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People who are obese are more likely to have health problems such as: high blood pressure, raised cholesterol high insulin levels, impaired glucose tolerance, type two diabetes, heart attacks, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, kidney problems and polycystic ovary syndrome. Not all children will have these health problems but doctors are finding these problems in children and the children are getting younger. As a whole childhood obesity puts children in harm’s way and the future of America. And that is why the cycle must be reversed. We owe to the country and the kids who live
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coronary heart disease; diabetes, hypertension, and can reduce pain associated with degenerative joint disease. The articles discuss how bariatric surgery has the longest lasting success in achieving weight loss (The Nurse Practitioner, 2006) and gives the patient greater self control (Diabetes Spectrum, 2005). The importance of behavioral change is highly discussed in both articles, and why the patient needs to be involved in a gastric bypass support group program before and after surgery. The article Breaking through Obesity with Gastric Bypass Surgery by Marguerite Sheipe, talks more about the epidemic of obesity and co morbid conditions that are high risk in obesity, i.e. heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and degenerative joint disease to list a few.
After researching the 10 leading causes of death in the United states, I discovered that they were heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, accidents, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, nephritis and suicide. Heart disease being the leading cause of death is surprising to me because that is an illness that can relatively be controlled. Heart disease can be caused by unhealthy diet, smoking, lack of exercise and being overweight. Since this is known to everyone that heart disease is a huge risk, it's surprising that more people so not take more action to reduce this risk. In my opinion, a disease that can be controlled by just keeping yourself healthy, should not be a leading cause of death.
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Clinical Pediatrics, 53, 60-65. Pediatric and adolescent obesity and obesity related conditions have become a tragic epidemic, and major public health issue in the United States. The focus of this paper will be to take a closer look at Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) in Adolescents, and the ethics, perceptions, and guidelines related to it. As nurses, we serve an important role in assisting Health Care Providers regarding appropriate care, referrals, and counseling/teaching for our patients and their families. Pediatric obesity in the United States is a major public health concern.
Weight stigma is prevalent in contemporary society. It is a negative attitude exhibited towards overweight or obese individuals through bias and prejudice in response to their perceived excess weight (Wott & Carels’, 2010). Weight stigma is a deleterious perception reinforced through media, medical and educators’ practices, and societal views pertaining to obesity possibly leading to poor selfesteem, low body image, interpersonal problems, depression, and reduced educational and vocational opportunities (Puhl & Heuer, 2009; Wott & Carels’, 2010; Wang, Brownell, & Wadden, 2004; Thomas, Hyde, Karunaratne, Herbert & Komesaroff, 2008). It is hypothesised that weight stigma has a negative effect on the psychological and physical wellbeing of obese individuals with greater episodes of stigmatization resulting in higher rates of depression, increased binge eating and poorer weight loss outcomes. To combat rising rates of obesity a more multidimensional approach looking at individual and socio-cultural dynamics is required (Thomas et al., 2008).