Drive down your city's main street and observe how many fast food restaurants are located just in that area. This is a typical reason why about one-third of U.S. citizens are overweight or even worse obese. Americans have had an ongoing struggle with nutrition and living a healthy life style, a...

Independent Study NUTRITION "Butter Today" : Chef _____ Changing lifestyles have always influenced the approach to nutrition. Values and/or intimacy associated with the foods we as a society eat, have largely been washed away by a desire for easier and less time consuming preparati...

To be or not to be toned? Want to have a wash-board stomach? Ripped visible abs? Or how about strong, lean arms? Men and women across America strive for the perfect, flawless, and celebrity type bodies. Why do they? A physical-minded man's mentality is usually to get big and a woman's min...

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...

Every human has their own preferences to their living environments and their own level of flexibility when it comes to adapting to a certain environment, or country. There can be many various reasons for a citizen who was born and raised in a country to move from there to a different one. Some of ...

Despite the availability of electronic media, the written word on traditional paper continues to dominate education and is the main means of discovering information. Borders has a great selection on books and is a well none bookstore. I chose to review the down town Chicago location because it'...

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...

A Wake up Call There is no sound on earth more disgusting or obnoxious than that horrible Beeping sound given off by millions of alarm clocks each morning. Nothing is more relaxing than being in the arms of Morpheus. When He takes hold of a person they become unaware of everything. They know of...

One of the major problems in today's sports scene is the use of performance enhancing drugs. Professional athletes are always looking to get a leg up on the competition, but this is taking it too far. Even though certain performance enhancing drugs are banned, the drug tests are not frequent enoug...

Open my eyes and allow me to behold the wealth of each curtained acre. Allow me to stand amidst the true complexity of land and hold me hostage beyond the hand of illustrations. As any mind may have it, such beauty is held too deep, so far away no ordinary soul could see. I ask you to bring forth th...

"Progressives were optimistic and forward-looking." Progressives sought to correct the evils of their present time in the hopes of creating a promising future for America. They looked at modern problems and sought to correct them so that the future Americans would never have to deal with t...

In recent years the consumer attitudes in college students towards eating meals at fast food restaurants have changed. College students are less likely to eat at such establishments than they were in high school. The question is, why such a change in behavior? What has happened to initiate such a dr...

If fast food has such a significant impact on our society and economy, it is only natural that it should also have at least some effect on our environment. Presumably, the generalization of fast food in America, and now spreading all over the world, can lead to major negative impacts on our environ...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is an awakening to the truths of the wrongs done to people of the past as well as today. It is a very depressing realization of how everybody has their own motives and disregards those of others. Throughout the book Sinclair shows the struggles of an American family in...

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...

Natural Remedies For Common Maladies The origins of herbal medicine can be traced back as far as 2852 B.C. and the Fu Si dynasty in China (Frey 1). Although there have been other recorded uses of herbal medicines this was considered the first system of use. The first books were written at this t...

Introduction Nursing can include two basic levels of nursing education and responsibilities, a Licensed Practical Nurse or a Registered Nurse. In brief the clinical difference is minimal, but RNs take on a leadership role and are required as supervisors in most settings. Nursing responsibiliti...

Since the 9/11 tragedy, there's been an influx of pro-US, patriotic themes where three firemen hoist an American flag over a mound of smoldering rubble. The feeling of the nation is one of allegiance and passion of everything red, white, and blue. We watch our CSI and Law and Order, in which a ...

Education Manifesto What student hasn't felt taken advantage of during their school years? Probably none, if you think about it. In this day and age, corporate control over American public education has taken advantage of students by using them as obligatory consumers to sell their products...

MEDIA AND WOMEN A woman's body has been a topic of conversation for centuries. Women were considered sexy or voluptuous if they had a pear shape body. The ideal pear shape icon would be Marilyn Monroe. She was actually a size 12 and she is still known as one of the sexiest females ever. ...

There She Blows A wondrous tale, could the rave old whale, Of the mighty deep disclose; Of the skeleton forms, of by-gone storms, And of treasures, that no one knows. ...

At the end of the day, the typical American turns on the television when they get home and proceeds to flip through the channels until the sight of twenty guys standing around an attractive woman catches their eye. The guys are smiling ear to ear knowing they are going to have to out do the guys st...

Introduction "Ok, ok. Now I don't want to get any of you excited or alarmed but I sow this on TV. This is for real. On the News today it stated that with in a year the new number one killer in America will be high fat/saturated fat." This stated by Conan O' Brien on his show...

As societies across the world continue to grow, with populations never before conceivable, one of the biggest concerns is food. Not only is it the concern as of right now, it is one of the largest and deadliest problems, not only in small third world countries but even in America we see issues with ...