* What are some risk factors that may be controlled to prevent serious illness? Do any of these controllable risk factors apply to you? What can you do to eliminate these risk factors in your life? We can prevent serious diseases if we have strong immune systems‚ so we have to strengthen them‚ we can take vitamin c daily. We can ingest fruits every day‚ citrus fruits are more important‚ they are rich in vitamin c. and we could take supplemental vitamins to help our body become stronger to prevent
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It is worth considering the effects smoking might have on a person in the short term. These are not all necessarily negative results in all cases; scare-tactic campaigning is now a common technique used by government bodies to try to frighten people from smoking. However‚ their short‚ stark message usually focuses on a single aspect of smoking’s effects‚ and it can help a quitter stick with it if they can build up an overall picture of what smoking has been doing or could do in future to their body
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bone fracture that occurs much more easily than expected. Osteoporosis occurs in many people who have few or no risk factors for this condition. Often‚ patients do not report symptoms that would alert the clinician to suspect a diagnosis of osteoporosis; thus‚ this disease is a "silent thief" that generally does not become clinically apparent until a fracture occurs. Screening at-risk populations is‚ therefore‚ essential; unfortunately‚ many women are not receiving
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Risk Factors are actions or conditions that an individual or group of individuals do that increases their risk of developing a disease. The disease isn’t just limited to infectious diseases but can also include chronic disease such as obesity. Risk Factors can either be modifiable‚ non modifiable‚ and also social/environmental risk factors. Modifiable risk factors mean you can take measures by altering ones life to remove the potential risk of developing a disease. Non modifiable works in the opposite
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Is hookah smoking safer than smoking cigarettes? Hookah smoking is not safer than cigarette smoking. Also known as narghile‚ shisha and goza‚ a hookah is a water pipe with a smoke chamber‚ a bowl‚ a pipe and a hose. Specially made tobacco is heated‚ and the smoke passes through water and is then drawn through a rubber hose to a mouthpiece. The tobacco is no less toxic in a hookah pipe‚ and the water in the hookah does not filter out the toxic ingredients in the tobacco smoke. Hookah smokers may
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Lesson 10‚ #3. List and describe several common risk factors for developing osteoporosis. Describe the key behaviors of someone trying to limit their risk of developing osteoporosis. Everywhere we turn these days we see celebrities that are on TV promoting various types of medication for one ailment or another. One of the commercials that plays quite often these days is with Sally Field telling women about medication to help prevent osteoporosis. While I don’t care for celebrities hawking medication
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How Cigarette Smoking Can Effect Health Cigarette smoking has been protested in the United States for many years. Smoking is known to cause sickness to those who actually smoke‚ and those who have to deal with second hand smoke. Somehow people still seem to ignore all the health warnings that are posted all around them‚ even the ones that are on the carton. Not only do they make people sick‚ cigarettes have other effects as well. The smoke and nicotine
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Cardiovascular risk factors There are many risk factors associated with coronary heart disease and stroke. Some risk factors such as family history‚ ethnicity and age‚ cannot be changed. Other risk factors that can be treated or changed include tobacco exposure‚ high blood pressure (hypertension)‚ high cholesterol‚ obesity‚ physical inactivity‚ diabetes‚ unhealthy diets‚ and harmful use of alcohol. Of particular significance in developing countries is the fact that while they are grappling with
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The main risk factor for stroke that could be controlled is high blood pressure. Other risk factors that could be controlled include diabetes caused when the body does not make or use insulin properly‚ heart diseases such as cardiomyopathy‚ coronary heart disease and heart failure‚ smoking which causes damage to blood vessels and raise blood pressure‚ alcohol and drug abuse‚ and obesity. Risk factors for stroke that cannot be controlled are age‚ gender‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ and heredity. The risk of having
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Cigarettes are seen as an instrument to calm the nerves as countless say that after they take in a cigarette it reduces their stress. However‚ over the years people have begun to notice the negative effects that smoking can have on both the active and passive smoker. In this essay I will be discussing whether a ban should be placed on the sale of cigarettes. Firstly‚ the negative effect that smoking can have on people that don’t smoke‚ especially children will be discussed. Secondly‚ how being distracted
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