...ISSUE REPORT F as in Fat: HOW OBESITY THREATENS AMERICA’S FUTURE 2010 JUNE 2010 PREVENTING EPIDEMICS. PROTECTING PEOPLE. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TRUST FOR AMERICA’S HEALTH IS A NON-PROFIT, NON-PARTISAN ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO SAVING LIVES AND MAKING DISEASE PREVENTION A NATIONAL PRIORITY. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. For more than 35 years the Foundation has brought experience, commitment, and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves. Helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need—the Foundation expects to make a difference in our lifetime. For more information, visit www.rwjf.org. TFAH BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lowell Weicker, Jr. President Former three-term U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut Cynthia M. Harris, PhD, DABT Vice President Director and Associate Professor Institute of Public Health, Florida A & M University Robert T. Harris, MD Secretary Former Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Healthcare BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina John W. Everets Treasurer Gail Christopher, DN Vice President for Health WK Kellogg...
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...Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 1(3): 94-96, 2009 ISSN: 2040-8773 © Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2009 Submitted Date: August 14, 2009 Acceptance Date: September 02, 2009 Published Date: November 25, 2009 Corresponding Author: A. Abubakar, Department of Human Physiology Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria 94 Relation of Body Mass Index with Lipid Profile and Blood Pressure in Healthy Female of Lower Socioeconomic Group, in Kaduna Northern Nigeria 1A. Abubakar, 1M.A. M abruok, 2A.B. Gerie, 3A.A. Dikko, 4S. Aliyu, 1T. Yusuf, 3R.A. Magaji, 1M.A. Kabir and 1U.W. Adama 1Department of Human Physiology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria 2Department of Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Teaching Hospital Shika, Zaria, Nigeria 3Department of Human Physiology, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria 4Department of Biochemistry, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria Abstracts: In Nigeria 30 million people suffer from this hypertension which is the main risk factor for stroke, and renal failure. Elevated levels of triglyceride, cholesterol and LDL-C are documented as risk factors for atherogenesis. LDL-C in its oxidized or acetylated form has been identified as a major atherogenic particle. Fifty two women between 19-32 years of age attending Primary Health Care center (PH C) in Kaduna and its environment were use in this study. Their height, weight and systolic and diastolic blood pressures were recorded. Body Mass Index (BMI) was calculated by using their...
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... The Community Health Planning unit of the Ocean County Department of Health is the agency to contact knowing the division assesses current health conditions, obtains health statistics, and collects data regarding health indicators, resource for residents and community-based organizations, and identifies opportunities for improvement in health care. Identifying a community problem of childhood obesity that will adversely affect a toddler in the family that I am affiliated has heightened my interest to prevent the devastating outcomes associated with obesity (Ocean County Department of Health, 2012). Preventing lifelong disease process is a goal for the welfare of the community population. Addressing the issue of healthy food and physical activity in the daily schedule of preschool and school aged children is important. More than 40 million children under the age of five are overweight. More than 35 million children in developing countries are overweight, and eight million in developed countries. Overweight and obesity lead too many chronic disease processes. Diabetes, cancer, hypertension, stroke, cardiovascular...
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...1 Dominique Driver College Writing II Professor Joines 4/18/2013 “Addressing the Problem: Childhood Obesity” The State of the Union is in a crisis over the direction that our country is heading towards. People are consuming large amounts of fast & processed foods, which is resulting in health problems. People are not realizing that there could be consequences for their actions. Quick decision making can have a long term effect on us. The lack of a balanced diet and an adequate amount of exercise has led to the crisis that we are facing around the country today. Michael Pollan addresses these problems in The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, was written by the famous journalist, Michael Pollan in 2007. Pollan opens by addressing the simple question, what should we have for dinner? A simple question that use to be so straightforward has now become so complicated. The book is split into three parts dividing the food chain up based on the three principal food systems that continue to flourish today: industrial, organic, and the hunter-gatherer. The industrial section of the book discusses the process that corn goes through before the general public consumes it as a fast food 2 meal. The second section discusses alternatives to industrial food and farming, which is referred to as organic food and farming. Pollan states in the introduction, “ So the book’s pastoral section serves up the natural history of two very different “organic” meals: one whose ingredients...
