Write a summary statement about this subject in terms of body fat as compared to healthy ranges and triceps skinfold thickness as it compares to national norms.

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Body composition

Adult Anthropometrics & Body Composition

Fall 2022

  

Name  _______________________
Last                  First

 

 

  OBJECTIVES:                                                                                     

  • Learn to perform standardized anthropometric and body composition measurements
    1. Height or estimated height
    2. Weight
    3. Waist circumference
    4. Skinfold measurements (will not practice taking the measurements, but will have some measurements provided for you to provide body fat estimations based on provided skinfold measurements)

 

  • Seek out a “client” and best available instruments for measuring height, weight, and waist circumference. Complete part D. Video record you taking these three measurements with your “client” and provide the link (Zoom, YouTube, OneDrive, etc.) in this assignment where indicated.

 

2)   Calculate commonly-used indices from these measurements

  1. a) Body mass index (NIH uses to classify as underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese)
  • Perform commonly used calculations used in body composition.
    1. You can do the calculations for this lab assignment by hand or by using the Excel spreadsheet posted on Canvas. All you need to do is enter your values for Age, Body Weight, sum of 3 skinfolds, triceps skinfold, waist circumference, and mid-arm circumference – and the calculations are done for you.
  • Determine percentile ranking for each of these measurements, or how they compare to others in the U.S. who are the same age, gender and race/ ethnicity group. You will use the two files that include NHANES national norms provided as a supplement needed for this lab and is posted to Canvas.

 

STATURE

Collect information and measurements on your “client” and fill in chart below. Tables/figures of NHANES population norms have been posted on Canvas to serve as a supplement to this lab.   Note units required (in, mm, cm, m) asked for.  Show calculations when suggested.

 

 

1. * Age (to nearest birthday)

  

yr

  

 

  

 

 

 

 
 

2. * Gender (circle)

  

M      F
 

3. * Race or Ethnicity (circle one)

Non-Hispanic White            Mexican American

Non-Hispanic Black            All race or ethnicity groups –

(includes all other)
 

4.  Standing Height – Instructions

  

– – –
 

 

* Inches

  

 

in
 

 

* Cm (inches x 2.54)

  

 

cm
 

 

Meters (cm / 100)

  

m
 

What was your client’s percentile ranking for Height?

(If between two cut points, what two percentiles?)

  

 

%tile

What would be an alternative measurement if standing height cannot be gathered?  What would be an appropriate tool(s) to measure this?

 

  1. BODY WEIGHT & BMI
 

 

5.  Body Weight

  

–          – –

  

 

  

 

 

 
 

 

* Lb

  

 

Lb
 

 

* Kg (Lb x 0.454)

  

Kg
 

What is the patient’s percentile ranking for Body weight (If between two cut points, what two percentiles?)

  

%tile
 

 

6.  Body Mass Index (BMI)

  

–          – –
 

 

Patient’s Wt in kg (same as #5)

  

 

kg

  

 

  

 
 

 

Patient’s Ht in meters (same as #4)

  

 

m

  

 

  

 
 

Calculate BMI (Quetelet’s Index)

 Wt (kg)

Ht (m)2

  

 

  

 

  

NIH quick BMI grid:

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi_tbl.pdf
 

What is the patient’s percentile ranking for BMI? (Between what two percentiles?)

  

%tile

  

 

  

 
 

The National Institutes of Health use BMI

to provide classifications for overweight

and obesity. Do your patient’s measurements show:

Overweight?      25.0 – 29.9

Obese?              > 30.0

  

 

 

 

YES    NO

YES    NO

  

 

  

NIH BMI calculator:

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm

 

 

 

Write a summary statement about your subject in terms of stature, weight, and BMI as compared to national norms (the point of this is that you can show me you understand percentiles and how to express the meaning of them).

