Abstract. Childhood obesity has become one of the most common health problems facing children in America. Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reveal that ethnic minority children in the United States are at particular risk for development of cardiovascular disease due to their disproportionate levels of obesity. In treating childhood obesity among ethnic minorities‚ practitioners need to be mindful of the cultural norms surrounding body size. Additional concerns
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Interview Survey (NHIS) which takes sample from 35‚000 households containing 87‚500 individuals (Center for Diseases Control‚ 2013). The survey revealed that the steady rise of obesity cases started in 1997. The crisis is expected to worsen; warns that childhood obesity is expected to increase. Since then‚ the scientific community took notice and started studying the crisis. A plenitude of study recognized that obesity is widely driven by environmental and social factors (Rosengren & Lissner‚ 2008). In
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emphasize the male‘s power and the female’s nurturance. Gender stereotyping changes developmentally; it is present even at 2 years of age but increases considerably in early childhood .In middle and late childhood‚ children become more flexible in their gender attitudes but gender stereotyping may increase again in early adolescence. Gender stereotypes are over-generalizations about the characteristics of an entire group based on gender. While gender stereotypes have been popularly perceived as having
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Middle Class The United States is one of the many countries that has categorized the citizens into different classes based off their annual income. The three most common classes in the United States are the top‚ middle and bottom class. Many people argue that the top class is the most important out of all because they think that there are the ones that keep our nation strong. However‚ I believe that the middle class is the most important class because it keeps the economy growing‚ improve education
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CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN THE UNITED STATES Prepared for Anne Erb Fox Valley Technical College Prepared by Michelle Williams Written Communications Fox Valley Technical College August 1‚ 2013 MEMORANDUM Date: August 1‚ 2013 To: Anne Erb‚ Instructor From: Michelle Williams‚ Student Subject: Childhood Obesity in the United States I am doing my research report that you requested on the problems of childhood obesity in the United States
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Anatomy and Functions of the Middle Ear The middle ear contains many important parts that necessary for hearing sounds. The middle ear consists of the structures enclosed in a space right behind the eardrum. They are the tympanic membrane or eardrum. The tympanic membrane is a thin membrane shaped like a drum that separates the outer ear from the middle ear. Next is a chain of three ossicles‚ or very small bones. The chain begins with the malleus‚ which is connected to the center of the tympanic
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Adolescence and Adulthood PSY/202 April 29‚ 2012 Adolescence and Adulthood The psychosocial development stage during adolescence is the search for identity. Psychosocial development encompasses the way peoples understanding for themselves‚ one another and the world around them changes during the course of development. I think that around the age of 15 years old I was beginning to go through this stage. I got my first part time job and no longer felt that I needed my parents to give me
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Adolescence is a critical juncture in achievement due to new social and academic pressures that force adolescence to take on new and different roles. These new roles involve more responsibility than they have previously taken on in the past. Their achievement becomes so much more serious and they begin to see life in a different more "real" way now. Two approaches to used to understand motivation in adolescence are Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation emphasizes that students
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The middle passage was the taking of African from Africa to the new world on a ship. It was called the middle passage because it was the middle section of the trade route taken by ships. The first section was the outward passage which was from Europe to Africa. The middle passage took enslaved Africans from their homeland. All were from different countries and most never even seen the sea before. The slaves had no knowledge of where they were going or what was waiting for them. The slaves were
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The Middle Ages had some negative aspects‚ but so did every other time period in history. Is that a real reason to call it the Dark ages? People might call it the dark ages because that’s all they have heard about that certain time period. All they have heard about is the bad things and nothing about the positive‚ or the changes from medieval to modern times. People tend to go off information that is just handed to them‚ but never really go deeper into the situation. The Middle Ages shouldn’t be
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