Disease Essays

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy also known as CTE has been a very widely used term in today’s society. Most importantly surrounding high impact sports and military. In 1973 research was conducted by Corsellis surrounding boxing and repeated head injuries. He called it dementia pugilistica or ‘punch-drunk syndrome” (Alzheimer’s Association, 2018). Boxers …

It’s common knowledge that many young children do not get the appropriate amount of physical activity nor consume healthy food on a regular basis, resulting in increased levels of overweight and disease. Broward County is not exempt from this trend, as 1 out of 7 kids is considered obese in …

We Propose a cost-effective solution to a nation-wide problem at the school age level of Unhealthy Lunch choices. There has been an increase in: Child-hood obesity, mal nutrition, heart disease, and diabetes. We would like to propose a healthy food and beverage service to your school district. We would not …

One of the recently proposed regulations intended for this iam would amend the meal plan requirements for the Child and Adult Care Food Program. The meal plan requirements align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, that are required by Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA). The proposed rule, “Healthy, Hunger-Free …

The prevalence of obesity has risen at an alarming rate over recent years. Professional are trying to understand the mechanism behind America’s obesity epidemic. On a simplistic level, when one consumes an excess amount of energy compared to those expended it creates a positive caloric imbalance.1 This imbalance causes an …

As social understanding of illness and how it can be changed over the time. It describes the disease as how the group of people describes it and treats it with the medicine, they think is right. For example, back in the days, people used to think that mental illness is …

Anxiety is a normal human response to situations such as danger.  It is part of the body’s protection system in the fight or flight response.  Anxiety gives us the ability anticipate things that might happen in the future. Short term anxiety is normal response. When a person develops severe, long term …

The Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, 2nd Edition (MASC 2), published in 2013, is the revised version of the original MASC assessment, published in 1997. The purpose of the MASC 2 is to serve as a comprehensive tool to detect, diagnose, and treat anxiety symptoms, in terms of severity and …

Anxiety is a term that people use to describe the feeling of being eager to want something to happen, or when some are worried about the uncertainty of the outcome of something. Anxiety is usually a negative feeling. Regarding mental health and in regards to a personality disorder, anxiety can …

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders in the United States. Millions of people suffer from anxiety every year. Unfortunately, only about 36% of those suffering receive treatment (Facts & Statistics, n.d.). Treatments for anxiety are typically forms of therapy and medication. For many years, alprazolam has been the …