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Benefits of a healthy lifestyle Amiyr Mohamed North Carolina A&T State University BIOL 100- Section 8 Professor, Smith Fall 2017 Introduction Healthy living is having a balanced lifestyle to improve people’s health and well-being. Unhealthy living is engaging in activities that can potentially harm ones’ health. Obesity and heart disease are two of the many illnesses associated with an unbalanced lifestyle. The benefits of a healthy lifestyle are amazing compared to those who have an

Isn’t it so easy to look at someone and consider them a certain way? If someone is underweight, people consider them anorexic, and if someone is overweight, people consider them obese. Making assumptions such as "she is too skinny, she probably starves herself", or "he is fat, he must be eating McDonald's all day" are some examples of ignorant comments. Instead of judging someone for being obese or underweight, people should consider the reasons the problem. Individuals who suffer from obesity

Position Paper on Child Survival 1. INTRODUCTION Save the Children is a child focused organisation that delivers immediate and lasting improvements in children's lives. The organisation is committed to improve the health status of children in India and protect them from exploitation, abuse and ill health. In the current context, Save the Children’s primary focus is on supporting the system in accelerating the progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4 aimed at one-third reduction in child mortality

According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is shortages, excesses or disproportions in a person’s intake of nutrients. It could also be referred to as when the body does not have adequate nutrients in food due to health problems such as diarrhea. This is a big issue developing nations where lack of clean water and poor sanitation are common. Millions of children are affected by poverty all over the world, and malnutrition has become a serious problem for many communities (Finn, 2014)

but it still has the highest prevalence of underweight children in the world. Half of the children are underweight in Bimaru states of India. (sagepub.com). There are many causes and consequences of malnutrition. Since malnutrition is affecting a large population of children in India, it is important to find solutions. Maternal characteristics are a reason why children are malnourished. A study found that the prevalence’s of stunting, wasting and underweight were greater for children of illiterate mothers

clinician would diagnose her with anorexia nervosa subtype bingeing and purging. The first diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa is a significantly low weight due to an extreme restriction of nutrients. When Miranda passed out, she was significantly underweight for her age and was also lacking the proper nutrients her body needed to function. The second diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa is a fear of gaining weight even though it would be healthy to do so. Miranda started to diet because she wanted

Sam is disposing of the lipids in his stool rather that legitimately processing them. Sam presently weighs 23 pounds. According to the center for Disease Control, the 50th percentile weight for a 3-year-old kid is around 31 pounds. Sam is clearly underweight and it is likely due to blocked digestion caused by Cystic

vitamin A supplement. This increase in mortality rate is due to the vulnerability state of the child that caused by lack of nutrition. Moreover, the scarcity of the proper mineral and vitamins for pregnant mothers has cause more than 13 million underweight and premature births. Over the years Vitamins B, D, and C have proven to cure disease such as pellagra, rickets and scurvy and although this might seem easy fixes for the richer

pre-pregnancy weight can be underweight, of normal weight, or overweight. These aspects affect how much additional weight you need to gain while pregnant to enhance growth and development of your baby. Moreover, if women ae underweight the need to ensure they are getting more nutrients and will need to ensure they are picking up more weight than most pregnant women. However If a woman is of normal weight, they don’t likely have to pick up as much as an underweight woman, and a woman that is overweight

the food that they can afford consists of cheap, energy-dense yet nutrient-deficient food as they are constrained in food options (Caballero, 2005). This, in part, lends itself to causing obesity in mothers who gain weight from the calories, yet underweight children, as the proper essentials with which to grow are not being provided (Averett & Wang, 2016). Finally, economic status has many downstream effects besides just the affordability of healthy food; mothers or families residing in