Essays on Health Page 246

An activity that welcomes all no matter the age or size, surfing for some become a lifestyle and the ocean becomes their home. The ocean is a surfer home but it is an also a sharks’ domain, so we should do our best to protect it. People know the risk they take when they go…

Have you ever had this instance when you woke up in the middle of the night and you’re hungry so you get up and eat? Well, what if I tell you that there is this eating disorder that makes you get up in the middle of the night and smash on a lot of food….

Down syndrome (DS) is a genetic disorder that affects the body interiorly, exteriorly and mentally as well. When babies are born, they are born with twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, one chromosome that comes from the mother and one that comes from the father. Within those twenty-three chromosomes that the body creates at an early stage…

What is there to debate? Several sources repeatedly convey similar information on the care that a physical therapist provides. The Handbook of Physical Therapy, written by Robert Shestack, Current Physical Therapy, a book by Malcolm Peat, and “A Future in Physical Therapy,” an internet publication by The American Physical Therapy Association, have notably parallel information…

For years, heart attacks have struck fear into the eyes of Americans. All cardiovascular diseases together are the widest cause of death in the country, with heart attacks alone accounting for about twenty-three percent of all fatalities (Staff, 1997). Doctors have tried to reduce this risk over time by advising patients about lowering cholesterol levels,…

My family has never been one with a significant amount of health problems. My grandparents are the ones who suffer the the most from health related illnesses, but mostly because of their age. After completing the family tree, the only re-occuring problem I found was hypertension. I chose to write about hypertension because it is…

Medicare was established in 1965 after President Lyndon B Johnson signed a legislation for the Social Security Act. This is when Americans began receiving Medicare as their health coverage. Not just 12 months later did more Medicare coverage for hospital and medical insurance benefits take off. Medicare is comprised of four different parts available for…

You might have noticed that excess fat is a concern usually stored in the abdomen and groin. It not only looks terrible, but it can also trigger many illnesses such as thyroid, BP, and sugar. Here we will learn how to lose fat from the belly. For this, we will talk about effective exercise, yoga,…

Adolescents want to try new things and seek new risks to create their own identity. Adolescents differ from adults because they consume an excessive amount of alcohol in a short period and are less likely to report withdrawal symptoms. Adolescents perceive that alcohol and substance use is “normal” because many people engage in them. The…

Most spinal cord injuries have an almost immediate and devastating effect on the person’s motor control. These severe impairments result from the interrupted communication between the brain and spinal cord, which deprives the spinal cord below the injury of instructions from the higher-level executive functions in the body. Without the essential sources of direction and…