Comparison Contrast on Anorexia and Bulimia Starving for Acceptance In today’s society, where physical characteristics are used to measure beauty and success, people are willing to push their bodies to extremes to achieve physical perfection. As an overweight woman, I may be considered a failure of society’s beauty test. However, my high self-esteem and acceptance of my body allows

Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle cell anemia is an autonomic recessive disorder in which abnormal hemoglobin leads to chronic hemolytic anemia along with periodic episodes of pain. The mutation in hemoglobin sickle cell anemia is a blood condition primarily affecting people of African ancestry. It has been researched and proven that the error in the hemoglobin gene results from a genetic muta

Hepatitis B Hepatitis I INTRODUCTION Hepatitis, inflammation of the liver caused by viruses, bacterial infections, or continuous exposure to alcohol, drugs, or toxic chemicals, such as those found in aerosol sprays and paint thinners. Hepatitis can also result from an autoimmune disorder, in which the body mistakenly sends disease-fighting cells to attack its own healthy tissue, in t

Strength Training Why Everyone Should Strength Train Strength training is an important part of my everyday life. By strength training, I do not mean just lifting weights, I would also include walking, jogging, and running. All four come together to make a well rounded, overall healthy person. While many people know some of the benefits of strength training, they neglect to use them

Steroids Steroids What are Steroids There are three major divisions of steroids: corticosteroids, estrogens and progestogens, androgens. Corticosteroids are found in both prescription and non-prescription cremes that are used to control rashes and itches. These two common trade names are Cortaid and Lanacort. This form of steroid is not to be thought of as having addictive propertie

Alcholism One out of thirteen adults are considered to be an alcoholic or suffer from a drinking problem. Today, fourteen million Americans suffer from a disease that is caused by a combination of physiological, psychological, social, and genetic factors. Alcoholism is a developmental disease that progresses slowly over a number of years and is based on both the physical and emotional

Attention Hyperactive Disorder Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Do you remember a bully or outcast in your grade school years that always required extra attention from the teacher or couldn’t sit still long enough for a short story to be read' Do you remember the child who always interrupted when someone was talking' Do you remember how your teacher handled it' For years, c

The Slimming Of America The Slimming of America What is beauty' Beauty as defined by Websters Dictionary is “The quality that gives pleasure to the mind or the senses.” Having beauty or being beautiful is something that peoples throughout the world have tried to achieve for years. Unfortunately in America, being beautiful means having the perfect body, and this has turned into an ob

The Skinny On Advertising The Skinny on Advertising "The average woman sees 400 600 advertisements per day, and by the time that she is 17 years old, she has received 250,000 commercial messages through the media." (Media Scope 1) This quote emphasizes the main strategy of all advertising companies; to cram everything they can into the heads of vulnerable targets in an attempt to sell a

Exercise & The Aged Exercise and the Aged Physical activities and healthy living is essential to all ages, including the elderly. Bodies are made for activity and without regular exercise they will not function at an efficient level. It is not age but lack of exercise that makes people stiff and numb, even young people can stiffen up without adequate exercise. Physical activity helps t

The Seeing Solution Receiving news of afflicted vision can be truly traumatic for the fledgling victim because suddenly, one is forced to choose his or her own weapon against squinting. This could mean looking like a geek with dorky glasses or dealing with the incessant need to poke one’s own eye ball. But an individual should never jump to any conclusions before contemplating the cons

The Uninsured The Uninsured The uninsured dilemma is an on going problem for approximately 44 million people across the United States. Many studies have been provided to research the opinions voiced about the current situation. In my own opinion before any research is stated, uninsured working Americans have become a personal issue to me in spite of my own mother being one of the

The War Againced Marijuana.....A Loosing Battle THE WAR AGAINST MARIJUANA…..A LOSING BATTLE Marijuana, also known as hemp, pot, grass, weed, hash, chronic, as well as many other slang terms, has been around since 3750 B.C (Brief 1). It was a drug used in ancient times to get a feeling of euphoria. Even in the early 1900’s, marijuana was a socially acceptable drug. However, a man named W

Hepatitis C Hepatitis C Hepatitis C (HCV) is a pathogen that destroys the liver infecting nearly 4 to 8 million people making it one of the top blood borne pathogens. It is the primary cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer killing around 10,000 or more people a year.. HCV is also the leading factor in patients who require liver transplant. 80% of those who contract HCV will go on to de

Contraceptives CONTRACEPTIVE USE AT FIRST INTERCOURSE The 1995 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) report on contraceptive use at First intercourse presented tables of data based on women population 15 to 44 years of age in the U.S. who had voluntary premarital intercourse. The tables illustrate percentages of women that used contraceptives and selected methods of contracepti

