(The Incidence rate of Anorexia in ballet dancers) Dance is a very physically demanding, appearance based, highly competitive, and highly stressful profession. ... (The Incidence rate of Anorexia in ballet dancers) You may think that unless you look like that dancer, you will never make it in the ballet world. ... I know I"m not, I"m thick and most of my dancing peers are like me at my dancing school. ... Way too big for me. ... Describe it to me." ...

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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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This factor does not mean that with access to caloric information people will listen, for Sam Kazman, General Counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market advocacy group states, "Frankly, it seems to me that whether I'm buying an apple or a Big Mac from McDonald's, if they want to sell it to me without any information, I have a perfect right to buy it.... With high calorie meals like this becoming the norm for most Americans, the obesity rate has consequently doubled since 1980; nonetheless, fast food has had an influence on the rate of obesity but these corpo...

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The Center for Disease Control has declared the country's obesity rate an epidemic. ... Katharine Kim of the Notational Restaurant Association claims," It is senseless, baseless, and ridiculous to compare food to things that are addictive, its just an attempt to capitalize on all the stories recently in the press about the increase in obesity rates". ... They never explained to me what I was eating" Barber said to Good Morning America. ... Another startling fact is that obesity rates generate 117 billion dollars in annual medical bills (Park). ... Many health experts agree if there wer...

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Seventh-day Adventists have one half to two thirds the mortality rate from cancer as the rest of the American population. ... In my years of running a deli, I simply got sick of meat and have been eating a lot less, and to me, I feel a lot healthier. Also, I have come across research that leads me to believe that you are what you eat, and I would like to be healthy, so I eat healthy." ... Obese people seem to have higher rates of high blood pressure, heart disease, respiratory problems, and type II diabetes. ... Since it seems that heart disease, cancer, obesity, and other health problems disc...

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Obesity rates in the United States are among the highest in the world, and they show no signs of slowing down. Between 1980 and 2000 obesity rates doubled among adults. ... They kept me in sporting events so it never truly affected me, but being an athlete at a young age I was always surrounded by other parents who were my coaches. ... Growing up I realized my parents were different; it never really bothered me until my friends giggled when my mom picked me up from school. When I asked them what was so funny they told me my mom was over weight. ...

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Diabetes and Overweight Teenagers In the United States, more and more teenagers have become overweight and the percentage is increasing at an astonishing rate. ... It means that the rate of overweight kids and teens has gone up so fast, that it is almost frightening to think of how many of these kids and teens are at risk of disease and death. There are others facts that are scary was well; the increase of obese teenagers has nearly tripled in the past two decades, meaning that if this keeps going at the rate it is now, then in the future it will be even more serious. ...

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Then followed by Type II Diabetes shortly thereafter at the rate of up to 60% (NIH). ... I watched more closely what I ate and kept exercising to make sure I kept my sugar levels where they were supposed to be; however, in the back of my mind the thought of having Type II Diabetes concerns me. ... Kim et al. has done studies showing women develop Type II Diabetes at similar rates, with the most diagnosis in the first 5 years postpartum and then at similar rates after 10 years (Case878). ... Note that the mother's that has had gestational diabetes are being diagnosed with type II diabetes...

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Eating these food day by day made me overweight, and the doctor said I had a heart problem. ... America, where fast food is everywhere with a very affordable price, was one of the most country having a highest rate of the obesity. ... People had diabetes are obese at a rate of over 80 percent. ...

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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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The doctor noticed that she lost a large amount of weight, had low blood pressure, and a very slow heart rate. ... My parents told me that since Melissa was under age, her mother could have forced her to go to a treatment center, but luckily she finally admitted her problem. ... Melissa's emaciated body reminded me of my grandparents during the Holocaust. ...

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In all cases the woman's heart rate slows down, and her blood pressure drops, most likely because the body is trying to adapt to the low amount of energy which is being taken in, by using less energy. Despite the responses of the body most patients suffering from the disease continue to exercise their normal routines, which increases the heart rate to that of a normal woman. ... I have experienced a case of a eating disorder with a close family friend of mine and it was just as difficult for me as it must have been for my friend, because it is really up to them to try and fight this dis...

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Development: The company was incorporated in March of 2003 and founded by me, Joo-Young Lim. ... It is presently one of the most desirable locations in the GTA and the Toronto Chamber of Commerce rates it as one of the top six areas in the province, with over 500 businesses in an area of about eight blocks, retailing at about $1000 per meter. ... Local business are increasing at a rate of about 25% as noted by Statistics Canada. ... The newest businesses have survived on novelties, and so Joo-Joo's Trojan Horse Bistro will offer a similar novelty at a competitive price with take and deli...

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It seemed to me that the older I get, the more obsessed people seemed about their bodies. Whether it was the diet soda boom of the 80's, or the fact everyone has always been unhappy with his or her natural bodies; it just took me a while to comprehend. ... Most likely they were skinny but had a high fatness and height growth rate before their peers. ...

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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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A nutritionist and journalist, Julie Boehlke, affirms that eating healthy and exercising lead to benefits like increased energy, immunity, weight control, longer lives, higher success rates in school/work and setting a good example for others. ...

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A nutritionist and journalist, Julie Boehlke, affirms that eating healthy and exercising lead to benefits like: increased energy, immunity, better looking, weight control, live longer, higher success rates in school/work and setting a good example to others. ...

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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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