Comparisons and Issues of Steroid and Supplement Use
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This is a 5 page paper discussing the issues involved with the use of steroids and supplements today. While steroids remain mostly illegal, except in medical treatments, usage remains fairly easy to spot. Supplement use, on the other hand, is on the rise in adolescents today and can be seen as far more dangerous because of its accessibility and the many unknown elements used in today’s supplements. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Considerations in Food Safety
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A 4 page discussion of the importance of food nutrition, purchasing, storage and preparation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Contemplating the Diet Monster
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A 4 page contemplative essay/ research paper on the topic of dieting. The writer looks at the variety of trends that have dominated the literature of dieting over the last several decades and offers personal observations on the subject. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Contributing Factors to Adolescent Obesity: A Research Proposal
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This 20 page paper provides an overview of the issue of adolescent obesity and a research proposal on the subject. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Counseling a Dysfunctional Family with Obesity
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This 4 page paper discusses the ways in which a community health nurse could use the "family as a client" approach, the structural-functional theory and evidence based nursing to counsel a dysfunctional family with obesity. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Countering Stress with Exercise
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A 3 page paper discussing exercise's positive effect on stress reduction. Exercise is the single best antidote to stress. Exercise's benefits include mechanical relaxation of tense muscles; increased blood flow to deliver oxygen and remove biochemical waste products; and endorphin release, assisting the individual to view the same circumstances in a more positive light. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Creatine as a Nutritional Supplement
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A 5 page paper discussing the relative benefits and concerns over the use of the nutritional supplement creatine. Written from the perspective of a student who is interested in the supplement’s long-term impacts to her fellow students, this paper advises that while the use of creatine as a nutritional supplement might be considered one of the least deleterious practices pursued by these athletes and may actually result in some forms of athletic performance, athletes should consume the supplement only with extreme caution as there are no long-term studies testifying to the absence of long-term deleterious effects. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Creatine as an Athletic Dietary Supplement: Magic Potion or Enigma?
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A 10 page review of the use of synthetically-produced creatine as a dietary supplement for athletes. While the majority of reports point to the benefits of the supplement, its usage has only been common during the past few years. Consequently, there are not long-term studies on the effects of the supplement and caution in its use is advised. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient
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A 3 page consideration of Mrs M., a fifty year old obese African American with diabetes and hypertension. This paper considers the cultural factors that relate to this case. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Dangers of Dieting
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A 5 pager paper that explores the medical dangers of diet fads, including anorexia, bulimia and diet drugs such as Fen-Phen and Redux. The paper also explores the psychological and societal influences behind dangerous diet fads. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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DASH -- Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension
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This 10 page report discusses the “DASH” or Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet DASH is a sound dietary concept that has the potential to save lives and offers a new way of thinking about health, fitness, and nutrition. Hypertension or “high blood pressure” is a major health problem in the United States but African-Americans face a much greater risk of hypertension and all of its related health problems than white Americans. This report particularly focuses on DASH, hypertension, and the African American population. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Degenerative Diseases Caused by the Modern Diet
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A 12 page discussion of problems in the modern American / Western diet and the degenerative diseases caused by them. Certain cancers, gout, osteoporosis, and more are noted as being caused by specific nutritional deficits, high fat foods, excess protein, and more. Several studies are cited. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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Diabetes in Older Adults
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A 5 page paper discussing diabetes’ types and the particular problems faced by the older adult in achieving adequate nutrition while also controlling blood glucose with diet. Intervention that seeks to control both diabetes and obesity in the elderly is not an easy task, but it is one that at least is logical. Patient education is paramount, as is visual attractiveness. As older adults lose senses of taste and smell, visual attractiveness can encourage them to eat what they need when they really would rather eat nothing at all. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Diabetes: Alternative Health Care
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20 pages in length. Diabetes may not be a curable disease, but the manner by which it is managed is critical to the patient's overall well being and quality of life. Alternative health care for diabetes management is becoming a vital component of patient wellness through the synergistic aspects of mind and body; utilizing such modalities as acupuncture, yoga and chiropractic, the dual benefit diabetics receive - a calmer and more centered emotional outlook that naturally invokes a stronger, more responsive body via neuro-endocrine pathways - is proving instrumental in controlling the disease through self-management by reducing mortality and morbidity. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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Diet Analysis
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This 5 page paper undertakes a diet analysis of a health twenty one year only male over a two day prod using the interactive healthy eating index. The bibliography cites 1 source.
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Dietary Aides Can Be Harmful as Well as Helpful
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This 10-page-paper presents a discussion on the negative side effects of dietary supplements. Several popular brands are named and their problems discussed. Bibliography lists eleven sources.
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Dietary Non-Compliance in Cardiac Patients
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A 5 page discussion of the difficulty heart patients encounter trying to adhere to prescribed diets. The author emphasizes the importance of dietary changes in improving the quality of these patients' lives but observes that even deliberate nutritional intervention tactics are often unsuccessful in achieving long-term changes. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Dieting
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A 3 page overview of dieting, in which the writer argues, based on scientific research, that diet do not work and that rather than go on extreme weight reduction diets, individuals should eat frequent small healthy meals and exercise. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Dieting Problems, Successful Dieting Stories, Healthy Japanese Diet Foods, and Available Diet Pills
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A 5 page paper which examines the problems dieting in America, includes successful dieting stories, and considers Japanese foods which encourage a healthy diet, and the diet pills which are currently available. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Dieting: Just Eat Healthy
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A 3 page paper which examines how the best diet is one that consists of eating healthily and sensibly. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Diets: Choices, Healthier Lifestyle, Disease & Popularity
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6 pages in length. What one chooses to feed one's body makes a tremendous impact upon how that body performs. Fueling all corporeal functions, the type, quantity and nutritive value of food can either fortify a body or compromise it until it becomes vulnerable to disease. Even then, the composition of food is such that it can help to once again restore health when the body has undergone trauma or disease. Weight management involves modifying how and what one eats often to the point of eliminating certain foods that are deemed fat inducing, a choice that can withhold essential nutrients necessary for a healthy mind and body. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Digestion: Travels of a Ham Sandwich and Glass of Milk, From Mouth to Excretion
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A 10 page overview of the digestive system as seen through the digestive processes required in the consumption of a typical meal. Outlines the basic functions of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, and large intestine. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Digestive Health: Dietary Choices in Celiac Disease
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A 3 page consideration of the choices that must be made in regard to food for those suffering with this condition. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Does Garlic Extract Provide Positive Health Benefits?
