Body Fat and Eating Disorders Body composition describes the percentages of fat, bone and muscle in the human body. Even if your scale weight is in normal range, you can still have an unhealthy or altered boy composition. The risk that can happen with excess body fat is heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, and excess fatigue. People do not realize that just because you are not overweight means that you are healthy, but if your body fat is more than it is putting you in danger.
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Assignment 1: Critique Lionel Shriver is a seasoned journalist who has written for many publications including Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. In her article on essential mums’ website, “Do we need to lighten up about obesity,” Shriver claims that vanity - “desire to look, and feel, more attractive” (Shriver, para 7, 2013) – is the ultimate reason for anyone to want to slim down. However, in Shriver’s entire article, she does little to substantiate her stand with concrete evidence
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Week 3 – LOM Assignment 1 Michaela McClellen The Dangers of Gastric Bypass and Lap-Band Procedures As with any surgery, gastric bypass and lap-band procedures pose potential health risks. One danger with the gastric bypass procedure is a condition known as “dumping syndrome”, this is where ingested foods bypass the stomach too rapidly and enter the small intestine largely undigested. This undigested food draws excessive fluid into the small intestine causing nausea, cramping
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Here are two different ways of losing weight. Weight can be lost many different ways, but two of the most well-known are dieting and exercising. People every day are worried about how much they weigh or how they need to lose weight, just feel better or look nicer. That’s not what it should be about; it should be about how a person will feel in their own skin. Dieting and exercise can help with weight loss. Dieting, a very well-known method of losing weight is simple. People will start watching
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Obesity Obesity is a medical condition whereby there is an abnormal accumulation of fats in the body. It can also be defined as a chronic condition that is defined by excess amount of fats in the body. This abnormal accumulation of fats in the body causes adverse effects on the health of an individual. Overweight and obesity have become epidemic not only in the United States, but all over the world. There are many factors that can contribute to a person becoming obese, like excessive food energy
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Dieting in America: An Unhealthy Habit Joshua Keith Gary DeVry University English 135 February 24, 2012 Tara Houston Dieting in America: An Unhealthy Habit Every year millions of Americans make a New Year’s resolution to begin a strict diet to lose weight and be healthier. Every year, many of those same people chose a one-size-fits-all fad diet and flunk out with in just a few short months, with some calling it quits within weeks. The truth is there is no such thing as the perfect
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Combating Childhood Obesity Charles Mullins ENG 122 Prof. Busby November 26, 2012 Combating Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is an important issue in today’s American society. The Center for Disease Control states that childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years (CDC, n.d.). Certain genetic factors paired with changing lifestyles and culture has produced kids who are generally not as healthy as people were just a few decades ago. Widespread obesity has been the extreme
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INTRODUCTION Obesity has already been known for the past several years. Many studies have been made to identify what causes this deficiency. In one of the local TV shows about health, a certain medical doctor said that sleep deprivation can cause obesity. Recently, many researchers and experts have noticed the connection between sleep and weight of a person. Sufficient quantity of sleep is one of the most important factors for a person’s healthy life. Teenagers need more sleep as they grow and
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Disease in the News Brittney Johnson HCS/245 November 14, 2012 Vernita Kelley Disease in the News The article that the author of this paper chose was focus of this Disease in the News article is Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A review of Current Trends by Oman Medical Journal. The article explains what the disease is, what causes the disease, the epidemiology of the disease, how the disease is detected and diagnosisdiagnosed, and the treatments that are available. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a
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ABSTRACT Miss W M came to therapy for weight loss. She is a size 20 and would like to be a size 16. In August she is invited to a wedding where she will give a speech and she wants to look very good (she understands that quick weight loss is not healthy, so she is happy if she would not be a size 16 in August, but approaching her goal gradually.) She is 14 stone (approx 88 kg) and 1.48 cm tall, BMI 40.2. She is diabetic, and has to eat regularly. She is a single mum with 2 teenage sons and often
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