Strategies for focusing a broad research topic Are you overwhelmed with how much information you are finding? Try the suggestions below: * Develop a tentative focus List what you already know and questions you have about the topic and focus on those you find most interesting. * Find background information on your topic Check our Electronic Reference Collection for an article in an online encyclopedia you can trust. * Look for magazine articles Magazine articles tend to be
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teens said they have used alcohol, over 50 percent have used marijuana, 17 percent used cocaine and 13 percent have used some form of hallucinogenic drug. Athletes are at risk to drug use because of the increased physical demand of athletics and heightens stress and time constraints placed upon them by fulfilling the dual role of being an athlete and student (Yusko, Buckman, White, Pandina, 2008). Peer pressure in itself is an epidemic and strongly impacts nonathletic individuals as well. The use
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Childhood Obesity in the U.S. : A Growing Epidemic Unfortunately, for various reasons many U.S. parents find it difficult to acknowledge that their children are overweight or obese. Childhood obesity is becoming a growing epidemic in the United States; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevalence of obesity among children has more than doubled over the past 20 years, generating numerous physical, social and psychological problems for the children. "Obesity is a condition
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with small steps, simple changes. Which will produce big changes in time? Two major factors I will be talking about today are healthy eating, physically /mentally and exercising. Healthy eating will surely gave you a edge on weight loss(PAUSE) here are some ideas to try are eat breakfast, which I believe a lot of people skip because they don’t have time but eating breakfast stimulates how you feel for the rest of the day and also and may slow down your metabolism. Eat more fruits and vegetables;
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For example, most of the athletes profess that dance is not considered a sport and does not involve as much rigor. Consequently, the demands of the dancers are positioned subservient to those of the athletes. Therefore, we are labeled as unimportant and extraneous space inhabitants by the athletes, however we refuse to internalize these behaviors, unlike the women with eating disorders who internalized their labels as secondary deviance (McLorg and Taub, 1987). Some athletes in the athletic department
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guide their children along to journey of a healthier future. Parents and youth leaders need to beware of the negative effects of fast food and junk food. These foods hold no nutritional value at all and can cause ill effects such as obesity, health disorders, and even death. With so much influence from outside sources such as advertisements and the media,
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our daily activities and choices .many people believe that our health is linked to our eating habits; they exert a lot of effort in finding and eating organic foods and living in a healthier lifestyle. Thus, emerged the concept of healthy diets that claimed they are full nutrients and prevent diseases. one of the recent most popular ones is the paleo diet .the paleo concept is to mimic our ancestor in their eating habits as said by katz and miller (2014) because they did not suffer from many illnesses
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30 of the following year. Athlete: _________________ Phone: ___________ Age: ________ Gender: ________ School: _____________ Grade: ______ Date of Birth: _________ Parent/Guardian Name: (Please Print) ____________________________________ PARENT/GUARDIAN/STUDENT CONSENTS ________________________ Has my permission to participate in all interscholastic (Name of Athlete) sports not checked below. If you check any sport in this box it means the athlete will not be permitted to participate
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Dia Understanding Aggression Handed on February 5, 2014 By: Camille L. Quicho Student no. 11-00131 Psychology (BS), 2nd semester CONTENTS 1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………1 2 What is Aggression………………………………………………………………2 3 Disorders linked from Aggression……………………………………….. ~1~ 1- INTRODUCTION Psychologists classify aggression as instrumental and hostile. Instrumental aggression is aggressive behavior intended to achieve a goal. It is not necessarily intended to hurt
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The Anti-Gym “Meanwhile fitness never came naturally to me. Growing up I wasn’t an athlete, was relatively inactive and led a sedentary lifestyle.” said John, one of many victims of obesity. At first, he was not sure to share his story but after sharing he narrated as was his experience when he started gaining weight as a teenager: “I was 12 years old when I started putting the weight on and like many children today, I spent long hours in front of screens, TV, video games, movies and the computer
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