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overweight or obese is caused by a metabolic imbalance associated with consuming more calories than the body expends therefore causing weight gain. The most commonly used tool to determine a person’s weight category is by using their body mass index. Body mass index is calculated by taking the persons’ weight and dividing it by the square of their height. A high BMI is indicative of high body fat. Using BMI, a person is determined to be overweight if their BMI is between 25<40, and Class 3 is…

Chidi Nwakpuda The American Medical Association’s (AMA) classification of obesity as a disease in 2013 is justified and valid in its technical sense, but it is not a right judgement to pass. The AMA passed endorsed the medicalization of obseity on the grounds that it exudes characteristics of disease and provided supporting arguments for the legitimacy of this decision. They deemed obesity to be a metabolic and hormonal disease state. Obesity had characteristic signs and symptoms; it was also…

Moreover, these factors are found to be instrumental both for aggravating or minimizing the brain drain in developing countries like Eritrea. Considering the case of Eritrea, besides these that leave the country legally, thousands of youth have crossed the border illegally and left Eritrea within the past two decades for these reasons. In additional to the effects brought by technological and economic globalization…

Many people in thousands of communities believe that the word poverty and the word obese don’t even belong in the same category. Obesity is defined as being overweight or grossly fat. Nearly one-third of the world’s population is obese or overweight , which is 2.1 billion people and 30 percent. People becoming obese have increased substantially in the past 30 years. In “The Obesity-Hunger Paradox,” by Sam Dolnick the article discusses how poverty and being insecure of food increases the cause of…

Ten percent of Ghana’s population is made up of disabled people that is over two million people in Ghana that are disabled. Emmanuel’s Gift, directed by Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern, follows Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah as he overcomes his leg disability. Emmanuel was born without one of the bones in his right leg causing his leg to be deformed. Emmanuel fights through his disability and constant social rejection to strive for something more. This story abridges Emmanuel’s great accomplishments and…

Development takes many different meanings, forms, and approaches. Some of these include modernity, authoritative intervention, alternative and populist approaches, and antidevelopment and post development. ` Modernity is about changing traditional nations to fit the standards of Western ideals (Potter et al., pp.6). These nations were seen as uncivilized. Much of the western ideals and standards for development were set by the period of enlightenment and scientific advances. This form is…

This article is written on humans. It is a clinical study. The population is 39 celiac subjects and 39 healthy volunteers. The authors want to know what the effects are of a long-term strictly gluten free diet. The authors did not have a hypothesis about the effects of a long-term strictly gluten free diet. Conducting the Study First, they determined that 39 patients were actually diagnosed with celiac disease and then they did a test for anti-transglutaminase immunoglobulin A to make sure the…

A child 's acquisition of skills in early childhood is significantly impeded by a low-income socioeconomic environment in which a child is raised in and more specifically the parenting that a child in a low-income home receives. Parents in poverty stricken homes are less likely to provide supplemental education, such as reading to their children or helping with homework, which has a lasting effect on the child. In "Whatever It Takes" Paul Tough describes two studies that highlighted this issue.…

opposition to what Malson (1998) describes as the rhetoric of anorexia as a modern disease, which is propped up by the popular discourse of thinness and the media. Furthermore, the recent and copious emergence of literature documenting historical cases of anorexia (Bemporad, 1996) may be indicative of a discursive shift away from this hitherto popular view (Spedding, 2013). However, anorexia nervosa now has become a popular eating disorder discussed both in physiological and psychological field.…

Everything around us might affect positively or negatively on our bodies and health. People all around the world are categorized as people with normal weight and obese people. Individuals with BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 are considered to have normal weight, while people with BMI 30.0 or greater are obese. Obesity is gaining extra calories from fatty and carbohydrate food. A significant amount of people is facing an increase in weight. Obese people face many challenges and difficulties in…