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...Public Health Issue: Childhood Obesity Anna Walker, the Healthcare Commission Chief Executive explained that "Childhood obesity is a serious health problem that can follow people much later into life. It is a causal factor in a number of chronic diseases and conditions including high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes” (Audit Commission 2006). The World Health Organisation, describes obesity as having “reached global epidemic proportions, with more than 1.6 billion adults overweight, at least 400 million of those clinically obese” (WHO 2005). In England, the Department of Health (DH), states that almost “1 in 4 adults are currently obese and projects that 9 in 10 adults will either be overweight or obese if this issue is not addressed.” Obesity is therefore an important public health issue and this essay will focus on childhood obesity as a Parliament report states that overweight children and adolescents have a 70% chance of becoming overweight or obese adults, it also implies more public resources over a longer time period. If obesity carries on into adulthood, in a hospital setting, the patient’s weight can have an impact on the health of NHS staff, as is already being noted by Unions (Mansfield, 2007). Epidemiology will be used to examine childhood obesity in children aged 2 to 10 within England and the relevant policies implemented in an attempt to reduce this ‘epidemic.’ The role of the nurse in helping to tackle the nationwide problem will also...
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...children in an attempt to keep them safe from harm. “Say no to drugs!” “Say no to strangers!” Our attempts in protecting children from any of the evils of the world usually fall back to having them, “Just say NO!” But, how does this protect them from the pitfalls and dangers of childhood obesity? How can we teach them to say “no” to unhealthy food or habits that are instilled upon them from their school meals, education or classmates’ influences? How can we protect their self-esteem from being damaged from childhood teasing? How can we protect them from the onset of adult disabilities while at an adolescent age? The value of an education has always been deemed as “priceless” but our current education system is allowing one of the key components of a healthy life, inside and out, to be overlooked. The missing piece in our children’s education system is the emphasis being placed on physical fitness. Today’s children are required to proficiently pass certain benchmarks in the areas of Reading, Writing and Math. But, these components are not enough to protect our children and educate our children for the eventual road to adulthood. Physical fitness needs to be recognized as one of the essential areas of childhood growth and education. It must be treated with as much importance as the current mental benchmarks of Reading, Writing and Math. A proposal needs to be passed by the state of California that would require all elementary school children to pass physical fitness evaluations before...
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...Childhood Obesity ENG 122 April 26, 2012 Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is an ongoing problem that we will all face in our lifetime. We may encounter this from our own experience as being an overweight child, seeing it in our children, their friends or even in our grandchildren. We all need to have a better understanding of childhood obesity. We will start this journey by address a brief history of childhood obesity, short and long-term health concerns, methods for treating obesity, and prevention of obesity in children. The overall purpose will be to foster an understanding of the impact high-fructose corn syrup usage in the last 30 years has had in relation to the childhood obesity epidemic. Childhood obesity is not a new problem but it is becoming an epidemic in the United States. Dr. Fals (2009) writes, “this country has been struggling with obesity for well over 20 years now” (p. 1). Most of us can remember when there was maybe one overweight child in a classroom, now there are two to three instead. The National Center for Health Statistics has been conducting surveys since 1963 relating to obesity among children and adolescents in the United States (Ogden, 2010). This is the only organization that has solid scientific history and statistical data available. It appears that obesity was not tracked on a nationwide level prior to 1963. One reason may be that there weren’t enough cases of childhood obesity to raise any red flags up until the 1960s. Since...
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...illnesses associated with eating traits that are considered unhealthy. Of particular interest were those eating habits that rendered some members of the society overweight or obese. Until recently such illnesses were considered to be associated with the middle aged upper social and the aging group of western world. Contrary to this belief, the problem of obesity has increasingly been witnessed across the rest of the world including the less developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and across people of lower ages. This necessitated the search for other means to explain this trend. Unlike lower forms of life human beings have brains that enable them not only to respond to influences but to understand and give meanings to these influences based on individual’s interpretations [Herman, 1994, p. 2]. This is a phenomenon that perhaps could explain the behaviour of a human being in relation to feeding habits. The branch of sociology that studies this behaviour is referred to as symbolic interaction. This paper examines the relationship between the human behavioral response to and understanding of stimuli to the environment in relation to diet habits and the related health implications in an individual among...
