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A 10 page discussion of intervention for obesity on an individual, family and community level. Advances in medical knowledge and healthcare technology have resulted in ever-increasing life expectancies in developed nations. Paradoxically, increase in rates of obesity threatens continuation of that trend. Obesity is a direct risk factor for diabetes and coronary heart disease, and it continues to increase despite efforts to educate the public against it. The paper uses Gorin and Arnold’s (1998) Health Promotion Matrix for the community plan. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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ago, increasing obesity was a problem largely of the United States. Greater numbers of adults were moving into the realm of the obese, and then children began to join
them as well. As could be expected, the rate of incidence of diabetes soon followed, and we have reached the point now that what formerly was referred to as
adult-onset (i.e., Type II) diabetes increasingly is occurring in children. The problem of obesity no longer is only a phenomenon of the United States, but also is increasing in
other nations as well. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified obesity as a growing health problem in several developed nations. Advances
in medical knowledge and healthcare technology have resulted in ever-increasing life expectancies in developed nations. Paradoxically, increase in rates of obesity threatens continuation of that trend. Obesity is
a direct risk factor for diabetes and coronary heart disease, and it continues to increase despite efforts to educate the public against it. Problem Description
Obesity is defined by a body mass index (BMI) of greater than 30 kg/m. Overweight is a term that refers to the individual as weighing more than
his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor health.
Within the United States, it is estimated that 59.4 percent of men and 50.7 percent of women are overweight or obese (Fontanarosa, 1998). Rates
of obesity and overweight among children have increased as well, conditions that are likely to persist into adulthood. "Among children who are obese after age 6 years, 50% remain
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