...Based on the suggested reading, researchers are looking for how environment influences children's obesity by showing “food choices” on the way to school and by mapping places people live, work and go. In fact, they found out that most of elementary school students prefer to buy junk food on the way to school, but they don’t eat breakfast at school because they’ve already been full. This article mainly tries to point out that some social issues actually can be caused by the environment, where people live and how their lifestyles are. Thus, the solution of preventing childhood obesity is trying to change the food environment around children, but it is very difficult to implement. Because children can’t distinguish that apple and banana is the...
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...Human Services Research Article Discussion Wendy Coghill BSHS/382 September 29, 2014 University of Phoenix Instructor Jaime Primiano Human Services Research Article Discussion The following paper will address the findings of the author on the topic of discussing Human Services scholarly research articles/journals found inside the University Library that included some statistical analysis. The article had to be at least ten to thirty pages long, and must be of interest to the author. The assignment then required that the presentation be formatted clearly, and that the content must be sound, meaning adhering to APA guidelines as well as expressing the ideas and bias reduction in language of the content. The contents of this paper will touch on the statistical part of the paper chosen from a scholarly source, and discuss whether or not the paper supported the conclusions it drew through statistical analysis as well as the state of the content, meaning was it biased or misleading in any way. Potential Link between Obesity, Age and Socioeconomic Status The paper chosen for this assignment focuses on analysis that uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to explore how body weight and obesity change as a person progresses in age. The presentation of the material is stylistically sound in which it meets proper APA standards language bias, and expressing ideas, the content is formatted clearly...
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...Clinical Issue Article Analysis NUR/518 January 12th, 2014 Dr. Patricia Jenkins Clinical Issue Article Analysis Learning Team A continues to concentrate on different analysis associated with childhood obesity. Parents, schools, and communities are the first environments children learn their eating habits. Each learning team member found a quantitative research article that concentrated on childhood obesity. Different quantitative research studies will allow for multiple ways in assisting parents, schools and the community in prevention and early detection of childhood obesity and, how to teach children proper food choices along with forms of exercise. First, we reviewed a cross-sectional research study that was conducted with children 5-18 years of age attending a conducted to get base data regarding quality of life with children that are considered obese or over- well appointment along with four children who were attending an obesity clinic nearby. This study was weight compared to children that are at a healthy weight. It also assessed to what extent these measures were to body mass index (BMI). Next, we reviewed a five year longitudinal study that was conducted comparing children’s BMI waist circumference and waist to height ratio. This study used cross-sectional data supporting that BMI should not be the only data used to diagnose obesity; waist circumference should also be taken into...
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...For this assignment we were instructed to search peer-reviewed literature for two research articles and one systemic review or meta-analysis article. After combing through many articles I finally settled on two peer-reviewed articles that I feel pertain to my chosen article on childhood obesity and associated risk factors. The two peer-reviewed articles I found are “Early Life Risk Factors for Obesity in Childhood: Cohort Study” and “Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Decreasing Fat and Sugar Intake in Families at Risk for Childhood Obesity”. I was able to find an article while I was going through relevant research that is classified as meta-analysis and is titled “The Obesity Epidemic in the United Sates-Gender, Age, Socioeconomic, Racial/Ethnic, and Geographic Characteristics”. After reading through the articles I found I used the evidence summary form to help me break down the information into four categories. The categories are population studied, results of study, threats to validity of study, and implications of the study. My first peer-reviewed article that I summarized was conducted in the United Kingdom and included 8234 children and parents starting at the age of seven years old. The study included 3934 boys and 3824 girls and they found that the prevalence of obesity did not vary greatly between the sexes. The researchers used body mass index, questioners completed by parents, medical records, and biological samples. From the information gathered the researchers...
