Question

Obesity in African Americans

1. Identiy the stakeholders for obesity in African Americans using the influence diagram to visualize both the stakeholders and their relationships to another.

2. Please make sure that the influence diagram has the following qualities:

It includes obesity in African Americans

It identifies at least 10 stakeholders

It groups/clusters the stakeholders into logical categories

It shows the influence-relationship between those stakeholders and the target population

Answer 1

obesity is increasing rapidly in the United States,mainly in Hispanic and African American communitiest as well as white Americans but Asian are much healthier than other communities.

In order to maintain health and wellness of our children, it is the social responsibility to improve the quality of school lunches. Because children are future of our society and nation.obesity is one of the major problems of the 21st century in the U.S. because most of the diet of our children is the junk foods which contains high calorific value.due to change in eating habits and sleeping pattern situation is getting worse day by day.

DSM’s delineation of anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder give adequate coverage to the kinds of eating disorders to which men might be prone.

Typical eating disorders in men are anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder

Diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder(s) that would encompass the sorts of eating problems to which men are prone:

• Recurrent episodes of binge eating.

• Overeating.

• Continuous eating until reached to uncomfortable conditions

• Overeating without any hunger sensation.

• eating alone due to embarrassment.

• feeling depressed and guilty after overeating.

some of the cognitive, emotional, biological, and psychosocial factors behind men’s disordered eating are:

• The lower level of self-esteem

• Separation of parents

• BMI problems(high or low)

• Peer group pressure

• Psychological disorders

• Social group pressure

The epidemiologic paradox is also known as the Hispanic paradox or Latino paradox.

It is based on the epidemiological researchers and findings that Latin American and Hispanic people are more healthier than non-Hispanic white American besides their socioeconomic status in the society. surveys showed that mortality rate of Latin American and Hispanic community is low as compared to white counterparts.

Kyriakos Markides coined the term Hispanic epidemiological paradox in 1986.

There is two main theory that provides the explanation of this paradox.

• The first theory suggests that it may occur due to the migration of sick Hispanic people to their homeland before coming to death and new young and healthy immigrant replaces them.

• Another theory suggests that Hispanic people have the slower ageing rate as compared to white American people.