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Nutrition and Wound Healing, 2008.
This paper discusses the importance of nutrition in wound healing.
1,334 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 44.95
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The paper discusses the importance of nurses understanding the process of wound healing and including nutritional interventions in their care plans. The paper relates that the patient must have a diet that is rich in protein, carbohydrates, lipids, Vitamins A and C, along with various minerals and explains that different nutritional needs are essential for each stage of wound healing. The paper looks at high risk patients; those with diabetes, older patients and those on dialysis.
Outline:
Introduction
Wound Healing and Nutrition
Pressure Ulcers
Patients at High Risk
The Nurse's Role
Conclusion
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"Nutrition plays an essential role in the pathology of wound healing because it allows for optimal healing. In addition, wounds cause an increase in body metabolism that can lead to extensive weight loss and a reduction in lean muscle mass, which then impairs wound healing (Nelson, 2003). Proper nutrition allows the body to regain its balance. Nurses need to understand the process of wound healing and include nutritional interventions in their care plans. Wound healing consists of three interrelated phases: inflammation; the proliferative stage; and a process of remodeling (Leininger, 2002). Different nutritional needs are essential for each stage of wound healing."
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Kentucky Fried Chicken and Fast Food, 2008.
This paper evaluates Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and the fast food industry in general.
3,525 words (approx. 14.1 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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The paper relates that the fast food industry generally does well both domestically and internationally. The paper looks at the recent movement towards healthy living and eating that has impacted negatively on the industry. The paper discusses KFC's competition, corporate governance, ethics and social responsibility, stakeholders, internal strengths and weaknesses, and external opportunities and threats.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Competitors
Corporate Governance
Trends Affecting the Fast Food Industry
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Stakeholders
External Environment
Internal Strengths and Weaknesses
External Opportunity and Threats
Issue Priority Matrix
Mapping Strategic Groups
Industry Matrix
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"Though KFC, Yum! Brands, Inc., and the fast food industry in general are lucrative, recent movement towards healthy living and eating has impacted negatively on the industry and now comprises a significant long-term sociocultural environmental variable. Short term, the fast food industry generally does well both domestically and internationally owing to busy lifestyles and the growing number of adults who live alone and prefer take-out to cooking. However, the industry is now being threatened by healthier, swift, sophisticated and cheap alternatives, such as the current take-away sushi boom. Many existing players in the fast food industry have responded to this environmental threat by including healthy food options in their restaurants. Prominent examples include McDonalds and the newer entrant to the fast food market, Subway. However, as KFC is primarily popular for its fried (and therefore, unhealthy) chicken and related fried products, the company has not adjusted to this threat at a competitive level."
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The Risk Society and Food Consumption, 2008.
This paper explores the role of alternative food systems as risk management.
2,055 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 64.95
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The paper discusses the theme of the "risk society" in respect to food production and distribution. The paper defines the term "risk society" and looks at how decisions are made to ignore risks in order to benefit from the overall convenience gained through using a commercialized food distribution system. The paper discusses the specific risks associated with commercialized agriculture. The paper points out how some consumers avoid these risks through engaging in alternative food acquisition systems, such as purchasing organic products or buying food through community supported agriculture organizations.
Outline:
Introduction
The Theme of the Risk Society
Risk Society and the Rationale for Alternative Food Supplies
Examples of Alternative Food Supplies
Summary
From the Paper
"Mainstreamed, commercialized food distribution tends to be a heavily industrialized process. When food is treated like a commodity, it is purposefully marketed towards potential consumers and made available through specific modes of sale, such as supermarkets and restaurants. This process does help facilitate the movement of food through transportation and improves access to food products among those consumers who are in proximity to local points of distribution. However, some social scientists suggest that it is easy to confuse the aspects of convenience with those of safety, especially when it is frequently argued that a centralized system of food distribution enables ease of access for monitoring food product safety through the use of independent government oversight (e.g.: the Food and Drug Administration). In this sense, it can be argued that these perceptions of commercialized food purposefully ignore the risks that are associated with convenient food distribution."
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An Intervention for Obesity, 2008.
This paper discusses obesity and looks at the part played by nursing interventions in the rehabilitation of patients.