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...393 “Obesity may alter the metabolism and distribution of methylmercury.” The author, Rothenberg, SE. research the problem which will influence for obesity. The result of obesity is not only for people lack of sport activity and over eat food. In this age, obesity is become a popular problem in each industry because obesity influence our daily life. Most of expert will study and research the reason of obesity. The article “the obesity Era” is one of the factor in this environment, and it will effect each other with some article about obesity. Therefore, the article by Berreby, D is an important article in this time. It not only make audiences pay attention to these new opinion, but also it can link other authors’ article in our age. For this essay, it will talk about other articles about obesity in the same time are effect or to be effect in our society. There are food environment and socioeconomic status lead to obesity rate, a summary for professional researches and current literature about obesity about the reason of obesity. Audiences will find these interesting articles about obesity is really close and relate will the Berreby’s article. Therefore, this essay will analysis some detail about these articles about obesity. First of all, by Dr. Drewnowski’s article, the food environment and socioeconomic status can exert a powerful influence on body weights and health. The Dr. Drewnowski has a report about obesity and saying: The much higher prevalence of adult obesity in...
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...(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 specialty, practice...
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...METHODOLOGY The objective of this chapter is to define nursing research, analyse methods of research and outline methodological process used to find articles on which to base this extended literature review. In this hypothesis, the reason for literature review is to ascertain whether or not gastric banding is an effective treatment for obesity in young adults as measured by physical functioning. The research process is the step-by-step procedure of developing research paper (Boje, 2001). It normally consists of following stages: detection of the research problem; preparation of search plan; searching and assessing the literature; data collection and evaluation; formulating a research design; and presenting the research findings (Cormack, 1996). The ability of nurses and other health care professionals to locate and identify existing literature on a relevant topic is an essential nursing skill (Burns & Grove, 2003). The sources where they can gain and expand research knowledge from may include personal or specialist experiences and clinical procedures and guidelines (Eccles & Mason, 2001). Before they can be made assessable to health care workers, guidelines and procedures are required to go through rigorous process of dissemination, before they can be made assessable to health care workers to be used in practice (Craig & Smith, 2007). Some of the organisations responsible for underwriting and implementation of clinical guidelines into clinical practice...
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...The New England Journal of Medicine: Incidence of Childhood Obesity in the United States General Summary: Childhood Obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States. Prevalence data has been documented; however, gaps in the incidence study still exist. Thus, a study was conducted on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in order to track the incidence of obesity. The National Center for Educational Statistics selected a nationally representative cohort using probability sampling. Children who were starting kindergarten in the fall semester of 1998 were followed up until they reached the eight grade for data collection; cumulative incidence shows the 9-year risk of obesity. Variables were selected such as height, weight, parent-reported age, sex, race, ethnic group, socioeconomic status, and birth weight. Study showed that although the prevalence of obesity increased with age, incident obesity was highest at the youngest ages and declined through eighth grade. The lowest cumulative incidence according to socioeconomic factors was among children from wealthy families and the highest was among children from the middle socioeconomic quintile. Importance of Article: Childhood Obesity is an important concern for the community and this article does a great job detailing why. Childhood Obesity affects more than 30 percent of children, making it the most common chronic disorder for children. Today, more and more children are being diagnosed with diabetes...
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...Obesity is known as one of the most popular diseases. Many risk factors that are included with being obese is that it can lead to heart failure, diabetes, high blood pressure and breathing problems. Talking about general obesity is one thing but when it comes to children its another. As an adult you know what type of foods you need to consume in order to stay in good shape, physically and with goof eating habits. But, being a child, there is nothing stopping them from getting their hands on something they think is delicious. With that being said, it is more preventable as a child than it is as an adult. This is because it is the parents responsibility to feed their children with the nutrients they need and when your an adult no one but yourself...