 

  1. BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS
Waist Circumference
(use Gulick Measurement Tape)		 My Data Method:

 

According to the NIH Practical Guide “To locate waist circumference, locate the upper hip bone and the top of the right iliac crest.  Place a measuring tape in a horizontal plane around the abdomen at the level of the iliac crest.  Before reading the tape measure, ensure that the tape is snug, but does not compress the skin, and is parallel to the floor.  The measurement is made at the end of a normal expiration”
7.  Waist Circumference (instructions on right) in
8.  According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) disease if waist circumference exceeds 35” for women and 40” for men your patient’s risk is greater for Type 2 Diabetes, hypertension, elevated lipid levels, and coronary heart disease.  Did your client/patient exceed these limits? YES     NO

 

  1. Identify the instrument/tool used to collect the following measurements:
  • Stature:
  • Weight:
  • Waist circumference:

Were these instruments ideal?  Why or why not?  Which instruments would be better options for gathering this information?

Link to video: ______ (also copy and paste it to assignment submission comments in Canvas)

(Skinfold measurement activity on following page)

  1. E. Please review sites and instructions for how to do a 3-site skin fold measurement for both men and women (below). You do not need to perform skin fold measurements to complete this assignment. Rather, use the provided skinfold measurements (men only) and mid-arm circumference (MAC/MUAC) to estimate percent body fat in calculations (#4-7) and muscle area (#9-12)  You can do the calculations by hand or use the Excel Spreadsheet posted on Canvas (recommended).

 

MEN: Percent Body Fat (3-Site Skinfolds*) and Fat-Free Mass.

Skinfold measurements have been measured at the 3 sites shown below on the Right side of the body (you do not need to actually conduct skinfold measurements on a subject).  Measurements have been taken by rotating measurement sites so all three sites are measured, then repeated rotation for duplicate measurements.  If the duplicate measurements are not within 1-2 mm, measure a third time.  Take the “Average Value” from each of the 2-3 skinfold measurement sites, and add them to obtain the SUM (X1), which is used to calculate Density, which in turn is used to determine Percent Body Fat.  Fill in the table below.

 

 

Skinfolds

  

 

MEN

  

3 Measurements

Skinfold              (mm)

  

Ave.
Value

  

 

Description
 

Chest         10    20    15

 

Abdomen  30    20    40   ___

Thigh        20    15    10

 

 

SUM of 3 Skinfolds – – – >

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sum (X1)

  

Diagonal fold on right chest ½ the distance between the anterior axillary line and the nipple.

 

Vertical fold 2 cm to the right of the umbilicus.

 

Vertical fold on the front of the right thigh, midway between the hip (inguinal) and knee (patella) joints.

 

(Use Sum (X1)  for calculations below)

 

Women’s chart below is only included to show sites and offer descriptions.

 

Skinfolds   

 

WOMEN

  

3 Measurements

Skinfold               mm)

  

Ave.
Value

  

 

Description
 

Triceps      ___   ___   ___

 

Suprailium ___  ___   ___   _

Thigh         ___   ___   ___

 

SUM of 3 Skinfolds – – – – – >

  

____

 

____ ____

____

 

Sum (X1)

 Vertical fold on the back of the arm, halfway between the shoulder bone (acromion) and elbow (olecranon).

 

Diagonal fold just above the iliac crest (right side above hip bone), taken in the anterior axillary line.

 

Vertical fold on the front of the right thigh, midway between the hip (inguinal) and knee (patella) joints.

 

(Use Sum (X1) for calculations below)

 

 

Calculations Fill in ↓
1.  Race/ethnic group  (circle):   Non-Hispanic White     Non-Hispanic Black      Hispanic     Mexican American     Other
2.  Age (closest birthday)(X2) 27 yrs
3.  Body weight 232 Lbs
4.  Calculate Density † =  1.1093800 – 0.0008267(X1) + 0.0000016(X1)2 – 0.0002574(X2)
where X1 is the Sum of 3 skinfolds above, and X2 is Age in years
5.  Calculate % Body Fat ‡ =  [(4.950/Density) – 4.500] * 100 %
6.  Calculate Lbs Body Fat =  Body Wt  x  (% BF  ÷  100) Lbs
7.  Calculate Lbs Fat Free Mass (FFM) =   Body Wt  –  BF Lbs

 

  Triceps Skinfold Data
Triceps skinfold thickness (both men and women) 25 mm Most women are  15 – 40 mm

