Sedentary lifestyle

Medicaid Services (CMS), as well as some private insurance entities, and should be a component of any comprehensive primary care plan at initial diagnosis (ADA, 2014). Self-management is the active engagement of oneself in order to execute healthy lifestyle behaviors to effectively manage chronic disease (Powers et al,…

Cardiovascular Disease: The Forms, The Risks, and The Prevention The heart is an amazing and essential organ to the human body. It pumps blood in and out, through a complex system consisting of arteries, venioles, and veins. This system is known as the cardiovascular system. The heart delivers blood to the organs and tissues in the body. Without a heart, basic biology tells us, we die. The heart we are born with is the heart that we must take care of, if we want to live a long life. One…

Cancer is a condition where abnormal cells grow and divide or normal cells divide at an accelerated pace more times than they should. Cancer.gov describes cancer as follows “Cancer is the name given to a collection of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues.” The human body is a marvelous machine. It is designed from top to bottom to operate at optimum efficiency and this requires the periodic and…

normal weight than the required weight. It is evaluated with the help of body mass index (BMI). The cause of obesity in children is almost similar to adults which include, different behaviors such as dietary lifestyle, lack of physical activity, sedentary lifestyle and other unhealthy lifestyle. Childhood obesity is a significant health problem in the United States. Although there was slight decrease in the rate of prevalence among preschool-aged children, obesity among children is still high…

Even if we are surrounded by high technology and given easy access to information, there are still misconceptions about diabetes. The concepts range from believable to really outrageous. Diabetes is Contagious: Diabetes is not contagious like a catching cold or the flu. Diabetes develops when a person's body does not produce enough insulin, or cannot utilize the insulin that is produced. Insulin Injection is Necessary in all diabetic patients: Insulin shots are only required to patients…

Life is not always so simple and clean in the midst of having average-sized people see the obese as fat, abhorrent people due to their unusual appearance and overweight state. Judgment is always called for when an abnormality sticks out, and the staggering rise of obesity matches that with considering how more than one-third of U.S. adults are obese. There are no boundaries to judge people of, which only leads to the dream of equality in order to end weight discrimination in its entirety. With…

component specifically created to prompt the PCP to assess BMI increased the occurrence of screening children for obesity in the healthcare setting (Vine et al, 2013). PCPs need to be made aware of the obesity data and trained on what medications and lifestyle changes are specific to children and…

Since a majority of individuals who are obese indicate dissatisfaction with their body, this may lend to binge eating behavior. Depression due to obesity may cause general fatigue and one to be sedentary, thereby decreasing metabolism and energy expenditure (Sysko, et al, 2011) (Pietrobelli, et al, 2009). That is not to say that obesity is not caused by an underlying genetic and metabolic dysfunction that requires correction. Childhood and adolescent…

collecting lead to a more sedentary lifestyle, which also lead to a population growth. Eventually food-collecting evolved into food-producing…

There are three common types of eating disorders and are each defined with a different food behavior; Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa and Binge eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by a distorted body image and severe dietary, which limits the quantity of food intake to a very small amount, that leads to a significant low body weight accompanied by an intense fear of gaining weight. According to the Program for Eating Disorders of Toronto, approximately 0.5% of the Canadian…