The Effects Of A Vegetarian Diet And Treatment Preference On Biochemical And Dietary Variables

In today’s society obesity has become a nationwide epidemic that is affecting children and adults daily. Dietitians have an essential role in the health field to treat patients with nutrition problems such as obesity, but every patient is different and how the dietician decides the course of treatment is as well. For example, there are many ways the dietician can treat the patient like goal setting, self-monitoring, meal preparation, and other strategic plans that lead to the best health of the patient. When making a plan to treat the patient many detailed factors come into play. For example, patients age, occupation, family history, and most importantly social environment.

Reducing the problem of obesity; there must be an organized educational, political and legislation movement that is supported at the community level. Information from evidence-based practices used by nurses, health care providers, and other collaborators like dieticians, physical therapists, and social workers help the client to achieve a more favorable outcome. These interventions focus on diet, exercise, and behavior modification should be encouraged by nurses. Giving the client the power to identify the factors that contribute to excess food intake, can help the client to eliminate or reduce causes. Establishing realistic weight loss goals and exercise / activity objectives like losing bodyweight 1-2 lb./week increase the likelihood of success, assessing the client’s knowledge and discuss well-balanced diet plans plays major role teaching about diet plans. Discussing behavior modification strategies, such as self-monitoring and environmental management can provide client is the reinforcement that is needed. (Pearson, 2015) Continuing assessment is necessary not only to evaluate the safety or weight loss strategies but also reinforce positive benefits of weight loss. Including families and other stakeholders, such as schools, parks, private partners and politicians at all levels, we can make the obesity issue a focus for change. (John, F., & Kirsten, P., 2014). For programs like this to be successful, outcomes should not

In the United States, it seems that the public has constructed endless ‘solutions’ to the country’s rising weight epidemic, from fad diets to nutrition programs. According to Harvard University’s The Nutrition Source, “roughly two out of three U.S. adults are overweight or obese (69 percent) and one out of three is obese (36 percent)” (“An Epidemic”, par. 2). Interestingly enough, the majority of the ‘wonder’ regimens lack crucial aspects for effective weight-loss: Proper nutrition, incorporation of physical activity, and an individualized plan for calorie intake. Moreover, the various nutrition programs that have been implemented lack the depth and effective approach to produce continuous significant results towards the fight against obesity. When analyzing the fundamentals of fad diets and nutritional programs, we should ask ourselves a very important question: What are the flaws behind America’s approach to solving its obesity and malnutrition epidemic?

Hung, Pei, Kuo et al. measured the effect of a vegetarian diet on metabolic syndrome; often used for identifying people at risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The study used 71 vegetarian and 388 omnivores. Measurements were taken such as waist and hip circumference, weight, height and BMI. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure were measured using sphygmomanometers on the

Obesity, the condition of being severely overweight, is a serious issue in the United States that is gradually beginning to affect more and more citizens. In recent years, the number of Americans suffering from this chronic disease has significantly increased. Researchers have found that nearly one third of the U.S. population is considered overweight and, on average, three hundred thousand individuals die yearly as a result of obesity (Hollands et al. 2). When one participates in little to no physical activity and their diet consists mostly of high fat foods, chances are they will gain weight. If someone becomes obese, they may develop serious health related issues that, in some cases,

The diet was tested on 40 gym goers in west London. In a week, each participant lost 7lbs and have reported higher levels of

Inter-individual variability in the direction and magnitude of weight change in response to supervised exercise-based interventions has been well documented (Table 1). Even in the highly controlled environment of an isolated experimental station over an 84-day period exercise induced weight loss ranged between 3 and 12 kg [48]. More recent studies showed that certain participants even gain weight in response to supervised exercise interventions [42,49]. Accordingly, changes in fat mass and fat free mass have been shown to vary considerably [36,42]. King et al. showed a roughly 50:50 split between so-called “responders” (i.e. participants who achieve expected weight loss) and “non-responders” (i.e. participants who experience a small amount of weight loss or weight gain) [36]. Other studies indicate that a majority of participants displays some form of compensatory adaptation with a ratio of responders to non-responders of 1:2 [46,49]. Even though there is, most likely, considerable inter-individual variability in metabolic adaptations in response to exercise [42,48], success in weight loss interventions has been largely attributed to behavioral compensation such as a decline in non-exercise PA and/or an increase in energy intake [22,36,46]; in addition to an obvious association with adherence to the exercise protocol. In fact, it has been argued that the individual variability in weight loss can be entirely attributed to the variability in non-exercise PA [46,50].

