Health education

Obesity is a word linked to both health and physical implications. According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, one third of the world’s population is now classified as obese. Exercise and nutrition education are components to treating this growing issue, and are affected by societal factors. A person’s socio-economic status influences access to exercise or physical activity, what nutrition is available, and has direct connections to obesity. Physical Activity and Exercise…

Obesity disproportionately affects individuals from certain racial/ethnic groups and the socio-economically disadvantaged. Those who are obese, compared to those with a normal or healthy weight, are at an increased risk for many serious diseases and health conditions, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, stroke, some cancers, and mental illness. WHAT DEFINES OBESITY? The field of nutrition uses the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the indicator for diagnosing obesity. BMI measures…

The promotion of healthy eating in Canada is significant for improving the health of populations locally and globally. There are many determinants for eating behavior such as physiological influences especially with in seniors. As a result, communities provide assistance that can enhance seniors’ abilities to procure and prepare an adequate diet. Although food preferences are highly individual and may indeed have physiological origins. Policies at the local, regional and national level have a…

In Control or Victims of our Environment in terms of Health Behavior – Do we Actually have Free Will? The age-old debate of whether free will exists or not is a thorny subject, particularly in the health field, since the days of Freud. Does an individual have complete autonomy over their health choices or do environmental and situational factors collectively act as a grand puppeteer in manipulating our choices? The arguments for both sides are met with personal baggage because to declare one…

nationwide epidemic of sickness and the mistreatment of our ever-important bodies. Noticing these trends has inspired my passion for contributing to addressing these ongoing problems. Professionally, it is my dream to help children who are suffering from health problems attributed to what they are consuming, or a lack of activity and nutrition in their lives. My hope is to help bring them back to a better, healthier place. So many ailments caused in adolescents by poor eating habits are…

Obesity can be defined as the state of being over one 's normal healthy weight. The National Institute of Health has defined obesity as being over the Body Mass Index of 30 (About NIH Obesity Research). The Center for Disease Control defines obesity as one 's weight being endangering to their health (Data and Statistics). However, the most terrifying fact about obesity is that one in three college students is considered to be overweight or obese (Sparling). In a peer reviewed popular Obesity…

Moreover, this article showed that low income families often face problems when it comes to health eating, because of the cost of healthy eating, the convenience of fast food, and the also attractiveness of fast food. To deal with this, parents should encourage their children to live a healthy lifestyle, because as stated in many studies conducted by credible sources (Harvard’s School of Public Health, The University of Western Australia, etc) it shows that kids generally listen and pass on the…

facilitators and barriers to behavioral changes affecting health adaptations, including patient-level, Family-level, clinic-level, and community-level. As I described in my response, tailoring our education and assistance is key in these individual situations, but by reaching out to those other group-level associations,…

With all these great accomplishments, it goes without saying that he is very success. Not only is he successful, but he is wealthy. His network is about 500 million dollars. You would think that with all this wealth that he can afford to be in good health. In 1991, Magic announced he was diagnosed with HIV. HIV-Aid is serious disease that weakens the immune system and could possible kill you. Despite…

go through. Not only do they lack income to obtain better health services but they are also in a constant battle of trying to keep their already low income below the poverty…