Stress And How It Effects The Human Body. I’ve always wondered if fear could actually cause illness or even death. Growing up I heard terms such as scared to death or scared me to death and I would ask myself could that really happen. In researching for this paper I’ve found many cases of fear causing death or near death experience. In this paper I will refer to evidence I’ve foun

A Life Spent as a Couch Potato Cannot be a Healthy One A fat man sits on his faded plaid couch watching his television that has been on the same channel for days. Sure he could change the channel, but there is one problem; he lost the remote control in all of his trash. So why wont he get up and change it himself' It’s because he is too lazy. And as the black river of ants parade away

To Smoke Or Not To Smoke' To smoke or not to smoke' These days, most people know the answer—and yet 46 million Americans lit up last year, at least 1 million for the first time (Levingston 96). Despite the mounting evidence, the tobacco industry stubbornly defends its products, contending that no one has proved a cause-and-effect link between smoking and disease. On the contrary medic

Tobacco, The Unhealthy Plant Light. That word is practically used for everything healthy these days. Light on calories. Light on fat. The word itself has practically come to mean “Healthy.” No wonder cigarette companies want to call their products “light.” They try to trick us into believing that some of their products aren’t bad for us. And if “light” cigarettes aren’t that bad,

Obesity sychological Status Dysphoric mood state and weight status are frequently related (31). The data analysis from the National Health Epidemiological follow-up study to the first National Health and Nutrition Survey revealed that depression played a substantial role in the patterns of weight change in US adults (34). Persons who gain weight with one episode of depression tend to g

Emotional Wellness When someone says, “you are looking very well today.” What do they really mean' There are many different type of wellness. But the one that I feel that is often over looked and disregarded is emotional wellness. I would like to talk about the actual definition, the factors, and a couple of personal experiences that make up emotional wellness in the day-to-day life.

Supermodels Of Yesterday And Today Supermodels of Yesterday and Today The fashion industry is filled with people from both ends of the spectrum. That is why there isn’t just one thing that makes a model successful. Everything from physical appearance to the image they represent are factors in success. For example, look at Gia and Cindy Crawford they are two of the biggest names i

Drugs These days, drugs can be found everywhere, and it may seem like everyone's doing them. Many teens are tempted by the excitement or escape that drugs seem to offer. But learning the facts about drugs can help you see them for what they are and can help you steer clear. Drugs are chemicals or substances that change the way our bodies work. When you put them into your body, drugs find

CPR CPR It’s October 26, 2001 and you’re driving on the 198 headed home. A speeding car passes you and cuts you off. You think to yourself what a jerk because two weeks prior you had just gotten a speeding ticket on that same freeway. Then suddenly the car that just cut you off loses control. His vehicle swerves and hits the center divider. You immediately pull over to the accident s

Anorexia When does dieting become an obsession and when does an obsession become a disease' We must ask ourselves these questions when looking at adolescents suffering from this deadly disease known as anorexia nervosa. It can be described as a refusal to eat, a severely abnormal eating pattern, or self-starvation. A person with anorexia is called an anorexic. Statistics show that 95

Creatine “What type of supplement do you take'” This is a common question people are asked in a high school weight room. People usually reply by saying they take creatine. The age of high school students range from 15 to 18 years of age. Creatine is a nutritional supplement and is said to be safe among adults. On the other hand, there is little information about health risks o

Revolution American society during the Revolutionary War could not help but be infused by the ideals that the revolution itself was based upon. The primary philosophical development of the revolution was the development of egalitarianism as an important societal ideal. During the period from 1700 to 1760, the separate economic classes in America had become more distinct. Those with

Rigoberta Menchu Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Rigoberta Menchu, grew up in a life full of hatred and oppression, but these things were what made her become a stronger person, and led her to be the person that she became. Growing up in Latin America is already hard, but growing up in Latin America as an indigenous person (una “India”), is among the toughest things to

Rise And Fall Of Enron The Rise and Fall of Enron BY C. WILLIAM THOMAS If you’re like most, you’ve been astonished, disillusioned and angered as you learned of the meteoric rise and fall of Enron Corp. Remember the company’s television commercial of not so long ago, ending with the reverberating phrase, “Ask why, why, why'” That question is now on everyone’s lips. The Enron c

Robber Barons Robber Barons What is a robber baron' Webster’s New Dictionary defines it as an American capitalist of the late 19th century who became wealthy through exploitation (As of natural resources, governmental influence, or low wage scales) or a person who satisfies himself by depriving another. In America we had a lot of these kind of people. For this report I am going to te