Most men are:   10 – 30 mm
What is the percentile ranking for triceps thickness by age %tile If racial/ethnic group not listed, use “All groups”

 

Arm Muscle Measurements           My Data  

 

 

Mid-arm circumference:

(Most women are:  23-33 cm)

(Most men are:  27-35 cm)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Midupper arm muscle area(AMA)

(Most women are:  26-46 cm2)

(Most men are:  50-70 cm2)

 

 

 

 

cAMA

(Most women are:  21-40cm2)

(Most men are:  37-69 cm2)

 
8. Mid-Arm circumference (used Insertape)
(Use as C1 in equations below)		 35 cm
9. Mid upper arm muscle circumference (AMC)

AMC  =    C1  – (0.314  x  TSK)

 

 

 cm
10. Arm muscle area (AMA)
AMA  =    [AMC] 2                               12.57

 

 cm2
11. Corrected Arm muscle area (cAMA)

Men:            cAMA   =   AMA – 10.0
Women:       cAMA   =  AMA  –  6.5

 cm2
12. Percentile Ranking. What is this person’s percentile ranking for cAMA (or between what two percentiles) – see table below %tile
MALES (all races)  

FEMALES (all races)
Age (yr) 5th 10th 15th 25th 50th 75th 85th 90th 95th 5th 10th 15th 25th 50th 75th 85th 90th 95th
18.0-24.9 34.2 37.3 39.6 42.7 49.4 57.1 61.8 65.0 72.0 19.5 21.5 22.8 24.5 28.3 33.1 36.4 39.0 44.2
25.0-29.9 36.6 39.9 42.4 46.0 53.0 61.4 66.1 68.9 74.5 20.5 21.9 23.1 25.2 29.4 34.9 38.5 41.9 47.8
 

*  Exerpted from:  Frisancho AR.  1990.  Anthropometric Standards for the Assessment of Growth and Nutritional Status.  The University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor. p. 50.

 

Write a summary statement about this subject in terms of body fat as compared to healthy ranges (e.g. low percent body fat, high percent body fat, healthy) and triceps skinfold thickness as it compares to national norms.

 

List one limitation of each of the following methods:

  1. 3-site skinfold measurements
  2. Bioelectrical impedance

 

 

Add three charts to the project at the ROI section on how this EBM plan improvements will impact the resources of the company in the mid-long term.

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Graphs and ROI

In this assignment, you should add three charts to the project at the ROI section on how this EBM plan improvements will impact the resources of the company in the mid-long term. These charts can be about:

Current and future Business Analyst position needs and employee numbers in 5 years.
The financial impact of the current and future Business Analyst position needs and employee numbers in 5-10 years.
Potential Return On Investment (ROI) of the new Analysts salaries in 5 years.
Comparison of different Analytics tools in terms of cost and ROI. (For Ex: Python is free but it needs the hiring of experts, Tableau is X$/year but the learning curve is small for current employees.
Ranking of various departments and their EBM needs depending on the efficiency of what the Analyst and tools can bring. (Maintenance department needs dashboards that costs 100k/year but we can save 500k/year by the efficiency added by these dashboards.
Forecasting product efficiency rates over time comparing it with the investment costs. (For Ex. The new scheduling software that is developed in the Airline Operator company has an initial cost of 1M$ in a year for the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) than 300k/year for maintenance. It will improve the scheduling efficiency by 10% and valued as 1M$ savings per year.)

You can benefit from the following article to select the best charts for your business story:

23 Dashboard Design Principles & Best Practices To Enhance Your Data Analysis

Do some research on the “Keto Diet” and/or a low carb diet. Write a 1 page abstract on the Keto Diet and/or low card diet and the benefits and controversy surrounding this “diet fad”.

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Carbohydrates, Are They Your Friend?

Carbohydrates have been wrongly accused of being the “fattening” ingredient of foods, thereby misleading millions of weight-conscious people into eliminating nutritious carbohydrate-rich foods from their diets. In truth, people who wish to lose fat, maintain lean tissue, and stay healthy can do no better than to attend closely to portion sizes and calorie intakes and to design an eating plan around carbohydrate-rich fruit, legumes, vegetables, and whole grains.

