Jordan is a 14-year-old middle school student, weighing 275 pounds and is 5’6” t

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Jordan is a 14-year-old middle school student, weighing 275 pounds and is 5’6” tall. Over the past 2 years, he has gained 60 pounds, as he has begun to withdraw from social activities, and avoid other students, due to bullying from others his age about his weight/appearance. Lately, Jordan has been missing a great deal of school too, particularly on the days he has gym. Jordan’s parents are both average in height and weight, and Jordan’s mother says that he just takes after his grandfather William, who “was a husky man, and died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 44”. She says “We just have fat genes in the family; you can’t do anything about that”! He has been told he had “no willpower, or is weak, or that he needed to change his lifestyle, eat less and exercise more.” Jordan says “I go for a couple days without eating, but then I get so hungry that I could eat the couch”! You are the school nurse doing height and weight assessments on the middle school group this year. How would you assess and advise Jordan?

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first evaluate the average weight should have a much average function of an average height as a relationship between these two variables, second evaluate the feeding jordan at home if the right in its development like abit of food intake and if it is balanced and can be considered possible problem in your hormones so it would be good to recommend a series of tests to make sure your body is working adecaudo. whereas the lack of activity or exercise results in a decrease of the tractor speed your metabolism so the idea is not to stop eating but have a balanced diet that allows the body to get the necessary vitamins and disinucion of body fat to reduce that are consumed colorias

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