Essays on Health Page 29

The human body demands essential nutrients in order to function, grow, maintain and repair it, thrive. The best route to obtain success is by food. Healthy food carries in a lot of nutrients combinations and other healthful substances that can help the human body. Eating a balanced diet day by day is the key to…

6 March 2020  Tess Holiday, a five foot, three-hundred-pound woman appeared on the cover page of Cosmopolitan in October 2018. She stands, glossed and confident, telling haters to “kiss her ass” (2018). Covers such as these are just one demonstration of how the mainstream media has embraced the body positivity movement with open arms. Aerie,…

Our academic article, “Meditation or Medication? Mindfulness training versus medication in the treatment of childhood ADHD: A randomized controlled trial.” written by Renee Meppelink, details and argues for the use of mindfulness over medication when combating ADHD. Published in March of 2016, Meppelink along with two other authors describe a hypothetical experiment to test the…

Like many, I can’t say as always been a life long dream for me. I didn’t grow up with a family of physicians or nurses. As a young a child child growing up in Haiti I always wanted to become a teacher. I remember playing classroom with my friends and correcting their homework or helping…

Kinesio taping was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Kenzo Kase.1 Using his knowledge and career experience as a chiropractor, Dr. Kase wanted to create another method of intervention that could help his patients even after they left his clinic and went about their daily activities. This intervention is commonly used in order to help…

The medical sector can be said to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of technology and its subsystems. Various computer systems are in place in the modern world that assists doctors and other medical professionals to carry out their work in a collaborative environment that is enhanced with efficiency and speed of these smart systems….

Furthermore, switching to this system will enable citizens to act irresponsibly with the comfort of receiving free healthcare. This is mostly because it is part of the human nature to make use out of what is given. Which is very convenient and smart in most cases but people tend to take it too far. In…

A gravely ill boy is rushed to the hospital by his parents. After a two hour long drive, he finally arrives to the hospital, but his condition has become worse. When he gets to the hospital, he has to wait four hours to see a doctor. The doctor then runs a few tests and tells…

Last November, I attended a Rangers game at Madison Square Garden. My friends and I stuck around after the game to try and get as close as we can to the ice as the remainder of the celebrating fans flooded out of the stadium. We realized how late we were to our train so we…

If given the choice between fixing the access to care or the high cost of U.S. health care, which would be the first on your list of priorities? Consider why. If given the choice, fixing the high cost of U.S. healthcare would be on the priority list. It seems as if access to health care…