Essays on Nutritional Supplements

1. Exercising regularly is good for health. However, one should not be erratic about it i.e. one should have a plan and stick to it. Fitness also includes the food intake. One should have a balanced diet that gives all nutrients in the correct proportion. Exercise and food together lead to a healthy body. At times an overweight person will not be prepared to expose himself to others in a fitness centre. However, one should realise that it is to change this very situation that one need to keep oneself fit. As a result, one becomes more confident about ...

Members of the elderly population experience a lot of negative changes in the body. The negative changes that they encounter are often related to aging and the degeneration-related physiologic changes associated with it, this was supported by a set of guidelines on malnutrition authored by Mauldin & Kelley. In this paper, the author discusses the different tenets of malnutrition, including the causes, of malnutrition among the elderly, drawing data and evidences from previously published studies. It is not atypical for members of the allied medical fields, especially nurses, to encounter cases of elderlies experiencing malnourishment. In a study published in ...

According to the NHS complementary therapies, also referred to as complementary and alternative medicine, CAM, are interventions against ailments that do not fall under mainstream medicine. However, NHS purports that there is a difference between ‘complementary’ and ‘alternative’ therapies, although the terms are always used together. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NCCIH, gives a distinction between the two terms. A therapy is referred to as complementary when it is used alongside conventional medicine. Alternative therapy replaces conventional treatment, becoming the main intervention for a patient. This paper will focus on complementary therapies and how they impact ...

Natural or nutritional supplements are comprised of herbal concoctions, other elemental mixtures or essential vitamins and minerals. They are typically available in the form of a pill, chew, gum, tea, shake, meal bar, and powder, and are offered with the promise of some medical, physical, or mental benefit. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on natural or nutritional supplements in the United States. Some people swear by the supplements they take, and use their own health as proof of the supplement working. At the same time, there are also harsh critics of these supplements. These people state that ...

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common disorder that is related with difficulties in behaviour and academic life (Sherman). There are various treatment options that are available to the children with ADHD, for example, medication and behavioural therapy, nutritional supplements etc. However, there are many other factors that can have significant psychological effects for a child with ADHD. In this report, we are going to discuss the reasons for over diagnosis and over medicating of ADHD, the alternative treatment methods for ADHD and how educators and families can help with psychological effects of ADHD.

Reasons for over diagnosis and over medicating of ADHD

When patients are diagnosed with ...

Designing an approach to Lower Respiratory Tract Infections.

Candace Moore No University Affiliation Nursing Introduction: Ethiopia is highly affected by communicable diseases like many countries less economically developed countries. These diseases accounted for over 60% of total death and 63% of DALYs in Ethiopia 2010. Out of these communicable diseases lower respiratory infections play a major role in the mortality and morbidity of the people. These diseases contribute about 14 % and almost 11% of towards all communicable death and DALYs respectively ((( Source from summative assignment))). The risk of developing acute lower respiratory infection was found to be very high in children under the age ...

Abstract

Adequate nutrition is required for optimal wound healing. The normal processes that allow the progress of wound healing are disrupted due to nutritional deficiencies. Increased infection rates and decreased wound tensile strength are associated with malnutrition. Chronic on-healing wounds are formed in malnourished patients or individuals. Such patients can develop infections, pressure ulcers, and delayed wound healing. Morbidity and mortality among malnourished patients with chronic wounds constitute a serious clinical concern. Wound healing is considered as a complex process. It is the process of replacing injured tissue with new tissue (produced by the body). Production of new tissue is associated with ...

Question I

I have encountered multiple incidences wherein a patient undergoing pharmacologic therapy using a certain drug manifested reactions after ingesting and or being exposed to foods that contain nutrients that created a conflict with the pharmacologic agent. Prior to the incident, I have been made aware, through course readings and discussions, about the different possibilities of nutrient to drug interactions. The nutrient to drug interaction I encountered involved an arthritic patient who was complaining about the localized dull aching pain on his left foot. The physician prescribed him with an NSAID (Non-Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs). What the physician failed to note was that ...

We would like to present to you Team Blue’s innovative product, which we call the Wearable Health Tracker. It is a wearable device that will track the health status of the person wearing it. It uses sensors to collect and analyze data from the body and provides health information such as stress levels, sleep patterns, average water intake, and vitamin deficiencies. In addition, it will include special features, such as the capability of connecting the device to a cell phone via Bluetooth in order to make emergency calls; GPS; the capability to play music; and extended battery life. It also ...

Section A: Food Analysis

6-12 months I would consider diet to be too much for 6-12 months infants. As opposed to the high protein, carbohydrate ,vitamins, fats and omega -3 fats in my diet , an infant at this stage would require much lower levels, that is, 95 grams of carbohydrates, 30 grams of total fat and 11 grams of protein every day. My Omega-3 daily intake was far below the daily requirements of an infant within this age bracket. My Omega-3 intake was 137 mg per day and the average protein, carbohydrate and fats intake was 164mg, 346mg and 500mg respectively.

4-6 year old

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“Amino acids are key precursors for synthesis of hormones and low molecular weight nitrogenous substances with each having enormous biological importance, both in nutrition and health” Dr. Guoya Wu, Texas A & M University The Body Building For You article opens with a quote to emphasize the role and scientific importance of amino acids in the making of proteins and the muscle building process. It then goes on to discuss a “newly discovered” set of amino acids that have the ability to “jump start” the production of proteins and to synthesize them at a faster rate. The author then goes on to ...