Choice And Disease

A risk factor is an attribute, a characteristic, or a source of exposure that increases the likelihood of an injury or disease. For example, smoking is a preventable risk factor for lung cancer, obesity is a preventable risk factor for coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, type II Diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, reproductive problems, and gallstones, (What Are the Health Risks). It may even be linked to other conditions that are not found to contain enough evidence to prove their correlation. Unlike other diseases, obesity can be easily treated due to it only being a weight issue. Obesity is caused by someone’s own actions and can be eliminated the same way it was created. It is easily preventable and treatable. Other diseases must be treated with medications, special therapies, or surgeries. For instance, in the case of emphysema, there is no way to treat it fully after it has been diagnosed, the only treatments available just prolong the patient’s inevitable death. Obesity doesn’t require any of that. It can simply be treated by burning more calories than are eaten. Obesity and its side effects can be reversible and do not become intractable, unlike type II diabetes which has a high probability of occurring from obesity. The obesity part can be fixed forever, but the diabetes will never leave. Other diseases are caused by genetics or pathogens, obesity is simply caused by eating more calories than burned. Certain aspects of human genetics do not give excuses to be obese. Even if genetics enable obesity, it can still be overcome with a little more

Inheritance is a factor and controlling is another factor, if a person is thought or believed to have diabetes or in the family should be getting proper medical treatment.

This essay will look to outline the different arguments in that; addiction to a substance is a choice of one’s free will, or is it a disease element in our bio chemical or physical make up? It will consider, if addiction extends from genes inherited from parents or forefathers, or if it is a learned behaviour through day to day lifestyles, and changes through growth from tots to teens, to youths, then to adults. It will also seek to analyse how different approaches and points in this relevant argument can be debated in the academic and medical world, with the views and discussion of recognised professionals in the study of addiction.

Since all diseases are not curable, a lot of people are living in severe pain that is unbearable. Assisted suicide, also known as mercy killing, is the act of bringing the death of a hopelessly ill and suffering person in a relatively quick and painless way. Indeed, it is one of the effective solutions for people who are suffering in pain from terminal illness and especially for children who are not able to choose for their own lives. Even though assisted suicide is not legalized globally, there are few countries and six states in America including Washington State that allow such action. Many people are still against an assisted suicide system. However, since America is the country of freedom, people should have choices

Humans live in a world in which every day they encounter numerous choices. The way they decide and the outcomes of their decisions define their lives. Their day to day life essentially revolves around the choices they make. As a whole, a community benefits or suffers from the outcomes of its choices. Freedom of choice is the grant to an individual or community to make its own choices out of free will and without restrictions (Pereboom,2003). This is essay will discuss that though freedom choice leads to variety in life, it does not necessarily guarantee satisfaction. It will also argue that although some choice is undoubtedly better than none, more is not always better than less. It will then consider the implications of the paradox of

Diseases such as diabetes also affect other organs of the body which can lead to other complicated diseases.

So let’s start out by medically defining what a disease is. The Merriam-Webster dictionary (2003) defines a disease as: “an impairment of the normal state of the living

I never really thought about of diabetes as being a health problem in my life until I diagnosed with it. My physician told me one of the risk factor for getting diabetes is family history. My family history has big impact on to been diagnosed with types II diseases. Having one of family members have been diagnoses with diabetes mellitus increase the chance to get the disease than those not have family history. He also mention that race/ethnicity also another risk factor to develop diabetes. Also, been African Americana descent played major roles to be diagnosed

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Diabetes is a treatable and manageable disease however having diabetes increases one’s risk of developing heart disease. Diabetes mellitus increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by a factor of two to three at every level of systolic blood pressure (New England Journal of Medicine, 2010). Diabetes may be controllable with life style changes to keep insulin levels under control which can lower the chances of cardiovascular disease.

In the documentary, A Pleasure Unwoven, Dr. McCauley explains that until over a hundred years ago doctors would usually try and treat the symptoms of a disease with poor outcomes and that most diabetics died in early childhood (2009). It was not until the famous work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch that doctors formulated what is known as the disease model (Lynch & Henifin, 1998). The disease model is a causal model and works as follows:

For six months you are forced to watch your once energetic and full of life father become completely bedridden as the massive doses of chemotherapy used during his bone marrow transplant destroy his liver and kidneys. The bone marrow transplant has technically been successful, but the graft-versus-host disease has set in, and his intestines are bleeding. The only way to combat the graft-versus-host disease is to give him major doses of steroids. The large doses of steroids have caused all his major mussels to waste away, and the once active man who was the backbone of the family becomes completely bedridden and hollow shell of the man he once was. Months of this treatment go by with no change in his condition and doctors finally tell him that he will die no matter what treatments they provide. The hospital staff remove his IV medications, oxygen, and start comfort care. He has weeks to live, and nothing can be done to spare the family of the further grief and torture of watching him slowly waste away. The father takes matters into his own hands and stops eating and drinking, within days he passes

There are many diseases that cause health problems or even death. There are things that can be done to help with disease. Some people choose to get the help and others do not because of their beliefs.

Diabetes is a disease that occurs in the body. This disease occurs when the body can no longer regulate glucose. As glucose will become either dangerously high or dangerously low. Equally damage that is caused by diabetes is the damaged blood vessels which in turn damages the body’s blood vessels. Which then leads to additional health concerns such as blindness, seizures, kidney failure, nerve disease, stroke and heart disease. Diabetes is a public health concern because it is in most cases preventable and caused by a person’s diet. Upon accessing my risks for type 2 diabetes, I found that I meet three with the answer of yes and four with no. Which means that I do have a risk to have diabetes in the future. Overall diabetes is preventable

One important problem that has been rapidly increasing among our society today is drug addiction. Drug addiction can set back the user from achieving their goals, it’s important to make wise decisions to have a successful future. Brain changes in addicts are not abnormal, and do not prove the brain disease theory which is the first argument that drug addiction is a choice and not a disease. The overall argument in this essay is whether drug addiction is a choice or a disease and I’m on the choice side. Drug addiction is a choice and not a disease because how can it be a disease if individuals bring it upon their selves? A person has to make a choice to use a substance, whether that choice is needed for a medical need, or that choice is just