Healthy Lifestyle

“Recent data from the National Center for Health Statistics estimate in the United States more than 35% of adults and 16% of children ages two to 18 are obese” (Budd and Peterson 1). Obesity in the United States has been a rapidly growing problem for Americans over the past several years. Once an individual gains…

Obesity is a hot topic in America right now. Both Radley Balko’s, article “What you eat is your business” and Michela Hobbes “ Everything you know about obesity is wrong” discusses the issue of obesity and propose an idea of how we as a society should solve it. Michael Hobbes stresses that how we are…

What does health and wellness mean to most people? The majority of them will say that staying physically fit, eating healthy diet and getting enough sleep is all that it takes to live a balanced, happy and fulfilled life. And that’s exactly what I thought. But being healthy involves so much more than maintaining the…

When asking someone who in the midst of doing a juice cleanse; ‘What are toxin is the juice trying to get rid of?’- they become dumbfounded. Alike to many other cleanses diets, the objective is to drink only the juice of vegetables or fruit for a certain number of days. People believe that this is…

As a mother of two daughters, I understand that one of my roles is to provide adequate nutrition so that they can grow up to be healthy adults and be able to live long and fulfilling lives. Nutritional requirements begin the moment you are born and continue throughout the lifespan. From the moment you are…

As nurses, we know we are walking into a profession that can be very demanding. I find it very interesting that we educate patients on how to take care of themselves we often forget to care for ourselves. “Today, nurses experience increased stress as a result of more work hours and greater patient loads. Research…

Document the process of how the bionic eye works and analyse the for and against arguments of the bionic eye. Close to 40 million people in the world have been affected by blindness. Many of these patients can be successfully treated with surgery or medication. Some pathologies cannot be corrected with existing treatments. When light…

The tennis serve is the stroke that puts the ball in play and is often referred to as the most important stroke in the game of tennis. It has become a principle weapon of attack and is used to place the opponent on the defensive by forcing a return from the weak side or by…