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According to the article, “AMA Declares Obesity a Disease”, written by Marcia Frellick, “Over ⅓ of America is obese” (Medscape 1). Obesity is supposedly accepted as a disease now. Therefore, over ⅓ of America has a disease. Just take a second and think about how many people walk around everyday are either overweight or obese. Today, America has accepted obesity as being a pathophysiologic disease. Pathophysiology is the functional changes associated with a disease or syndrome. What is obesity…

Obesity, a term coined for the people being under the state of having excessive fat in their bodies; that may cause medical issues such as coronary heart disease. It laid invisible across the centuries it has plague the human race, we didn’t even care about it until recently. The world started noticing this pandemic, an epidemic that is worldwide and realized that it is not just a small issue (Tortora, Funke, and Case 409). It has been an underlying problem that has plagued the world, being a…

Discussion The research methods in the studies reviewed improved in sophistication and clarity over time from 2011 to 2016. Three of the studies determined that antibiotics resulted in a risk for increased BMI in boys but not in girls (Ajslev et al., 2011; Azad et al., 2014; Murphy, et al., 2014). In general, repeated exposures to antibiotics (Saari et al., 2015; Schwartz et al., 2016; Scott et al., 2016) or broad-spectrum antibiotics (Bailey et al., 2014), in particular macrolides (Saari et al…

Globalization has been seen, in recent years, as one of the best ways for a sectors, it comes through a period of transition that is many times filled with growing pains. The real question is whether this push for globalization is actually working. While the prevalent argument in today’s society is whether or not globalization is a good thing, the better question may be to understand if we truly are globalizing. The discussion on globalization led first to an examination of the theory that…

proposed discovery can do for the world is something that requires further analysis, due to its possible benefits. The research of the article comes from a study done in Denmark, where a study was done to better understand if a person’s body mass index (BMI) has any direct correlation with the health of a person. The researched tailored their research to analyze whether or not someone with a slightly above average BMI has the chance to live longer than that of someone with an average (or…

Current daycare costs far exceed the income of parents, leading them to resort to alternative care providers. The introduction of a pilot program may resolve space shortages, but may also hold potential as revealed in McLaren, Zarrabi, Dutton, Auld, & Emery’s 2012 article regarding the association between care type and change in childhood obesity. With slight adjustments, the pilot project could influence greater health outcomes than initially anticipated. In November 2016, Albertan Premier,…

A developing country is a nation with a low standard of living, a low Human Development Index (HDI) and undeveloped industrial base relative to other countries. The factors of defining a developed country involves people have short and unhealthy life, people have less education and less income. It is commonly assumed that economic development plays an important role and has a significant positive effect in developing countries. The economic development of developing countries is most important…

INTRODUCTION Consideration of humans as a resource or as the fundamental unit of nation building draws our attention towards the importance of human life and its standards. Significant variations in the characteristics of human lives were observed after the industrial revolution in respect to the level of development in the specific regions. People in the developed region seemed to have better life expectancy as compared to the regions that were not. In other words the standards of human life…

The book Anti Politics machine is a Foucauldian critique in development. James Ferguson describes different stages of development programs that took place in a small landlocked country called Lesotho completely surrounded by South Africa. It has a population of 2 million where 40% of them live below International Poverty line of US . Thaba-Tseka is a district in Lesotho and its capital Camptown is the only town in the district. Same as it is historically and geographically isolated, the Third…

screening tool was “developed and validated specifically for adults ages 65 and older. It consists of six questions related to food intake, weight loss, mobility, recent psychological stress or acute disease, dementia or depression, and body mass index (BMI)” (p. 38). Subjective data can be obtained from the patient using this form. The…