fed babies. The hypothesis is dealing with external cues, since the child has no sense on when it is done feeding, this helps trigger when they are done. When kids are left by themselves , they only eat what they need to...
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...Psychological Analysis: Halle Berry Felicia Andrews ITT Technical Institute Breckenridge School of Nursing and Health Science Author’s Note: Mobile, AL 2015 Psychological Analysis: Halle Berry Halle Maria Berry was born on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest daughter born to Jerome and Judith Berry. Halle has one older sister named Heidi. Berry earned a handful of beauty pageant titles during the early 1980s, including Miss Teen Ohio and Miss Teen America. She was eventually awarded first runner-up in the 1985 Miss U.S.A. competition. Berry's first big-screen break came later that year when she was cast as Samuel L. Jackson's drug-addicted girlfriend in Spike Lee's film, Jungle Fever. In 1999, Berry released her most passionate project to date, co-producing and starring in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Berry earned both a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Television Movie for her role in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Berry is the first African-American woman to win the Oscar for best actress. Halle Berry’s person life has been a struggle trying to find love. She has been married three time to David Justice in 1993, Eric Benét in 2001, and she is currently married to Olivier Martinez in 2013. Berry has two children a daughter, Nahla Ariela by Gabriel Aubry and a son by Martinez (Halle Berry, 2015). Psychodynamic perspective explores unconscious dynamics, internal motives, conflicts, and childhood experiences (Carpenter &...
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...TBI in Early Childhood: Impact of Early Intervention on Childhood Development TBI in Early Childhood: Impact of Early Intervention on Childhood Development Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a growing concern for children in their preschool years. Children of young ages undergo many developmental changes during the ages of two through five. These changes are significant for their growth and maturity. They include cognitive, social, and behavioral development as well as development in executive functioning. Sustaining a traumatic brain injury during these years can pose as a direct risk of developmental deficits in any or all of these areas. After an extensive literature review, it was found that most of the previous research resulted in areas of consensus. These areas compare the how TBI severity and the age of the TBI effect developmental. Results from multiple studies show that the more sever the TBI, the more prevalent the developmental deficiencies (Gerrard-Morris, A., Taylor, H., Yeates, K., Walz, N., Stancin, T., Minich, N., & Wade, S., 2009; McKinlay, A., Grace, R., Horward, L., Fergusson, D., & MacFarlane, M., 2008; Morse, S., Haritou, F., Ong, K., Anderson, V., Catroppa, C., & Rosenfeld, J., 1999; Taylor, H., Swartwout, M., Yeates, K., Walz, N., Stancin, T., & Wade, S., 2008). It is also found that children injured in early childhood are more vulnerable to developmental deficits, According to Taylor et. al (2008), a younger age at the time of injury is a predictor...
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...The purpose of the review is to investigate whether childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is strongly associated with non-suicidal self-injury, a post traumatic symptom, among adolescents and young adults. II. REVIEW The relationship between childhood sexual maltreatment and non-suicidal self injury can be discussed through the Glassman et al. (2007) study. The study aimed to analyze the associations between different types of childhood abuse, including sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, emotional neglect and physical neglect and non suicidal self-injury. A sample of ninety-four adolescents whom aged twelve to nineteen years were prepared by recruiting from local psychiatric clinics, newspapers, community bulletin boards and the internet....
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