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Precis: As written by Yvette Brazier in “Low Vitamin D and Obesity as Teenagers may Accelerate MS”, featured in Medical News Today, The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke says that spending more time in the sun as a teenger can delay a “unpredictable disease of the nervous system.” The NINDS says there are approximately 250,000-350,000 people in the United States diagnosed with multiple sclerosis(MS). Research has been done that links MS with obesity and low levels of…

Obesity is Exhausting Economy... - Economists consider that overweight and obesity have come a major international economic problem as it caused by many factors. They are racing today with armed conflict and smoking in terms of generating greater economic impact of the negative human world. They impose significant costs on the health care systems, since the ratio of 2 to 7 percent of all spending on health care in all parts of the world are linked with measures to prevent and treat the condition…

Opening: Sugar is one of causes can lead to many dangerous diseases. If you are overweight, you may raise risk of dying of heart disease. Let read these information below. Body: The average sugar that American eats a day make up at least 10 per cent of calories. In while, about one in ten people get a whopping one-quarter and more calories from sugar. According to the study on added sugar and heart disease, participants who got 25% or more daily calories from sugar are more than twice as likely…

Introduction Physical Activity and Self-Perception in Disabled Children The current epidemic of obesity associated with physical inactivity is a health care concern for all children, including those with disabilities. Numerous research studies have examined the prevalence and health benefits of physical activity in children with and without disabilities indicating that children with disabilities participate in less physical activity than typically developed children, therefore, disabled…

the Washington State’s Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition have taken an incremental approach to help make an ironclad case for increased physical education standards in that state’s schools. In Washington, where almost one in four children are overweight or obese, a lack of physical inactivity continues to be a serious health concern that negatively impacts children there. And while students in Grades 1-8 are required to have an average of at least one hundred instructional minutes of PE…

adolescent obesity. This is not just an American problem, as international population studies report similar rates of increase (Must & Strauss 1999). Lobstien et al. (2015) found that one third of the children in the United States are considered overweight or obese. These numbers are the result of years of targeted advertisements and socioeconomic disparities. Pediatric obesity is negatively affecting everyone around the globe, leading to greater healthcare costs and shorter lifespans. One…

Obesity Equals Poverty The long lasting argument between people of all ages and races, around the world…are poor people targeted and accused of being the cause of obesity? Though many articles, nutritionist, dietitians, and studies have shown poverty is the leading cause of obesity across the world. Poverty When living in a low income area healthy foods are too expensive to purchase and there are many dangers of living in a low income areas. Obesity affects many people around the world,…

The terms ”chronic illness”, “chronic disease”, “chronic conditions”, “long term conditions” and “long-term illness” are all used interchangeably worldwide (Chang & Johnson, 2013). Chronic conditions are long-lasting and very often life-long conditions (Gaugler, 2015), and despite being hard to define, chronic conditions can be classified as an illness that has led to the impairment or the deviation of normal function which is permanent, leaving a residual disability, which is caused by a…

Food On The Go: Is advertising so affective it affects color naming? Amber Spearman Scire Department Of Psychology and Brain Sciences Psychology 211 Lab 6501 February 27, 16 Abstract Why did I do this project? The purpose of this study was to examine whether anxiety-related cognitive bias for threat is stronger for threatening pictures than for threatening words. Spider-phobic participants (n = 31 ) and control participants (n = 33) performed a pictorial and linguistic…

Australia is one of the most overweight developed nations, It is at an all-time high with over 60% of adults and one in four children overweight or obese (AIHW, 2017). To reverse this epidemic it starts with changing external environmental factors that have a negative effect on our diet. External environmental factors such as lifestyle, personal dietary choices, family and peers greatly influence our eating habits. These external environments are the cause to why obesity and health issues are…