Having established a body of subjects, the body should be divided into halves. One group will be the treatment group. They will participate in the diet, and nothing else. For example, if they participate in the diet, and begin exercising, it is impossible to say whether the diet had an impact. The other group will be the control. They will continue to eat as they normally did without any other changes too. Again, if they start exercising (or stop) it will skew the

After six months of the program, participants lost an average of 14.7 pounds. Members who attended more than eight group sessions demonstrated a mean weight loss of 11 pounds. Also, participants reported high levels of satisfaction with the program as well as eating more healthy and becoming physically more active. This weight loss intervention for preventing obesity can be successfully implemented in Hillsborough County The Health Not Cosmetics program requires a collaborative effort between medical schools and community organizations to expand prevention activities for the most vulnerable and underserved population of Hillsborough County. Through this collaboration, community health among underserved populations can be improved by offering campaigns for obesity reduction, screening, counseling, and referral activities and empowering people to make healthy

Which the main goals are (1) to guide and inspire improvement around treatment, intervention and illness management by engaging to help, build-up and disseminate best practice for the treatment and avoidance of obesity. (2) Strengthen system of care for patients with overweight and obesity, (3) arrange diverse stakeholders to address related problems to the care of patients with overweight and obesity, (4) defining and catalyzing an innovative research program for the care of patients with overweight and obesity, (5) identifying, implementing and evaluating strategies to reduce physical activities of patient with overweight and obesity, and (6) reducing stigma to progress in health

Obesity is growing at epidemic proportions in developed nations. Over 1.4 billion adults are currently considered to be overweight or obese (Haskell, 2007). Individuals in developed nations average daily caloric consumption has increased by 200kcal while their energy expenditure has decreased by 800kcal. On average caloric consumption is in excess compared to energy expenditure. Individuals in developed nations have been progressively making a switch to a more

Mayo Clinic gives the example of a patient weighing 200 pounds and being labeled obese according to BMI standards; this patient would only need to shed 6 to 10 pounds to begin noticing small yet beneficial health improvements (Mayo Clinic, 2015). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated that with a reduction of 10% of body weight, obese patients will lower their risk in developing additional medical conditions such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, while making a positive change in their overall health (Vivus, 2012). There is a never ending supply of articles, websites, fitness magazines, nutritional supplement companies, gym memberships, workout videos, recipes for reducing caloric intake, counseling programs, hypnotists, support groups, and surgical interventions that all address reducing weight. For the sake of this topic, this paper will address pharmacological interventions as a way for weight reduction, what medications are currently being used as well as a new drug combination of phentermine and topiramate (Qsymia) being used for the treatment of

The overall outcomes of the 5 week course were ultimately a success, based on the previous goals set. While the main point of the classes was to disseminate information, and to lead to behavior changes that facilitated weight loss, the information handed out was overwhelming for most part. This sometimes led to participants feeling overwhelmed and stressed, about learning all the material. Furthermore, the post course evaluations gave much needed information that will help the development of future programs like this one.

Although the investigation was able to provide more knowledge and understanding regarding the relationships between energy, activity levels and carbohydrate intake in order to contribute towards a solution to the problem of obesity, there were many limitations to this experiment that needed to be considered. For the personal data, the dietary observations collected over the two experimental days were not substantial to represent their lifestyle as a whole. Studies led by Burke et al., (2001) demonstrated that individuals can make inaccurate reports in various ways such as altering their dietary intake during period of recording, omitting or underestimating their intake and quantification errors of their consumption. As the group data was a collation of individual’s two-day dietary records, variability and inaccuracy increased considering the wide range of influences each individual may have been subjected to. There were 359 females and 195 males involved in the

Are you healthy? Maybe most of you will answer yes. However, in fact, many people are under sub-healthy state. Sub-healthy state can be defined as a state that a human being’ health is disturbed by psychological or physical factors, with some abnormal indices of medical examination, but without typical pathologic features. Sub-healthy state could result from unreasonable diet, irregular and lacking rest, long-term overstress, and so on. In addition of worldwide environmental deterioration, the prevalence of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, especially overweight and obesity diseases, keeps increasing. According 2011-2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Doctor Cynthia L. Ogden and her teammates found that over two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, while 31.8% of children are (806-14). The statistics is shocking. One of the main reasons that cause overweight or obesity is unhealthy, irregular and inappropriate diet. Thus, with improvements in life quality and healthcare, people begin to pay more attention on their health state and living pattern, such as exercise, fitness and diet planning. Some people believe that vegetarian diet is good for health. Though the definition of “vegetarianism” is diverse, the simplest and commonest definition of vegetarian is “a person who does not eat meat, fish, or fowl or products containing these foods” (Position of the American Dietetic Association and dietitians of Canada: