Sedentary lifestyle

there are many interventions that can be used. Some of the interventions are lifestyle modifications and education. These interventions will allow social workers to combat the disease in the social aspect. There are many policies that can be created to help defeat diabetes. Policies…

In the article done by Donya Currie, called “America’s Health Rankings find too many Americans obese, sedentary” gave quite of bit of information on how the Americans tend to live their lifestyle, whether it be healthy or not and the consequences that come with being unhealthy. Donya offer topics on the two major health risk factors, rankings on healthiest state, and percentage on health risk factors. In the first section of this article, Donya presented that people tend to have unhealthy…

Demographic factors such as chronic medications, age, and sedentary physical activity affected depressions and similarly age, race, education, BMI, smoking status, alcohol use and psychotrophs affected the sedentary physical activity. The five comprehensive key points from this article are that physical activity can act as a protective factor, certain demographics age and chronic medical conditions are predictive symptoms of depression, sedentary is affected by psychotropic medicine, gender…

Exploring the risks of an inactive and sedentary lifestyle for children and adolescents In today’s world children have endless opportunities to engage in sedentary behaviour. Some factors which increase inactivity are ecological such as the increased use of vehicles and the greater access to televisions, computers (Smith & Biddle, 2008). However, some are socially favoured such as doing school homework or sitting during lectures, classes (Public Health England, 2014). This paper will argue that…

The general trend of the majority of the public is to set aside healthy behaviors and activities. While an active lifestyle does seem to be prevalent, most people do not actually meet the recommended standard for daily healthy activities. A great deal could be done early in the educational system to ingrain the knowledge required for a person to live healthier and build enthusiasm for being active and maintaining healthy diets. As it stands, very few educational institutions in America support…

The Land of the Free or the Land of the Lost? For centuries the indigenous people have lived in what is now called the Americas before the Europeans came for conquest. They had culture and heritage that was unique and never before gazed upon by the rest of the world. However, when the Europeans came, instead of preaching the Gospel and showing love like their savior Jesus Christ did, they let their greed for silver and the riches of the “new” land consume them. By doing so they killed the…

Every culture has a different way of “being.” They have different traditions and customs that are passed down from generation to generation. Alongside all of their practices and beliefs, every culture has their set of norms. A norm is an expected standard of behavior and belief within a given culture that is usually implicitly passed from one generation to the next. Today, over two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. In order for a person to gain enough weight to be…

other two on their own, to be proactive with their physical activity. Therapist role is to provide a dynamic socially interactive cohesive session. Therapists are present to empower the patients, to motivate them and to maintain a habitually active lifestyle. The social support that the group provides…

economy evolves, jobs are becoming more and more sedentary (Stearns, 2017). This means more people are spending their days working at a sedentary desk job, rarely getting up to do anything. Although the economy is evolving and the workplace is becoming more productive, the negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle are very concerning (Stearns, 2017). Lack of physical activity in office jobs is an important problem because sedentary lifestyles have been linked to diseases such as obesity,…

A sedentary lifestyle is a serious problem. Physical inactivity has increased significantly in past decades. Cost of medical care has been on the rise for many years and it will continue to increase as incidences of non-communicable diseases (NCD’s) are increasing…