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...Childhood Obesity 1. Problem identification and overview 1. Problem identification The problem issue of childhood obesity is regarded in a very serious light by nursing and healthcare profession. It is considered to be “…the most common prevalent nutritional disorder of US children and adolescents, and one of the most common problems seen by pediatricians”( Childhood Overweight. NASO). However, it is also important to see this problem in the large problem of obesity in the country. The problem of obesity has become an increasingly serious concern for medical and healthcare authorities in recent years. The rate of obesity in developed countries like the United States has shown an alarming growth in the last decade and this has concomitant implications for healthcare professionals, including the nursing profession. The seriousness of the issue at stake is underlined by many experts in the field; for example, the claim that obesity is "... poised to become the nations leading health problem and No. 1 killer" and is "already the cause of 400,000 deaths a year...or 45 per hour..." (Hearne. S. et al, 2004) Central to the increase of general obesity is the severity of childhood obesity. There has been an alarming increase in obesity among younger children and adolescents and this has placed the emphasis on policy that focuses particular attention to this problematic area. Figure 1: The following table provides details about the increase in the prevalence...
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...Western diets and lifestyles Name University Affiliation Introduction Nourishing our bodies does not mean just giving the body anything in the form of food, but it is the giving the body various foods that have the major three nutrients; the vitamins, proteins, and carbohydrates in the required quantity. There is a common statement that states that too much of something is poisonous.” This also applies to the food nutrients we normally eat in our diets (Bunyamin, Spaderna, & Weidner, 2013). When we eat too much of certain food nutrients without balancing the ratio that is required can be so dangerous to our body health. Nourishing our bodies well involve every aspect of our life; physical, emotional and even spiritual. When one of these aspects is unbalanced, our eating behaviors change, and this affects our body health. A healthy diet provides the body with the necessary nutrients that are required to function physically, and also fight diseases (Colditz, 1999). Many studies have proved that the rate of lifestyle disease occurrences has risen sharply in the last few decades mostly in developed nations than the developing nations. World Health Organization (WHO) estimated in 2005 that 61% of global death occurrences are as a result of lifestyle disease. It further predicted that by the year 2030, the global death rate caused by lifestyle diseases would reach 70%. This statistics is worrying because the lifestyle diseases are now proving to be the threat to the human kind(Mayo...
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...Health and Psychology HCA 250 Angela C. Final Assignment Week 9 Instructor: E. G. Psychology’s Relation To Diabetes Diabetic Overview Viewed as a metabolic disorder, the cells in the body do not respond appropriately to the insulin present in the body of a person with type 2 diabetes. This is due to the dysfunction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas that can result in insulin resistance or insulin deficiency. Risk factors that can contribute to the development of type two diabetes include obesity, aging, a less active lifestyle, and unhealthy dietary habits that include food high in saturated and trans fats and certain pre-existing medical conditions. Other medical risk factors that may exacerbate or give rise to type-two diabetes include hypertension, high cholesterol, chronic pancreatitis, glucocorticoid drugs, and Cushing’s syndrome. Monitoring blood glucose levels with a glucose meter can help in both prevention and treatment. Dietary modification which includes a high fiber intake, increased exercise levels, maintaining a normal body weight and being a non-smoker and moderate alcohol drinker can play a significant role in prevention and treatment. Treatment can also be provided through the administration of different insulin formulations either orally or through subcutaneous injection. Type 1 diabetes is similar yet very distinct in its cause. The beta cells in the pancreas are attacked in what is believed to be an...
