...Introduction The consumer need for wellness products and various services have continued to evolve in India as the income levels are growing along with it awareness is rising. The lifestyle of a consumer is an important part and with every passing day each and every consumer is getting known to this. Health/wellness which was recently considered as a niche concept has managed to gather a mainstream audience in today’s time. Consumers today want to have total control about their look, how they feel and this is driving purchase decision across major categories like food, beverages , personal care and services. In response to this marketers have launched major products and even services that contribute round 600 billion INR to the wellness market in India .This industry is continuing to grow and it still remains a fraction which is about 4 % or less of the overall consumer expenditure in India. Indian consumers have shown a wide display of behaviour characteristics right from passive where demand of such wellness products is very less to believers for whom wellness is an integral part. Thus it is very important for the wellness players to identify their target segment or core consumer target, so that they can align their value proposition with specific needs of this segment. The scope in the wellness market in India is immense–even a 1% increase in consumer expenditure can potentially create an additional opportunity of six billion INR for wellness players. Today’s young consumers...
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...Healthy Lifestyle vs Fad Diets Lynda Schreiber Com/170 June 2, 2014 Linda Boyer Healthy lifestyle vs fad diets Introduction I. Calorie Count A. Healthy Calorie Count. 1. Body calorie needs to function B. Unhealthy Calorie Count 1. Effects of low calories on the body II. Exercise A. Exercise with diet 1. Effects on weight B. No exercise with diet aids 1. Effects on maintaining weight loss III. Diet Aids vs. Healthy Choices A. Hormone/ Chemical based Aids B. Healthy Lifestyle What is the best way to lose weight and is there such a thing as a miracle diet? I have asked myself this question many times over the past sixteen years. All though school I was considered the skinny girl then when I started gaining weight it just kept coming. Diet fads are all the rage, and I have tried most of them that are on the market with some results but they never stay. So I started asking myself what is the best way to lose weight and keep it off. I had to come to the realization that there is no overnight miracle and it all takes hard work. In order to achieve a goal weight and maintain weight, miracle diets are less effective than making healthy lifestyle changes. The first thing I have learned along my weight loss search is that calories are an important factor. All diets are based on a calorie count but what is the correct calories a body needs. The calories the body consumes in a day is different for each person. To figure out how many calories a body needs to function...
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...Chris Kyle: American Sniper Chris Kyle American Sniper When looking at someone’s life, one must think and take into consideration what circumstances have played an influential role in what someone becomes. Each and every individual has different personal goals in place that they seek in life and different ways in which they approach these goals. Individuals are influenced by family dynamics, social interaction, cultural differences, and overall environment. Chris Kyle, known as America’s most deadly sniper, was born in Texas in April of 1974. As a child he had his eyes set on what he wanted to be when he grew up. His dream was to be a cowboy or be in the military, which he was unsure of what branch. Kyle was raised in a loving home. Growing up his parents instilled important values that he would carry on into adulthood. He was taught the importance of family, protecting others, religion, and the value of one’s self. Kyle stated “If I had to order my priorities, they would be God, country, family. (Kyle, McEwen, 2012, p. 7) These core values that were instilled in him by his parental and social influences played a substantial role in the development of Kyle’s personality. Chris Kyle was a man of great integrity and had a passion for making a difference. He was known to be a little hard headed and stubborn which was a driving force behind his success. Kyle was also a passionate and encouraging individual. If he set his mind to something he was going to work...
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...Children need to be taught the right ways to eat and exercise. Parent/caregivers need to support the children in their life to live a healthy life to avoid obesity in children. In today’s society it is easier for kids to sit around playing video games and snacking than playing outside and having healthy meals. “Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in developed countries. “In the United States, the prevalence of overweight for children increased by 182% between 1971–74 and 1999–2000.” (Foley. p.1) Children have a better chance at living a healthy life style and preventing obesity when they are taught how to eat healthy, exercise and gain knowledge of a healthy life style. Teaching children how to eat healthy is a big part in helping children stay away from obesity. People only know what we are taught and that is the same for children. If a child is never thought what to eat and how different foods are good for you they will never know. It is easier for kids to snack and parents think just because it bad for them, at least they are eating. Children need to beat taught what foods will help them become strong and help their bones gone strong. Besides teaching them what is good to, they need to learn how to eat. For example they need to eat three healthy meals daily with two snacks a day. Children need to learn at a younger age about eating healthy, when to eat and portion sizes will help them stay on track as they get older. Exercising is very important for children...
