Obesity is a worldwide epidemic recognized to the highest extent by the World Health Organization. Countries like the United States‚ Great Britain and other European and First world countries have started to take steps to try and reduce the colossus that is obesity. With obesity being such a problem in the United States‚ people are doing what they can to help. The economy‚ fast food restaurants‚ stigmatization and discrimination towards the disease‚ and advances in technology‚ people are fighting
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The author of the editorial‚ “Doctors Will Play a Critical Role in the Opioid Epidemic‚” posted in the New York Times‚ claim that doctors will need to make safe and effective decisions for treatment of pain due to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealing the rise of opioid overdose deaths since 1999. The author states that there are many other alternatives that can be given to treat pain and doctors should be considering them before writing out prescriptions for opioids
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Childhood obesity is quickly becoming an epidemic. Many children are failing the standards for healthy eating habits and getting good exercise‚ which is the reason for their obesity. Parents and technology are also a huge impact on children becoming obese. After reading my essay I hope this will give you an idea of how these few problems can really affect your children’s health. Technology is a cause of children becoming obese. Children spend most of their time watching television or playing video
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Mental illnesses among teenagers is far from a recent epidemic. There have been signs and records of suicidal behavior from teens going as far back as 1950’s. Since then the number of suicides per year has continually increased. In the year 1968 118 children aged 5-14 commit suicide in the U.S.‚ currently as of 2016 it is estimated that the annual number of teens/youths committing suicide each year between the ages of 10 and 24 is 4‚600. The amount of suicides per year has increased to occur 40 times
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1 Obesity/Overweight: Epidemic Crisis (1 of 6) Obesity over the last two decades has been a major health issues for Americans. Obesity‚ just recently was classified as a chronic disease condition by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC reports in 2010 that one-in-three adults (35.7%) and one-in-five (17%) American children are obese (CDC‚NCHS-2010-National Obesity Trends). The health effects of Obesity including being Overweight is a gateway trigger leading to a variety of
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after their financial foundation crumbles and they find their self on the street. It is troubling for most to envision being broke‚ jobless‚ and ultimately hopeless and therefore‚ the homeless issue is overlooked. Homelessness is a prevailing epidemic that is currently affecting more than 1.5 million Americans and over 100 million people worldwide. In today’s society it is evident that only people that have experience or have come close to experiencing the hardship of homelessness seem conscious
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Academic Dishonesty: an Epidemic As a current college student and recent high school graduate‚ I am well aware of the presence of academic dishonesty‚ or cheating‚ in the classroom. The International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) defines academic dishonesty as “representing someone else ’s work as your own. It can take many forms‚ including sharing another ’s work‚ purchasing a term paper or test questions in advance‚ paying another to do the work for you” (Integrity Statistics). With the
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Painkillers: A Growing Epidemic I visit my grandmother every month at her house. We relive all of the happy moments we shared when I was growing up. On my latest visit‚ she did not want to talk about the good times we shared‚ and seemed almost annoyed I was there at all. After searching around her house‚ I noticed an empty bottle of prescription painkillers. I remembered her telling me the last time I talked to her that she was starting to take a new prescription pain medication‚ but that
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Child Pornography- Becoming an Epidemic? The internet can be a useful tool when used for the right reasons‚ but what about the wrong reasons‚ such as child pornography? Child pornography is growing in astounding numbers‚ it is gaining more popularity every year and there is still not enough legislation to help slow it down. Society has become overly sexually stimulated‚ simple sexual pleasures are now not enough in many people’s minds‚ which may lead to harmful‚ unhealthy sexual desires
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Teachers have a substantial impact on students‚ myself included‚ due to the significant amount of time they spend with them. Teachers verse their students on the topic of their expertise‚ but they also help them grow as people. While learning how to convert mass to moles‚ moles to moles‚ and moles to mass can prove useful if an individual wants to become a chemist‚ the work ethic gained from finishing assignments before their inevitable deadlines proves most useful. Aside from work ethic‚ students
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