Ridgeland Mississippi is a thriving community, which is positioned between Jackson, Mississippi and Madison, Mississippi. According to City-Data of Ridgeland (n.d.), Ridgeland’s population in 2013 was 24,427 with 11,160 males and 13,267 females. The land area is 15.9 square miles with a population density of 1,535 people per square mile. Ridgeland’s median resident age is 36.3 years old, compared to Mississippi’s median age, which is 36.6. The estimated median household income for Ridgeland is…
clinically obese (Najafipour, H, 2016). This is very bad noting that with obesity comes very bad health problems that can cut many lives short. My doctors and scientist have found that obesity can cause many diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders especially osteoarthritis and some cancers like endometrial, breast, and colon” (Jarali, A. B., & Radhakrishnan, G, 2013, p. 155). It is even predicted that the rate of obesity will continue to grow if we do not…
sparingly. Soft Drinks and Health Excess soda can cause or contribute to several health issues including obesity, diabetes, liver disease, tooth decay, and heart disease (Health…
Hello fellow students, today I’ll be talking to you about type 1 diabetes, otherwise known as diabetes mellitus. Diabetes type 1 is a disease that is inherited through DNA (Diabetesaustralia.com.au, 2015). This type of disease cannot be cured and is unpreventable, meaning the holder can have it occur at any stage in their life. Diabetes type 1 stop the creation of insulin to the body, which means that Glucose cannot be broken down, into much needed nutrients for the body. What is it? Glucose…
The theory that I am using for the Diabetes Case Study is, Roy Adaptation Model (RAM), which is a stress/adaptation theory. This theory shows that depending on the issue of the patient along with other social circumstances, it can make the difference in the way a person can get better and stay healthy. Since there are other factors, which can include social, psychosocial, or environmental, Stella needs to reflect to see what are things that can be modified and what things are non-modifiable. The…
Andrew got a job and his own apartment, he is happy because now he can eat whatever he wants without his parents telling him what to do. Andrew did not care about healthy food so for months now he has been eating fast food for all of his meals without much exercise because of his work. He is starting to noticed a 20 pound weight gain so he tries to find time to exercise a little but sadly cannot. Another three years pass and Andrew did not change his eating habits at all and gained 86 pounds…
asymptomatic adults and aimed to discover the percentage of individuals with undiagnosed metabolic syndrome (Bo et al., 2007). Using definitions of metabolic syndrome as established by the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) and International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the researchers discovered that 16.4% (NCEP) and 28.8% (IDF) of the subjects had metabolic syndrome but did not know. Fifty-two percent of the individuals that participated were overweight or obese, which accounted for…
All the animal experiments were performed in accordance with the guidelines established by the Animal Ethics Committee of Wonkwang University, and this experiment was approved by the committee (Approval No. WKU15-101). To evaluate the effect of BGE on fasting blood glucose levels, C57BL/6J (dbdb) 30 mice (20 –25g, 4 weeks, male Lepr(+/+)) and C57BL/6J (dbh) 10 mice (20–25g, 4 weeks, male Lepr(+/-)) were used as the animal model. All the animals were purchased from SAMTACO (Osan, Korea) All the…
My fears and hopes living type II diabetes One of the main worries in my life is that diabetes might damage my kidney which can lead to end stage of kidney failure or diabetic nephropathy. I am also afraid that my diabetes may damage my vision can lead to blindness (diabetic retinopathy) I might loss my ability to live independently and develop stroke. I am also afraid my legs might be amputated if I don’t control my diabetes well (Minet, Lonvig, Henriksen, & Wagner, 2012, p.1115). My others…
Currently, the increased mortality rate of people who has obesity and diabetes is about forty percent in Australia, this is approximately the same as the increased mortality hazard found amongst smokers. And this rate has been increased 6 percent since 1996. Consider that, obesity and diabetes indeed are the leading problems in the most western countries, and especially in the United States and Australia nowadays. Obesity is be described that people who are highly overweight and defined by the…