Obesity

to help the management of the disease or injury once it has occurred. Finally, tertiary prevention occurs when approaches are in place to manage the long-term effects of a disease or condition. In order to make a plan to help reduce childhood obesity in Hispanic families, there needs to be utilization of all three levels of prevention and the web of causation. This public health nurse will develop a plan to bring awareness to families and children of Hispanic ethnicity in regards to…

Simply put, obesity can be defined as a condition in which a person has too much body fat. It is not an issue that has recently appeared in modern times, but has been around since the ancient Egyptians, even having records of treatment dating back to the Hippocratic era. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 35% of adults in the United States are obese. Alarmingly enough, it was reported in the early 2000s that 16-18% of children and teens in the United…

Processed Food and Incidence of Obesity in children in the U.S Annotated Bibliography Burros, Marian. “Eating Well.” US Major Dailies (Online). New York Times Company. 12 Aug 1992. Web. 21 September 2017. The main idea of this report by the Author Marian Barros is the concerns of processed food aren’t the best choices for our children’s health. The Author is a cookbook and food columnist for the New York Times; she seems to be knowledgeable about the topic explaining her point of view of…

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 directly related to comorbidities like type 2 diabetes.…

Obesity is a serious issue that causes several negative impacts in the United States as well as in the whole world, and although many experts in the country are trying to get rid of obesity, it is almost impossible to do so. In my second essay, I’ve learned many things about obesity that I never knew before thanks to the internet resources and library. But, in the end, I think the most important concept that I learned about my problem is how obesity able to create negative impact in the U.S…

Throughout the year’s obesity has become a major concern in America. As you grow older your weight tends to increase along with it. The evolution of obesity is not well understood and the role of socioeconomic status (SES) contributing with this type of health issue has been documented by many researchers. Socioeconomic status is a measure of an individual’s or a family’s social position and economic well-being that combines three related, but not completely overlapping, variables: years of…

become suffering from excessive body weight. The Obesity Epidemic has spread through the biggest part of the world, especially in the United States of America. Consequences of obesity have a very bad influence on our everyday lives and make people difficult to live. Obesity becomes one of the widespread problems in the world which are very difficult to prevent. Moreover, it is the reason why people are suffering from many diseases. Generally speaking, obesity is a chronic condition which is very…

hard to determine wither obesity is a life choice, disease or both. According to the United States Food & Drug Administration, in today’s society, the number of people that are overweight or obese continues to grow at an alarming rate. In America, obesity has become somewhat of an epidemic with no end in sight. Discovering the true cause of weight gain may help come up with a cure. Not only does obesity affect a person physically, it can also affect them mentally. Obesity can lead to depression,…

One of the biggest problems we have in America today is obesity. Obesity is the condition of being grossly fat and many people in America have this condition. Being overweight and obese are two very different things. When one is overweight this extra weight could come from water, bone, fat, or even muscle. When someone is obese this is when they have only too much fat. There are many reasons why obesity is on the rise in America. Obesity is a dreadful thing that Americans have to go through…

Just in the last 30 years alone obesity has more than doubled in children alone. Childhood obesity is defined, in the medical world, as a medical condition when a child who is dramatically overweight and has excess body fat for their age group and their height. Obesity affects about 20% of children in the world and this number is increasing year by year. Childhood obesity is a medical condition that affects children of all race, ages and height. Obesity in children is more common than people…