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A 5 page research proposal for nursing research into the effectiveness of aged garlic extract (AGE) on cholesterol levels among study subjects with confirmed heart disease. The proposal includes reference to disseminating results within the Neuman systems theory of nursing for a “systems” view of the use of garlic in conjunction with statin drugs and other traditional treatments. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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E-Health and Women's Hypertension
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A 7 page overview of E-Health as it relates to hypertension in women. This paper emphasizes the value of e-health information but also encourages the user to use reason when deciding the validity of that information. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Early Childhood Nutrition
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A 3 page overview of the importance of adequate nutrition in child development. This paper emphasizes the importance of breast milk. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by Edell and Schrieberg
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A 5 page summary of the book Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by Dean Edell and David Schrieberg. No additional sources cited.
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EATING DISORDERS
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This 20 page paper gives an indepth overview of eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia focused upon, etiology, presentation, treatment, ongoing research, and prevention. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Eating Disorders
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A 5 page research paper that gives a general overview of this topic. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Eating Disorders in Middle-Aged Women
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This 11 page paper seeks to discover why there has been an increase in the number of middle-aged women suffering from eating disorders, such as anorexia, when these diseases are thought to afflict only much younger people. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Eating Disorders: Female Verses Male Victims
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A 6 page discussion of the environmental and genetic causes of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. While it is an established belief that eating disorders are more likely to affect females than males, both sexes are affected. The reasons undoubtedly relate to genetics as well as to environmental factors. These reason also could be expected, however, to relate to the limited understanding of eating disorders. Interestingly, as our knowledge of this condition increases so too do the statistics regarding its manifestation in males. While the primary victim of eating disorders still appears to be females, there is undoubtedly some intersex overlap in the factors causing the condition. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Eating Disorders: Looking Good is All That Matters?
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A 4 page review of the problems associated with eating disorders. Written from the perspective of the Australian educator, this paper emphasizes that teachers must arm themselves with facts and deliver those facts in a way that makes students understand their health is more important than body image. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Eating Hamburgers Every Day
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An 8 page paper which examines why eating hamburgers every day can prove detrimental to one’s health. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Effective Treatment of Childhood Obesity
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A 36 page research paper that examines the pandemic of childhood obesity. This literature review examines the empirical research on the topic of childhood obesity in order to discern the efficacy of treatment options for this epidemic, which is plaguing the industrialized nations. Conclusions are then drawn concerning the efficacy of these proposed treatments and/or programs and how the literature suggests that childhood obesity should be addressed in light of this data. The review concludes by discussing the implications of this research in regards to possible future studies that will add to this body of knowledge and contribute to the goal of effectively coping with this societal problem. Bibliography lists 19 sources.
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Effects of Exercise during Pregnancy
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This 6 page paper discusses the effects of exercise for pregnant women, and finds that exercise, under a doctor's supervision, is recommended for all women, unless they have a medical condition that contraindicates it. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Electrolytes
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A 3 page paper discussing the role of electrolytes, which are minerals in body fluids including blood that carry an electric charge and contribute to the transmission of messages and impulses from the brain to other parts of the body. Electrolytes both affect and are affected by the volume of water in the body; two leading ones are sodium and potassium although there are several others. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Endorphins, Exercise & Pain
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A 7 page study proposal on the relationship of endorphin release to the perception of pain. The writer theorizes that vigorous exercise helps lessen non-exercise related pain, and outlines a detailed research proposal for proving this. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Ephedrine: Dietary Supplement or Dangerous Drug
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A 5 page overview of the uses and effects of ephedrine, a drug also known as ma huang, ephedra, epitonin, and Ephedra sinica among the general public. Notes the use of the drug in legitimate medical applications but emphasizes that its use as a nutritional supplement can be dangerous. Outlines the Food and Drug Administration's limitations in regulating the drug and concludes that the real responsibility lies with the consumer. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Ethical Issues with Regard to Marketing Prepackaged Foods to Schools
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This 17 page paper discusses the epidemic of obesity in this country, and particularly the ethics of those businesses that place vending machines in schools. The paper argues that the vendors know their products are not wholesome, and that their actions are unethical. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Example Report and Recommendations on the Continuation or Replacement of Questionable Ads (Alcohol and Tobacco) in “Living Well” Magazine
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This is a 9 page paper outlining an example report on the continuation or replacement of questionable ads in a magazine which promote healthy lifestyles. This example report outlines possible concerns and recommendations regarding the continuation or replacement of “questionable ads” in the “Living Well” magazine. The questionable ads include those largely related with the alcohol and tobacco industries which are seen as contrary to those ideas promoted through the magazine which features articles on healthy living. The report therefore deals not only with the health concerns related with alcohol and tobacco but also the percentage of advertising revenue generated by the questionable accounts and the preferences and demographics of the reading population. The report includes an example memo to the publisher, executive summary, list of illustrations, recommendations, and conclusions as well as a list of references. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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