Diabetes mellitus is a disease that in recent decades has shown progressive increase in its incidence and prevalence worldwide, In the us from 2006 to 2011 the incidence of this disease has increased as this scientific article says, "Among nearly 7 million adults aged 20 years or older, we estimated annual diabetes incidence per 1,000 persons overall and by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and body mass index. We identified 289,050 incident cases of diabetes. Age- and sex-adjusted population incidence was stable between 2006 and 2010, ranging from 10.3 per 1,000 adults (95% confidence inte...

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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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Obesity is greater among children and adolescents who frequently watch television, and children watch an average of three hours a day (Dietz& Gortmaker, 1985). This is not only due to the lack of energy used while lounging on the sofa, it is also due to the amount of high -calorie snacks consumed while watching the long hours of television; not to mention the most frequently advertised television commercial is food. ...

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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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Contents Title 2 Abstract 2 Introduction 4 Literature review 5 Methodology 9 Results and analysis 12 Discussion 20 Recommendations 25 Conclusion 26 Bibliography 27 Appendices 32 Title The reasons why females drop out of physical activity at the two transitional stages of adolescence. Key Concepts PE (Physical Education) – Curriculum based physical activity done within education Physical activity – 'Physical activity is defined as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure' (WHO, 2015). Abstract Background As there is a world...

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The students can satisfy their hunger with fatty, nutrient-lacking French fries relatively quickly, but in order to go through the line at the buffet to obtain more fruit and vegetable options, they must take an hour out of their time and wait in line, as well as spend almost two dining dollars more for dinner. ...

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The Weight of the Nation is a four-part documentary that explains the epidemic of obesity in the Unites States. The documentary brings together a series of long term scientific studies and national facts that supports the problem of obesity in America. The four parts bring together possible causes and effects of the body being overweight. There are many things that causes obesity; over eating. Lack of exercise, genetic and environmental DNA. ...

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Few psychoanalytic concepts have been used as widely as the concept of instinct for explaining abnormal development. Under this orientation, obesity and other eating disorders are conceived of as resulting from disturbances during the oral phase. Yet the concept of instinct has been widely debated. Freud himself proposed many theoretical formulations and remained critical of all his efforts to formulate a fixed theory of instinct. A definite progression can be recognized in his concept of the instinctual drives, represented in the id, from the reflex arc scheme of a self-contained closed syst...

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The criteria for T2DM diagnosis is based on blood glucose level, that is when blood sugar is greater or equal to 126mg/dl during fasting (Eight hours of no calorie intake) or greater and equal to 200mg/dl casually (at any time of the day) (Serrano Rios & Gutierrez Fuentes, 2010). ...

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