Congestive heart failure is the most common health problem with the elderly. Some health organizations believe that men are more prone to congestive heart failure than women. In a study performed on 3,000 men, it was determined that men can inherit heart disease from their fathers through the Y ch...

Heart disease is a common disease in people. Its a disease that affects the heart and the cardiovascular system. There are many types of Heart disease. Most often when people think of any kind of heart disease they usually think of the Coronary Artery Disease. That is the narrowing of arteries that ...

An Article Critique on : Risk Syndrome Found In Overweight Teens There are several issues that need to be dealt with in the world today but overweight teens is something so important that it requires immediate attention. "Nearly 1 million U.S. teenagers suffer from a syndrome associated with...

My article came out of Men's Journal and was titled "What Can You Do To Live Longer". It had tips on how to cut your prostate cancer risk, lowering your risk of heart disease preserve your brain, slimming down, staying fit, reducing your risk of colon cancer, not drinking to much, an...

This 38-year-old female mother of four that is married is a stay-at-home mom that has a height of 5'6" and a weight of 135. For her height, she is at a good weight. She smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, which is really bad for her health and her kid's health. Her cholesterol is 198 that could...

Tobacco products kill more than 400,000 people in the United States a year. That is more than the number deaths from homicides, fires, AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, suicides, and illegal drugs put together. It is by far the number one cause of preventable death in the United States. Action should ...

The main reason people use anabolic steroids is to increase their sports performance. Body builders are also the top abusers of steroids. Another reason is to increase their muscle size and reduce their body fat. They use it to not be picked on (to intimidate). Some people use it because the have mu...

Recently, I read that in some religions, it is felt that when a pet owner is ill, the animal can take on the illness to help in healing their owner. While many pet owners claim that their pets do make them feel better, there are still some skeptics. However, research studies show that pets do have a...

Vegetarianism is a good idea for anyone, whether young or old, healthy or sick. Reasons supporting vegetarianism are inarguable since becoming a vegetarian is scientifically proven to improve one's lifestyle in several different ways. First and most importantly to many, vegetarianism improve...

In 1992, I went to the Doctor to take a picture of x-ray on my chest. After I examine my chest via x-ray, my doctor asked me if I'm smoking a cigarette. Of course, I told him that I don't smoke a cigarette at all. Then I asked him why. He told me that my lungs are same as person who smoke...

Strengthen your core Your abdominals and back are command central when it comes to toning. Every move you make involves those two parts of the body, says Anderson. When you strengthen them, you'll have more stamina to do more activities with less likelihood of injury. The best exercises for your ab...

Alcohol does many different things to your body. While drinking might make you feel good, abusing alcohol may lead to serious complications. It effects the body both mentally and physically. Alcohol will slur your speech, increase your reaction time, make you lose co-ordination, and causes impot...

Teenagers and children shouldn't smoke because it represents a risk to their health. Young people who smoke tobacco have high heartbeats, they have a low tolerance for exercise and an increased risk of damaging arteries from fatty buildups associated with heart disease. Young smokers suffer the sam...

There is no substitute for blood. Volunteer donors are the only source of blood for patients in need of lifesaving transfusions. Donating blood is a safe, simple way to make a difference for people in your community. In this way, each blood donation provided by a donor can help to save several ...

Government steps in when Tobacco Industry steps out Back a few years ago, all we heard on the news was John Doe vs. Big tobacco industries. Every day, people who had been harmed by smoke-related illnesses sued tobacco companies for liability in respect that they would compensate the medical bills...

Down syndrome (also called Trisomy 21) is the most common cause of mental retardation in a newborn. This defect is relatively common and is caused by an extra chromosome number 21. This affects both the physical and mental development of the child. Down syndrome may be inheritable but is not contagi...

The Effects of Drugs and Alcohol When we bring drugs and alcohol into our campus community, we are not only effecting ourselves, but we are also effecting all the other aspects that make up our community. The consequences undoubtedly outweigh the brief release that we receive from these unnecessar...

Steps to a Better Life The decision to quit smoking is one decision a person will never regret! Smoking causes around 419,000 deaths each year, just in the United States. Quitting smoking cuts the risk of lung cancer, many other cancers, heart disease, stroke, other lung diseases, and other res...

Good Nutrition for Teenagers This article is about a good nutritional diet for growing teenagers. It is very important for teens to eat a certain amount of a certain type of food each day. When girls are almost done fully growing, they start to add some fat padding. But for boys, the...

Chocolate... It's been described as one of life's sinful little pleasures. Could something that tastes so delicious actually be good for you? Over the years we have all heard many negative claims about chocolate. But in fact, giving into those chocolate cravings may be better for you th...

We learn and are taught about the dangers of smoking as young children. We hear about it on television, radio and in print. It's all around us and completely unavoidable. Just about everyone knows someone who has died from a smoking related disease. And not only are smokers putting their ow...

Anabolic steroids, or anabolic-androgenic steroids are the synthetic derivatives of the naturally occurring male anabolic hormone, testosterone. Anabolic steroids help the body to retain dietary protein, which aids in the development of muscles and strength, which is what attracts athletes to t...

Before the invention of television and video games, children's only form of entertainment was to play games outside with other neighborhood children. Today that is not the case. Many children return home after school and do not loose sight of the television until the go to sleep. The parent...

The world of science and the public at large were both shocked and fascinated by the announcement in the journal Nature by Ian Wilmut and his colleagues that they had successfully cloned a sheep from a single cell of an adult sheep (Wilmut 2003). Scientists were in part surprised, because many had b...

Alcohol. It's a seven-letter word deeply embedded within the World's culture. It supplies billions of dollars in revenue for governments and corporations, and when consumed in large enough quantities, it can royally mess you up. Sloshed, wasted, tanked, or drunk, whatever you want to call it, the in...