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Table of Contents Understanding Obesity Nursing Care Plans More Nursing Diagnoses Obesity NCLEX Questions Readings and Resources Additionally, 50 percent of people surveyed by Harvard University i...

According to the national center for health statistics, (NCHS) (2006) diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the u.s., accounting for approximately 72,815 deaths in 2004. Although the death rate of diabetes decreased by 0.9 percent from 2003...

Very informative article. Read the whole article, good, solid explanations of the science. Probably a factor in why the United States has been hit so hard. https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/06/01/david-kass-obesity-covid-19/

Findings from a large-scale international study, recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found a drug used to treat diabetes is also effective against obesity. Researchers report when semaglutide is given in high doses to people s...

Decrease Your Sugar Intake I know you have heard this before and probably more times than you care to remember, but it works. Depending on your body type you should have the percentage of calories in your diet from carbohydrates be somewhere betw...

In obesity, I came to the crossroads many times on what to do for help. I have tried many diets, I have taken many pills. Any snake oil, charm, powder, pill, topical cream, a corset torture device, weird massager, infomercial 2 am promise you'll be t...

Vulnerable PopulationPublic health has focused on the vulnerable patients in our society for the past few decades, but now they are looking at how "place" plays a factor. According to the article, "Health in Rural America: Remembering the Importance ...

Weight discrimination is the treatment of someone in an unfair manner due to the person's size. Even though extremely thin individuals are occasionally treated poorly due to their size, overweight and obese people are the most frequent targets. Weigh...

When I googled the word obesity I was astonished to find that I had 156,002,803 results. What is Obesity?Wikipedia describes it as a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health...

I was just wondering what everyone thought the implications of the rise in obesity has been for nurses/nursing? Obviously with the rise in type2 diabetes, strokes, heart problems etc we have more to care for And the cost of it to the NHS is...

There is no question that in today's digital age, the sheer quantity of health information available online can be confusing to sift through. With ever-increasing rates of obesity in the West, having trustworthy information on how to not only lose we...

Childhood obesity is a major problem in the U.S. and the pandemic has made healthy eating even harder. A recent study found kids are now eating more pizza, burgers, fries and other fast-food items than in previous years. According to the National C...

Holiday season is upon us. The struggle is real. I'm still fighting the good old battle of weight loss and at 300 to 305 and my body may be hanging out in plateau island again. It's time to reevaluate my eating habits, drink more water, get more slee...

Our country's rising trend over the past few decades of eating processed food and dining at fast food restaurants has added to the obesity problem according to the article, "Obesity is bankrupting America, disease costs soar," by J.D. Heyes. Convenie...