2,024 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 64.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that obesity is escalating throughout North America as a result of macro-environmental, micro-environmental, as well as biological social and cultural factors. The writer also points out that obesity is linked to numerous diseases, psychological problems and mortality. The writer maintains that socio-cultural factors in the forms of advertising and ethnic customs influence the consumption of large amounts of unhealthful foods and interfere with the over-eater's motivation to eat healthfully. Further, the writer maintains that it is the role of the nurse to develop an effective individualized care plan. The writer concludes that best practices can be achieved by individual nurses, other health professionals, the entire unit, and by the mental health care system as a whole.
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"A gap analysis demonstrated inconsistencies between the evidence as outlined above and current practices. As indicated the research indicates the beneficial impact of nursing interventions upon reduction in patient overweight and obesity. However, on a rehabilitation unit and indeed on any surgical unit, overweight and obesity are much more aligned with crisis interventions and little can be achieved in the way of interventions simply because the problem is too pronounced. The overweight patient who must ambulate and participate in strenuous exercises after arthroplasty is just not capable of these actions. Interventions aimed at weight reduction are introduced out of realization of crisis but the patient needs to direct energies to recovery as well as to the intervention. Another consideration is that prompt discharge from the unit interferes with the type of sustained intervention that is needed."
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Kentucky Fried Chicken, 2008.
This paper analyzes KFC and the fast food industry in general.
4,138 words (approx. 16.6 pages), 16 sources, APA, $ 110.95
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The paper discusses how, although the fast food industry in general is lucrative, recent movement towards healthy living and eating has impacted negatively on the industry and its players. The paper relates that as KFC is primarily popular for its fried, unhealthy chicken products, the company has not adjusted to this threat at a competitive level. The paper examines KFC's management, the trends affecting the fast food industry, the company's ethics and social responsibility and their external environment.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Competitors
Corporate Governance
Trends Affecting the Fast Food Industry
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Stakeholders
External Environment
Internal Strengths and Weaknesses
External Opportunity and Threats
Conclusion
From the Paper
"KFC, otherwise known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a restaurant chain based in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Owned by Yum! Brands, Inc., KFC is a major competitor in the fast food industry, renown for its fried chicken and other fast food offerings. Though the company's presence is heavy in its birth country, America, it also performs well in the international fast food arena. KFC is popular not only in North America (including Canada) but Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and China, where it is now the nation's most popular fast-food chain."
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Psychology of Health and Disease, 2008.
This paper discusses the psychology of health and disease through the study of the health profile of a female.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the case of Mary, a female of Aboriginal descent, who is 29 years of age and in generally good physical condition. The writer notes that Mary does have some problems with her weight, which is often in considerable flux, and is concerned about diabetes. In addition, the writer points out that Mary also possesses an inherited genetic disability that runs in her family. This paper approaches the health profile of Mary from a multidimensional perspective. The writer concludes that Mary's health profile reveals not only the importance of a multi-dimensional bio-psychosocial approach to health, but also the extraordinary degree to which psychological, biological and social factors overlap each other as primary determinants of her state of health as revealed in the health profile.
Outline:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Conclusion
Appendix
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"Eating and weight are issues of prominent concern in Mary's life. These concerns are associated with her concern about diabetes given her Aboriginal heritage, as noted above. However, they are also connected to family history concerns as well as personal body image problems in youth. She recognizes this is a socialized model of beauty as being equated with extreme thinness that she has inherited from society. Nonetheless, however, Mary is committed to weight reduction through dieting and exercise. It must be noted, however, that her weight has often been in flux due to her admitted habit of "binge eating" on occasion to cope with severe stress or depression."
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Genetically Modified Foods, 2008.
A personal viewpoint on the genetically engineered food debate, focusing on the "Monsanto vs. Percy Schmeiser" litigation case.
1,995 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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The paper examines the "Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser" case and the decision of Canada's Supreme Court to give agricultural multinationals the power to penalize and to bring before the courts farmers who find themselves the inadvertent possessors of patented seed products. The paper argues that this case is an example of patent protections being expanded in ways that ultimately hurt farmers, endanger the environment, encourage greater genetic modification of foodstuffs and cause genetically modified foods to find their ways onto the plates of ordinary Canadians in ever-increasing numbers. The paper is of the opinion that the inability of the Court to appreciate the long-term consequences of its decision will cause hardship for many.
