Open Document Obesity is an epidemic in America, greatly impacting youth, the health care system, and economically vulnerable populations. Among all of the high-income countries in the world, obesity rates remain the highest in the US. According to Harvard, US obesity rates have more than double...
It says that the public recognition on the possible contibution of fast foods to obesity could led to successful litigation and improve public health. It provides information on the phase of Big Tobacco litigation and the progress of fast food litigation.Frazier...
Fast food causes long term negative health effects and is a direct contributor to America 's increasing obesity problems. 1761 Words 8 Pages Good Essays Read More Argumentative Essay About Fast Food Industry The fast food industry has been growing dramatically during the last few years. For this...
Every day, nearly one-third of U.S. children aged 4 to 19 eat fast food, which likely packs on about six extra pounds per child per year and increases the risk of obesity, a study of 6,212 youngsters found. The numbers, though alarming, are not surprising since billions of dollars ar...
Fast-Food Advertising Deceives Americans to Obesity With every precious tick of the clock, an American rushes to perform yet another task in a day with a meager 24 hours. With all the activity encompassed within these hours, many aspects of life are neglected. One of these aspects--the most...
China has seen rapid increase in obesity and hypertension prevalence and fast food consumption over the past decade. We examined status and risk factors for Western- and Chinese fast food consumption and their associations with health outcomes in Chinese children, and examined how maternal factors wer...
Fast food is very popular amongst teenagers as easy accessible source of daily meal and this is causing rapid increase of obesity in children and young adults. The point of this project is to review the obesity factors, causes and preventative measures that are taken ...
3.4.2Fun food, fast-food restaurants, snacks, sodas and sweet beverages The major causes of obesity and overweight are lifestyle related, in particular excessive diet intake together with increasingly sedentarism (Grüterset al.,2002). Fast-food has become a prominent feature in the diet of chil...
We examined selected behavioral factors associated with severity of obesity among pre-operative bariatric surgery patients in the San Antonio area; focusing specifically on the effects of fast food consumption. We used ordered logistic regression to model the effects of behavioral and attitudinal variables...
The fast food and obesity link: consumption patterns and se- verity of obesity. Obes Surg 2012; 22:810-818.doi: 10.1007/s11695-012-0601-8.Ginny Garcia,Thankam Sunil,Pedro Hinojosa.The Fast Food and Obesity Link: Consumption Patterns and Severity of Obesity[J]. Obesity Surgery .2012(5)...