The Role of Teachers in Teaching Students with Eating Disorders
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This 11 page paper considers the role of teachers in enhancing cognitive, social, emotional and physical aspects of students with eating disorders. This paper outlines the implications for teaching students with eating disorders, with a concentration on the role of teachers in the educational model. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Essay Title: The Role of Teachers in Teaching Students with Eating Disorders

"Green Tea Extract Boosts Exercise Endurance": A Critique of Experimental Design and Findings
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A 3 page critique of a research study conducted by researchers at the Biological Sciences Laboratories of Kao Corp., Tochigi, Japan. This study reports a correlation with green tea consumption and improved physical endurance. The author of this paper points out some important considerations in regard to experimental design and the researcher's affiliation that make these findings less impressive. No additional sources are listed.
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Essay Title: "Green Tea Extract Boosts Exercise Endurance": A Critique of Experimental Design and Findings

A Comparison of the Psychological Processes and Behavioral Manifestations of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
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An 18 page discussion of the etiologies and causes of these types of eating disorders. Describes each condition noting the frequency of its occurrence. Emphasizes that the impact of these conditions can range from maladaptive social behavior to severe physical consequence, even death. Differences in cognitive processing mechanisms are believed to exist between those that suffer from conditions such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa and the general population. While anorexia is ego-syntonic from the cognitive perspective, bulimia is ego-dystonic. Both conditions, however, involve negative automatic thoughts, dysfunctional assumptions and core beliefs. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Essay Title: A Comparison of the Psychological Processes and Behavioral Manifestations of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

A Critical Analysis of Eric Schlosser's “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”
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A 9 page overview of Schlosser's examination of the fast food industry. The author provides a general overview of Schlosser's premises and reviews Chapter 2 of the book in considerable detail. No additional sources are listed.
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Essay Title: A Critical Analysis of Eric Schlosser's “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”

A History of Medications
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This 6 page paper examines the history of medications. How medications were developed over time is explored. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Essay Title: A History of Medications

A Personal Weight Loss Plan
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A 5 page experiment designed to effect realistic weight loss in a forty-two year old, 170 pound female. Determines the existing maintenance caloric intake and modifies that intake to effect a weight loss of three pounds per week. Charts the daily weight and caloric intake of the subject for the two week study period and graphs that information to illustrate the success of the program. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Essay Title: A Personal Weight Loss Plan

A Presentation to Children on the “Food Guide Pyramid”
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This 5 page report discusses the USDA’s “Food Guide Pyramid” should understand is that the pyramid was designed to make nutritional information easier and more understandable for a greater number of people. It provides a flexible and simplistic model that is easily presented and designed in ways that allow it to be easily remembered. It also offers a number of possibilities for presentation that make it applicable to senior citizens or first-graders. It is up to the presenter to develop a program around the pyramid which means that he or she has a wide range of creative possibilities for designing a presentation on the concepts the pyramid presents. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Essay Title: A Presentation to Children on the “Food Guide Pyramid”