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Coronary Heart Disease Type Ii Diabetes
1,413 wordsI. Abstract As a health care professional it is our position statement that obesity should be considered as a disease. Overweight and obese adults are considered at risk for developing diseases such as type II diabetes, hypertension, high blood cholesterol, coronary heart disease, and certain type of cancers. An average of 300, 000 deaths is associated with obesity and the total economic cost of obesity in U. S. was about $ 117 billion in 2000. As health care professionals it is our responsibili...
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Health Promotion Ethically Acceptable
2,784 wordsRunning head: DISCUSS HOW HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMMES CAN EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS TO CHANGE Discuss how health promotion programmes can empower individuals to change July 27, 2009 Discuss How Health Promotion Programmes Can Empower Individuals to Change Introduction With a consistently growing emphasis, supported by relevant policies and literature, on promoting health by focusing on persons capacities, strengths, and resiliency capabilities, health promotion is becoming an increasingly important co...
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Childhood Obesity Physical Exercises
2,722 wordsTable of contents Abstract... 2 Introduction 3 Decline of physical education in public schools. 3 Childhood obesity: rise, causes, treatment... 4 Conclusion... 10 Abstract The rise of childhood obesity is a great concern among policy experts, health care professionals and naturally parents. Nowadays obesity has become a real epidemic. It was reported that the number of students who attend physical training every day had decreased to 29 percent in 1999 compared with 42 % in 1990. It is possible t...
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School Age Children High In Fat
2,155 wordsIn todays society childhood obesity is considered to be an epidemic. The increase in obesity is not caused by the change in the gene pool, but rather by the change in the environment. This causes vulnerable populations to express the obesity phenotype (Stone, 1999). One in seven children ages 6 - 17 are considered to be obese. Most nutritionists will say that this is do to the lack of parental guidance. A childs parents should teach their child proper eating habits so that they wont run across p...
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