Skin Too Far From the Bone Obesity is a growing epidemic in The United States. It seems everywhere you turn you see an overweight person. In fact from a recent study 64 percent of adults in America are considered overweight. Now, I'm no doctor but that's a huge number. What caused this...

The Atkins Nutritional Approach (ANA) - the low-carbohydrate weight loss plan made popular by the late Dr. Robert Atkins - has been the subject of some controversy in the diabetes care community and the medical field at large (Newcombe, 2003). Does it help control blood glucose levels' How does ...

The truth on dieting and weight loss The Truth on Dieting and Weight Loss About one-third of Americans are extremely over-weight, which may be why crash dieting is beginning to plague America. It's estimated that Americans alone spend 80-100 billion dollars on weight loss tactics. People go on th...

History has shown that women tend to outlive men. There have been and still are many misconceptions as to what factors contributed to this trend. Although women outlive men, the data on different longevity is certainly persuasive. In western countries women live an average of five to ten years longe...

A Lasting Effect The alarm clock sounds, but this time Jeff wakes up well rested. It is the first day of summer vacation, and that means he can watch all of his favorite day time television shows with no interruptions. Grabbing a big bowl of his favorite cereal he settles on the couch f...

How Sports Benefit Youth and Young Children Sports and Athletics can benefit young children because sports and athletics offer these young children several different avenues to becoming more physically, mentally, and spiritually tough. By participating in athletics youth learn to be reliant...

Childhood obesity is a huge concern among society. Not only does it affect a child physically, but it affects them mentally and emotionally as well. Healthy eating habits must be enforced by parents to prevent adulthood obesity that originally stemmed from childhood obesity. The diet of the child be...

Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes occurs when the pancreas either cannot or has trouble making enough insulin to control the sugar a person receives from their food. (Bete, Co. 1972) Diabetes Mellitus is broken down into two groups: Juvenile (Type One), and Adult (Type Two) ...

Herbs Herbal History The history of herbs date back thousands of years to the times of when doctors didn't have many tools of medicine to cure the ill with. They would use plants, berries, roots, and event the barks of some trees to cure an ailment. In those times there wasn't much...

What is like to live as an obese person in our society at a time when obesity and fat individuals are increasingly disparaged? How does being overweight come to dominate a person's social identity and self-concept? These are the type of questions that I address in my research with the aim to...