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...to obesity be considered an eating disorder? Introduction The twenty-first century has seen many changes in body image from previous decades, ranging from all different body shapes and sizes. As the media is glorifying slenderness and a thin physique the rates of obesity all over the world are still increasing at an exceptional level. Obesity can be simply defined as having too much excess body fat that is considered healthy for a person’s height. Obesity after several decades of controversy has been finally recognised as a disease by the obesity Society in 2008. Just like all other diseases obesity can have very serious consequences on a person’s health. There are a lot of factors that come into context to determine if someone is obese or not. Currently the most convenient way to diagnose obesity is by examining a person’s BMI (Body mass Index). If an adult’s BMI results come back with a figure ranging between 25-30 they are likely considered to be overweight thus any score over 30 is on the scale of obesity. Obesity rates will continue to soar if people don’t take immediate action. Obesity is not always the result of excessive over eating or an extreme lack of exercise and physical activity, but it also is the result of biological and behavioural factors. (A)What are the causes of obesity? The cause of obesity is not always clear. Individual differences will play a huge role in determining what the cause of obesity is. The most known believed cause of obesity is over...
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...fell victim to some conspiracy. Unfortunately, the cause of our issues is much more in our control than I think we would care to admit. Our health is depleting at large numbers all because of our diet. The rates of heart related issues, blood pressure and diabetes are at astounding numbers. These medical concerns are costing the country billions of dollars in healthcare. Why and when did our health begin to plummet? Over past decades America’s love for junk and fast food is the culprit behind this country having one of the unhealthiest populations any continent has to offer. This fascination of fast food had to start somewhere. Not only that but so did awareness that this particular industry may single handedly be responsible for obesity in this country. There are few topics actually that will help to understand this phenomenon a little further beyond the awareness of fast food. There was legislation that was passed that was supposed to help Americans understand what they are consuming on a daily basis. We learn this is only as helpful as one is able to translate the information. Many people are lost when it comes to nutritional food labels and what the numbers mean when it comes to their personal diet and intake. People need to be educated and that needs to be explored. Before consumers are expected to make change, they have to know what changes to make. Sometimes a little incentive is needed for change. We look into the health dangers that we as a nation are facing...
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...Cereal: The Complete Story ® Let’s make today great™ Quick facts on breakfast cereal. Average calories per serving by breakfast type. Cereal compares favorably to many other traditional choices.1 Children who eat cereal regularly tend to have lower BMIs.*** Studies have shown that the consumption of cereal for breakfast is associated with lower BMI in children, a relationship that holds regardless of the amount of sugar in the cereal.2, 3 Fewer than 4 servings in 14 days 4 to 7 servings in 14 days More than 7 servings in 14 days Percent overweight age 4-6 48% 35% 26% Percent overweight age 7-9 50% 38% 16% Good mornings begin here. The latest science on breakfast cereals. Since introducing Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in 1906, Kellogg has invested decades of science and product development into health and nutrition. From being the first food company to employ our own dietitian, to running our own research labs and closely monitoring independent studies on breakfast, cereal, grains and fiber all around the world, we aim to keep abreast of the ongoing scientific advancements in nutrition and food research and take this into account as we strive to enhance existing cereals and develop new cereals. What we learn constantly shapes our future direction. In the past few years, it’s helped us respond to consumer and market demands to lower sugar and sodium, as well as to increase the fiber and maintain the great taste in many of our cereals. We’re always looking for ways...
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...TETRAMUNE di d arcinogenic mutagenic poles— - -MOM Obesity and Stature in Adolescenc e and Earnings in Young Adulthoo d Analysis of a British Birth Cohor t James D . Sargent, MD, David G . Blanchflower, PhD NE This product is not recomI been established. t Use (Td) is recommended. R e (DT) should be substituted in Ise) is based on a full course o f months of age in three separate on systemic symptoms within Objective: To examine the association between obe- sity and stature at various ages and earnings in young me n and women at age 23 years . Design : We estimated the effect of obesity on earnings xns Toddlers (107 doses) by constructing a series of ordinary least-squares regression equations in which the dependent variable was the natural logarithm of hourly earnings at age 23 years . We report the coefficients for obese subjects compared with those for the nonobese subjects and for height while con trolling for a number of other factors that are known t o affect pay . Setting : A birth cohort of 12 537 respondents at age 2 3 i9 to 7500 doses) in the Kaiser rilhin 60 days) and emergency sons for seeking care include hioli6e and pneumonia). One rs after immunization and was ipisades were reported witlk n A DTP and HbOC at separat e e several weeks . Although not ry also cam existent, inconsolable crying ), transient shock-like (hypophalopathy, a causal relation sin...
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