In a study of Omega-3 fatty acids, researchers Ma and Taylor sought to identify what effect the Fatty Acids have on mood and depression in elderly women. The focus on elderly women was chosen due to a high occurrence of both depression and risk of improper nutrition in those subjects. Researchers ...

Attention Deficit Disorder As a young boy in elementary school I was supposedly diagnosed with Attention deficit disorder. To this day both my father and I never believed that I really had ADD. Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is the subject of two widely challenged debates in medicinal practice...

Attention deficit disorder is the subject of two widely challenged debates in medicinal practice and theory. One, the argument for ADD being a clinical and mental "disorder", is in favor of medical treatment, claiming the diagnosis is attributable to brain damage or neurological defects. T...

Aerobics and Weight Training As most of you already know, fitness is usually measured by the untrained eye on the basis of how a person looks and their muscle definition. For anyone it's hard to get muscle definition until you lose weight, and that might be hard enough, more so for women th...

The disadvantage of modern technology Years ago, a person who suffered from an accident or injury and became a quadriplegic would perish. Currently due to the advancement of medical technology, a person can sustain life as a quadraplegic.The quality of that life depends on the government and ...

Odds of Teen Pregnancy Teenage pregnancy is a humongous ghost in American society. In spite of the orientation and counseling provided to adolescents, they keep having unsafe sex and getting involved in irresponsible intimate relations. Obviously, classmates and friends' insistence pl...

Teenage pregnancy has been a significant issue in our society, today. The number of single teens who become pregnant continually increases dependence on the social welfare system causing a strain on state and local government services, in which we as a society pay taxes to support. There are three...

Adults generally recognize that children have limited experience of life. Kids do not have the necessary knowledge to distinguish between information that is acceptable and information that is misleading. This feature of children is especially important where the media is concerned. Kids are arou...

Eating Disorders A disorder is an upset of normal functions. This being the case, an eating disorder is when normal eating habits or functions become abnormal and unhealthy. We will be discussing two of the three major eating disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Both are extremely unhe...

Poverty is one of the main issues the entire world has to deal with. The world is trying to find ways to help those in need and prevent them from going in this downward spiral toward poverty again. Poverty does not only affect the people that are going through it, but it affects everyone and every c...

Nowadays, the number of people who are diagnosed with depression is sharply increasing, and it is a controversial issue. Some people believe that anti-depressants are the best way to treat depression. They are not beneficial to all patients, however, and the results are only temporary. Anti-depress...

With the development of society, the rhythm of modern life is becoming faster and faster. Many people have suffered from the stress and strain of life. So stress has become a normal part of life. Psychologically speaking, stress is a kind of disease of modern society. There are many causes of stre...

Eating disorders occur when certain damaging patterns of eating take on a life of their own. Starvation diets, pills, juice drinks and other rapid weight-loss techniques are usually the starting point to eating disorders. Women and men have spent decades trying to obtain the perfect body image, whi...

To first study the predominant values that shapes technologies in our present society we must first define the meaning of technology and the system. A technology is not necessarily an object or a device it can also be the know-how technique of doing something. A system consists of multiple indepen...

Bulimia vs.. Anorexia Bulimia and Anorexia, two of the most common eating disorders. Thesetwo eating disorders target young adolescent girls. Girls with these eating disordersbecome so preoccupied with there weight and appearance that they force t...