...Protecting and enhancing our immune systems Audrey Brown-Sissoko SCI/163 October 24, 2013 Kate Toohig Protecting and enhancing our immune systems The immune system is a group of cells and organs that defend the body against invaders causing disease. Our immune system does a phenomenal job of protecting us from various disease and illnesses, but on occasion we may be struck down with a cold. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) 2011, “children have about two to six colds a year, while adults average about one to three colds a year”( para 1). However, one of the best ways to prevent a cold is by enhancing or boosting your immune system. “Immune system boosters create white blood cells so your system has more fighting power against illness and disease” (January 2010, para 2). There are many nutrients and supplements you can take to give your immune system a boost and to help it get back on a healthy path. Vitamin E, it stimulates the creation of strong fighting cells that kill off cancer cells and germs, eat a diet containing vegetable oils, grains, and seeds. Vitamin C, produces more fighting white blood cells, antibodies, and prevents the entry of any germs or viruses. Food that contain vitamin c are, fruits like, grapefruits, oranges, strawberries, leafy green vegetables such as, broccoli, asparagus, and cabbage. Beta carotene stimulates the immune cells and wards off cancer, carrots are a good source of beta carotene...
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...major diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Preventing awful effects in our environment and protecting the immune system is part of action plans researchers have discovered to play an important role in improved physical health and wellness. Physical Health It is important to get enough rest and sleep our body needs to rest to be able to function properly. Exercise is essential because it gives us strength, endurance, and a healthy body. That is why we should maintain a healthy weight so our body can fight other risk factors. Physical Health helps control weight and reduces the risk of Cardio-Vascular Disease (CVD) CVD disease (Donatelle, 2011). With exercise we can also reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and some cancers. But most of all it increase our chances of living longer and having better emotional health. Emotional Health People who are emotionally healthy are able to handle life's challenges, build strong relationships, and recover from setbacks from life. It requires effort stability to build and maintain emotional health. When you improve your emotional health you are rewarding yourself with enjoyment of life. With good emotional health comes a sense of contentment, a purpose for living, and a reason to laugh and have fun. You learn how to deal with stress better and the ability to learn new things, adapting to change. Also you gain self-confidence and an increased vision of your social health. Social...
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...major diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Preventing awful effects in our environment and protecting the immune system is part of action plans researchers have discovered to play an important role in improved physical health and wellness. Physical Health It is important to get enough rest and sleep our body needs to rest to be able to function properly. Exercise is essential because it gives us strength, endurance, and a healthy body. That is why we should maintain a healthy weight so our body can fight other risk factors. Physical Health helps control weight and reduces the risk of Cardio-Vascular Disease (CVD) CVD disease (Donatelle, 2011). With exercise we can also reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and some cancers. But most of all it increase our chances of living longer and having better emotional health. Emotional Health People who are emotionally healthy are able to handle life's challenges, build strong relationships, and recover from setbacks from life. It requires effort stability to build and maintain emotional health. When you improve your emotional health you are rewarding yourself with enjoyment of life. With good emotional health comes a sense of contentment, a purpose for living, and a reason to laugh and have fun. You learn how to deal with stress better and the ability to learn new things, adapting to change. Also you gain self-confidence and an increased vision of your social health. Social...
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...A Healthy Life Brooke Williams Sci163 Kristina Worthington May 27, 2014 A Healthy Life Health and wellness is an important part of everyday life and it includes fitness and nutrition, preventing chronic disease, environmental awareness, and protecting your immune system. There are many ways that each of the topics can affect your life and the way you live it. The knowledge of these can give way to a more healthy life. Wellness is much more than merely physical health, exercise or nutrition. It is the full integration of states of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. The model used by our campus includes social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, intellectual and physical wellness. Each of the seven dimensions act and interact in a way that contributes to our own quality of life. There are many ways to implement them all into our everyday society but the three in particular that I would give more focus and put emphasis on would be environmental, emotional, and intellectual. Emotional wellness implies the ability to be aware of and accept our feelings rather than deny them, have an optimistic approach to life, express feelings freely and manage feelings effectively, express emotions appropriately, adjust to change, cope with stress in a healthy way, and enjoy life despite its occasional disappointments and frustrations. Emotional includes the “capacity to manage one’s feelings and related behaviors including the realistic assessment of one’s limitations...
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...Preventative measures How does physical barrier work to prevent diseases? Physical barriers that are always ready and prepared to defend the body from infection these include your skin, tears, mucus and stomach acid. The skins forms a protective layer shielding the blood vessel, organs, bones, muscles and nerves, when there is a cut or tear in the surface of the skin which provides an entrance. Glands beneath the skin produce the skin produce an enzyme which helps kill bacteria The function of the immune system is to protect the body from harmful substances, such as pathogens and environmental pollution. The immune system provides three lines of defence. How does chemical defences help prevent diseases? The chemical defences recognise and destroys foreign substance and organism which enters the body. The body can distinguish between the body’s tissue and antigens. This allows cells of the immune alliances to identify and destroy only those enemy antigens How does Phagocytosis work to help prevent diseases? The two cells, macrophages and neutrophils both are white blood cells which remove bacteria, dead tissue cells and other tissue in the spleen called red pulp which helps remove red blood cells How do antibodies work to help prevent diseases? When an antigen enters the body, the immune system produces antibodies against it. Once a person has had a disease they don’t normally catch it again because the body produces memory cells that are specific to that antigen....
