Essays Tagged: "Dieting"

The Pressure to be Perfect

Fitting into the perfect image that society places on individuals is almost a delusion. Rather than dieting, changes in food selections, an exercise plan, and an attitude adjustment can help you lose ...

(3 pages) 254 0 4.8 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

A Principle to Live By: Working out.

addition to this, people try a lot of diet pills in hope to get rid of the unnecessary weight. But dieting drugs can be harmful to clients because of the side effects of the particular drugs. The eff ... because the diet drugs he had used had side effect on him. AFter consuming half of a bottle of the dieting pills, he experienced several side effects. Working out sober. The results were satisfying. ...

(2 pages) 36 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Health and dieting.

(1 pages) 56 2 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Is it better to lose fat by aerobic-type training or by strength training?

estion of overall effectiveness of aerobic training versus strength training for fat loss.DiscussionDieting (without exercise) appears to be a highly effective way to lose a large amount of weight ove ... r a relatively short period of time but unfortunately much of the weight a person will lose through dieting is weight that they really do not want to be losing. Walberg (1989) included two studies tha ...

(8 pages) 154 3 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and Bulimia Nervosa

"Dieting clearly has costs and, for some, has the potential for benefit; hence, it is important to di ... early has costs and, for some, has the potential for benefit; hence, it is important to distinguish dieting in individuals who are not overweight from those whose weight increases medical or psychosoc ... sease and death for individuals who are largely overweight. Obesity can cause individuals to 'yo-yo dieting,' or destructive cycles of diets and relapses, followed by guilt, depression and new diet cy ...

(4 pages) 115 1 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Diet and Exercise: Problem, solution or excuse?

ercise, and still expect to lose weight. I know a few people who used Atkins as a stepping-stone in dieting and learned to avoid carbohydrates, but ate sensibly and lost the weight they needed to. The ...

(4 pages) 207 3 4.3 Aug/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Diet: Another Four Letter Word.

chieved weight loss.Losing the weight is just half the battle, keeping it off is the lifelong fight.Dieting is dreaded, looked upon with contempt; it is truly a blasphemous word in the wellbeing vocab ...

(4 pages) 95 1 2.3 Mar/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Personal Diet Analysis

hey inspire you is by posting other people's personal stories about how they lost weight using this dieting program. I think that by reading other people's personal stories, it really inspires you to ... . The only thing about this diet that I question is, "Does it really work?" There are so many other dieting programs out there; I would like to be assured that this one over the rest will give me the ...

(7 pages) 219 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Obesity in America

(3 pages) 112 2 4.8 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

How to Eat More and Exercise Less

the bigger problem that most of us have. This deals with what we eat and how often.The last one is dieting, this deals with the different diets that people tried out, this might be what is making one ...

(4 pages) 45 0 5.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Obesity

body composition and manage our weight. It is also a factor of obesity.It is in my own belief that dieting may contribute to obesity. I believe that society stresses thinness upon us, which makes us ... lves for so long we are bound to NEED just one cookie, which leads to the whole box. I believe that dieting just turns into the yo-yo theory. The theories, which are weight goes down and then goes str ...

(4 pages) 115 0 4.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The Importance of Physical Activity

e that maintaining an active lifestyle develops a safer and more practical way to stay healthy than dieting. Furthermore, when children practice a vibrant way of life, the odds of him/her acquiring an ... rity of fad diets has sky-rocketed, which has set a poor example for young adults and children that dieting exists as the safest way to remain healthy. In contrast to dieting, children should be shown ...

(3 pages) 58 1 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Fat and Happy Hillel Schwartz Critique

statement is not logical because there is no solid proof that this is the only way to lose weight. Dieting does not mean your body is “eating itself up” as the author portrays it; dieting i ... rocedures and therapeutic treatments that could facilitate a patient trying lose weight. Therefore, dieting or “cannibalism” is not the only option for an obese person, which makes Schwartz& ...

(3 pages) 4793 0 3.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Fad Dieting: How Bad is It?

, the availability of fad diets and supplements meant to promote weight loss. The popularity of fad dieting has caused negative mental and physical health issues that must be brought to an end.A perso ... rink regularly provided or consumed", or "habitual nourishment" (Diet, 2009). When referring to fad dieting it is defined as a verb: "to eat sparingly or according to prescribed rules" (Diet, 2009). D ...

(4 pages) 30 1 5.0 Aug/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

"Rethinking Weight" by Amanda Spake, A Critique Paper Obesity is Not a Personal Problem

s article, Spake does not present the importance of physical activity, only discussing unsuccessful dieting experiences and bad genetic makeup. Although Spake briefly suggests that exercising is an ad ... ive way to lose weight, choosing to put forth the idea that weight loss comes only from high-priced dieting programs. In her article, Spake claims that genetics are the sole factor for obesity in Amer ...

(4 pages) 23 0 1.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Teenagers and Dieting

Running head: TEENAGERS AND DIETING 1TEENAGERS AND DIETING 2AbstractThis paper touches base on all the basic principles of dieti ... es of dieting and the major impact it has on teenagers. It talk about the risks and consequences of dieting, the impact celebrities have on adolescence, the dangers of vegetarianism, and the importanc ... paper, and it is very important to help those who may be suffering through such disorders.Keywords: dieting, teenagers, risk, adolescence, exercise, disordersTeenagers and DietingThe weight loss indus ...

(6 pages) 0 0 0.0 Mar/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine