Healthy Living Project- Research Assignment

1. Healthy Living Project- Research Assignment By Josh, Ayesha, Denis, and Audrey

2. Main Question:Can Diseases Affect Your Health and lifestyle?

3. How do diseases affect others around you? • Diseases affect others around you in many different ways. For example, you have a really important speech at work, but you have a disease, and it is keeping you in bed, and can’t make it that day. Another person will be affected if they have to step in and take your place.

4. Also, in the case that a disease is contagious, your family or people that come into contact with you may contract the disease. • Many people believe that laughter is a good medicine and having a good diet and the correct medicine will get you through the illness you possess.

5. Continued... • Many diseases run in people’s families and can be passed down from adult to child. These are called Hereditary diseases. Several diseases affect individuals over the long run and have substantial effect on the stress levels of the person and the people closest to them.

6. Examples of Hereditary Diseases: • Colour-Blindness • Haemophilia • Muscular Dystrophy • SpinaBifidia

7. Most infectious diseases are more severe for young children, many causing problems physically and mentally over a long period of time. Many diseases affect people and may cause; death, disability, social and economical disturbance in millions of families worldwide.

8. How do diseases affect the economy? • Diseases affect the economy in various ways. The cost of health care and medicinal needs are costing the nation billions. Many people believe that we are in a disease economy today.

9. Mike Adams, Health editor of NaturalNews.com, states; ‘How do I know we are in a disease economy today?...drive around any city, and look at the new construction. If it’s an office site, it’s more than likely going to be a medical office building. If it’s a street corner, it’s probably going to be a pharmacy or medicinal practice office.’

10. How do diseases affect your self esteem? • Disease Affect your self esteem in a number of ways • Change in social behaviour because the person can no longer do what others do. • Changes in your life style e.g. Using your puffer for asthma • Mobility, changes in your ability to get around • Remembering to take medication properly • Trips to doctors and hospitals • Your self esteem remains high if you have the right people around you friend and family who understand you difficulties and good medical staff to help you. If you don’t have the support you need then your self esteem could be low. Also there are support groups for some disease so that sufferers of those diseases can talk to each other. This can also build up their self esteem. E.g. cancer supports.

11. How do people manage their disease? • Cancer • Treatment involves surgery to remove cancer cell. • chemotherapy- using drugs to fight cancer cells • Radiotherapy- using radiation to fight cancer cells • Targeted therapy - a new treatment, which attacks just cancer cells • Immunotherapy - helping the immune system fight cancer • Hormone therapy - reducing cancer-growth-promoting hormones.

12. Side effects: • Fatigue, Hair loss, Lymph edema, Breast reconstruction surgery. • A person suffering from cancer needs to decide which treatment to have in consultation with their doctor. This can mean many trips to hospital and can cause side effects like tiredness, hair loss and reconstructive surgery.

13. Asthma treatments • Asthma treatment usually involves managing your asthma with medications, as advised by your doctor. • Medications for asthma are divided primarily into ‘relievers’, ‘preventers’ and ‘symptom controllers’. Most asthma medicines are delivered by an inhaler device, although some are available in tablet or liquid form, or for people in hospital, by injection.

14. Whats the difference between HIV/AIDS HIV. HIVs dont go away there is no cure and you can not infected by other diseases, your white blood cells dye when you have HIVs. It came from a chimpanzee. No cure it just stays in your body. AIDS. AIDS weakens you by killing most of your white blood cells below 200 and is more dangerous than HIV. It came from africa. Still trying to find a cure.

15. How is cancer a disease? • In my research i found that cancer is an old disease from back in the Egyptian times. it goes over the archaeological evidence for cancer rates in ancient populations, and goes on to speculate whether the incidence of the disease is higher under modern conditions.

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19. And now to our conclusion. Our group believes that yes, diseases can affect your health and your lifestyle, but in the modern world, excessive amounts of people are starting to deal with their diseases and find ways to use what they have to live the healthiest lifestyle possible!

20. Bibliography ‘The Impact of Infectious Diseases’ (2000) available: http://www.globalhealth.org/infectious_diseases/ date found: 29/06/11 • ‘Disease Economy: How the United States economy runs on "treating" chronic disease’ (04/04/11) Available: • http://www.naturalnews.com/019337.html#ixzz1QdaruBWf date found: 29/06/11

21. ‘Hereditary Diseases List’ (2010) Available: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/hereditary-diseases-list.html date found: 29/06/11 • ‘Down Syndrome’ (1996) Available: http://www.medicinenet.com/down_syndrome/article.htm date found: 30/06/11 • http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/10/20/is_cancer_a_disease_of_the_modern_world.php