STDs, most types of pneumonia, infected wounds or lacerations, and most other bacterial infections are routinely treatable now, but were far more debilitating or even lethal just a few decades ago. • the decline in deaths from heart disease and stroke. Between 1972 and 1992, death rates from heart disease plunged by 51 percent, but coronary heart disease is still the leading cause of death in the United States. The decrease was driven by combinations of screening, education, cholesterol and blood pressure medications, dietary changes, and exercise regimens. • the recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard, which I’ll talk about in greater detail in a moment... • motor vehicle safety.
As these children grow older, they are actually, in many cases, at high risk of being seriously injured or even killed by this harmful thing, obesity. Only six years ago a survey was taken up that led to knowledge of estimated deaths caused by obesity-related illness. The astounding statistic shows that 112,000 to 325,000 American adults die from it every year. This means that people with the highest BMI’s are twice more likely to die prematurely than the average American. Here are a few examples of the illnesses caused by obesity: type 2 diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular (heart) disease, and asthma.
6). With all the waste produced by industrialization, air pollution has also become a major issue. Statistics show that “China has the world’s highest number of annual deaths triggered by air pollution” (Doc. 10). Due to this hazard, growing crops became more difficult.
Smoking cigarettes is by far the main contributor to lung cancer. Cigarette smoke contains over 60 known carcinogens. The time a person smokes, as well as the rate of smoking, increases the person’s chance of developing lung cancer. If a person stops smoking, this chance steadily decreases as damage to the lungs is repaired and cancer causing agents are gradually removed. Tobacco companies are not responsible for what people do in their free time they are simply making a product that people like and making money in the meantime.
It also found that 14 per cent of men and 11 per cent of women drink every day and 6 per cent of men drink more than a week's recommended alcohol intake in one night. Deaths from cirrhosis of the liver caused by alcohol abuse have doubled in the past 10 years and the condition in young people has increased eight-fold. Cirrhosis is killing more women than cervical cancer and more men than Parkinson's
BA 6 Passage 1: Smoke is linked with cancer, heart disease, and respiratory illness, and is the leading source of indoor air pollution. In the United States at least 53,000 non-smokers died from being exposed to second hand smoke. Second hand smoke is a poisonous mixture of 7000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and at least sixty-nine that cause cancer. In August 2001, 234 United State communities required all workplaces to be completely smoke-free. Source: Fichtenberg, Caroline M., and Stanton A. Glantz.
Persuasive Letter Nursing 405 Brent Fleming May 17, 2012 Dan Brady State Representative 88th Legislative District 200-8N Stratton Bldg. Springfield, Illinois, 62706 Representative Brady, The windshield survey conducted in LeRoy, Illinois revealed many in this small town as well as McLean county itself suffer from obesity and overweight. According to the Centers for Disease control and prevention (CDC) 2012 statistics 35.7% of all Americans are considered obese (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). According to the Healthy People 2010 initiatives the goal across the nation was to reduce obesity to 15%. To date no state has met this goal but has an increased rate
In Fort Chipewyan cancer related deaths are on the rise, and are 30% more common than in southern Alberta. Growth in the number of people with an extremely rare cancer called the bile duct known to be associated with P.A.H.’s and oil pollution. Oil companies burn enough natural gas every year they can heat 3 million homes(“Crude Awakening”). Oil companies should find a more environmentally friendly ways to perform this action. Oil companies spend around $36 to produce a barrel of oil but a barrel of crude oil sells for about $90.
The American Medical Association concluded that alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood causes damage to memory and learning capabilities. In a study in the 2006 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine found teens who drink before age 14 had a lifetime risk of alcohol dependence of 47% compared to that of those who began drinking at age 21(Roan). A higher drinking age has resulted in lower rates of alcohol consumption and traffic crashes (Roan), and significant reductions in the amount of damage due to drinking (Keen). Still, roughly 100,000 people die every year due to the effects of alcohol (Keen). Why should we lower the drinking age even more and raise that number?
However for those who support it, it was estimated in 1999 that as many Americans suffer from the devastating diseases that could be helped with the pluripotent stem cell therapies (McGee & Caplan, 1999). In today’s age 11 years later the statistics are even more. Caplan and McGee estimate that more than half of the world’s population will suffer at some point to in life with conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and degenerative diseases of aging such as Parkinson’s disease. They have also compared the number of people who die each year cancer is more than the Kosovo and Vietnam conflicts (Caplan & McGee, 1999). Therefore, supporters feel that stem cell research is a pursuit of known and important moral goods.