Essays on Being Obese

Body Mass Index

Body Mass Index (BMI) Introduction Historically, the use of the Body Mass Index (BMI) has been the standard method of measuring obesity among the adults. The standards of BMI were created using population samples, which were calculated from the measurement of the weight and height of Caucasians. Recent research has proved that BMI alone cannot be an appropriate way of measuring obesity. The main reason for this is the differences in ethnicity and the genetic make-up of individuals. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has evaluated the trend of the BMI and the result is that the African ...

Childhood Obesity: An Overview

The rate of childhood obesity remains to be high in the past years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015b), 17 percent of children and teenagers or 12.7 million young individuals in the United States are affected by obesity during the past decades. Childhood obesity in children is determined by the child’s body mass index (BMI). Compared to children of the same weight and gender, a child is considered obese if his or her BMI is in the 95th percentile (Anderson & Butler, 2006). This is a serious condition. Obesity increases mortality and morbidity and presents ...

Introduction

Unfortunately, the change of lifestyle that most college students experience has some detrimental side effects in the health. It can be observed that most people who enter college become overweight or obese after some time. Among the college lifestyle, this is termed as the freshman 5s, 10s, or 15s, referring to the amount of pounds one has put on when entering college. This can be attributed in changes to a more sedentary lifestyle, a shift in dietary habits, and the like. Whatever the cause, it has becoming a more common issue than before. Obesity in America has becoming a ...

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Acknowledgements

This project paper demonstrates the integration of the knowledge I acquired from the courses in Master of Health Administration and Leadership Program and the collaborative application with this project’s community partner, MidMichigan Health to improve the community health in Gratiot County, Michigan. I am thankful for getting this valuable opportunity to work with a large healthcare organization. First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents who worked really hard to financially and emotionally support me in pursuing further education overseas. They comfort me every ...

Background: The rising prevalence of obesity in children is a serious public health concern. Obesity is like a silent killer, and can predispose the child to a number of lifelong disabilities and chronic diseases. Obesity is negatively linked to life span. A child with obesity has higher amount of adipose tissue deposition, when compared to a normal weight child. The excess calorie that is not utilized for work or growth, is deposited in the form of adipose tissue and stored in the body. Adipose tissues are made of adipocytes or other called fat containing cells. Obesity occurs from factors ...

Introduction

Childhood obesity is one of the major contemporary health and social, physical and psychological issue. Beside the most examined health issues also the psychological and social are very important that are derived from the obesity. Children are confronted with discrimination, which result in negative body image, low self-esteem, depressions and other which shows that the issue must be examined from different aspects. Obesity has severe impacts on the children with numerous social and health related concerns. Psychology as a discipline can help to decrease the alarming rates of obese children in the country. There have been various factors identified ...

Introduction

The contemporary issue of obesity is worldwide causing not just health, but also economic and social problems. It is becoming ever more concerning issue, since the trend of the obesity rate in the recent past has increased. There has been various researches made so far that examined the issue, but the majority was focused on the health effect that can greatly impact individual and future quality of life or economic issues where every year, more is spend in trying to diminish the rates, but they are focusing on curative not so much in the preventive. The obesity can be ...

1.0 Introduction 1.1 Overview of the condition

Obesity is defined as having a sex- and age- specific body mass index (BMI) at or above the ninety fifth percentile of national growth standards. Obesity is directly linked to excessive/abnormal fat accumulation. The BMI is a ratio of the body weight and height and is the most common and accurate measure of obesity because it correlates to the amount of body fat. In terms of BMI, a person is considered to be obese if s/he has a BMI of over 30 (which is often ≥20% the normal body weight). A body mass index ...

This article is about the big change in eating patterns among people in the UK today. According to The British Library Board, eating habits of today are completely different from those that were practised in the 1950’s. It goes further to explain the reason behind the great disparity between our eating methods today and back in the 50’s. Among the experiences of today’s food is boredom as a result of repetitive flavours. The author has further stated that the British people are especially known for their conservative recipes. The habit of snacking has also kicked ...

