Essays on Disease

 Cancer is one of the leading deaths causes in the world and especially in high- and medium-income countries according to the data of WHO-2016. We can assume that this data is connected to their diet because people with high incomes are capable of buying more processed food and maintain a diet rich in animal fats...

September to the end of February is commonly known as flu season. The symptoms begins within 1 to 4 days of being infected. Multiple people each year are infected by this popular virus, “The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, annual influenza epidemics result in about 3-5 million cases of severe illness, and about 250,000...

Illness narratives are the views of people on illness and the effects on their lives. They can be written or oral. Those narratives aim at establishing the order of the illness experience as the events unfold i.e. The onset, diagnosis and treatment. They express the difference the changed relationship between body, self and society which...

Nowadays health problems are becoming more common than ever globally. This possibly has to do with the development of technology and medical sciences. The prevalence of childhood obesity in the United Arab Emirates is dramatically increasing, even more than the high levels of obesity in the USA and Europe (Bin Zaal et al. 2011). This...

Introduction: Childhood obesity is becoming a dangerous trend across the United States. “Data from 2015-2016 show that nearly 1 in 5 school age children and young people in the United States has obesity” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). Nature and nurture both play key roles in this ongoing issue. On the nature side,...

Stroke has been classified as the most disabling Chronic disease. Many individuals have known or have friends, relatives, loved ones, or someone close to them who have either experienced firsthand or have seen the effects of a stroke. Stroke is a commonly known disease that is often fatal. A stroke occurs when blood flows to...

I learned so much from this film! I didn’t know if someone got a cochlear implant that it took away all the rest of their natural hearing. I didn’t even know that it was a permanent procedure. I thought it was insane some of the methods that were supposed to cure deafness. An airplane ride,...

Introduction Obesity means having excess body fat. The weight comes from muscle, bone, fat, and body water.11 Obesity-related conditions are heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, and certain types of cancer that lead to preventable or premature death.1-2,11 It occurs due to the consumption of a high number of calories compared to the required number of...

According to a research from Wilkin (1997), it is important to take note that there is some research that says Visual Aids can produce not just advantages but disadvantages as well in terms of teaching. According to the study, the purpose of the use of visual aids in teaching is use in familiarizing but the...

Every culture views and see’s death differently. Growing up in the United State’s and growing up in a small down in Michigan, I have know death as sadness, and losing someone you absolutely love is heart breaking. It is very interesting to learn about different cultures and how they view death. Tibetan Buddhism is well...