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... We have looked into the areas of health and wellness, nutrition and fitness, prevention of the most prevalent chronic diseases, how the environment affects our health, and protecting and enhancing our immune systems. These simple steps can lead to optimal health and wellness. We as a team recognize the six dimensions of health in our lives, and feel society is stronger in some areas than others. Areas we would like to see improvements in our social, physical, and environmental health. We can see that it is hard for people to interact with one another in many ways. People do not seem to be able to communicate face to face or feel comfortable with anyone that is not just like themselves. We would like to see people from across the cultures and races learn how to connect in the real world, and see that when we make things better for one, we are really making it better for all. We can do our part by reaching out to others and setting an example of how to treat others and making everyone feel needed and appreciated. Our society is known as an obese nation, and this is causing many avoidable diseases. We need to educate our society on how to make healthy food choices, and how to become physically active. Society cannot achieve optimal health if the environment around us is not healthy. Protecting the planet from pollutants in our water, air or soil will help insure that the food we eat or the air we breathe will not make us sick. Organizing a recycle program in our community...
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...Action Plan for Optimal Health and Wellness Rodney Spear Sophia Wells Taneka Johnson SCI/163- Elements of Health and Wellness February 23, 2013 Over the course of five weeks, we have studied the components for living a healthy life. Within the components we learned were six dimensions of health, which include: physical, social, emotional, environmental, intellectual, and spiritual. Utilizing technology, the six dimensions of health were presented weekly via “Game Scape” episodes. This was an informative, engaging, and hands on program that emphasized each of the six dimensions of health through weekly challenges like a common game show of today. After viewing all five episodes in Games cape, the three elements of health and wellness we would want to increase in society are: rewards of physical fitness, nutrition and health management; preventing and treating chronic diseases; and infectious diseases and environmental effects on health. Nutrition and fitness play an intricate part in our overall health management. It is wise to develop and incorporate some type of physical activity in our daily routine for at least 30 minutes. Physical activity can include a light jog, walk, or a gym regiment that fits the needs of the goals a person has set. However, prior to beginning a workout routine you must look into the physical demands and not start to extreme if you had never worked out before. Begin at a slow to moderate pace and work yourself up to more...
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...Action Plan for Optimal health and Wellness Josue Ramirez SCI/163 May 23, 2013 Dr. Sara Love Action Plan for Optimal Health and Wellness To achieve optimal health and wellness we must be able to incorporate and balance the six dimensions and/or elements of health; Physical, spiritual, social, intellectual, emotional and environmental. We must change our attitudes, beliefs and our unhealthy behaviors. Change is never easy, in fact the majority it is quire difficult, taking at least five tries before succeeding in changing the unhealthy behavior (Donatelle, p. 17, 2011). Increasing society’s awareness about the effects of these elements puts us on a path to optimal health and wellness. Top Three Elements Three elements we would increase in society are physical, spiritual and environmental. Although we agreed social wellness was is important we believed that taking care of our environment would impact both our physical and spiritual elements, especially if we committed ourselves to actively cleaning up our neighborhoods and communities. As we should be exercising at five days a week for at least twenty minutes a day and eating well balanced meals, learning more about taking care of our environment would produce the knowledge of creating a healthier environment to live in. Like taking on the physical aspect of walking through our neighborhoods picking up trash or going door to door letting our neighbors know of the benefits...
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...surrounding tissues. This can also affect the organs. This is resulting in painful immobility, in the fingers, wrists, feet, and ankles. The immune system is designed towards protecting our well-being by attacking foreign cells like viruses and bacteria. Instead it attacks the body’s own tissues, a thin membrane that lines the joints. RA is a chronic disease meaning it can’t be cured. In some individuals the disorder is continuously active and gets worse over time. Others have long periods of remission. The cause of the disorder The cause of RA is still unknown. Infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi have long been suspected, none has been proven as the cause. What happen is the white blood cells over react to stimuli inside the body. Instead of protecting the body like it normally do from disease or infection, the immune system attacks and destroys the body’s tissues that are healthy. This chronic inflammatory condition that also effects other tissue. Autoimmune diseases often run in families many may develop different type of autoimmune disease. This genetic difference puts related family members at an increased risk for one or more autoimmune diseases. RA often improves during pregnancy. Certain proteins passed between the mother and unborn child may be responsible for the improvement. It may also change the mother’s immune system during the pregnancy in a way. Both genetics and environmental factors combined appear to be the main triggers of RA. Identify signs...