For this assignment, do some research on the “Keto Diet” and/or a low carb diet. Write a 1 page (double spaced, 12 point – Times New Roman) abstract on the Keto Diet and/or low card diet and the benefits and controversy surrounding this “diet fad”. Within your abstract, give the long term and short term effects of engaging in this diet. This assignment is for your knowledge and if these diets are truly something people should be participating in. For any research articles found and used for this assignment, please cite them in APA style.

What else would you consider to be important information when assessing Dale’s nutritional status that does not fall “cleanly” into A, B, C or D? List at least one piece of information and explain why you think it would be important.

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Exam 1

Take Home Exam Instructions:

Provide your answers to the 14 questions below.  Use your own words (copy and pasting from the notes and other class content will not earn points for a correct answer) and work independently. Additionally, please show your work where indicated.

 

Kansas State University has an Honor and Integrity System based on personal integrity, which is presumed to be sufficient assurance that, in academic matters, one’s work is performed honestly and without unauthorized assistance. Undergraduate and graduate students, by registration, acknowledge the jurisdiction of the Honor and Integrity System. The policies and procedures of the Honor and Integrity System apply to all full and part-time students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate courses on-campus, off-campus, and via distance learning. A component vital to the Honor and Integrity System is the inclusion of the Honor Pledge which applies to all assignments, examinations, or other course work undertaken by students. The Honor Pledge is implied, whether or not it is stated: “On my honor, as a student, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this academic work.” A grade of XF can result from a breach of academic honesty. The F indicates failure in the course; the X indicates the reason is an Honor Pledge violation.

 

  • As a nutrition professional, what aspects would you weigh when guiding an individual or a group of people on what a healthy diet is? In other words, list at least two things that should be taken into consideration when trying to balance different sources of nutrition information (3.5 pts).

 

  • There is no perfect dietary assessment tool. Of the subjective tools we have discussed (listed below), please discuss the biases that come with each method and what each bias means.  Examples of this include reactivity, recall bias and flat slope response (3 pts).
  1. 24-hour recall
  2. Food frequency questionnaire
  3. Food record

 

  • For the following research designs, list the dietary assessment method most commonly used in each design. Additionally, please explain why (hint: what is the tool meant to measure?) (3 pts).
  1. Cross-sectional
  2. Longitudinal (cohort)
  3. Case-control

 

  • Select the FALSE statement regarding nutritional assessment and edit the false statement to make it true (3 pts).
  1. Nutritional assessment is a complex process and individuals and/or populations need to be assessed repeatedly over time.
  2. Nutritional assessment involves four main types of assessment but using dietary assessment methods alone can adequately assess a person’s nutritional status.
  3. Nutritional assessment is critical and often mandated for groups at high risk for malnutrition.
  4. Nutritional assessment is used by nutrition professionals in a variety of healthcare settings.
  • When conducting an interviewer-based 24-hour recall, list three tips for how to gather the most accurate data from your client (3 pts).

 

  • Read the following case study. As you read it, please categorize statements/information into the following assessment types: anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, or dietary.  In the table below please list two examples for each type of assessment.  You do not need to infer meaning about what the information may or may not tell you about the client’s nutritional status (10 pts).

Dale Cooper is an 84-year-old man who lives in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania where he worked in the coal mines until he retired at the age of 67. He and his wife, Annie, lived there all their lives till she passed away 6 months ago. Annie was the homemaker and did all the cleaning, cooking, and chores around the home. Now that she’s gone, Dale has to cook and clean for himself because he refuses to leave his home to go to some “retirement home where people just go to die”. Prior to losing his wife, Dale weighed 200lbs at six feet tall at his last doctor’s appointment and had blood drawn for standard lab panels and gave a urine sample. He now weighs 175lbs and claims it’s because he hasn’t been eating any pie and ice cream since his sweetheart left his side. They used to go to the local café to have slice with a scoop of ice cream and a hot cup of black coffee. When asked about his diet he states that he doesn’t feel hungry very often and eats because he knows that if Annie was alive, she’d pester him till he ate something.  He started to take a daily multivitamin knowing Annie would approve.

