And call me old fashioned, but I do believe in the saying "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food" (Pollan). ... Otherwise, how did diseases manage to be under control and in much smaller rate before the fast food influence? According to the article "The growing burden of Obesity in Thailand", Thailand had an obesity rate of 0% from 2000 to 2005, at 2006, the rate of obese people rocketed up to 8.3% (WHO, 5). ... Vietnam too, like Thailand has an increase of obesity rate to 2.5% in 2001. ... "The prevalence rates of obesity were fo...

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Therefore, it may substantiate the awareness rate on healthy foods within the young and middle aged people in the country. I have to reiterate that the rate of consumption of the green juice seemed to be extraordinarily high compared to other juices. This got me curious and I managed to learn that just by taking up to thirty two ounce of cold-pressed green juice per day can help on weight reduction and control (Omar, 144). ...

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"Does this dress make me look fat?"... ... To add to the stress of avoiding the viscious cycle of eating disorders, obesity rates among young adults and children are at their highest now than ever before. ... Metabolism rates slow down sequentially as weight is lost. ...

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In today's society, models and actors/actresses are praised and envied for their slim waists, skinny thighs, and toned bodies. Many people see these models and actors in multiple forms of media and they compare their bodies to the bodies that they see in these forms of media. These people will then ...

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Clinical Observations The need to examine the tacit assumptions about hunger forced itself upon me during the psychiatric and psychoanalytic study and treatment of a large group of patients suffering from anorexia nervosa or developmental obesity. ... Pursuit of this inquiry led to the to me startling discovery that hunger, the recognition of nutritional needs, was not an innate capacity of the organism, but something that contained important elements of learning. ...

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