Swimming As a Good Habit I like swimming and I search about it in the Kent library. I have ten-year experience in competitive swimming and twelve years in pleasure swimming. I was born close to a lake where my father practice fishing and while my mother hire yachting facilities. I requested my father to take me with him to fishing expeditions but he refused because I did not know how to swim. At the age of seven‚ my brother trained me how to swim. Since then‚ I have become and swimming enthusiast
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eat nevertheless helps us to be much more than we are.” A century ago our ancestors feared infectious and communicable diseases such as smallpox -- diseases that claimed many children’s lives and limited the average life expectancy of adults. Today far fewer infectious diseases threaten us‚ thanks to medical science’s ability to identify disease-causing microorganisms and develop vaccines. In developed nations‚ purification of water prevents the spread of infections‚ and immunizations
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reduces coronary artery spasm responses to stress‚ increases blood flow‚ reduced blood pressure‚ reduces insulin level‚ and increases estrogen levels. Studies have show that moderate alcohol consumption can reduces the risk of ischemic strokes by about half in both women and men in all ethnicities. Moderate consumption of alcohol also increases the survivability of heart attacks; moderate drinking for the year prior to a heart attack‚ or AMI can reduce the risk of dying from the AMI or heart attack
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that impact how an elderly person copes with the changes of the last stage of life. Biological Changes Aging leads to deterioration of the external and internal body; aging causes memory loss‚ organ problems‚ bone and cardiovascular diseases‚ as well decreased brain functions. Deterioration is inevitable but one can reduce the negative impacts of aging by living a healthy lifestyle through a well balance diet and exercise. According to Berk (2010)‚ the physical changes that occur in
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proximate risk factors that can be controlled at the individual level‚ but tends to ignore the social conditions that are largely responsible for diseases. This has led to incomplete understanding and underestimation of the influence of social determinants on health. According to Link and Phelan (1995) the social determinants are the ’Fundamental causes’ of diseases. The social factors that are linked to illness include race‚ socioeconomic status‚ gender and stress. A fundamental cause involves access to
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health as‚ "the state of complete mental‚ physical and social well being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." A health educator is one who informs people on how to achieve and maintain good health and promotes environmental and lifestyle changes where needed. As a future health educator I completely agree with the World Health Organization’s definition‚ health is not just about being disease-free‚ it is also about being satisfied with the person you are. In this paper‚ I am going to talk
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PART ONE Medical-Surgical Cases 1 1 Cardiovascular Cardiovascular Disorders Case Study 1 Heart Failure Difficulty: Beginning Setting: Emergency department‚ hospital Index Words: heart failure (HF)‚ cardiomyopathy‚ volume overload‚ quality of life X Scenario M.G.‚ a “frequent flier‚” is admitted to the emergency department (ED) with a diagnosis of heart failure (HF). She was discharged from the hospital 10 days ago and comes in today stating‚ “I just had to come to the hospital today because I
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Atherosclerosis: The causes‚ consequences‚ and remedy. 03/18/2013 Biol 2401-C04 Md Ismail Hossain Indroduction Atherosclerosis: After cancer‚ heart disease is the second cause of death in the world. One of the prominent causes of heart disease is atherosclerosis. In general‚ atherosclerosis means the narrowing of blood vessel which ultimately hinders the blood flow through the vessel. Various substances accumulate on the inner wall of blood vessel and with time the blood vessel start to lose
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descending artery in 1995 and right coronary artery in 2000. Past Surgical History: Penile implantation 2011; appendectomy 1980. Family History: Mother died at age 91 of Coronary Artery Disease. Mother had a history of diabetes‚ blindness‚ kidney disease that required dialysis for 14 years‚ and a myocardial infarction with coronary bypass graft‚ and uterine cancer. Father died at age 90 of prostate cancer. Father had a history of hypertension‚ diabetes‚ and open heart surgery. He has no other siblings
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