The obesity epidemic has affected millions of children and adolescents worldwide. Being obese at any age, contributes to the risk of chronic diseases, including cardiometabolic disease.1 Studies have shown that the lack of physical activity, excessive eating of high energy foods, and sedentary lifestyles are responsible for the increased numbers in obese and overweight children. Children worldwide spend their free time playing video and computer games instead of games requiring physical motion; this
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Obesity is a disorder involving excessive body fat that increases the risk of health problems. In the article “Discrimination against obese people”, it is saying that the world should give more consideration to people who are overweight because all this negativity leads them to social withdrawal, despair and depression. Many obese people aren’t provided with many of the same opportunities in life as those who aren’t obese. Discrimination toward kids at a young age can really affect their future.By
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caused due to Obesity in today’s modern world. This is an age of modern living, superior technology, luxurious day-to-day, exaggerated money and last but not the least trending obesity. Growing number of cases of obesity has made it into a fully grown social problem. Child obesity is a much talked about topic in today’s era. What could be the cause of this? The modernization of our living has took us to the top of the ladder on one side and it drenches us in a hollow pit called obesity. The changing
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Fat cats may be cuddly and nice to hold, but they are certainly not healthy. More and more cats are experiencing obesity, and the condition's attendant health problems. What is feline obesity? Feline obesity can be defined as the condition of being 15% or more above the IBW or ideal body weight. The average body weight for most cats ranges from 8 to 10 pounds, so if your cat is at about 12 pounds, he or she might be obese. Apart from body weight, the cat's body condition is also an important indicator
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Picture this scene. A school bus. You sit there looking out the window. A Car passes, and another and another. Your stomach has been growling for hours. A low rumbling sound fills the silence. There it goes again, you cannot wait to get home. Suddenly, the twenty minute bus drive started to feel like an hour. You are starting to feel the effects of hunger. Now, what if you were feeling this everyday. Unfortunately, many people across America have a constant battle with hunger. But there is hope,
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integral part of nursing; as it is one of the avenues via which the nurse enables the client to make informed decision regarding one’s health practices and lifestyle choices. While obesity has become a priority healthcare issue of our nation; nurses, as community educators, share a critical role in increasing awareness of obesity and its detrimental effects. The emphasis should be focused on educating the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, such as healthy diets, and incorporating daily physical activity
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Surveillance Comparisons: Canada and Costa Rica The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is the organization that monitors the oral health of the Americas. One of the main tools they have used to do that since the 1990s is the DMFT score. This standardized score provides an easy way to measure and compare oral health of all countries in the Americas. Additionally, it provides a way to group and organize countries into groups based on DMFT scores. The two countries I will be examining are Canada
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INTRODUCTION The population has been increasing exponentially with the world population hitting the 7 billion mark in 2012. Least Developed Countries (LDCs) accounted for 97% of this growth (United Nations, 2015). There are currently 48 LDCs, all of which are suffering from extreme poverty and high fertility rates. As the poverty rates fell, so did birth rates (Central Intelligence Agency, 2016), reflecting poverty as a major cause
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children also aren’t as physically active so that could play a role in why they are obese. Obesity has its long term effects and short effects. One long term affect is Type 2 diabetes, diabetes doesn’t have a cure the only thing you can do with diabetes is control it. Another long term effect is cancer like breast, kidney, colon and many more. Cancer isn’t curable and it could affect their lives majorly. Obesity can short term effects and one of them is discrimination. Discrimination is a short term
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would want to keep junk food, but I hope to convince some of why we should ban junk food. With much research, I have organized facts and reasons about this topic. As said in the beginning paragraph, most people are obese due the cause of junk food. Obesity can and may cause many terrible things, such as bullying; being compared to other people; increased risk of major diseases; could lead to having an eating disorder; could cause death; high blood pressure
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