One of the fastest growing epidemics in the United States is childhood obesity. The amount of children that fall in the obese category has more than tripled since 1970. It is now estimated that one in every five children in the United States would fall under this obese category. This rapid growth has resulted from many changes in our society including: How we measure obesity, increased technology, increased availability of fast food, and an increased intake of sugar. To understand what it is that
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According to Lewis, Dirksen, Heitkemper, Bucher (2012), diabetes creates damage to the small blood vessels within the kidney that supply the glomeruli of the kidney. When this occurs, the kidney is unable to concentrate and properly filter the urine that passes through. This leads to consistent oliguria. S.W. is at increased risk not only for the development of diabetes, but she is also at risk for the complications that come from diabetes. One of these is nephropathy. According to Braun and Anderson
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kidneys. As they get surrounded by more and more fat, they are almost forced to shut down, so in order to keep them running you need a higher blood pressure. Also when you have extra weight it takes more pressure to move blood through your body. For diabetes excess fat irritates chemical reactions and influences events that promote insulin resistance. With high cholesterol the more foods you eat with trans fat and saturated fat increases bad cholesterol. Just eating to many calories can cause high
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study is to uncover predictors of underestimation in low-income Latino mothers of the weight status of their preschool children. The predictors that will be specifically observed within the study will be child gender, maternal BMI status, maternal education status, and maternal acculturation (generational status and language
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classified as obese. This is twice as many adolescents compared to 30 years ago and that number is still growing. People recognized this growing problem and numerous actions have been taken to try and fix this. One popular solution is online nutritional education programs and online food tracking. It is very quick and simple to use these online programs and it is also something that is available on a phone or computer, so it really resonates with all adolescents. The study I read about was trying to provide
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Transplantation is another alternative therapy to the conventional insulin therapy in type 1 diabetic patients. It may involve the whole pancreas or isolated pancreatic islets (Institute of Health Economic). The main objective of transplantation includes choosing a procedure that will minimize the complications, morbidity and mortality associated with surgical procedures. The approach should be considered if it eliminates the need to use administer glucose and minimize the occurrence of hypoglycemia
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Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose is being produced at a higher rate than your blood count. This disease has many complications and risk factors making it the 7th leading cause of death in the United States alone. Furthermore, Diabetes affects 29.1 million people in the U.S and is commonly known for its two forms type 1 and type 2 Diabetes. In type 1 Diabetes, the body does not produce insulin and in type 2 Diabetes the body does not use insulin correctly, eventually, it no
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Obesity has basically become an epidemic across America. Sylvia Endahl states that in the year 2010, around 12 states population was over 30% obese. Just ten years ago, there were zero states with a percentage of obesity higher than thirty (p. 23). Obesity is a huge crisis that many countries all around the world are dealing with. However, the largest obesity “epidemic,” is here in America. The problem is that people do not know exactly what is in their food: how many calories, saturated fat, trans
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Lakyn Mullins Ed 310 Final Obesity is a growing and ongoing problem that people in the United States face every single day. The rate of overweight children has been rising over the past three decades. There’s obviously a number of things that could correlate with the increase of the weight of children. Children’s lifestyle behaviors are continuously being effected by things like; their sleep patterns, their dietary and physical habits, and stress caused by several factors. Another thing that could
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There are various factors that cause obesity in America’s children some of which are poor eating habits, lack of exercise, and family history of obesity. If childhood obesity is not curbed, the child may suffer from hypertension and diabetes, among many other illnesses. Usually, obesity is a medical problem that is preventable. Some ways to manage obesity include changing eating habits and increasing physical activity. Thus, obesity, an epidemic in the United States that affects not
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