1000 Search Results for America's Diet
America's Diet
The typical American diet is one high in sugars and processed foods. Accordingly, The United States has earned the unfortunate nickname of "Fast-food Nation." The initiation of the rapid growth in fast-food consumption rates in Americ Continue Reading...
This is the first step in making diets for young people more realistic, achievable and more aimed at health and less about perpetually attempting to win favor with peers.
Second, educational and awareness programs need to concentrate on assisting y Continue Reading...
In 2009, 6.9 million infants and children relied on WIC benefits to eliminate hunger ("WIC"). However, this program also has limited benefits, with specific items that program participants can receive.
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) offer Continue Reading...
America Is Overmedicating Children
America is over-medicating its children. Recently, the studies and the reports have shown that there is a great increase in the usage of prescription as well as nonprescription drugs within the American children. T Continue Reading...
Obesity in the United States
The extent of the Problem
Obesity as one commentator says, is not just a "matter of aesthetics" but has become a major public health problem in the United States. Similarly, Federal health officials have categorically s Continue Reading...
One of the functions of the lymphatic system is to be the body's "sewer system," drawing toxins from the cells and dumping them into the blood. The heart powers the blood system. Body movement powers the lymphatic system. Therefore, metabolic waste Continue Reading...
Lottery
One could make a connection between The Lottery and Fed Up. Fed Up is about the sugar industry, and the lobbying that goes on to ensure that the interests of the sugar growers are taken care of. We know that sugar growers receive trade prot Continue Reading...
Dieting Makes People Fat
The rising epidemic of obesity makes the news nearly every day: We are constantly reading or hearing about how Americans are getting heavier and heavier. This in turn subjects Americans to a range of possible other ills incl Continue Reading...
So, advertising is not just bad because it lures us into eating unhealthy diets, the diets to lose some of the weight we gain are just as bad. Why? Because they teach fast weight loss -- lose 10 pounds in two weeks. Is that possible? Yes, but it's u Continue Reading...
Immigrating to America contains a unique set of circumstances that are individual to each person and their home country of origin. In an effort to better understand these migration patterns it is useful to analyze the specific cases of immigration. T Continue Reading...
Obesity in America
Many think of obesity as a disease that may need medication to retract, may be genetic in origin and, thus, not the fault of the individual, and, therefore, may be biologically rather than culturally deteremined. However, as this Continue Reading...
The table below represents the major diets over the past few decades that have some medical and longitudinal veracity (e.g. they are not fad diets, e.g. "grapefruit diet"). Of course, each new issue of a woman's magazine purports to have the right Continue Reading...
Obesity in America: A rhetorical analysis of three articles
According to The Journal of Economic Perspective as well as many popular news articles -- and the Centers for Disease Control -- Americans are getting fatter. Cutler, Glaeser & Shapiro Continue Reading...
This increased their word of mouth advertising and eventually led to a very large order from a grocery chain, Fresh Market. This word of mouth marketing helped expand their distribution channels as well.
The greatest opportunity for a small busines Continue Reading...
Should the first solution be called upon, it will be limited by the fact that the public may rebel, failing to re-elect those senators and congressmen who are in favor of the legislation. Indeed, the Supreme Court may even find some of the more extr Continue Reading...
Low-Carbohydrate Diets
Food Service Industry
Ever since history has been recorded food has played a pivotal role in human interaction. An investigation into food-related topics, such as global food problems, the sociological factors in food consum Continue Reading...
Marketing of Atkins Diet Products in Europe vs. The U.S.
Background on Atkins Diet
(A) Who was Robert Atkins?
Atkins was born in Columbus, in the state of Ohio in the year 1930. After having joined the University of Michigan, he graduated with a M Continue Reading...
low-carbohydrate Atkins diet is safe and effective in the short-term. Today, millions of Americans follow the Atkins diet, making questions of safety and effectiveness increasingly important. In controlled studies, those on the Atkins diet lost more Continue Reading...
In some cases, doctors can prescribe weight-loss medicines along with a program of diet and exercise."
Researchers believe that anyone with a BMI of 30 or higher can improve his health through weight loss (Gilles, 2003). This is particularly true f Continue Reading...
Without a doubt, a great deal of these insecurities are embedded in the modern American culture's obsession with women maintaining unhealthy, unrealistic body types. Women have been set up to fail by these expectations, which has ultimately served t Continue Reading...