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...it's clear that everything we do is a personal decision we make whether if its eating a burger verses eating a grilled chicken sandwich with no bun. Today, we see fast food all over America, whether it is through television advertisements, billboards or magazines it is always going to surround us. So when we start to gain weight due to our busy life style is it our fault or the fast food industry? In 2002 there were multiple complaints filed against the McDonald’s corporation. One family claimed that McDonald’s was the cause for their child's obesity. This lawsuit raised some controversial questions about corporate responsibility versus personal responsibility. Is McDonalds truly the cause for this child's weight problem or the individual or even the parents themselves? There are studies that show an individual could be obese due to genetics but it is absolutely a matter of personal responsibility. Mcdonald's advertising did not force this family into their restaurant or force feed them double cheeseburgers everyday to their child. It certainly did not mislead this family's knowledge about the importance of a living a healthy life style and the importance of eating right. In some ways the idea that obesity could be a matter of corporate responsibly completely undermines the decisions of American people and how they live their lives. People who think that McDonalds advertisements are unfairly advertised to society and to children forget to realize that is the companies rights...
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...and strategies for improving the national health as a whole will be to , increase the quality of individual life by making awareness and motivation to acquire knowledge over health .reduce and eliminate the disparities in the people that includes race , gender , ethnicity ,income and disability. The changes and policy strategies are designed to target whole national’s health rather than individuals by modifying physical and organizational strctures.example of such modification includes enhancing opportunities to engage in physical activity by providing onsite facilities for exercises. The educational and informational strategies attempt to build the knowledge to inform the necessity of optimal health practice. Information and learning experiences voluntary adaptations towards conductive behavior of health. This can be done by providing information in internet, posters, pamphlets, health and nutrition software’s and providing information regarding healthy diet and exercise. Behavioral and social strategies will influence the behaviors indirectly by targeting individual’s awareness, self – efficacy, perceived support and interntions.this can include social environment to provide support for the people to maintain weight changes. Such interventions can involve group behavioral counseling. The Vision of healthy people 2020: “A society in which all people live long , Healthy lives “, So the barriers to health service includes lack of availability, Increased cost, lack of insurance...
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...Childhood Obesity: It’s a Family Issue Megan Ehrhart Statistical Concept for Research MAT 540 Professor Richard Smatt March 26, 2012 Introduction Parents are the first teachers in a child’s life. This runs true for teaching kids healthy eating habits as well. When parents themselves model good healthy eating habits along with teaching their children healthy habits the children grow up to be healthy adults. When parents are obese and engage their children in this unhealthy life style it is more likely that the children will grow obese and unhealthy and the cycle will continue with their children. Many children these days are allowed to have televisions in their bedrooms, play hours of video games, eat what and when they want and are not required to play outside or participate in extracurricular activities. The parents are doing the same things at home such as playing on the computer, watching television, cooking fast and unhealthy meals and not interacting in any physical activities with their children. All of these issues are factors in the weight gain of today’s youth and their parents. Parents need to take a bigger stand on healthy eating and exercise to prevent obesity. Obesity leads to many health problems and often early death which could be prevented in many cases. Statement of the Problem The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that obesity has more than tripled in the past thirty years (Center for Disease Control, para. 1). “ The...
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...Introduction and Conclusion Latonya Ballard Com/156 September 7, 2012 Lugene Rosen “What can you say about a person that does want to change their life?’ It can be hard to make life changes; people may be dealing with everyday problems that they need to put effort to. ‘How can people make smart choices while eating right and exercising?’ It is daily activities that can be done to improve the ability to get the body are shape to live a long time. The more a person chose to eat the right nutrients and have vitamins in their body the more they will stay healthy. The average person think if they eat what they chose to eat they will live a long time, but it is up to the person in general to chose what lifestyle they want to live. A person has to get enough physical activities to burn any calories to stay in shape. If a person eat in moderation the weight will come off quick, and then the foods he/she chooses can benefit a heart healthy life. If people eat a well-balance diet and exercising it can help the heart stay stronger. Healthy eating will keep you living longer, and help you stay heart health with a balance diet. People should consider eating healthy and exercising to live longer. Most people in society have busy lives and do not think about eating healthy. It is a convenience for someone to stop and get fast foods; it can clog the arteries in the heart with fat and cholesterol. However, people that eat unhealthy and do not exercise will have a slow metabolism. It will...
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...Research the transition from the food pyramid to My Plate, and write a one- to two-page paper explaining why My Plate is the more commonly accepted nutritional guide now. What are the benefits of My Plate? Is it definitively better than the food pyramid? Why or why not? The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has replaced its Food Pyramid with MyPlate nutrition guidelines. ETR, a proud Community Partner of the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, has developed this series of colorful and easy-to-understand MyPlate resources. MyPlate is a reminder to find your healthy eating style and build it throughout your lifetime. Everything you eat and drink matters. The right mix can help you be healthier now and in the future. This means:...
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...The LSI which is stands for life styles inventory is a test that measures how you think and behave. When I took the test and received my scores I was shocked with some of the results that I got, and I thought to myself there is no way that some of these words are describing me and definitely not in the percentile that I placed into for example, avoidance I never would consider myself as a person who avoids anything whether it is something good or bad. However, when I studied my results some more I realized that the test is measuring all the parts of a person’s personality, so no matter what you would have to place somewhere Part 1: Personal Thinking Styles My primary thinking style is affiliative. I scored a percentile score of 90. The affiliative thinking style is a part of the constructive styles. The constructive style is described to reflect self-enhancing thinking and behavior that add to a person’s satisfaction. Another characteristic is building healthy relationships and work efficiently with others. My second highest thinking style is oppositional. This thinking style is a part of the Aggressive and Defensive style. Some characteristics are the ability to keep ones position or status and also maintain a sense of security. I would have to agree with this assessment that affiliative and oppositional are my primary and backup thinking style. The ability to build healthy relationships whether it be at work, school, or personally is a very important trait to have. It is...