Introduction

Overweight and obesity are terms that are used to describe abnormal or excessive fat accumulation to such a level that may negatively affect the health and well-being of an individual (Rossouw, Grant and Vilihjoen, 2012). Over the recent decades obesity and overweight has developed to be a global issue with more and more individuals developing this condition. According to Bahia, Silvia, Barufaldi, de Azevedo, Alves, Pepe and Vianna (2012), in 2005, the World Health Organization indicated that an approximately 1.6 billion adults were overweight and 400 million adults were obese. Additionally, they provided an estimate that by 2015 this figures would ...

Introduction

The aim of this is to conduct a critical synthesis on a particular problem that has plagued the society for quite some time. This is the problem of childhood obesity. The most common reasoning that comes to mind when one witnesses an obese child is that these kids must be excessive eaters. In fact, every kid who exhibits obesity tendencies is often thought of as an excessive eater. Is this assumption justified? Is it true that obesity in kids is primarily due to excessive eating especially that of unhealthy foods commonly referred to as “junk food”? The assumption that the ...

Introduction

Obesity is a health condition in which the Body Mass Index (MBI) is more than 30. Someone with a BMI of 25-29.99 is considered overweight because physicians recommend that people maintain a BMI of between 20 and 24.99 (Haerens, 7). BMI is a standard measure obtained by dividing the weight of a person in Kilograms (Kg) with the square of their height in Meters (M) {Kg /M2}. In 2009, 63.2% of US adults were either overweight or obese. In the same the year, 66.7% of all adults in the state of Texas were overweight (37.2%) or obese (29.5%) (Salinas et al, 2012). An obesity ...

Introduction

Quality of life is the quality of an individual’s daily life indicates the assessment of quality of wellbeing and lack of wellbeing. Wellbeing of a person maybe in terms of physical and psychological aspects. In healthcare, health related quality of life (HRQL) is the assessment which shows how the wellbeing of an individual may be affected in the future by any disease, disorders or disabilities. This paper is a concept analysis of health related quality of life in young people who are suffering with chronic illness. Concept analysis is a way of deriving conceptual hierarchy from a collection of objects and their ...

Abstract

Obesity is a health condition that has increasingly gained world attention. It is a medical condition characterized by a high body fat, typically a BMI above 30. It is important to note that being overweight does not simply imply being obese. Notably, chronic diseases have been on the increase due to the changing lifestyle that many people have embraced in the world today. In fact, most people in the world today are suffering from lifestyle diseases, most of which are attributed to diet. This dissertation discusses obesity as a chronic disease that has increasingly become a major concern in most parts of the world. The ...

Child obesity has been on the rise in the recent years. Most of the children aged 2-19 years have been considered obese or are almost being overweight. This is an alarming issue in terms of health matters. Children and adolescent risk a lot in this condition, and they do need help to cut down their weight. In the last thirty years, the number of children with obesity has doubled. There are various risk of being obese, this cut across all human beings. One can easily get type two diabetes and cancer. There is a risk of being diagnosed with high blood ...

Food as a matter of choice is ruling the planet. We eat what we like and that which appeals to the eyes, tongue or brain. We survive because we have good food, water, and air. The line between what is good food and bad food seem to be contentious. Most consider good food as that which sits well with our pallet. Ages ago food was hunted, gathered, and stored for survival. Now food is stored for our cravings, whims and fancies. That’s because there is surplus of food around us, available year long and cheap too. We need to ...

Introduction

The paper takes into consideration a Japanese cultural community. The survey concentrates on one household that has six members, which include father, mother, and four children. The household under survey comes from the middle class so they live a comfortable life. The family does are not cautious about their lifestyle judging by their feeding and physical activities. The family majorly feeds on red meat and is rarely engaged in any form of physical activity.

Traditional views of health and illness within the culture

The Japanese Community are more interested on curative medicine as opposed to preventive medicine. This is justified by the emphasis that traditional medicine accords curative medicine. One ...

Obesity has become an epidemic in the US. The rates of obesity and overweight in US are reported to be higher than ever before. The increase has been estimated to be in its increase since the last 30 years and it has been soaring year after year. Health practitioners predict that the current US children’s generation can live for shorter time than their parents can because of obesity. Various researchers blame the various food choices that Americans are making to be the root cause of the epidemic. The food industry is pushing junk and sugary foods to citizens ...