His typical day is as follows:

10 am: 1c black coffee, sometimes a small bowl of raisin brain with whole milk while he reads the paper

2 pm: bowl of Great Value beefy stew and 2 slices of white bread with butter, tall glass of milk

6 pm: white bread sandwich with bologna, mayo, cheddar cheese; handful of chips; 1 can Pepsi

Labs: Complete blood count (CBC), basic metabolic and panels, urinary analysis (UA). All non-remarkable.

During your session with Dale, you notice that he keeps coughing and has some dyspnea (trouble/labored breathing). You ask him about it and he laughs. He tells you that because he worked in the coal mines for so long, he got the ‘black lung’ but wasn’t diagnosed with it until after he retired. Sometimes he feels completely fine, and others, his chest feels tight, and he has shortness of breath. His doctor prescribed him an inhaler and told him to carry it around at all times. At night, he wears an oxygen mask to help him breathe better.

 

Anthropometric

1.

2.

 Biochemical

1.

2.
Clinical

1.

2.

 Dietary

1.

2.

 

6b) What else would you consider to be important information when assessing Dale’s nutritional status that does not fall “cleanly” into A, B, C or D? ist at least one piece of information and explain why you think it would be important.

 

  • List one benefit and one limitation of each dietary assessment method below (13.5 pts). ADDITIONALLY, please offer one feasible scenario or client, where you think this dietary assessment method would work best and please explain why for each.
  1. 24-hour recall (interview-based)

Benefit:

Limitation:

Scenario/client:

Why?

 

  1. 24-hour recall (automated [ASA24])

Benefit:

Limitation:

Scenario/client:

Why?

 

  1. Food record

Benefit:

Limitation:

Scenario/client:

Why?

 

  1. Food frequency questionnaire

Benefit:

Limitation:

Scenario/client:

Why?

 

  1. Diet history

Benefit:

Limitation:

Scenario/client:

Why?

  • Explain, in your own words, what each of the following Dietary Reference Intake terms mean. Your explanations can involve how one DRI relates to another, how they are established, how they should be interpreted in terms of meeting the needs of average, healthy individuals for a given nutrient, and any examples or scenarios you think appropriate reflect the meaning (6 pts).
  1. Adequate Intake (AI)
  2. Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL)
  3. Estimated Average Requirement (EAR)
  4. Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA)

 

  • Below are the DRIs for iron for a 19–30-year-old female.  What is the range – i.e. pick two of the numbers below – (in mg) of adequate and safe intake for this population (2 pts)?

EAR = 8.1 mg/day

RDA = 18 mg/day

UL = 45 mg/day

  • Rank the following types of assessment in level of depletion severity that the type is able to detect (1 = least severe, 2 = moderate, 3 = most severe). Please explain your rankings (4.5 pts).

Clinical

Dietary

Anthropometric or Biochemical

 

  • What is wrong with the statement below (3 pts)?

Omar has scheduled his annual check-up with his physician.  The physician notes that Omar has gained weight since his last check-up and his BMI now classifies him as obese.  Omar is given a referral for a nutrition consultation.  At the first appointment a 24-hour recall is collected and the nutrition professional formally diagnoses him as being malnourished because his recall analysis shows he is not getting adequate amounts of many micronutrients.  No plans are made for a follow up.

  • A female has the following intake: 1600 total kcal/day, 65g protein/day, 45g fat/day, 225g carbohydrate/day. What percent of her daily total kcal came from protein, fat, and carbohydrate respectively (4.5 pts)? PLEASE SHOW YOUR WORK.

Percent kcal from protein:

Percent kcal from fat:

Percent kcal from carbohydrate:

  • List four factors/conditions which increase the risk of malnutrition. For each factor, explain why the risk for malnutrition is increased (8 pts)

1.

2.

3.

4.

  • List and describe in a few words three sources of error related to food composition databases (3 pts).

1.

2.

3.

Among other things, examine a given passage of Scripture, consult various Bible study tools, and employ the structure as well as techniques detailed in the Everyday Bible Study text.

