TRADITIONAL EXERCISE VERSUS MEDICAL WEIGHT LOSS Diet and exercise versus gastric bypass surgery is a controversial topic, however there are benefits and drawbacks to each. Obesity effects more the 60 million Americans and of the 60 million Americans are suffering from medical problems. Here is a fact that people may not know about obesity, “approximately 72.5million American adults are obese.” www.businessinsider.com Everyone knows the hit television show the “Biggest Loser” however
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pressure, glucose readings or even temperature back to medical offices. Medical personnel can then track a patient’s condition and if need be, have them come in if their vital signs are not positive. This could avert a trip to the hospital in some cases. In a survey of American consumers, 61% said they would like self-monitoring devices that remotely sends information to their doctors. (Mobile Technology Allows for Remote Patient Monitoring, 2012) Network Management Mobile technology has made
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The typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, is a life threatening illness that causes around 5,700 cases per year. Most cases come about from travelers coming back to the United States from traveling internationally because many other countries did not have the same vaccines as the United States had during this time. In the early 1900’s, a woman named Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, worked as a cook for different families. Mary was a healthy female, or so they thought. She carried the
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The Effects of Food on the Body Do we eat to live or live to eat? Are we what we eat? Sitting down to a mouth watering breakfast of sizzling smoked Canadian bacon, extra cheesy omelet, garnished with crisp green lettuce leaves and red juicy tomatoes accompanied by warm toasted bread and a tall glass of refreshing apple juice does not only affect our senses but our body as well. Understanding the relationship between food and the body is a fascinating part of science known as Nutrition. Food is
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A Reflective Paper On Bipolar Disorder Bipolar is a condition known as manic-depressive disorder, which referred to as bipolar or manic depression, a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more abnormal episodes. An estimated 15-20% of patients who suffer from bipolar disorder and who do not receive medical attention commit suicide. Bipolar disorder is a very dangerous illness that is often over looked. Although many people may assume
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Communicable Disease Paper Maria G. Sanchez HCS/457 June 29, 2015 Charlotte A. Ferrell Communicable Disease Paper One of the many highly communicable diseases is chickenpox. This communicable disease is caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV) which has a resemblance with the herpes virus. It can be transmitted in two ways, one through direct contact with the fluids from the blisters, mucus, or saliva and second through air where the virus is disseminated by coughing or sneezing. A person who has
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difficulty breathing, nausea, vomiting, high fever, headache, and weakness. Pneumonic progresses rapidly and may cause respiratory failure and shock within two days of the infection, if you’re not given antibiotics, it will likely be fatal (By Mayo Clinic). Usually if a loved one was sick, families would abandon them in hopes of not getting themselves sick. Victims of the plague would be sealed in their houses, locked and bolted from the outside, in later years houses containing victims were sometimes
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Running Header: THE MAINE STATE PRISON HAS THE ABILITY TO CUT COSTS 1 The Maine State Prison has the ability to cut healthcare costs by using Medical Diets as part of a medical treatments Kaplan University THE MAINE STATE PRISON HAS THE ABILITY TO CUT HEALTHCARE COSTS 2 Taking prescription medication has become an everyday part of life for many people. Nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug. More than half take two
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion Marissa Krick Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V February 12, 2012 Health Promotion According to the United States Public Health Service, health promotion is the process of promoting health in order to increase the probability that private, public, and personal support of optimistic health habits will become the societal norm (Kreuter & Devore, 1980, p. 26). The perception of health promotion is fairly new and has continued to grow since
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flu-like symptoms within a month or two after the virus has entered the body. Some of these symptoms may include fever, headache, muscle cramps, rash, chills, sore throat, mouth or genital ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, night sweats, and diarrhea (Mayo Clinic, 2014). These symptoms can last from a few weeks to many months. The virus has four phases of infection that it progresses through throughout the disease process. These phases are primary infection, clinical latent infection, early symptomatic HIV
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