Environmental health

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

of the people who use and access it. It is important to find ways to provide educational and nutritional interactive tools online for college students to use to help them become healthy. Many college students change throughout the year due to environmental and social pressures added on the fact of chronic stress over assignment and/or tests. All this change can lead to poor dietary habits and a lifelong struggle to keep weight off. The use of labels has, in fact, been an important factor for…

diabetes? Obesity is having excess of body fat; which has negative effects on a person’s health and body. Whereas diabetes is a condition where the amount of glucose in the blood is too high, because of the insulin being produced is not enough or when the body is not reacting to it. Moreover processed food is mixture of ingredients with adding’s of chemicals; chemicals in that are known to have consequences on our health. They are often made with additives, artificial flavorings and other…

resources they have in their nation like human resources, natural resources and other. Income levels is one of the major indicator of economic growth. In other words, Lower income implies low standard of living which affects both mental and physical health of the people within the economy. In the countries where people have lower income, they would not be able to afford better lifestyle includes well constructed houses, healthy food, appropriate clothing to protect their body…

cities smog is the culprit from vehicle emissions. Smog can be composed of many other chemical compounds thus coming from many different sources. In this paper there will be a discussion of the harmful impacts of smog and what the United States Environmental protection agency is doing to help. Smog comes from many sources including automobile exhaust, coal burning power plants and even factories that produce consumer products. Such as paint, hairspray, chemical solvents, and even charcoal…

Water is one of the most essential things in life for all living organisms in order to survive. It covers about three-fourths of the earth’s surface and it also exists underground, in the air, and in organisms. People can rely on aquifers, precipitation, lakes, rivers, and more for a source of drinking water. Regarding the United States, ninety-one percent of public water systems are provided by groundwater. Nonetheless, more people, sixty-eight percent, are provided community water systems…

The Environmental Protection Agency defines frackings as “A well stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of underground resources; including oil, natural gas, geothermal energy, and even water”(Environmental Protection Agency). This process, employed to release natural gas involves drilling deep into the ground and shooting a high pressure water solution into rock formations in order to release the gas inside. Although the history of fracking can be traced back to the 1940’s, it…

industry, farmers, real estate developers, and even small business groups. Other interest groups include mining companies, pesticide companies, and even golf course operators, most of which have rarely before fought so whole-heartedly against an environmental regulation. For them, the rules gives too much control over even the smallest bodies of water. What isn’t understood by any of these opposing groups is that we need clean water, not only for drinking but also for clean food and a healthier…

depress, being bullied as well as becoming impatient. These will make them become annoyed and wound up and affect their social communication. The more fast food people consume, the larger the possibility of depression develops. According to Public Health Nutrition (as cited in Morris, n.d.) those who frequently consume fast food are fifty-one percent more to be expected to develop depression compared to those who rarely consume fast food. Moreover , many youths are resisting from helping those…

don't always appear the way they should based on other factors. The different factors are dominant and recessive genes, Multiple Genes, New Gene Mutation, Phenotypic Range, and Phenotype Plasticity. There are several factors that are not environmental that can effect the way a phenotype is displayed. An example of Dominant and Recessive genes are eye color. Blue colored eyes are recessive and they only appear if both parents contribute the recessive gene for blue eyes. No mater what, if…