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Bible Study Project: Interpretation Assignment

Bible Study Project Assignment

Complete four assignments using the techniques of observation, interpretation, correlation, and application. These are the four components of inductive Bible study outlined in Everyday Bible Study.

Among other things, examine a given passage of Scripture, consult various Bible study tools, and employ the structure as well as techniques detailed in the Everyday Bible Study text.

Using the correct and provided templates, inductively study the given passage.

 

Write a needs assessment for my public health intern rotation. Go the websites provided, collect the information which is needed, then write 2 pages paper.

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Needs Assessment for Ryan White/BPHN

Instruction

For this order, you need to write a needs assessment for my public health intern rotation.  Read the following instruction, then go the websites I provided, collect the information which is needed, then write 2 pages paper. It should include the name and address of the site,   the demographics of people they serve in the community.  2346 Prospect Ave, Bx, NY 10458 which is District 15.  

  • First paragraph:

Location (name and address) of my intern rotation.  The type of facility.

  • Second paragraph:

Mission for the facility.

Demographics of the facility.

  • Third paragraph:

The needs of the surrounding community.  Here you include the demographics of the neighborhood or borough, depending on the information you search for.

Closing paragraph

 

References in APA format

 The EFAP Food Pantry where I will be on Prospect Ave:

https://bphn.org/hr-corner-2/

 Information of what BPHN is: https://bphn.org/

Information about the neighborhood: https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/10458/

Bronx County Heatlh Indicators: https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/community/minority/county/bronx.htm

 

 SUGGESTED WEBSITES

  • (individual) website of the facility
  • https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-publications/profiles.page
  • https://www.cdc.gov/

The following is the goal of the needs assessment, the reason I put it right here to let you know better about the assignment, so you don’t have to cover the following information in this order.

 

 GOAL OF THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT

  • To understand the facility, the services it provides, and the community it supports.

In regards to your facility:   Get an idea of who they serve: age, gender, race/ethnicity, education level, literacy, disease conditions, length of stay, and the effects of COVID-19 on clients and services.

Broader community: Target the community’s “state of nutritional health.” Use existing vital statistics data (CDC.gov)Seek the opinions of target member groups

Your are making observations:

Knowledge of

  • Average household incomes
  • Proportion of families participating in SNAP, soup kitchens, school breakfast programs, or food banks

Demographics

  • AgeMale/female
  • Cultural background/Ethnicity
  • Education level/Literacy
  • Employment

Health

  • Rates of infant mortality
  • Heart disease
  • Cancer
  • HIV/AIDS

Above often used to develop community programs addressing certain problem areas. It would be interesting to see what information is posted for COVID-19 morbidity and mortality.

Write up a change you have gone through in your life – preferably a change in your diet and preferably a deliberate change that you wanted to make. Why did you make the change? What motivated you? How did you do it?

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Behavior Change Assignment

Write up a change you have gone through in your life – preferably a change in your diet and preferably a deliberate change that you wanted to make. Why did you make the change? What motivated you? How did you do it? Did anyone influence you? Did you experience setbacks? How did you manage setbacks? What barriers did you experience? Did you have support from anyone in making the change? Where does this stand now and how do you feel about it? Was it ultimately a change for the better or for the worse? Or use an example of someone in your family or a friend. Use Figure 1-1 in Holli text to help you write this.

1-1 Holi
Variables Motivating Change in Food Choices and Behavior (From Holli)
CAUSE​​​​​​​​​​​EFFECT
KNOWLEDGE​​​​​​​​HEALTHFUL FOOD CHOICES
Level of Education

MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS CONDUCIVE TO PROPER FOOD CHOICES

  • Intrinsic factors
  • Beliefs about health and nutrition
  • ​Cognitions (thoughts) – positive
  • ​Goal setting, action plans
  • ​Contracting
  • ​Self-monitoring and management
  • Extrinsic factors
  • Praise
  • ​External rewards
  • ​Support of others
  • ​​Family, friends, associates
  • Counselor
  • Models of proper behavior
  • ​Proper food available
  • ​Improper food unavailable
  • ​Physical activity

MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS CONFLICTING WITH PROPER FOOD CHOICES

  • Personal, family and cultural practices
  • Social occasions
  • Friends
  • Movies, parties, dinners
  • Birthdays, anniversaries
  • Time​​​​​​​​AFFECTIVE INFLUENCES​
  • Time of day, day of week​​​​​Emotional Stress
  • ​Lack of time​​​​​​​Boredom
  • ​Holidays​​​​​​​​Fear, anxiety
  • Cognitions – regative​​​​​​​Depression
  • Job, associates​​​​​​​​Happiness
  • Meals away from home​​​​​​​Stress
  • ​Restaurant meals​​​​​​​Weather
  • Entering food stores​​​​​​Physical condition
  • Travel, vacations​​​​​​​​Threat to health
  • Proper food unavailable​​​​​​​Fatigued or rest
  • Improper food available​​​​​​​State of health
  • Physical environment​​​​​​​Severity of illness
  • ​Room in house
  • Characteristics of the regimen
  • ​Complexity, cost, etc.

Write an essay, researching foods that burn fat and natural supplements, used in helping children and adolescents lose weight.

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Foods and natural supplements, used to help children lose weight

Write an essay, researching foods that burn fat and natural supplements, used in helping children and adolescents lose weight. The paper focuses on childhood obesity, and management options for supplements.

What are the policies and projects, if implemented, that could result in a US food supply that REALISTICALLY provides nutritious, safe, abundant, and affordable food for ALL Americans?

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You are now the President of the United States.

You ARE now the President of the United States. It’s 2024. It is your first term of office. You were elected with 310 electoral votes and won with 20 million votes over your opponent. Your political party controls both Congress and the Senate with a large majority of votes. Plus, you enjoy wide support from the public.

Your campaign slogan was: “Good Food, Safe & Affordable” because of your deep concerns about the health of all Americans.

Now it’s time to deliver on your campaign promises. Your focus will be on low-income communities because success in these communities will bubble up and improve conditions for the rest of America.

You are shocked and amazed by the current US Obesity Crisis. In 2020, 42% of adults were obese. It is projected that by 2030 half (50%) of adults will be obese whereas 1 in 4 adults will be severely obese. Childhood obesity has become a serious concern.

The goal: A healthy America where its citizens have easy access to good food that is safe and affordable.

You will need to understand WHY the current food and health situations exist before developing policies to achieve your goal. Here are some of the topics to investigate:

• If there is only one human species, why do health disparities exist in (socially categorized) racial groups? What is the origin of the health disparities observed in (socially categorized) racial groups?

• Are health disparities confined to (socially categorized) racial groups? Are there other communities similarly affected?

• Life expectancy of Americans is declining.

• Expensive to treat (yet avoidable) chronic diseases are increasing.

• Composition of the US food supply is shaped by USDA polices and farming subsidies.

• In the US of every dollar spent by consumers on food, only 15 cents go to farmers.

• 10 global food companies dominated the food products found in US grocery stores. Most foods are ultra-processed food products.

• Diets filled with ultra-processed foods are suspected of driving the obesity epidemic.

• 30% of the US food supply is wasted annually. The rotting food contributes to global warming.

• Yet many families in the US are food insecure.

There are other challenges facing America today that have adversely impacted the US food supply. Due to Ukrainian-Russian War food and transportation costs have skyrocketed over 12% since January 2022.

 

What are the policies and projects, if implemented, that could result in a US food supply that REALISTICALLY provides nutritious, safe, abundant, and affordable food for ALL Americans?

Answer the following items SEPARATELY

(1) What are the 3 to 4 areas that are so important to your success that they must be tackled first? Explain why each area is critical to the overall success of achieving your “Good Food, Safe & Affordable” goal. 1-page will be needed to:

(a) fully describe each individual area and

(b) explain why each is so important to achieving the goal of “Good Food, Safe, and Affordable.”. Provide citations for Item #1.

