Environmental Health Perspectives

The Inconvenience” The Trends of Bariatric Surgery Obesity has inflicted people due to the rise of high calorie products, which comprise the majority of food that we eat almost every day. This results to the increase of people developing various health problems like diabetes, hypertension, slow metabolism, coronary heart disease, and even cancer. There are more illnesses to mention and all rooted from being obese. Since obesity is hard to treat with exercise and dieting alone, obese people has…

who are still struggling to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Pursuing a career as a Nutritionist will provide me with the opportunity to inspire and encourage others to live a healthier life, explore my interest in health and exercise, and sharpen and expand my knowledge and skills in health; all in all, provide me with a sense…

I knew something was horribly wrong when I woke up on a lemon shaped inner-tube in a sea of squishy macaroni and cheese. Ever since I was little, the smell, texture, and pretty much everything about macaroni and cheese disgusted me. Cheese was meant to be sprinkled on top of noodles, not engulf them. Looking around at the yellow encrusted rocks and the velveeta cheese waterfalls, I felt like I was living a real life nightmare. Just over the ledge I could see what appeared to be a giant drop off…

CHAPTER 3 3.0 Introduction To establish the differences in consumer acceptance, the pork liver polony sample was compared against the Colcom standard polony. Experiments were conducted by manipulating the independent variable, adding pork liver in two of the polony treatments, and observing differences between the test samples and the control sample. Analyses were used to quantify and describe the differences in shelf life, sensory evaluation scores, microbiological analysis and proximate…

Poverty and malnutrition can create a self-sustaining cycle where there is never enough security or stability for recovery of health or economic…

your hands, take shower regularly, brush and floss your teeth and comb your hair. Nobody likes people who smell. If you don’t maintain your hygiene germs will spread like a forest fire on your body causing health issues. Also do not forget to make regular visits to your doctor and dentist for a health check. 7. Exercise- Human body hasn’t changed a bit from the Stone Age period but our lifestyle has transformed a lot. In the Stone Age, people did hunting for survival. Hunting includes a lot of…

self for not providing sufficient information about fast food . B) Your will be surprised to find out that fast food give pleasure to your taste bud but not to your health. Fast food will cause many negative effect through our health because it’s contain saturated fat, lot of sugar and salt that will lead to the chronic disease and health problem. Through the research from the market research firm Euromonitor ,more than ten…

From a personal and local perspective, the issue is relatable on so many levels. Growing up I along with my age fellows have been subjected to snide remarks on our weight and where some tell us we are too fat, some compliment our cute chubbiness. Many say that the dieting has made the young ones look good while others believe they look like a ‘walking and talking stick’. Looking around at every city I have travelled, the standard did not change and people kept commenting. This made me and my…

Accumulation of fats in different parts of human body effects the overall fitness and health of a person. This accumulation comes through imbalanced diet and lesser physical activities or lack of regular exercises. Apart from an untoned and fattier body appearance, fats start accumulating in form of Lipids which badly affects the blood circulation and may lead to serious heart diseases. People normally do physical activities, thinking that it will help eliminate the fat accumulation. But as a…

In our previous posts, we spoke about the various aspects of Ayurvedic nutrition, the six different tastes as per Ayurveda and their effect on our doshas and the body. We got a basic understanding of the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the food that we eat, or our ‘Aahara’. Now, Ayurveda says, there are some general eating habits that are conducive to better digestion and better assimilation of the food that we eat. Those habits are described here: PLAGUED BY IMPROPER DIGESTION,…