Overeating

People in the United States think that fruits and vegetables that are canned or in the freezer section at the grocery are healthy, but they could be wrong. Canned or frozen fruits and vegetables contain harmful chemicals to the human body, which makes organic fruits and vegetables a safer option. NHS Choices stated that, “Processed foods aren 't just microwave meals and other ready meals. The term 'processed food ' applies to any food that has been altered from its natural state in some way,…

Clostridium perfringens is typically found in soil and if this is eaten or coming in contact with the animal it can cause variety of diseases, especially in domestic animals. These diseases include different enteric syndromes such as bovine and ovine enterotoxemia, fowl necrotic enteritis, and lamb dysentery. Strains of most toxin types like alpha and beta toxin have been involved in necrotic enteritis beta toxin is caused by type-C strains. The pulpy kidney disease is caused by type-D strains…

Day care for my preschool child In today's society, typically both parents work away from home. Not all families have the luxury of having a stay at home parent. With this being said, finding the right day care or babysitter for your child can be difficult. Each parent has their own preferences and requirements when it comes to choosing the right fit for their child. Each child is different, as is each home environment. Children should be introduced to a preschool setting because they should be…

When the topic of health issues in America is brought up, our minds immediately go to the most talked up issues like diabetes, cancer, stroke, etc. A lot of the issues we see in our culture today are self-induced. For example, overeating can lead to obesity and undereating can lead to anorexia and both can turn into more severe health problems. What about the issues you can’t always see? Every year, foodborne illnesses have managed to sicken 48 million Americans (about 17% of the U.S.…

The guilt from the overeating and the weight gain leads to depression and low self-esteem. She has difficulty not thinking about her weight and her unhappiness daily but is unable to stop or control these types of behaviors. Binge eating disorder entails depression and is often…

trouble making decisions, and thoughts of suicide. Doctors describe patients as majorly depressed if these symptoms occur for more than 2 weeks. Depression that lasts for a period of time more than two years is called persistent depressive disorder. Overeating/ not eating enough, lack of sleep/ oversleeping, fatigue feeling, low self-esteem, trouble concentrating, and feelings of hopelessness are all characterized as symptoms of this type of depression. Bipolar disorder, or what used to be known…

Introduction: The first artificial sweetener was discovered in 1879 when scientist Constantin Fahlberg at Johns Hopkins was preforming experiments on coal tar derivatives when he inadvertently discovered saccharin.1 A few years after its discovery, saccharin was mainly being marketed towards people with diabetes.1 Around the 1940’s, when there was a sugar shortage due to World War II and being thin was becoming a desired body type artificial sweeteners started to be consumed by the general…

Americans today tend to believe that obesity is considered as a disease due to the statistical fact that America has been recently recorded as the second most obese country in the world. When it comes to the topic of obesity, most of us will readily agree that there is a large percentage of the country that is overweight and/or obese. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of if obesity is considered as a medical illness, in other words, a disease. Whereas some are…

Between the years 1750 - 1914, the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution were all similar due to what sparked the revolutions and the social groups during, yet differed in the outcome of the revolutions. Between the years 1750 and 1914 the American Revolution the French Revolution and Haitian Revolution were all similar due to what sparked the revolution. The beginning of the start of these revolutions were mainly due to the over taxation of put in place by political…

Substance addiction or abuse is another problem that mostly related to drug addiction but once a person addicted to substances they used repetitively, and the result is in tolerance to the effect of the substance. “Substance dependence, or addiction, is a relapsing disorder characterized by the loss of control of drug or alcohol intake, or a compulsion to take the substance, associated with the appearance of a withdrawal syndrome after a discontinuation of its long-term use” (Fischer, Allison G…