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...Linking Perceived Neighborhood Disorder and Obesity." Social Science & Medicine 67.1 (2008): 38-46. Web. In the journal article, An Examination of Processes Linking Perceived Neighborhood disorder and obesity, Burdette, Amy M. , and Terrence Hill used a data collected from a sample of Texas to figure it out why neighborhood disorder effect on obesity, and they also analysis the psychological, physiological, and behavior mechanism. They stated that psychological distress is a lynchpin mechanism that links neighborhood disorder with obesity risk, in this is because of stress response, diet with no quality, and lack of exercise. Studies keep confirming that population who lives in poor neighborhood, social disorganization, and disorder has more tendencies to be obesity. There are several factors these disadvantage neighborhood are more likely to be obese than the other ones, such as bad eating habits and they also don’t have courage to practice physical activity. The amount of fast food found in this neighborhood is intense; in contrast, it is found a restriction to health food, health center, gyms, and grocery store. Knowing the level of obesity being one quarter of Texas population, researchers tried to mediated by psychological, physiological, and behavioral mechanism In this article they used Texas sample for adults and there is a large part of the population classified as obese. Finkelstein says, “In the state of Texas, obesity affects over one quarter of the adult population...
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...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, it fails...
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... Matriculation to BSc Occupational Safety Health & Environment. INTRODUCTION Research Area: Obesity Research Topic: Causes of Obesity among Trinidadians Background: Obesity is a serious, chronic disease that can have a negative effect on many systems in your body. Obesity or being overweight has serious effects on the individual and society. It also is very expensive for government to provide health care for obese individuals as health care and medication is provided free in our country (Trinidad). People who are overweight or obese have a much greater risk of developing serious conditions, including: Heart disease Type two diabetes and bone and joint disease. Obesity will also have an effect on physical abilities. People who are suffering from obesity may not be able to do things that normal weight people can do. Playing sports or do any activities that involves fast movement of any kind. They may not even have power to walk freely as the increased weight places pressure on the ankles and knees causing the obese individual to become less productive. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE This research is aimed at determining the factors which account for obesity within the population of Trinidad. RESEARCH QUESTIONS. 1. Is there a relationship between obesity and diet? 2. Is there a relationship between lack of regular exercise and obesity? 3. Is there a relationship between genetics and...
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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...
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...Article Analysis An article published by Science Daily outlines a new study which claims that “electronic game use is associated with childhood obesity” (Science Daily, 2004, Par. 1). I disagree with this article because the study seems to break the very basic rule of statistics: correlation does not imply causation. The following will outline why I feel this article makes an unrealistic claim which has not been properly backed up by enough scientific study and experiment. While I agree that the overuse of electronics can lead to a more sedentary lifestyle for children, I do not think the study provided enough information to claim that electronic game use leads to obesity. Instead, it is taking two very common events and then implying that there is causation between the two. The study itself seemed to be performed and presented in a correct and scientific manner, but its results cannot imply a perfect example of causation. For example, the study makes the following claims: “In a study published in the June issue of the Journal of Obesity Research, researchers from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University Hospital Zurich present a strong association between playing electronic video games and childhood obesity” (Par. 1). I cannot agree that this claim is valid or should be taken seriously by the reader simply because the study chose two very common events among children and then assumes that they are associated with one another. This would be similar...
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...Poverty and Welfare on Childhood Obesity1 Poverty and Welfare on Childhood Obesity Paul D Stasiak Self Study Childhood obesity has become a growing concern in the eyes of many Americans, yet not every parent can identify if their child or one they care for is overweight. Understanding dietary intake for our children is a very important. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014), childhood obesity has more than doubled and young adult obesity has quadrupled in the last 30 years (p. 1). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define being overweight as having an excess body weight for a given height, specifically as having excess body fat. The number of obese children today is higher than it has been in the past. However, times are changing and the fast food companies are growing more and more popular each and every day. This paper will examine the research which states that a child is more likely to be obese as an adult if they were obese all throughout their adolescent years and poverty’s effect on childhood obesity. According to Feeding America (2013), 45.3 million Americans were living in poverty (p. 1). This number is very high considering the 318.9 million that are living in America. The unemployment rate in January of 2015 was 5.7%. As a result of unemployment or living in poverty conditions, some families have resorted to buying less expensive food options for their children in order to...
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