Preventing Weight Gain
By Valerie Saw
Being overweight can lead to different medical conditions like diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, osteoarthritis and sleep...
Everyday there is more and more evidence that proves that America is in the midst of an epidemic. This epidemic has nothing to do with global warming or...
, one of the fastest growing health problems and one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Currently more than 1 billion adults are overweight - and at...
has become a major issue in America and the numbers are only increasing. Surrounding this issue is a debate between researchers and critics about why and how people be...
In this day and age Americans increase their awareness towards obesity, which is commonly experienced by adults who consume lots of fast food as their daily meals. The awarene...
Many diseases plague our nation today: cardiovascular disease, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes, which in itself can lead to blindness, neuropathy (nerve damage),...
Child hood obesity on the rise, written by Carol Torgan, Ph.D.
http://www.nih.gov/news/WordonHealth/jun2002/childhoodobesity.htm
Child hood obesity on the rise, written...
America has not seen an epidemic more wide spread and rapidly growing than childhood obesity. The odd part about it is we actually have a cure. A cure...
There is a huge problem spreading across this nation. It's affecting adults and children alike. It' this nation's newest epidemic, it has even been compared to other epidemics...
It is 11:59, and seven year old Johnny sits anxiously in his seat, entranced as he stares at the second hand slowly creeping around the clock and awaiting the moment when the...
An overwhelmingly large number of inhabitants of this country are obese. Obesity can be observed in everyone from the newspaper boy or girl to the poodle next door. However, s...
The prevalence of obesity among children aged 6-11 has more than doubled in the past 20 years and among adolescents aged 12-19 has more than tripled according to a recent stud...
Literature Reviews
Prevention and Control of Childhood Obesity
In quest of finding causes, preventions and control of childhood obesity, several health professionals hav...
Critique on Childhood Obesity
Van Staveren, T., Dale, D. (2004). Childhood Obesity Problems and Solutions. JOPERD Vol 75 No 7, pgs 44-49.
This article discusses...
Past the accelerated activity of the 20th century comes the new millennium bringing the modernized world to a throne of leisure and lethargy. Consequently sabotaging t...