(2) What can be done REALISTICALLY through local, regional, national policy changes and/or incentives to achieve success in item #1? The food industry may resist changes that appear to adversely impact future profits. Currently ultra-processed foods are highly profitable. Can ultra-processed foods be manufactured that are truly nutritious? [Consider the packaged meals created for the military and astronauts.] 2 pages will be needed to:

(a) fully describe each proposed change,

(b) explain why this change is needed, and (c) describe the expected improvement the change would generate when implemented. Consider why each proposed change will be so important to your success. Provide citations for Item #2.

(3) Briefly summarize your proposed action plan along with the expected outcomes/improvements. 1 page will be needed.

(4) Create a realistic plan to encourage and activate political support for your plan (in Item #3) from the general public (locally, regionally, and nationally)? 2 pages will be needed.

NB– 1 page should exceed 250 words

What are the policies and projects, if implemented, that could result in a US food supply that REALISTICALLY provides nutritious, safe, abundant, and affordable food for ALL Americans?

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You are now the President of the United States.

You ARE now the President of the United States. It’s 2024. It is your first term of office. You were elected with 310 electoral votes and won with 20 million votes over your opponent. Your political party controls both Congress and the Senate with a large majority of votes. Plus, you enjoy wide support from the public.

Your campaign slogan was: “Good Food, Safe & Affordable” because of your deep concerns about the health of all Americans.

Now it’s time to deliver on your campaign promises. Your focus will be on low-income communities because success in these communities will bubble up and improve conditions for the rest of America.

You are shocked and amazed by the current US Obesity Crisis. In 2020, 42% of adults were obese. It is projected that by 2030 half (50%) of adults will be obese whereas 1 in 4 adults will be severely obese. Childhood obesity has become a serious concern.

The goal: A healthy America where its citizens have easy access to good food that is safe and affordable.

You will need to understand WHY the current food and health situations exist before developing policies to achieve your goal. Here are some of the topics to investigate:

• If there is only one human species, why do health disparities exist in (socially categorized) racial groups? What is the origin of the health disparities observed in (socially categorized) racial groups?

• Are health disparities confined to (socially categorized) racial groups? Are there other communities similarly affected?

• Life expectancy of Americans is declining.

• Expensive to treat (yet avoidable) chronic diseases are increasing.

• Composition of the US food supply is shaped by USDA polices and farming subsidies.

• In the US of every dollar spent by consumers on food, only 15 cents go to farmers.

• 10 global food companies dominated the food products found in US grocery stores. Most foods are ultra-processed food products.

• Diets filled with ultra-processed foods are suspected of driving the obesity epidemic.

• 30% of the US food supply is wasted annually. The rotting food contributes to global warming.

• Yet many families in the US are food insecure.

There are other challenges facing America today that have adversely impacted the US food supply. Due to Ukrainian-Russian War food and transportation costs have skyrocketed over 12% since January 2022.

 

What are the policies and projects, if implemented, that could result in a US food supply that REALISTICALLY provides nutritious, safe, abundant, and affordable food for ALL Americans?

Answer the following items SEPARATELY

(1) What are the 3 to 4 areas that are so important to your success that they must be tackled first? Explain why each area is critical to the overall success of achieving your “Good Food, Safe & Affordable” goal. 1-page will be needed to:

(a) fully describe each individual area and

(b) explain why each is so important to achieving the goal of “Good Food, Safe, and Affordable.”. Provide citations for Item #1.

(2) What can be done REALISTICALLY through local, regional, national policy changes and/or incentives to achieve success in item #1? The food industry may resist changes that appear to adversely impact future profits. Currently ultra-processed foods are highly profitable. Can ultra-processed foods be manufactured that are truly nutritious? [Consider the packaged meals created for the military and astronauts.] 2 pages will be needed to:

(a) fully describe each proposed change,

(b) explain why this change is needed, and (c) describe the expected improvement the change would generate when implemented. Consider why each proposed change will be so important to your success. Provide citations for Item #2.

(3) Briefly summarize your proposed action plan along with the expected outcomes/improvements. 1 page will be needed.

(4) Create a realistic plan to encourage and activate political support for your plan (in Item #3) from the general public (locally, regionally, and nationally)? 2 pages will be needed.

NB– 1 page should exceed 250 words