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...advancement in health care and technology call for quality of life and achievement of optimum health for all people. The face and scope of public health transformed to accommodate this need, originating the idea of health promotion. This paper focuses on the role of nursing in health promotion and levels of health promotion. Definition World Health Organization defined health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions (WHO, 1986). Purpose of Health Promotion The central goal of health promotion is to enhance each individual’s ability to improve their own health. This goal can be achieved by creating an environment that supports the health of a person as whole. Nurses have a vital role in creating that environment. This is done by health education and by being the mediator - link between patients and health care resources. The different sectors of health care, that span into the nursing scope of practice, enable nurses to interact with patients in all phases of care. This implies huge responsibility on nursing as a primary care provider, directly involved in patient’s health promotion. Nurses Role in Health Promotion Nurses initiate and continue the health promotion process of individuals, families and community by assessing them for their knowledge level, life style, nutrition habits, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds...
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...Assessment of Families with Heritage Assessment Tool Grand Canyon University September 2, 2014 Assessment of Families with Heritage Assessment Tool Each country has a different tradition, culture, customs and anindividual’scultural legacy plays a very important part in upgrading the health of that person. According to various sources, United States will observe an immense increase in mixture of cultures in the 21stcentury. Nurses should have a proper knowledge about the patient’s health who belonged to various cultures, and their social needs, in order to enrich their life’s value and the protection of health.Each patient will have different beliefs of their well-being and nurses should be able to recognize, evaluate and work with conventional health habits used by patients of all cultures A teaching method that endorse cultural skills can bedeveloped by educating nursing students about patients heritage evaluation and tradition (Toddmckee, 2012). The heritage assessment tool aids to differentiate various customs and culture of different societies. The main aim of this paper is to apply the heritage assessment tool to evaluate the requirements of a person and his health preservation, assertion, and renewal. In this paper, evaluation of three families, their family background, their culture and tradition is been discussed. Usefulness of Applying Heritage Assessment Tool The purpose of this Heritage Assessment tool is to provide awareness to students which will help them to understand...
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...individual may develop in a way unique to how they function as a person, but overall there are many strategies humans can follow or enforce in order to develop in what psychologists consider a healthy way. These strategies can include acts such as breastfeeding, exposing children to enriched environments and the “just right” parental style, participation in volunteer work or service learning, and last but not least, maintaining a healthy diet along with exercise. This paper will highlight these strategies. Breastfeeding has many known benefits to the development of children in their prenatal/newborn stage. When compared to formula-feeding, breastfeeding has been found to prevent infection, chronic disease and allergies in the child, enhance their...
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...the assessment ending by the evaluation as a circle that continue to improve from the beginning of the nursing profession with Nightingale to today. The focus was to teach the individual as well as the ways to live healthy and change the life style that needed to be changed and adapt a new healthier life style. Health promotion is defined by the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2005 Bangkok Charter as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health." (WHO) 2005 Bangkok. What that mean is we need to adapt new policies to address the issues and reasons behind our inability to start and maintain a healthier life style and change the existing life style that we have currently. With that being addressed we have to address the reason behind the inability which could be one of many reasons such as income, job security including the working condition, housing and food as well as many other conditions that affect our willingness as well as our ability to start the change and maintain it. In general the health promotion is an empowering tool to give individuals control over their lives. It is not just health care it is the power that we give to individuals to have a say in their life and health by educating them on preventions through early detection and/or...
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...index. Because of the unhealthy nature of mankind this has cost society billions of dollars in medical cost. We can see less children exercising and becoming more obese by the day because they are less prone to get out and move around. People can be a healthier society by eating healthy, taking part in physical activity, and commitment. Eating healthy with proper exercise can be the key to unlock a long life of well-being. Most people have been raised on an unhealthy diet with things like fast food, processed foods, and foods with a high fat content. Children today struggle with the fact they want to eat every meal from a box and when they are prepared something that’s healthy they won’t eat it. Things like carrots, greens, and fruits are just a few foods that will put them on a path to healthy living. The schools are starting to incorporate healthier foods on the menus and in the vending machines, and they are taking out the sugary soft drinks and snacks. Children need to become more involved in physical activity in order to maintain a healthy (BMI) body mass index. Youths don’t engage in outdoor activities as they should in order to get the exercise they need so they can keep a healthy body weight and fight obesity. Normal weight youths should get a minimum of one hour of continuous physical activity everyday of the week or most everyday to prevent becoming overweight. (Strong et al.2005). Another research shows to effectively decrease body fat, youths...
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