NURSING 3PA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke, Atherosclerosis
10 Apr 2018
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January 6, 2004: 30% of u. s. children will eat fast food today, 6,212 children and adolescents over five years of age, children who eat fast food consume 187 additional calories daily six pounds of weight gain per year! One of the results of our busy lifestyles is the rise in consumption of fast food. U. s. in 2004 established that of a population of adolescents and children over 5 years of age, That fast food meal adds an extra 187 calories, which totals a whopping 6 pounds of weight gain over the course of a year. Other factors involved: a previous slide showed the web of interrelated factors that can determine a child"s weight, ethnicity is a factor since overweight and obesity occurs more often in the african-, Hispanic- and native-american populations than in caucasian children in the u. s. ; Ethnicity and genetics can also collude to cause obesity.