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"The following paper will look at the ongoing debate about the genetic manipulation of foodstuffs with an eye towards exploring whether or not the expansive patent rights recently granted to plant seed developers such as Monsanto is an example of forward-thinking jurisprudence by the Canadian Supreme Court - or an instance of short-sighted legal reasoning that will create more problems than it will solve. Such a paper is important because genetically modified foodstuffs - courtesy of powerful multinationals - are more prevalent now than ever before and the likelihood that the foods we eat will be foods engineered in a laboratory somewhere is an issue which should be of the utmost concern to anyone who has reservations about eating such items and/or reservations about the ecological and environmental ramifications of introducing into an agricultural ecosystem a living organism that nature has not on its own seen fit to introduce."
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Childhood Nutrition, 2007.
This paper is an article review that discuses three factors affecting children's acceptance of new foods.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper is based on an article by Leann Birch titled 'Development of Food Acceptance Patterns' in the July 1990 issue of "Developmental Psychology". The author points out that knowing what affects children's eating patterns can make a difference in whether a child is healthy or obese. The paper relates that the three factors affecting whether a child will try a new food and the patterns of food choice a child will have are culture, biology and individual experience. The paper stresses that the role of the caregiver is to teach children the importance of eating nutritious foods.
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"When children sense the stress and concern over whether the child will eat a new food, they often refuse due to the anxiety they are feeling about them eating it. For instance, a young girl was asked to eat barbecue ribs. She could tell that her parents did not think she would like it so she refused. When the young girl began dating and she was asked to try barbecue ribs by her boyfriend she tried it. She found she loved barbecue ribs. Later, she told her parents that she could sense that they did not think she would like it so she refused."
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Food Knowledge and Power, 2007.
An examination of the sociological, technological, environmental and safety issues related to a lasagna-based meal preparation.
2,263 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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This paper discusses the sociological, technological, environmental and safety issues related to food. It details one meal, lasagna, and then discusses several issues related to the production of the meal and the ingredients used. The paper analyzes the environmental factors involved in the ingredient preparation and growth, the risk and safety associated with some of the ingredients and the skills and knowledge involved in creating the meal.
Table of Contents:
Meal Chosen: Lasagna And Chips, Bread, Wine, Tea, Tap Water
Environmental Impacts Of Your Meal
The Social And Economic Relationships That Created Your Food
The Technology, Skills And Knowledge Involved In Creating Your Meal
Your Meal And Risk
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"This leads to another major issue - the safety requirements for exports and safe import standards. In order to support the economic requirements of global agriculture, Mitullah (2000) tells us that sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, as required for compliance with the World Trade Association (WTO) are often difficult for third-world countries to comply with. The costs associate with such an effort make competing in the agricultural market, based on the technology requirements, prohibitive. These restrictions are seen in the same light as tariffs or quantitative restrictions on trade (Mitullah, 2000) even though they are entirely technology driven and based. Mitullah (2000) estimates the cost of a hazard analysis and critical control point program to be $82.7 million for a five-year period."
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Vending Machines in Public Schools, 2007.
A look at the argument why vending machines should be removed from New Jersey public schools.
1,202 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses how the benefits from removing vending machines from New Jersey's schools has forced students to eat more nutritious snacks and drink less pop. It looks at how the removal of vending machines has brought many benefits to students compared to schools that still have vending machines.
Outline:
The Reasons for Removing Vending Machines from Public Schools
What Are the Benefits from Removing Vending Machines
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"In the past, many schools throughout the nation had several vending machines and pop machines. "Although the majority of schools offered some nutritious foods and beverages in these settings, the majority of schools also offered less nutritious choices" (Kann et al 2005, 370). Students are able to purchase canny, pop, and salty snacks such as potato chips. New Jersey is one of the states that required these vending machines to be removed from the schools. In the past, according to Martha Kubik, Leslie Lytle and Jayne Fulkerson, almost 75% of schools had a school lunch program (2004, 121). The problem is that though there are many options, many of the students eat from beverage and vending machines that adds to the weight and health problems of students. "
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Obesity and Physical Inactivity, 2007.
This paper explores nursing in regards to the prevention of physical inactivity and obesity intervention.
1,237 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 42.95
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The paper reveals the alarming prevalence of obesity and related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, colon cancer and hypertension. The paper provides a literature review and discusses the significant implications in terms of the practice of master's prepared nurses.
