Disease Essays

Nowadays obesity is serious problem not only in the USA, but in many other countries in the world. The recent investigation shows that obesity rates during last decades practically doubled. It is a serious problem, because obesity increases the risk of serious chronic diseases in future. It is necessary to …

To many people, growing up, getting married, and having a family are the end-all and be-all of life. Most fairytales end with the man and the woman getting married and/or riding off into the sunset into what the audience can only imagine to be the house full of kids behind …

Rheumatic heart disease is a condition in which the valves of the heart are permanently damaged as a result of rheumatic fever. The damage stems from a disease process that usually begins with strep throat, which is caused by the streptococcus A bacteria, which in turn can eventually evolve into …

ABSTRACT Pecan nuts and walnuts are rich sources of polyphenolic compounds and nutrients, which have antioxidant capacity results in favorable reductions in plasma lipids and lipoproteins. However, the health benefits of these nuts may not be limited to blood lipid changes. There has been very little investigation into the contribution …

Death is a topic that is conventionally associated with either grief or fear.  The poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman, which mourns and elevates the death of a young athlete, and the poem “Dog’s Death” by John Updike, which professes grief over a dog’s death, are two …

Death is a shared human experience and therefore a universal theme in literature.  Poetry, fiction, and drama venture into the dark recesses of life by exploring the inevitable fate of everyone and everything that breathes.  Death differs from person to person and the treatment of death in literature differs from …

Psychology’s conceptualization of anorexia nervosa illustrates how the discipline deals with the body. On the one hand, there is an emphasis on the body as a physiological apparatus. On the other hand, specific approaches such as social constructionism stress the non-physiological body as something to which certain discursive meanings get …

            The Black Death was an outbreak of bubonic plague that wreaked a wide swath of death throughout Europe and the Mediterranean area in 1347 through 1351 (MSN Encarta, 2008). Although the plague can be transmitted or carried by a variety of rodents, such as …

            Death is mostly a terrible thing. The unknown aspect of this next phase in the journey of life brings much trepidation and much labor in trying to prepare for the inevitable. Since the mere mention of the word death causes a lot of anxiety, it is not surprising then …

For the last twenty years, the number of obese children in the United States. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity is a condition characterized by excessive accumulation of fat which presents potential risks to the health of the child. In order to determine whether a child is overweight …