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...Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is a particular virus that can only infect humans. HIV weakens your immune system by destroying important cells that fight disease and infection. A deficient immune system does not have the ability to protect you without medication. The virus can only reproduce itself by taking over a cell in the body of its host. HIV is similar to other virus like the common cold or the flu; the big difference is that your body cannot rid the HIV virus like the flu. Once you have HIV, you have it for life. The virus invades yours cells, replicates itself and destroys the cell. Once you cells are destroyed it longer has the ability to defend itself. AIDS is the syndrome after you immune system has become deficient or basically stopped working. AIDS is a collection of symptoms and signs, rather than a single disease, because it is a complex illness with a wide range of complications and symptoms. Before addressing the virus, AIDS it is important to understand that HIV is the first stage of the disease and then as the disease becomes worse, it progresses into AIDS. HIV is not an airborne virus or a bacteria that can be transmitted in the water instead it is passed from person to person through bodily fluids. These bodily fluids can be anything from blood to vaginal secretions and there is currently not a vaccine to protect the public so being informed is key to protecting oneself from the virus. The most common form of the virus is transferred to another person through...
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...potato are also edible and high in nutritional value. Although studies have confirmed that water-soluble vitamins exist in sweet potato roots and leaves, there has been limited information about how these vitamins are actually distributed in the plants. Not only are sweet potatoes readily available, inexpensive, and delicious, they have many other benefits for your health. 1. They are high in vitamin B6 – Vitamin B6 helps reduce the chemical homocysteine in our bodies. Homocysteine has been linked with degenerative diseases, including heart attacks. 2. They are a good source of vitamin C – While most people know that vitamin C is important to help ward off cold and flu viruses, few people are aware that this crucial vitamin plays an important role in bone and tooth formation, digestion, and blood cell formation. It helps accelerate wound healing, produces collagen which helps maintain skin’s youthful elasticity, and is essential to helping us cope with stress. It even appears to help protect our body against toxins that may be linked to cancer. 3. They contain Vitamin D – which is critical for immune system and overall health at this time of year. Both a vitamin and a hormone, vitamin D is primarily made in our bodies as a result of getting adequate sunlight. You may have heard about seasonal affective disorder (or SAD, as it is also called), which is linked to inadequate sunlight and therefore a vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D plays an important role in our energy...
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... |Definition |Use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care | | | |industry. | |Digestive System |Body system responsible for digestion, |Antacids are often used to treat issues with the digestive | | |absorption, and ingestion of foods to |system. | | |supply the body with nutrients. | | |Obesity |Characterized by the excessive amount of |The prevalence of obesity is rising in the united states | | |body fat that has accumulated to the point|causing a rise in health complications. | | |of potential health complications. | | |Circulatory System |The system that moves blood through the |The circulatory system contains cells that aid in fighting | | |body. Consists of the heart, capillaries |infection. | | |and blood. | ...
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...Feeding your newborn breast or bottle? Byline:Chen liu How you feed your newborn is the first nutrition decision you will make for your child. Medical experts recommend breastfeeding as the best choice for newborns. Specifically, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that babies be breastfed exclusively for about the first 6 months. Following the introduction of solid foods, breastfeeding should continue through the first year of life and beyond, if desired.Breastfeeding may not be possible or preferable for all women. Deciding to breastfeed or bottle feed a baby is usually based on the mother's comfort level with breastfeeding as well as her lifestyle, but breastfeeding may not be recommended for some mothers and babies. If you have any questions about whether to breastfeed, talk to your pediatrician.Remember, your baby's nutritional and emotional needs will be met whether you choose to breastfeed or formula feed. -About Breastfeeding Breastfeeding your newborn has many advantages. Perhaps most important, breast milk is the perfect food for a human baby's digestive system. It contains the vitamins and minerals that a newborn requires, and all of its components — lactose, protein (whey and casein), and fat — are easily digested by a newborn's immature system. Commercial formulas try to imitate breast milk, and come close, but the exact composition cannot be duplicated. Also, breast milk contains antibodies that help protect infants from a wide variety...
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...Feeding For Mastitis Protection- The Benefits of Supplements As the disease having the most significant cost to the dairy industry, the goal in minimising the costs of mastitis is always prevention. Proper milking procedures and hygiene, dry cow therapy and quarantining are standard practice on every farm, but is there something extra you could be doing to protect your herd? Supplementation of vitamins and minerals is an excellent way to go that step further in preventing the disease in the first place. Supplements optimise immune function as well as reduce oxidative and metabolic stress, ultimately exerting a positive effect on the udders defense mechanisms against mastitis and the pathogen that cause it. They can be found in a variety of chemically organic and inorganic forms including complexes, proteinates and amino acid chelates....
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...attacks your own body, including your immune system and tissue. One of its main and most commonly noticed symptoms is a “butterfly” rash. It spreads across both cheeks and got its name by resembling a butterfly’s wings. Lupus attacks parts of the body including your joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, hearts, lungs and brain. Unfortunately there is not cure for Lupus. Some people can develop it from certain drug use, others from sunlight. Other times a person is born with more of a tendency to develop Lupus over time that can be caused by certain infections. Although there is no for sure known cause of Lupus there are some ideas behind how it could be triggered. A person’s immune system and environment are a huge part of becoming ill, as well as genetics. A person with a history of Lupus in...
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