Women that walked or exercised vigorously for a minimum of 2.5 hours a week were approximately 30% less likely to get heart disease than women who got less exercise, according to the study. The study also showed that women who walked at a rapid pace, for more than four miles per hour, we at an even lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease. ... Women that were seated for more than sixteen hours or more everyday developed cardiovascular disease at a greater rate than the women who were more active. ...

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Families, due to the lack of time or convenience, allow children to be in front of the television as many hours as they want, instead of taking them to the park or any other activity that would satisfy their physical needs, indicated by American Psychological Association (APA) "In very young children, research has found that for every one-hour increase in TV viewing per day, there are higher intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages, fast food, red and processed meat, and overall calories (48.7 kcal/day). ... Outdoor games, sports, outings, etc., every day are being replaced by sedentary acti...

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In 2013 the CDC website reported that children between the ages of 8-18 "spend an average of 7.5 hours a day using entertainment media, including television, computers, video games, cell phones, and movies"( Childhood Obesity Causes & Consequences 2013, para 4). ... The CDC also reported that the majority of children between the ages of six months to six years watched an average of two hours of television a day. Eighty-three percent of children from 6 months to less than 6 years of age view television or videos about 1 hour and 57 minutes a day. ...

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A national survey of teachers regarding the role of entertainment media in students' academic and social development states that, "On average, American children between the ages of 8 and 18 spend more than 7 ½ hours a day using media for fun: everything from watching TV to listening to music, playing video games, and using social networking sites. ... Given that media use is something that happens seven days a week instead of five; this is more than the equivalent of a full-time job, dwarfing the amount of time spent in school (an average of 6 hours and 42 minutes a day, 180 days a year)...

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In most households, both parents work and have late hours, leaving children home alone. ... To increase your child's activity level parents need to limit recreational computer and TV time to no more than 2 hours a day. A surefire way to increase your child's activity levels is to limit the number of hours he or she is allowed to watch television each day. ...

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that children who watch more than two hours of TV a day at age 12 weight more than children who at the same age watched less than two hours of TV. ... This study found that adolescents are watching an average of 26 hours of television per week. ...

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Introduction Obesity has emerged as the most pressing nutritional problem facing the developed world. This trend has occurred over a relatively short period of time; in the United States, it appears to have begun in the last quarter of the 20th century. The epidemic in children followed shortly ther...

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Video game technology along with the increased prevalence of cable and satellite in the home has bred a generation of children who would rather stay inside and stare at a television screen for hours than to go outside and play. ...

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Fast food restaurants encourages unhealthy eating habits that result in obesity. Fast foods are mass produced, compact, hot meals or snacks that can be eaten by hand on the spot, or taken away from where they are prepared or sold. Obesity is defined as a condition of abnormal or excessive fat a...

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Many women as young as six years old often base their image of the ideal look, size and weight on pictures of models seen in magazine advertisements. The average American is exposed daily to anywhere from 400 to 600 advertisements, which includes newspapers, magazines, television and radio. Out of...

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To find out, the researchers had the volunteers either vigorously ride computerized stationary bicycles or sit quietly for an hour before settling onto the M.R.I. tables. ... In the volunteers who'd been sitting for an hour, the food-reward system lit up, especially when they sighted high-fat, sugary items. But if they had worked out for an hour first, those same people displayed much less interest in food, according to their brain scans. ...

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Introduction Generation Obese is symbolic to the current generation increase in the prevalence of overweight children and adolescents in America. Childhood obesity around the world, particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that has received much attention lately. Government offici...

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., within any 2-hour period) an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances (p.755). 2. a sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating), (p.757). ...

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In one study mentioned in Aven's article stated that "obesity was highest in children who watched four or more hours of television per day these children also tended to consume more calories per day... In this day and age, the majority of Americans do not have the ability to just take hours out of their schedules to workout, especially if it has a negative connotation for them. ...

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Many individuals look for external help in terms of supplementation to aid in the process of increasing human performance and gaining lean body mass all along with diminishing the amount of fat tissue. With 66% of the United States being overweight, there has been an increase in the demand for weigh...

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According to Stephanie Armour's article "Your Appearance Can Affect the Size of your Paycheck", she said numerous studies are indicating that workers with below-average appearances tend to earn notably less per hour than their above-average-looking teammates. ...

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The rise of anorexia and obesity in the western world has resulted in what can be called a serious health and psychological epidemic. In the Unites States, 44.2% of the population are obese, due in part to our increasing expectation that women should be thin. Both disorders are the cause of hundreds...

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The study states that in American society, people drive instead of walk; fast food is available twenty-four hours a day; children are bombarded with advertisements for junk foods; and one quarter of all the vegetables we eat are french fries. ...

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Vegetarian VS Meat Everyday most of the world's population eats meat products, while small percentage have chosen different life style by being vegetarian. Vegetarian diets are full of flavor, essential nutrients and everything else needed to maintain a healthy body. There are various advantages ...

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Over the past couple of decades, there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of obesity rates in North America. Measures of socioeconomic disadvantage including neighborhood poverty and low parental/guardian education are related to family obesity rates. Poverty may impact obesity rates through lack of physical activity, inadequate sleep habits, and parental monitoring (Ludwig, 2011). The recent dramatic increase are unlikely due to biological and genetic changes at the individual level, but rather, are linked to the social and economic status among communities. The reason behind ...

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Abstract Overweight and obese children and adolescents have become a major health concern and crisis nationally and internationally. The occurrence of childhood and adolescent obesity has grown over the past decade. The cause is due to an imbalance between caloric consumption and expenditure. The fa...

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Like the average anorexic the athletic anorexic worries constantly about what they will eat, when and where they will eat, how much weight they will gain if they eat a normal meal, how many hours they will have to exercise to burn off those calories, how many meals they should skip if they overeat and so on. ...

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These particular individuals have experience the episode for about two hours, when others binge is on and off all day long, and then there's others were they eat even if they are not hungry and after they are full. ...

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The obesity epidemic has risen to frightening levels all across the nation and is continually growing. According to studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one-third (34.9% or 78.6 million) of all adults in the United States are obese and children and ado...

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Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses (ANAD). People pay more attention to the increasing rate of obesity in our country than they do the rapidly growing number of people suffering daily from anorexia nervosa. Could this be due to the fact that being skinny is "right" so therefore it is commonly overlooked? In the United States, twenty million women suffer or have suffered from the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa, an eating disorder that causes people to lose more weight than what is healthy for their age and height (Board 1). It is a very dangerous...

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