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If you’ve tried just about everything you can imagine to lose weight, sooner or later someone is going to mention weight loss surgery. Weight loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery is a relatively new set of procedures and has found some success. To find […]

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In our study, physical activity discouragement was more common among troop leaders than physical activity promotion. For example, observations of troop leaders telling the girls to sit down, settle down, and not to run were recorded by our research assistants. Troop leaders offered no verbal […]

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Acne is a skin disease where the sebaceous glands in the skin become infected due to clogging because of oil and bacteria causing inflammation. It often causes pimples on the face, neck and back which is common during adolescence and affects adults. In addition, scarring […]

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The symptoms of back pain are the pains itself. It is very hard to understand the symptoms because pain alone is a symptom that indicates damage in the spine or there is an impending disease that only the doctor can diagnose. As much as the […]

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Arthritis is a painful and sometimes debilitating disease, that does not have a cure. Many people go through their daily lives receiving little or no relief for their arthritis pain. Even though there are prescription medications on the market to help reduce the inflammation that […]

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Over the course of the observation period, objective monitoring was conducted on seven occasions at each troop meeting site. At the beginning of each meeting, a research assistant used an adjustable elastic belt to place an ActiGraph GT1M accelerometer-based physical activity monitor (Shalimar, FL), on […]

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The Girl Scouts of the USA offers one type of after-school program that could provide a unique setting to address girls’ physical activity in the absence of boys. Girl Scouts of America is organization dedicated solely to girls, and there are currently approximately 3.7 million […]

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A large portion of a child or adolescent’s day is typically spent in school, where physical education (PE) and recess periods provide some opportunities for children to participate in physical activity. Nationwide, only 53.6% of youth went to physical education classes on one or more […]

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