Drive down your city's main street and observe how many fast food restaurants are located just in that area. This is a typical reason why about one-third of U.S. citizens are overweight or even worse obese. Americans have had an ongoing struggle with nutrition and living a healthy life style, a...

As some people may think physical education is just throwing the ball out and telling the kids to play. Although what they don't know is Physical Education deals with many different aspects, whether it be teaching someone to eat right or funding youth programs. All six of these articles...

Part I Proposal Healthy People 2010 Objective: Reducing childhood obesity in poor communities One of the stated goals of "Healthy People 2010" is to eliminate health disparities between different socioeconomic groups. Promoting a healthy weight and increasing physical activity must be...

Exercise and proper nutrition are the key to having a health child. Nutrition and exercise are important because it keeps people's bodies - and minds - healthy. Without both of these factors, we wouldn't be feeling or looking very good. Actually, there are so many reasons why exercise and good nu...

There is something wrong when salsa passes as a vegetable in the school cafeteria and students can buy soda and candy from vending machines on campus. With this in mind we can only begin to wonder what the future holds for today's adolescents. When students are exposed to a life of poor nutrition, t...

In today's hectic, high-speed Internet, quickly changing world, ithas become common for us to think about the here and now, and put offconcerns about the future as vague possibilities that we will deal withonce we come to them. This, sadly, has reflected on our health, and thenutritional choi...

Introduction Obesity is a common disorder amongst our society today. It is caused by many factors, including excessive caloric intake, lack of physical activity, as well as genetic influences. Excess body fat is caused by an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure which are brough...

Obesity In The USA One may confuse or understand that obesity is, variously, defined in terms of absolute weight, distribution of subcutaneous fat, or societal and esthetic norms. Basically, obesity can be characterized as ¡§Excessive body fat¡ (Webster). And used as a term applied to indivi...

Childhood obesity is a serious issue in today's society. Many children, of all different ages and races suffer from obesity. There are reasons why these children are suffering from this serious problem. Childhood obesity in America causes many health and social problems for children. One of ...

Many children in today's society are overweight and ignorant about nutrition. Is this because of bad parenting techniques? Possibly, but children spend a majority of their day at school, and by creating a healthy environment, schools could instill healthy habits in the children's daily routine. Scho...

Western culture today is overflowing with fad diets and health crazes while conflicting political and social viewpoints rage among the masses. Somewhere within these often unexpectedly controversial subjects lies that of vegetarianism versus meat-eating. Meat-eaters often take personal of...

Making Money vs. American Health Every year more and more Americans are looking to lose weight and are willing to spend whatever it cost to do the trick. Close to $35 billion a year is spent on weight loss aids and the number is increasing every year (Anderson). As one can imagine, organizations...

Maintaining A Healthy Weight Data collected from more than 20,000 people by the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reveal a distressing picture of excessive weight and obesity in American Society( These increases have been caused by greater daily caloric consumption and a rel...

Robert Chaplin English 111-B Mrs. Innes 10 April 2000 Obesity in America Although it has nothing to do with international boundaries or population size, it is the people of America who are expanding at the waistline. In the United States thirty three percent of th...

Many people often wonder why it is important to have a healthy diet. Life at times can be very busy and some people just don't have time to cook. This results in them eating out very often. Fast food is mostly fatty, loaded with high sugar contents and other unhealthy elements. Sadly many peopl...

"At least 25% of all Americans under age nineteen are overweight or obese," notes Greg Crister in his article, "Too Much of a Good Thing." In the article, which appeared in the Los Angeles Times in July 2001, Crister proposes resolving this problem by teaching children not to ov...

Nutrition is the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenence. In other words, nutrition, or nutrients are the main substances that operate our body. It runs through your body and it is a necessity. Wheth...

Introduction Like many behaviours in children, eating behaviours are largely learned under the influence of physiological, psychological and environmental factors. The first year of life is characterised by rapid growth and changes in body composition. Simultaneously infant's eating patter...

In recent years the consumer attitudes in college students towards eating meals at fast food restaurants have changed. College students are less likely to eat at such establishments than they were in high school. The question is, why such a change in behavior? What has happened to initiate such a dr...

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...

Bulimia and Anorexia, which are found almost solely in females, are rigorous and occasionally overbearing dilemmas to handle in any mental health treatment environment. "As many as five out of 100 females with Anorexia die from acute medical problems" (www.education-options.com). Both of...

The children of today are becoming more obese, for the fact that they are obtaining laziness. They are spending more time in front of the television than they are getting their daily exercise. Their growing bodies need the practice to lose baby fat before it gets to be a severe problem. The growth o...

Adults generally recognize that children have limited experience of life. Kids do not have the necessary knowledge to distinguish between information that is acceptable and information that is misleading. This feature of children is especially important where the media is concerned. Kids are arou...

Many women of today are very weight conscious. Females from fashion magazines, models, entertainers and movie stars have perfectly curved slim bodies. Every woman probably wants to be like them, they get into exercising, dieting or yoga. But we are blinded by the fact that we have more obese or anor...

"Schools need to take on their responsibility for the health of the minors in their care. This duty of care extends to the school canteen." Discuss. Teenage obesity is a growing concern for Australia and is one of the pressing global health problems that we encounter everyday; one in e...