It is a clear issue that obesity is a worldwide problem that affects many people with statistics showing that there are about three hundred million people in the world who have been clinically diagnosed to be suffering from obesity. The issue of obesity is rampant and there is no place, where one can claim that the population is free from overweight individuals. In America for example, the number of obese individuals is over 30 percent of its population and this shows that there is a dire need for people to change their ways of living and begin taking control of their eating ...

There have been many cases that have been brought against the fast food company, with regard to the notion that obesity is resulting mainly from what is being offered in the Macdonalds menu. Key among these cases has been documented all the over, especially in 2003, when the judge in a US court threw out a case in which macdonalds had been sued for selling foods that led to obesity. The judge, ruled out that there was a thin line between what should be regarded as personal responsibility and what should be considered as the communal responsibility of the fast food vendors. ...

Thesis statement

There are about 7 million Puerto Ricans living both in mainland of the United States of America and the island and together they make 18% of the United States of America Hispanic population. From all over the world, people refer to Puerto Ricans living on the mainland and dry lands mainland Puerto Ricans and those living in the islands or near the sea island Puerto Ricans. They make almost the largest subgroup of the Hispanic in the United States of America being the second largest population (McWilliams, 78). Throughout the study, it was evident that Puerto Ricans from the ...

Disease Control and Prevention states that obesity related illnesses cost $147 billion yearly.

It has been noted that more people are obese now than ever. One in four people are obese in the U.S. (not good).

Being obese causes high expenses for Medicaid, Medicare, and for private insurance companies.

In my opinion, I think that Americans should start watching what they eat and start exercising More. Exercising at least 3 to 5 days a week and consuming the amount of calories needed for your Individual weight maintenance would make a great difference in conquering the high increases that Private insurance and Medicare and Medicaid impose on our health care expenses.

The cost for people who are enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid is 7 billion a ...

Introduction

There are about 7 million Puerto Ricans living both on the mainland and in the island and together they make a population of 18% population of the United States of America Hispanic population. In the United States of America and from all over the world, people call the Puerto Ricans living on the mainland “mainland Puerto Ricans” and those living in the islands “island Puerto Ricans” although the two live in the US. This is the second largest subgroup of the Hispanic in the United States of America.

During the early years between 1950 and 1960, majority of the Puerto ...

Obesity has become something of an epidemic in America. The United States has some of the highest prevalence of obesity worldwide. It is estimated that up to 35% of adults and 17% 0f children are obese. These numbers would be higher if the overweight segment of the population is included. Statistics vary on the severity of the problem; however, all experts agree that the situation is getting worse rather than better. It is therefore no wonder that some of the strategies undertaken by some states have been termed as extreme.

Before examining the efficiency of the solutions adopted, it ...

This report has been written to analyze adolescents’ health issues in Australia. It analyses the contributing factors to adolescents’ obesity issue and its impact on the family and recommendations for the nursing practice. This report targets the parents of these adolescents and the entire families to help them in dealing with such occurrences and avoiding them. It also aims at giving additional information to the nursing fraternity so that they are ready to deal with such cases and be able to provide the best health care and advice to those affected. Obesity however, not directly being a threat to life ...

Introduction

This paper elaborates the concepts that ought to be taken in order to give a good health care assessment plant to a child in a manner that shows that one is supportive to the child. This can be possible whereby the relationship between the two individuals should be characterized by a sense of security and regulation. This shows that there are qualities in a relationship that assists both parties to feel safe, regulated and interested in each other (Oberklaid & Kaminsky, 2006 p76). Thus, this shows that if both parties are available for each other when they are in need; then there will be a balance ...

Abstract

Obesity and breast cancer are key health issues for American women. Obesity has approximately reached epidemic percentages in the United States and is more widespread among American women. The breast cancer mortality rate persists to mount in Americans. A review of the recent literature was conducted to bring into focus the relationship of these two health problems as they relate to American women. The review is separated into three subjects, obesity prevalence and incidence, breast cancer incidence and mortality and the relationship between obesity and breast cancer. The two studies reviewed are facts of a connection between obesity and breast ...