Overweight

Among preschoolers’ whose mothers were black or white and who had a high pregravid BMI, breastfeeding duration and parity played an important role in determining their risk of being overweight/obese," wrote P. Kitsantas and colleagues, George Mason University. In other words, children who are born to mothers that are over weight or above the average height and weight charts, increases a toddler or a preschooler’s risks for being obese…

A Professor at a University named Michael Marlow conducted research on the government intervention in people’s lives and their eating habits. He gives great attributes that by the government intervening in our everyday lives will not solve or fix the obesity problems today. “It is clear the United States is facing a rising obesity problem. But the challenge remains: We have yet to determine a successful way to tackle it. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (Links to an…

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 is the leading cause of Obesity. When living in a low income area healthy foods are too expensive to purchase and many cities and towns in low income areas have hazardous environments for…

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…

has become filled with overweight and obese Americans. In fact, overweight and obesity are the most common nutritional disorders in the United States. According to data collected from a national survey, “almost 68% of American adults 20 to 74 years of age were either overweight or obese in 2007 to 2008. Slightly over one third of these persons were overweight and slightly more than one third of them were obese. Between 1988-1994 and 2007-2008, the percentage of overweight adults remained about…

home. According to Open Data Networks and Data USA Clarion County has a population of approximately 39,437. About 33.40% is considered to be overweight. Now narrowing to the town of Clarion with a population of roughly 5,000 people. About 19.5% of the 5000 people living in Clarion are considered to be overweight. That’s 975 people who are considered overweight and that’s 975 people who have a much higher chance to have heart issues or even become diabetic. Now this seems like nothing ,but…

“Today, 2.1 billion, nearly 30% of the world’s population, are either obese or overweight, according to a new, first of it's kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries” (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 1). Obesity is a growing epidemic across the globe, and nearly a third of the world’s population being obese shows that it's growing and getting worse. It brings no good for anyone to be obese, as it makes them fall deeper into health and psychological issues as time passes. Yet,…

In general, it appears that most companies have a ‘brand’ or ‘image’ associated with their products or goods. Companies employee marketing teams, test groups, researchers and social media gurus to define and target their main consumer group(s). The adage that ‘sex sales’ has been a marketing ploy for many years. To date, Pearl Tobacco was the first to use sex in advertising. An image of a nude lady was an advertisement on a package of tobacco. (Sexuality in advertisement) Do I think, a…

limited measure in certain cases. Stating greater efforts should be made to assess body fat and to develop a standardised measure to successfully assess body fatness in populations. The article highlights in which cases utilising BMI as a measure of overweight and obesity is inaccurate in identifying body fatness. Prentice and Jebb identifies aging as one of the circumstances where the BMI is flawed due to the increase of body fat and the decrease in lean mass which occurs with natural aging.…

The number of pediatric and adolescent patients who are overweight or obese has more than doubled over the last two decades. Statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that in 2013, 42 million children worldwide were overweight or obese (WHO Factsheets, Jan. 2015). Obesity is defined as excess amounts of adipose tissue that may cause increased risk for mortality and morbidity. A body mass index (BMI) ≥25 is overweight, and a BMI of ≥30 is obese. This report will review the…