Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Of all things in this world, what do you cherish above all else? Recanting views from the trivial and observing an essential reflection of what you must attain to carry on as an individual will, for most people, boil down to two key elements of life: wealth and health. The relevancy of such dire needs is not in question. However, the factor being that wealth and health is so tightly intertwined and relative with each other is not addressed prominently enough, allowing such disservice to venture onward.
The hierarchy of classes is the direct link in exposing the truths in the existing wealth-health gradient. For years the common knowledge was that the CEO 's of businesses; blue-collar professionals were under …show more content…
Leading the adrenal gland to release stress hormones, one major hormone being cortisol. In this process the blood stream is flooded with glucose, heart rate increases, and blood pressure increases. Your energy supply is reestablished. While a normal stress response spikes when necessary and stops when no longer required, chronic stress, due to relentless struggles, is a constant stress response occurring in a person. This stress response, in chronic cases, can prolong for months and even years. A surplus of cortisol could impair the immune system, leaving the person vulnerable for disease. This cortisol surplus could also inhibit memory and even suppress parts of the brain. This prolonged stress response can effect heart-rate variability and increases the chance of heart disease and …show more content…
He is an upper-class citizen and is in the top 1% in wealth-distribution in America. He lives in the affluent east Louisville area in a safe community where life expectancy is 79.3 years-old. Taylor reports good health at his age of 59. However, little does he know that himself and his fellow upper-class citizens are destined for a life of power and control; a major benefit to his health as we shall uncover more upon the further we go down the hierarchy of class. Jim Taylor is stressed, but he has the control and power in his CEO position to manage his stress far prior to when it would be become a health concern. 63.8% of citizens in Taylor 's community have college degrees and at this stage of living, have paid off college debts for the most part. This education is proven to propel these people into better scenarios and, inadvertently, better
Of all things in this world, what do you cherish above all else? Recanting views from the trivial and observing an essential reflection of what you must attain to carry on as an individual will, for most people, boil down to two key elements of life: wealth and health. The relevancy of such dire needs is not in question. However, the factor being that wealth and health is so tightly intertwined and relative with each other is not addressed prominently enough, allowing such disservice to venture onward.
The hierarchy of classes is the direct link in exposing the truths in the existing wealth-health gradient. For years the common knowledge was that the CEO 's of businesses; blue-collar professionals were under …show more content…
Leading the adrenal gland to release stress hormones, one major hormone being cortisol. In this process the blood stream is flooded with glucose, heart rate increases, and blood pressure increases. Your energy supply is reestablished. While a normal stress response spikes when necessary and stops when no longer required, chronic stress, due to relentless struggles, is a constant stress response occurring in a person. This stress response, in chronic cases, can prolong for months and even years. A surplus of cortisol could impair the immune system, leaving the person vulnerable for disease. This cortisol surplus could also inhibit memory and even suppress parts of the brain. This prolonged stress response can effect heart-rate variability and increases the chance of heart disease and …show more content…
He is an upper-class citizen and is in the top 1% in wealth-distribution in America. He lives in the affluent east Louisville area in a safe community where life expectancy is 79.3 years-old. Taylor reports good health at his age of 59. However, little does he know that himself and his fellow upper-class citizens are destined for a life of power and control; a major benefit to his health as we shall uncover more upon the further we go down the hierarchy of class. Jim Taylor is stressed, but he has the control and power in his CEO position to manage his stress far prior to when it would be become a health concern. 63.8% of citizens in Taylor 's community have college degrees and at this stage of living, have paid off college debts for the most part. This education is proven to propel these people into better scenarios and, inadvertently, better