Childhood Obesity
The author of this report is asked to report on several aspects and dimensions of a certain aggregate, with the aggregate chosen being childhood obesity. The community itself will be summarized as well as the difference between the Continue Reading...
McDonald's Integrated Marketing Campaign
This paper is divided into two distinct sections. The first chapter is based on literature reviews of various scholarly works that are related to the topic of integrated marketing campaign that are also relev Continue Reading...
The study found that overweight children or those likely to be overweight tended to incur more medical expenses than non-overweight children (Johnson 2006). Socio-economic and demographic differences between them indicated the differences in expens Continue Reading...
Chapter 10: Direct to Consumer Advertising
Television
Television advertising has caused a rift in traditional doctor-patient relationship.
Patients arriving for doctor visits with a firm, fixed idea of outcome -- prescribe me the drug because I s Continue Reading...
War and Occupation: The Effects of the U.S. Occupation on Japan's Government and Politics
The recent change in the American foreign policy direction which has seen the replacement of its traditional anti-colonialist tilt by the neo-conservative beli Continue Reading...
Obesity in America: Obesity and Sexual Orientation
This study examined the obesity risk for the sexual minority groups in the United States of America. The first part explains the obesity epidemic in the United States and its effects on the common m Continue Reading...
Some treatments may actually help with the disease.
Diets and dietary supplements
Eating vegetables like broccoli and spinach may help older women [and probably men] retain some memory abilities later on, while avoiding obesity in middle age lower Continue Reading...
Although Pollan condemns conventional agriculture, he also notes that even organically-labeled food is often grown in a manner that is not much better for the environment in terms of its carbon footprint -- the regulations upon what constitutes org Continue Reading...
Oprah Winfrey's Shortcomings as a Leader
As a person in a leadership role, Oprah Winfrey has been criticized in the media for advocating bad science (Jenny McCarthy's anti-vax crusade), pseudoscience (The Secret), materialism (the car give-away), an Continue Reading...
There are several kinds of scenarios. However, in this paper, we limit our discussion to the decision-driven and vision-driven scenarios as proposed in the work of Courtney (2003). We however extend this discussion to involve the three levels of pe Continue Reading...
) Researcher believe that when Alzheimer's begins to attack, it hits the "factory" of cell groups that otherwise are functioning perfectly. There are breakdowns in the communications that the cell groups hitherto provided, and although scientists don Continue Reading...
outstanding fact: Americans love to diet. The South Beach Diet, Lo-Carb Diet, Slimfast, Weight Watcher's, diet pills, gastric bypass sugary. These are all examples of ways that adults in America are trying to lose weight. This obsession with losing Continue Reading...
Culture
Food History of North America Cuisine
What is the geographical location of North America and why it would have an effect on the North America cuisine? (i.e., what is the weather condition in North America and does that play an affect as to Continue Reading...
To this day we see population clusters in major Northeast cities, which almost invariably will have a Little Italy or Little China. These Old World cooking traditions survived and impacted American cuisine.
Similarly, the Midwest and West, both ric Continue Reading...
PepsiCo's Leadership [10]
Company Review
More than Chips and Soda: PepsiCo's Leadership and Vision
More than Chips and Soda: PepsiCo's Leadership and Vision
While the PepsiCo Company is known primarily for its flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, the orga Continue Reading...
Racist Beauty Ideals and Racial Self-Hatred
This paper examines Toni Morrison's novel the Bluest Eye from the perspective of three different interest groups:
Those who would interrogate the paper on the basis of issues related to gender, or of the Continue Reading...
Diet as an Effective Treatment for Malnutrition
People usually associate malnutrition with starvation and famine, which is a common occurrence among famine- and war-ridden countries usually located in the African continent. Most often, malnutrition Continue Reading...
Colon Health
Statement of the theme
risk factors
prevention
Diet
Exercise
Dietary supplementation
No one really wants to talk about the subject of their colons. We all started out life with one, most of ours are working very well as we sit her Continue Reading...
Carollo, Caterina; Lo Presti, Rosalia & Caimi, Gregorino. "Wine, Diet and Arterial Hypertension." Angiology 58, no. 1 (Feb/Mar 2007): 92-96. Database online: Available from Academic Search Premier, ISSN: 0003-3197.
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Americanization of Foods:
Food is traditionally considered as a simple means of subsistence but has developed to become filled with cultural, psychological, religious, and emotional significance. Consequently, food is currently used as a means of de Continue Reading...