Outline:
Epidemiology of the Health Problem
Review of Interventions from the Literature
Implications for Master's Prepared Nurses
From the Paper
"Physical inactivity has become a significant issue, especially with the concern regarding the alarming prevalence of obesity and related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, colon cancer and hypertension in not only developed countries but also worldwide (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000). All these diseases are linked with physical inactivity depending on the disease. For example, obesity, cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes mellitus are linked to physical inactivity in that calorie expenditure does not exceed caloric intake."
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Bird's Nest Soup, 2007.
This paper looks at the Chinese bird's nest soup as a cultural food and tradition.
1,578 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 51.95
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The paper demonstrates how bird's nest soup provides a glimpse into Chinese and South Asian cultures. The paper discusses how bird's nest soup is a status symbol, associated with special occasions. The paper highlights how food plays an important role in matters of culture, involving far more than environmental conditions and nutrition. The paper also assesses how popular bird's nest soup remains in China today.
Outline:
Introductory Discussion
A Ritual Dish and Economic Activity
Concluding Remarks
From the Paper
"Swiftlet nests are believed by some to have aphrodisiac properties but more Chinese regard them as a tonic, their cost as a central ingredient renders the soup something served to honour an important guest or occasion. Consuming food in Chinese cultures remains a group, event-oriented process, the nature of dishes served known to guests, in contrast with what Marshall referred to as a 'narcissism' of Western consumption in its individual preferences. (2005:71) To prepare for a special meal in the home or in more expensive restaurants in Asia, a cook will buy cleaned and dried nests of the swiftlet, a tiny cave-dwelling bird whose nest is made from its own gummy saliva as hardens in the air. Dried bird's nest is soaked in water overnight, drained, brushed with peanut oil, and soaked again until no bits of feather, dust or other debris, rise to the top of the water."
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The Importance of Organic Food, 2007.
An analysis of the advantages of eating and buying organic foods.
1,284 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper discusses the importance of eating and buying organic foods. It looks at the reasons that organic food has become popular and discusses the social pressures that are associated with organic food consumption. The paper also discusses the advantages for the individual of eating organic foods and how people may be changing society by choosing to buy organic.
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"Society decides what foods they will eat including whether they choose to become healthier or to become unhealthy. Buying organic food is one way the society can make a difference in changing from unhealthy people to people who care about what they eat. Allen and Kobach states, "The notion that social goods such as environmental preservation can be procured through the market is well established in various approaches of environmental economics" (2000, 222). The question might be asked how a person can make a difference. Things in society change when people focus on spending their money as a statement. Allen and Kovavh state, "As Green Consumers, you have the right and responsibility to vote - with your dollars - on how well businesses are doing these things: how successfully they are addressing the issues you believe are important to your life" (2000, 222). Money often does the talking."
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Eating Habits, 2007.
An analysis of the factors that influence young people to eat unhealthy fast foods.
2,230 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 69.95
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This paper discusses the changing eating habits of young people. It looks at the lack of nutritional value in fast foods and discusses why, even with knowledge of this lack of value, young people continue eating these foods. The paper discusses the role of social factors and decisions that are contributing to the growing epidemic of obesity that is gripping the Western world. It then briefly discusses solutions to the problem.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
You Are What You Eat: A Blind Spot
Young People: Fast Lives and Fast Food
The Dynamics of Problematic Eating Habits
Conclusion
From the Paper
"But the role that coffee plays in young people is alarming. Mieszokski says that coffee has the traditional elements of fast food, calling it the "new cool" and aligning it with peer acceptance. Because of the increased stress and fast paced world coffee is also becoming a sort of cure-all, a "comfort food" that helps to reduce stress build up; this dependence on coffee for emotional release is challenging and mirrors the sorts of addiction common with cigarettes, which in the end, will have negative nutritional effects. What is most telling however is the way coffee has become a substitute meal. Giana Cirolina, a 16 year old student in Meiszokski's article says that "coffee is lunch. It's like the new mashed potatoes" (2). This is due to two reasons: first, again is the increased pace of student life, and with it the time to simply drink a cup of coffee instead of the time to eat a whole meal; secondly, it seems that young people, in an effort to fight rising weight as caffeine is an appetite suppressant, are skipping meals and substituting coffee instead (3)."
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Nutrition, 2007.
