to city-data.com, the adult obesity rate for Conecuh County is 32.6% whereas the state of Alabama is 31%. The rate of child obesity is 18.9% and the state is 13.5% (City-data.com, 2013). The first nursing diagnosis is imbalanced nutrition: more than body requirements (obesity) among residents of my community related to increased food consumption and insufficient energy expenditure for intake. The first goal for this diagnosis is to reduce the prevalence of obesity among the residents. An objective
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from. Time to time it has been a problem for students suffering from the disease, teachers and normal students in the class to react positively in a physical education class. As the motto of the Ministry of Education states that “Every child can learn, every child must learn,” it is the duty of the school and the teachers to make sure students with special ability enjoy the physical education class like the manner of some has. This anthology gives a brief descriptions of the different disease along
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Epidemiology Study: Teen Obesity N J Nur 408 January 9, 2012 Felita Patterson, MPH, RN Epidemiology Study: Teen Obesity Teenage obesity is on the rise this country. In the last couple of decades, the world has changed in a startling and dramatic way. Computers, computer games, the Internet, and extended free time have pushed the numbers of teenage obesity to an alarming figure (Teen obesity, 2011). While there’s no one cause of obesity; the factors that can make someone obese are a variety
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Although the launching of the new products of the company is not doing well, McDonald’s still wants to maintain selling the healthy products such as fruits, salads, and vegetables as well as fruit juice especially for kids. Because McDonald’s knows that child is one the major consumers in their business strategy, and therefore, they come out with healthy food which can attract their parents’ minds, as the children would consume whatever if their parents would allow them to. If parents found that there are
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Introduction This paper is our proposed plan for teaching those of all ages about obesity; its detrimental effects on the body, short and long term, and how to avoid associated problems, using a healthy varied eating plan and incorporating a daily exercise schedule. The health risks of obesity are the same for all people and the interventions for weight loss are also the same. These interventions are basic, eat healthy and be active. But educating communities and enabling them to make these changes
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Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Hillsborough County, Florida is the 4th largest county in Florida. It is comprised of 1,048 square miles of land and 24 square miles of inland water area for a total of 1,072 square miles located midway along the west coast of Florida. It has a diverse culture of people cohabitating in a large community. Assessing the community allows you to see a broader picture of diversity and layers of multicultural issues that affect
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David Zinczenko, an editor for a fitness magazine called Men’s Health, published a two-page piece about over weight children and the potential lawsuits on fast-food companies. This editorial was published in the New York Times on November twenty third, 2002. In his editorial Zinczenko states how there are no labels on fast-food packaging that provides any calorie information, and how there are a lack of available alternatives for teenagers. He also points out how if a company does in fact provide
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not effective it the parents hand that is being shown holding a pill as the parent states that they will give their child the remote back if the kid just takes his meds. The reason it is ineffective is because it doesn’t show if the parent is also overweight and lazy or if they are maybe just too busy with work and don’t have time to make a good healthy meal so they always buy the child fast food for meals. It would be more effective if it showed the parent because then the person viewing the visual
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issues, kwashiorkor, cardiovascular diseases and anaemia. Combined Outline: I. Introduction II. Cancer A. Foods that accelerate cancer. B. Foods that help prevent cancer. III. Diabetes IV. Weight issues A. People who are overweight suffer from obesity because of too much intake food. B. People suffer from anorexia because of lack of nutrients in their body. V. Cardiovascular diseases A. One type of cardiovascular disease is hypertension. B. Another type of cardiovascular disease is cardiac
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Correlation and Causation The Link Between Sleep and Weight Correlation is the association between two variables, when there is an increase or decrease in one variable what effect does it has to the other variable (Triola, 2010). In this research the author looks on the relationship between a person who do not sleep or get quality sleep and their body weight. There was a study which highlighted a correlation between lack of sleep and increase in body weight. In the study with the women 40 – 60
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