Pregnancy: The Fight to Survive Sociology Research Paper Tri-County Technical College November 24, 2014 ABSTRACT Objectives: To research the causes of death during childbirth and infancy in nations around the world. To examine related health concerns of birth rate, death rate, birth defects, and how access to medical care in different nations contribute to the birth and survival of the fetus. Reviewing statistics of birth rates in all income nations and the overall affect on the population
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According Waters E, de Silva-Sanigorski, “Overweight and obesity are terms used to describe an excess of adiposity above the ideal for good health.” 1 Childhood obesity is becoming an increasingly problematic issue. According to Fielding JE and Teutsch SM, “Among the countries 5th, 7th, and 9th grade public school students, obesity prevalence increased from 18.9% in 1999 to 23.0% in 2008.” 2 As this statement shows children are becoming increasingly overweight. Some children do suffer from overactive
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Obesity is a person’s weight in excess of its biological needs. In other words, excessive fatness. Obesity is not just being overweight, physicians consider someone obese who is 100 or more pounds overweight. Obesity is a scarily increasing epidemic in the United States. Obesity is the 2nd leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Obesity results in a little less than 300,000 deaths per year in the United States. The obesity numbers have steadily increasing since the early 1990's in
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(Shape Up America, 2013). There are a few ways to check body fat, but the two easiest ways are using Body Mass Index or BMI and by percentage. The good news is that both of these are easy to use so it can be done in the privacy of being at home, or a doctor can do it. Obesity is on the rise today in America. It affects adults and children both. It is a severe public health crisis according to R. Griffin. In the article, Griffin goes on to describe that genes are not the reason for obesity, but eating
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management, the mastery of which can lead to several different areas of improvement. By creating a program that will aid in the eradication of obesity, we can go a long way towards improving the mass health of the worldwide human population. The obesity rate in America has become an epidemic. According to Forecasting Obesity in America, obesity rates in America could be up as high as 86.3 percent by 2030 and in 40 years every single American could be overweight (Bialik, 2008). Those numbers may be
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middle-aged black women has diabetes. With $174 billion a year spent on diabetes-related illness in America and obesity quickly overtaking smoking as a cause of cancer deaths, it is past time to try something new. From Our Advertisers What we need is a body-culture revolution in black America. Why? Because too many experts who are involved in the discussion of obesity don’t understand something crucial about black women and fat: many black women are fat because we want
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decrease obesity. Furthermore that being said this can also b. Furthermore with that being stated, that can also become a local law where schools in Virginia must provide a more healthier standard in their meals. Upon this action that I believe will happen people will see from other state that from this food
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Obesity and Health Care Costs Renee Gordon HRM 599 – Benefits Keller Graduate School of Management Review The article “Moderate and Severe Obesity Have Differences in Health Care Costs” was published in the journal Obesity Research. The article analyzes the health care usage and costs associated with varying degrees of obesity of a 2002 study of a focus group of individuals 54 to 69 years old. Health care costs have been steadily increasing over the last few years. Not coincidentally,
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Obesity in the United States of America is becoming a growing epidemic. USA today states 34% of the population is obese and predict the obesity rate to increase to 75% by 2015. With the threat of obesity looming over the nation, several persons and agencies have suggested ways to help Americans lose weight. Even the government has made suggestions on weight loss. In the article “The Fed’s Fib About Low-Fat”, written by Michael Fumento, the government’s role in the weight loss battle is being critiqued
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In “An Eater’s Manifesto” Michael Pollan approaches the topic of nutrition not from a scientific point of view but carefully investigates how history and tradition can potentially solve the obesity problem in America. Pollan examines how flawed science and advertisement has changed the way individuals understand nutrition in the United States along with the devastating impact it has on our bodies. Today diet is related to four of the top ten causes of death in the United States including: coronary
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