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Though Milan Kundera’s Joke drives its inspiration from the story of a girl who was arrested for stealing flowers from the cemetery, the novel is not a mere love story. It has deep political undertones and bears testimony to the author’s belief regarding the function of the novelist, which is to show people’s philosophy of the nature of men’s existence’. Kundera advocates his firm political belief, which is ‘to protest against the mutilation of works of art in the name of an ideological doctrine…

Feeding and eating disorders are two of the five sections under the specific behavioral disruptions chapter in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Although both classifications emphasize on either abnormal food consumption or avoidance, feeding disorders are often developed during childhood. Feeding disorders include pica, rumination disorder and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) while eating disorders consists of anorexia nervosa,…

Many advertisements in these countries promote light skin, and according to Anne Larracas, almost every beauty product in the Phillipines contains something that makes the skin lighter. “We're bombarded with advertisements like that every day. Every beauty product in the Philippines has a lightening aspect. Even lipstick promises to make dark upper lips more pink.” (“The Beauty Industry Promotes Unrealistic Beauty Standards”). A stereotype such as this can make people in Asian countries of…

society views them. While thinking that society is always judging negatively, this causing a person to feel so negative about themselves and their self-esteem begins to go down. This particular eating disorder is marked by binging, purging, taking laxative, and exercising in order to avoid any weight gain. Brooks et al., (2011) state that, “Bulimia Nervosa eating disorder (BN) is defined as a recurrent episode of binge eating disorder of large amounts of food and measures the amount of weight…

High- Risk Nutritional Behaviors among Ten Cultures Different people have their own cultural practices to prepare and consume the foods. There are many high- risk nutritional practices among different cultures such as alcoholism, smoking, drug abuse, consumption of high fat and high sugar diet and others (Purnell, 2013). As a health care worker it is very important to understand and observe the high- risk nutritional practices of people from a various cultural background so that necessary health…

The stigma associated with mental illness is resided in a long, unfortunate history of socially and culturally sculpted abuse and discrimination. This has resulted in many negative effects on those suffering from mental illnesses. Throughout this history, drastic evolutions of social, cultural and scientific understandings took place, which ultimately led to improved knowledge of mental illnesses. Today, mental illness or mental disorder is defined as “a mental or bodily condition marked…

quantities of food in a limited amount of time, while purging is the practice of voiding that intake through one or more self-induced practices. These practices are most commonly vomiting, but can also include excessive exercise, or the abuse of laxatives, diuretics, enemas, or even in some rare instances, recreational drugs. In some cases, fasting can be considered a compensatory behavior, as long as it follows a period of bingeing. These bingeing incidents are often followed by a depressed…

recurrent and frequent episodes of eating unusually large amounts of food and feeling a lack of control over these episodes. This binge-eating is followed by behavior that compensates for the overeating such as forced vomiting, excessive use of laxatives or diuretics, fasting, excessive exercise, or a combination of these behaviors” (NIMH). Symptoms of this disease typically include sore throat, swollen glands, dehydration, decaying teeth, intestinal irritation, and other dangerous side effects…

not eat at all. Many do this because they believe that they are fat. In reality they may be dangerously thin (“Body Image in the Media”). Bulimia is a condition when a person will grossly overeat and then purge the food by vomiting or taking laxatives to prevent gaining any weight (Kam). Both anorexia and bulimia can cause heart disease and kidney disease (“Body Image in the Media”). Right now anorexia is the third leading chronic illness for teenages and has a mortality rate that is twelve…

Introduction This report is going to study the differences between orthodox medicine and complementary therapies for the treatments of conditions that affect different systems of the body. Next, the attitudes of the population towards complementary therapies will be analysed, as well as their psychological effects and contra-indications. The sources of information that claim the benefits of complementary therapies will be evaluated to know their reliability. Finally, it is going to be evaluated…