Essays on Health

Authors Brownell and Frieden: Impact on Wellness and Obesity Rates Authors Brownell and Frieden examine the impact on the wellness and obesity rates in America of soft drinks and other sugared beverages. The authors propose different steps in their report that can be taken to reduce the elevated intake of calories...

Health agencies and the use of anti-smoking posters Health agencies have used a mix of graphic and verbal posters to make the dangers of tobacco smoking known all over the country (Trimbur 330). To be persuasive, anti-smoking activists had to redefine the societal definition of smoking, thus giving non-smokers substitute advertising...

Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia nervosa is a psychological eating disorder characterized by constant food intake limits, intense fear of weight gain, and a great deal of concern about self-perceived body shape. A individual suffering from the condition is unable to maintain a normal healthy weight and, even when they are severely underweight,...

The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic The coronavirus pandemic, as one of the most difficult emergencies to date, has clearly altered life as we formerly understood it. People learned to operate remotely, prevent unwanted external interaction, and refrain from moving for a period of time by staying in lockdowns. However, some...

For the Department of Veteran Affairs, 2014 was a turbulent moment. Following a claim that lengthy waiting times have been covered up for the ill veterans, an inquiry has been begun at several veteran health facilities. The uncovered details was damned, including the finding of concurrent waiting lists, cancellations for...

As Sipe (2013) points out, different couples have different perspectives on sex issues. Any of them agree that sexual expectation in relationships is so strong that it leads to healthier relationships. Others will believe that it would harm the partnership in certain circumstances, but this is not always the case....

The main characters in the film, Training Day The main characters in the film, Training Day, are Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington (Tatti, 2015). The film shows the true lives of two Los Angeles cops participating in the War on Drugs in the narcotics department. Hawke portrays rookie policeman...

Courage in Literature Courage is the desire or option to face agony, intimidation, discomfort, the threat of confusion. Its synonyms are courage and bravery. It may be either actual or spiritual. Physical courage is defined as bravery in the face of suffering, death, or adversity. On the other hand, moral bravery...

If an experiment generates only two results and measures the likelihood of an occurrence happening when a fixed number of experiments are used, a binomial distribution is used. When a discrete likelihood distribution exists, in each case only two mutually excluded outcomes (only two options) exist (Bluman, Allan G). These two...

In the medical sector The care of patients and discreteness are the major codes of morals addressed. Any medical doctor and health practitioner that refuses to flow with the codes of morals is deemed to rupture the codes of professionalism. Based on this, I firmly concur that, what happened to the...

Gender and Sexual Urges Gender is one of humanity's most strong powers. Sexual urges are inherent in both humans and nature. When people are madly and intensely in love with each other, it is very difficult to resist. The Normative Case for Sex Before Marriage Jill Filipovic's essay "The Normative Case for Sex...

This Thing Called Love I found Lauren Slater's article "This Thing Called Love" interesting. The article explores the interactions of love and the sexual encounters that come with it. The author also talks about the various stages of love that begin when people get married and what happens after that. Scholarly Viewpoint...