A case study presentation of the advantages and disadvantages of a specific diet and exercise routine.
1,230 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This case study presents a meal and exercise routine based on the recommended amounts of food per group by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of adherence to this diet. The paper then discusses the changes noted after adherence to the diet. The paper also looks at the difficulties encountered with keeping to the exercise routine.
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"There were a few difficulties encountered, however. Since the pre-sent menu consisted of dishes that needed to be prepared, coupled with time constraints on some days, there was the temptation to resort to prepared meals. This was encountered on more than one occasion. Another was the setting aside of time for physical activities. While 30 minutes was relatively little time demanded from a typical day, implementing it during days with a tight schedule resulted in skipping the routine or truncating time for it. Finally, there was a slight increase in expenditures related to the ingredients needed to make the dishes in the menu. Among the more expensive additions were fish, fruits and vegetables. Although the increase in expenditures did not seem significantly large for the week, one may infer that a long-term diet plan can be personally more expensive."
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Personal Health Behavior Change, 2007.
This paper attempts to implement and chronicle an applied behavior modification self-efficacy theory to the writer's daily lifestyle in an attempt to promote physical activity.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that physical inactivity has become linked with the alarming prevalence of obesity and related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, colon cancer and hypertension not only in developed countries but worldwide. The author points out that the self-efficacy theory, which is a derivative component of Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory, is associated with two other prerequisites for behavioral change - goals and outcome expectancies. The paper relates that the implementation of a behavior modification theory (self-efficacy theory) to the writer's daily lifestyle succeeded in initiating and maintaining physical activity through a structured exercise regimen that was achievable, sustainable and tolerable.
Table of Contents:
Physical Inactivity and Behavior Modification
Objective
Physical Inactivity and Health Behavior Theories
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Log
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"During the middle of the week, the writer had to implement pacing measures to ensure the tolerability and sustainability of the exercise regimen. The transtheoretical model, as previously mentioned, provides a descriptive perspective, as can be seen with the writer's contemplation of his goals and outcomes regarding the exercise regimen created, his taking action and maintaining it through the week. It can also be seen that its utility is somewhat limited in this scenario. The health locus of control can be seen in action as the log details deviations of this locus of control from the writer to what he felt after a few days (i.e. pain) as out of his control."
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Nutritional Science, 2007.
This paper explores the lack of scientific method in nutritional science.
1,159 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper looks at "Nutrition: From Myth and Magic to Science" by Alfred Harper where he discusses nutritional science's short history. The paper discusses how nutritional research lacks a solid and established knowledge base to refute popular hazardous diets and nutritional tips. The paper shows how today anyone can be an authority on nutritional science.
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"In the exploding world of global communication, personal information has become an activity of communal sharing. One of the most common human experiences is that of eating: it is only natural then that the channels of global communication, like magazines, the internet and TV, are saturated with ways to prepare dishes along with what foods and diets are the most healthy. Anyone who cares to have an opinion or release a diet has a venue to be heard. However, many of the diets and tips presented through these outlets may be untrue and potentially dangerous. Because of Nutritional Science's short history it lacks a solid and established knowledge base to immediately refute these hazardous diets and nutritional tips. The results: countless fad diets and a general distrust (and confusion) from the public as to what foods and practices of eating are the most beneficial."
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Healthful Chocolate, 2007.
This paper presents a business plan of marketing chocolate as a health food item.
785 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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The paper provides a creative marketing strategy for a chocolate-based health food snack, targeting individuals between 35 and 60 years of age. The paper explains the recent findings of the medical and scientific communities that have confirmed chocolate's health enhancing qualities. The paper relates that the creative focus is centered on the fact that a chocolate-based healthful snack food product is conducive not only to better health but to an overall lifestyle change.
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Abstract
Project Description and Background
Target Market Description
Target Market Insights
Goals
Obstacles
Focal Promise
Reasons to Believe
Copy Strategy
Tone
Media Channels
Creative Considerations/Mandatories
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"The project consists of a new advertising angle for chocolate. The traditional conception as well as the typical advertisement for chocolate has been as a candy or sweet, high calorie food product. However, recent medical and health research has confirmed what has long been conjectured; that chocolate has substantial health benefits (Chocolate, 2006). Repackaging chocolate as a health food item with the associated marketing collateral is the focus of this project."
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