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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Obesity

Obesity is a condition where the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and mammals is increased to the point where it may impair health. Obesity in wild animals is relatively rare, but it is common in domestic animals like pigs and household pets who may be overfed and underexercised. In humans it is generally considered to be a leading cause of health problems. Excessive body weight has been shown to predispose to various forms of disease, particularly cardiovascular disease. Interventions, such as weigh ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia II - Obesity - Cultural and social significance Obesity - Culture and obesity. In several human cultures, obesity is associated with attractiveness, strength, and fertility. Some of the earliest known cultural artifacts, known as Venuses, are pocket-sized statuettes representing an obese female figure. Although their cultural significance is unrecorded, their widespread use throughout pre-historic Mediterranean and European cultures suggests a central role for the obese female form in magical rituals, and suggests cult ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Anti-obesity drug

Anti-obesity drugs include all pharmacological treatments intended to reduce or control weight. Because these drugs are intended to alter one of the fundamental processes of the human body, anti-obesity drugs are medically prescribed only in cases of morbid obesity, where weight loss is life-saving. Anti-obesity drug - Mechanisms of action. Anti-obesity drugs operate through one or more of the following mechanisms: Suppression of the appetite. Increase of the body's metabolism. Including:

Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Chubby culture

The chubby community is a subculture in the gay community. Chubbies (or "chubs") are gay men who are overweight or obese. There is some overlap between the chubby community and the bear community. (It is somewhat parallel to the Fat admirer/BBW subculture, which is primarily heterosexual.) This community has, for the most part, insulated themselves from the gay community at large. There are bars, organizations and social events specifically catering to this subculture. This allows for members of the chubby and bear communities to s ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Culture

The word culture, from the Latin colere, with its root meaning "to cultivate", generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Different definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical bases for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human activity. Anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the universal human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their experiences symbolically. This capacity is taken as a defining f ...

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Culture - Defining culture

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Culture of Ireland

The culture of the people living on the island of Ireland is far from monolithic. Many notable cultural divides exist between the rural people and city dwellers, between the Catholic and Protestant people of Ulster, between the Irish-speaking people within and without the Gaeltacht regions and the English-speaking majority population, between the settled people and the Travellers, and, increasingly, between new immigrants and the native population. Culture of Ireland - Land use and settlement patterns. ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Beer belly

A beer belly or beer gut is a physical human trait characterised by a horizontal overhang of fat above the waist, with little apparent fat on the rest of the body. Although it is not solely caused by the consumption of beer, it is a contributing factor. The beer belly is usually associated with men (women tend to store excess fat in other areas such as the hips and buttocks). A lack of muscle tone in the abdominal muscles contributes to the appearance of the beer be ...

Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Adipose tissue

Adipose tissue is an anatomical term for loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes. Its main role is to store energy in the form of fat, although it also cushions and insulates the body. It has an important endocrine function in producing recently-discovered hormones such as leptin, resistin and TNFα. Adipose tissue - Anatomical features. Adipose tissue is primarily located beneath the skin, but is also found around internal organs. In the skin, it accumulates in the deepest level, the subcutaneous la ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Culture of Portugal

This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. The culture of Portugal is rooted in the Latin culture of Ancient Rome, with a Celtiberian background (a mixture of pre-roman Moorish and Iberian). Culture of Portugal - Architecture. Since the 2nd millennium BC, there has been important construction in the area where Portugal is situated today. Befor ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Cultural geography

Cultural Geography is the study of natural and man-made representations on our society. This is a very terse description and by no means complete. To attend a greater feel of the subject the following terms and brief definitions are provided below. Political Theory of Culture (p 14): understanding culture in a manner seeing politics, economics, and society as concerned with the material relations of society and culture with the symbolic - looking at the total way of life. Culture (p 14): a wa

Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Western culture

Western culture refers to the culture that has developed in the Western world. It comprises the heritage of norms, values, customs and sometimes artifacts that the cultures of the Western world share. A Western culture refers to one of the many cultures in the Western world. The term ‘Western’ may be used as a contrast to Communist countries, to Daoist Asian countries, to Islamic nations, or to developing Third World countries. Various uses of the concept of ‘Western’ Culture have included, rightly or wron ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Cultural Revolution

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Simplified: 无产阶级文化大革命; Traditional: 無產階級文化大革命; Hanyu Pinyin: Wúchǎn Jiējí Wénhuà Dà Gémìng; literally "Proletarian Cultural Great Revolution"; often abbreviated to 文化大革命 wénhuà dà gémìng, literally "Great Cultural Revolution", abbreviated to 文革 wéngé) in the People's Republic of China was a revolutionary upsurge by Chinese students and workers against the bureaucrats of the Chinese Communist Party. ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Clovis culture

The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Native American culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 13,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. The culture is named for artifacts found near Clovis, New Mexico, where the first evidence of this tool complex was excavated in 1932. Earlier evidence included a mammoth skeleton with a spear-point in its ribs, found by a cowboy in 1926 near Folsom, New Mexico. Clovis sites have since been identified throughout all of the contiguous ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Culture of Romania

Literature Music Fine arts Cuisine Folklore Mythology Spirituality Actors Composers Painters Poets Writers Castles Museums Religious UNESCO WHS The Culture of Romania is rich and varied. Like Romanians themselves, it is fundamentally defined as the meeting point of three regions—Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans—but cannot be fully included in any of them. The Romanian identity formed on a substratum of mi ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Culture of England

The culture of England is sometimes difficult to separate clearly from the culture of the United Kingdom, so influential has English culture been on the cultures of the British Isles and, on the other hand, given the extent to which other cultures have influenced life in England. Culture of England - Art. Main article: English art English art is a term referring to a vast body of art originating from the geographical region presently referred to as England. This results in the term being almos ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Culture of Bhutan

Cradled in the folds of the Himalayas, Bhutan has relied on its geographic isolation to protect itself from outside cultural influences. A sparsely populated country bordered by India to the south and China to the north, Bhutan has long maintained a policy of strict isolationism, both culturally and economically, with the goal of preserving its cultural heritage and independence. Only in the last decades of the 20th century were foreigners allowed to visit the country, and only then in limited numbers. In this way, Bhutan has successfully preserved many aspects of a cu ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Blood culture

Blood culture is microbiological culture of blood. It is employed to detect infections that are spreading through the bloodstream (bacteremia, septicemia). Blood culture - Method. About 30 ml of blood is taken through venipuncture and injected into two "blood bottles" with specific media for aerobic and anaerobic organisms. Care needs to be taken that the bottles are not contaminated with bacteria from staff members or other patients. To that end, the patient's skin and the top of the blood bottles a ...

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Obesity - Culture and obesity: Encyclopedia - Cultural identity

Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity - Constructing cultural identity. Common characteristics and ideas may be clear markers of a shared cultural identity but essentially it is determined by difference: we feel we belong to a group, and a group defines itself as a group, by noticing and highlighting differences with other groups and cultures. Any culture defines i ...