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...?OBESITY Introduction Obesity around the world is reaching epidemic proportions. The health risks of obesity touch on all parts of a patient's life and all parts of their medical treatment. Surgical teams have been and will continue to see more overweight, obese, and morbidly obese patients on their operating tables, and must know how to treat the specific needs of such patients. The aim of this review is to focus on the issues that impact on the safety of obese patients during the perioperative phase. There are four major themes that will be considered: 1. Obesity Measurement and Definition, 2....
10 Pages(2500 words)Literature review
...literature which supports the fact that illegal immigrants lead to increase in the crime rates. Supporting researches reveal that off late, the immigrant population coming in are less or not educated and hence have lesser chances of getting good employment (Sampson, 2008). This pushes them to adversities like poverty, lack of resources and they start believing that the chances of being economically abundant are less by rightful means. This leads to tension and annoyance and this is when they resort to illegal and unlawful activities to improve their economic status (Crime, victims). It is also suggested that illegal immigration leads to a huge loss of public funds and affects the susceptible or the weak...
2 Pages(500 words)Coursework
...adopted the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (DPAH) in May, 2004, and underlined this priority in the NCD Action Plan endorsed in the World Health Assembly in May, 2008 (WHO, 2009). Health Benefits of Physical Activity and Fitness in Children and Youth A systematic review of research studies on the relationship between physical activity, fitness and health focused on the seven key indicators of different health outcomes related to physical activity in children and youth aged 5 to 17 years. These key indicators...
4 Pages(1000 words)Research Paper
...? Diet and Physical Health Activity: Executive Summary Problem ment: The increased childhood and adolescent obesity has become an alarming problem throughout the United States. The wave of rapidly increasing obesity and related diseases has raised a serious threat to public health all over the world. The prevalence of overweight and obese children has become the major concern in the United States. It has been estimated that about 25% of the overweight school-aged children are found in the United States and the number is still growing (Ebbeling, Pawlak and Ludwig). Childhood obesity has...
3 Pages(750 words)Essay
...Parent's Impact on Children's Physical Activity Levels There has been a long endeavor from the side of social scientists to establish working patterns and abilities for children. There have been various attempts through a diverse array of tests that would help ascertain the ability of children's work on different tasks. However, it was deduced understandably after some time, that in order to find out in the true sense about the impact on parent's intervention on children, one should start investigating from the root of the issue; hence evolved the domain of studies on the growth patterns of children in order to ascertain...
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...unchecked, decreased mobility undermines the capacity for activities of daily living: the ability to feed and clothe oneself, attend to personal hygiene, and perform such routine tasks as shopping for groceries. Besides promoting mental deterioration and cardiovascular disease, the loss of mobility is a significant cause of loss of independence among the elderly”.
Benefits of physical activity.
There is no doubt that physical activity is important and has many benefits for the ageing process. The role of physical activity in the ageing process has been explored in many different ways. The effects of...
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...Benefits of physical activity in children with obesity Are the intervention benefits greater than costs? The US Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS] has emphasized the importance of physical activity in the prevention of diseases, especially chronic illness like obesity. According to the study, “regular physical activity has been shown to reduce the morbidity and mortality from many chronic diseases” (US DHHS 2002 p.2). In addition, individuals who regularly engage in physical activity contribute to a decrease in health care costs, meaning, they buy lesser medications, make lesser medical consultations, and have fewer hospital stays. Further, the direct effects of physical activity to improved health have been enumerated... , the...
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...Physical Activity Physical Activity The purpose of the article “Physical Activity is Associated with Percent Body Fat and Body Composition but not Body Mass Index in White and Black College Students” is to determine the relationship between the Physical Activity (PA) with the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the body composition of white and black college students (Zanovec, Lakkakula, Johnson, & Turri, 2009). The study conducted also aims to establish whether the body composition is affected by gender and race. The importance of physical activity in a person’s body composition is to be ascertained in this study.
2. This journal was helpful because it shows that the BMI is not a good measure of determining whether an individual is obese... or...
1 Pages(250 words)Research Paper
...ARTICLE REVIEW Due Review – “Active Video Games to Promote Physical Activity in Children and Youth” Physical inactivity is considered a root cause for many chronic diseases, such as, cancer and diabetes. Exercises play a critical role in physical development of a person. In case of children and youth, physical exercises hold extreme importance because this is the age when the body of a person undergoes major developmental stages in terms of energy and body shape. Therefore, children and youth should make physical exercises an essential...
2 Pages(500 words)Book Report/Review
...Obesity and Physical Activity Although this may not seem like such a huge problem, it has become a rising concern within the United s. Levels of obesity are sky high and there seems to be nothing we can do. Obesity is a leading cause of heart disease and heart failure, and has contributed to the vast increase in deaths associated with said diseases. But while the rest of the country seems to be having a major problem with Obesity and its associated problems (in particular heart disease), the Twin Cities have been experiencing fairly low rates of heart disease and associated deaths.
In fact, of a recent study done on city ranking, which ranks some of the largest metro areas against each-other, the Twin Cities ranked 46 out of 46... that,...
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