Anti-obesity medication

Obesity is NOT a disease “Close to a billion people – 1/8th of the world’s population still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve”- Jonathan Sacks, a British rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism. How does this reflect on the rest of us? This makes everyone in these developed countries look bad and unhealthy, even the ones…

Ladies and Gentlemen, today I come before you to discuss Aging and staying mentally active. First, I want to tell you about David Snowden who was the director for the Nun Study which involved hundreds of nuns in aging (Belluck, 2001). He wrote the book “Aging Gracefully,” which discusses aging and disease of old age and how the nuns tend to keep their mental faculties even when diagnosed as Sister Mary was with dementia. Sister Mary who donated her brain after she died wanted to continue to…

becoming extremely lazy due to the convenience and advancement of technology. Also fast food corporations and restaurants are becoming convenient, cheap, and satisfying, which leads young adults to opt out on buying healthy and fresh meals. To diminish obesity, the current and future generations need to make a stand against the fast food corporation while searching…

American society faces an increasing problem relating to obesity and the epidemic of growing health problems among the younger generation. The problem continues to increase because of the failure to educate citizens on the benefits and importance of exercise and proper nutrition. College students face the worst effects by being surrounded by non-nutritional meal options, an abundance of coursework, and maximum amounts of stress. Proper nutrition and daily exercise can serve as a healthy…

Genetics’ roles on Obesity As the obesity epidemic continues to overpower and overwhelm the United States, the main cause remains a mystery. Society blames the fast food industry, and a person’s will for their obesity problem, but a problem that seems to elude them is genetics, and how this sets everything in motion. A person’s genes are predetermined, meaning if a person has the “obesity gene” they are predestined to be at minimal, overweight. This being said, it will be easier for an…

Four pneumonias, eight surgeries, twenty-four CAT scans, fifty-one x-rays, four hundred and two IV lines, countless nurses, doctors, and surgeons, and a life expectancy of about forty years old. At this point, I consider the hospital my second home. When you are made aware of the fact that there is a ticking clock counting down your every last day, hour, minute, second, and breath, an overload of epinephrine and norepinephrine flood your body. This response is known as fight or flight. Therefore…

as “the condition of being physically fit and healthy.” There are a multitude of definitions of what fitness means, it’s different for each person. Although the term is broad, it solely refers to overall health and well-being. Despite the growing obesity rates in America, fitness has become an obsession. What was once a trend in the late 70s has become a lifestyle rather than a fad for the population. It can be argued whether fitness will keep the human body healthy or not since there are proven…

An Apple A Day Keeps The National Health Crisis Away America is the fattest country in the world. We love to eat meat and cook everything in a deep fryer. Our "food" is made out of chemicals produced in a lab, cooked on a conveyer belt, and put in a box. Most of our food won 't go bad for weeks because of all the preservatives we have in them. While we are preserving our chemical nuggets and enjoying our pink meat disks we are not preserving our health or the health of future generations.…

What is fasting and when should it be done? Fasting is an act of not consuming any food or drink for a certain period of time and it can be done at any day or anytime and they do not have any specific duration for fasting. It depends on the level of their abilities to persist at fasting. Fasting have always been related to religious obligation. Some religions that fasting are Muslims and Christians. For Muslims, they have specific duration and time to fast. In a year, they will have to fast for…

more problematic is obesity, as it is becoming more prevalent and the amount of deaths related to it are increasing. The affects of obesity are also a problem because of its causes on the human body and its correlation with heart problems, cancer, diabetes, etc. A recent study shows, that of the United States adult population, more than a third are considered obese and this number continues to rise (Gore, Diallo, & Padilla, 2015). One of the major influences that help promote obesity is the…