Healthy body is a wonderful gift and can help you become a happy and healthier. To get a healthy body and balance the need to have determination and perseverance. Once you do, there will be positive effects of exercising and following a healthy diet are weight control, prevent disease and increase energy. One important effect of exercising and following a healthy diet is weight control. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It does not only help provide energy for the body to…
Christopher Hitchens wrote the “Topic of Cancer” along with many other passages that are well-known. Hitchens in this particular article gets diagnosed with cancer, after long considerations he had decided to try chemotherapy, along with any other cancer patient Hitchens struggled through the stages of his condition. Families everywhere have been faced with someone they know trying to battle out the prolonged illness or the deadly disease best known as cancer. Cancer patients whether they…
Allopathic medicines have always been the types of treatment that many relied on, however, lately, the use of complementary and alternative medication has been on the rise. Complementary and alternative medicines, also known as CAMs are natural way like herbal teas, acupuncture, naturopathy and so forth, used to mend the human body of its problem like diseases or injuries (Warren et al., 2012, 326). Although the use of these remedies are revolutionary, many are at stake when it is in use. The…
deaths than any other cancer in both men and women. Second, since 1987, more women have died each year from lung cancer than from breast cancer. Third, lung cancer causes more deaths more than the following other cancers combined (colon, breast, prostate). Fourth, smoking contributes to 80% and 90% of lung cancer deaths in women and men. Finally, secondhand smoke causes 3,400 cancer deaths among non-smokers every…
The BRCA2 gene is on chromosome 13q and was located a year after the BRCA1 gene. The BRCA2 gene is linked with a higher risk for breast than ovarian cancer. BRCA2 mutations are also associated with an increased risk of male breast cancer, prostate cancer, and pancreatic cancer. Only about 5% of breast cancers and 10% to 15% of ovarian cancers are caused by mutations in BRCA genes (NCI, 2014). The BRCA mutations are more likely in certain ethnic populations. Because of this, not everyone…
Winnie Mandela and remarries Graca Machel on his 80th birthday. In 1999 Nelson stepped down from being coming president after one term. He then has many visits to the hospital in his life near the end because of tuberculosis and a new diagnosis of prostate cancer. Nelson wrote his second and third book named, “Conversations with myself” and “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorized Book of Quotations”. In Nelson Mandela’s last few years of life he spent time with his family more. He died on…
The kidneys are a very important part of the body, located in the urinary system, that filters waste product from the blood. When the kidneys lose their ability to filter this waste from the blood, a disorder known as acute renal failure, also called acute kidney failure or injury. Concerning amounts of waste can accumulate due to this disorder, and can become fatal. Although this disease is very serious and life-threatening, acute renal failure progresses within a few hours or days. Kidney…
Introduction Hi, I’m Myrna Montoya, and I have been a nurse for more than 22 years. Nursing is my third profession. I was a schoolteacher and a consultant in training and development in my past life. When I got my diploma in nursing from Holy Name Hospital School of Nursing in Teaneck, NJ, I gave myself five years to link the three “me’s” into one “me”. On the fourth year of working as a staff nurse, I was offered a nurse educator position in the Education and Practice department in…
Memorial Sloan Kettering Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center impacts communities in New York, New Jersey and globally by providing information on cancer prevention, patient care, education and research (Vance & Hollis, 2015). In preparing a SWOT analysis of the external and internal forces faced by this organization include, strengths which includes the organizations ability to connect and provide information regarding cancer treatment, prevention and research that impacts the community…
Wheat grass is a very rich source variety of essential of nutrients. It contains most of the vitamins, variety of minerals and other nutrients. a) Vitamin A: It enhances the skin shine and provides glow to skin and makes it disease and infection free. It helps to cure spots and improves the eyesight. It is also helpful in checking the eyes, nose, and throat disorders. It maintains hair and is helpful in fighting the problems of pollution. b) Vitamin B: It aids digestion. It is helpful in the…