NAME: SHIVAM DHAR ENROLLMENT NUMBER : H2015BAMA31 BA 1ST YEAR LIFE SCIENCES ASSIGNMENT TOPIC : Understanding the Impact of Junk Food INTRODUCTION Junk Food is that type of food which doesn’t contain nutritional value. It do not contain high level of calories and has little protein, vitamins and minerals. Such foods are also not good for health and has negative effects after consuming them. Why there is a More Demand of Junk Food? There are following reasons which shows that why people
Nowadays, whether women or men turn to exercise more. And a choice of exercise is Yoga. Yoga originated from India, as a part of the Hindu religion two thousand years ago. The word “Yoga” is derived from the Sanskrit word “Yuj” which essentially means to join or unite. The union referred to is that of the individual self uniting with Cosmic Consciousness or the Universal Spirit. Yoga is means to achieving this goal. Yoga is not a sport but it is a combination of body, mind and spirit as one. While
1. What assessments will you make prior to prescribing a cephalosporin? The patient’s medication allergies need to be questioned due to the high incidence of a drug reaction to cephalosporins if the patient has an allergy to penicillin (UpToDate, 2015). 2. What first-line cephalosporin will you prescribe? When treating primary or secondary skin infections, first generation cephalosporins are recommended as the standard initial treatment (Woo & Wynne, 2012). According to Woo & Wynne (2012), cephalexin
As interest in natural means to improved health, wellness and fitness grows, essential oils are gaining in popularity in the United States. The healing powers, on both physiological and psychological levels, have been utilized in Europe and the rest of the world for some time. Natural, pure essential oils used in aromatherapy have a very diverse range of healing properties - as diverse as the hundreds of plants from which they are distilled. The effects range from antibiotic (without incurrence
LAPAROSOPIC SURGERY FOR GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE Gastroesophageal reflux is the most common gastrointestinal disorder of the western world. Gallup poles have elucidated that approximately 44 % of the adult population in the U.S. has some abnormal reflux of acidic gastric juices into the esophagus on a monthly basis. Roughly 10% of patients require daily acid suppression medication for relief of symptoms. GERD accounts for over 1.0 million out patient visits to physicians every year! Gastroesophageal
was 5.7 and 2.5 per 100,000per year, respectively and incidence rates increased with age.” . Despite these statistics misdiagnosis was relatively common among diseased individuals and it is likely that some of these cases were in fact dental pain, sinusitis, and temporomandibular disorders. Due to diagnostic discrepancies, newer studies discovered “overall incidence was 12.6% per 100,000 person-years with a mean age of 51.5 years and a 66% female preponderance” as of 2009. Through the use of clinical
AIDS is the disease caused by human immunodeficiency virus type 1, or HIV-1 (referred to as HIV). HIV belongs to the retrovirus family, a group of viruses that have the ability to use cell 's ' machinery to replicate. HIV attacks the immune system by damaging or killing a specific type of white blood cell in the body called a T-lymphocyte, also called a CD4+ or T-helper cell. T-lymphocytes help the immune system perform its important task of fighting diseases in the body caused by invading germs
gov/documents/mdch/2_Reasons_outdoors_382580_7.pdf Drifting tobacco smoke can trigger asthma attacks, bronchial infections, and other serious health problems in nonsmokers. For the 100 million Americans who have asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic sinusitis, emphysema, or other breathing related conditions, it makes them especially susceptible to secondhand tobacco smoke. Even for people without these breathing conditions, breathing drifting tobacco smoke for even brief periods can be deadly. For example
Novel chemotherapeutic agent: • “Chemotherapeutic agents” are the drug which used to inhibit or kill microorganisms without affecting host body cells. Cancer chemotherapeutic agents New Drugs for Breast Cancer Treatment: 1. Herceptin: Type of drug: Monoclonal antibody A class of drugs developed to work alone or together with chemotherapy to seek out and attack specific cancer cells. Mechanism: Herceptin attaches itself to a protein called HER2 that is found on the surface of 20 to 25 percent
Asthma also occurs in elite athletes, and these athletes appear to have similar bronchial hyper-responsiveness and symptoms compared with patients with atopic asthma who are not competitive athletes. However, the elite athletes with asthma did not have predominant signs of atopy. It is probably not surprising that elite winter athletes have more exercise-related symptoms than competitive swimmers with asthma.20 The United States is one of only 2 countries in the world that allows direct-to-consumer