COMMON NEGATIVE FACTORS FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING


Smoking

Most people know that smoking can cause lung cancer, but it can also cause many other cancers and illnesses.
Smoking kills around 114,000 people in the UK each year. Research has shown that smoking reduces life expectancy by seven to eight years. There are more than 50 different diseases and disorders that are either caused by, or made worse by, smoking.

Smoking causes one third of all cancer deaths and one sixths of the  heart disease occurances. Some of these deths is from inhaling smoke from other people's cigarettes is called passive smoking. It's made up of two types of smoke: smoke from the burning end of the cigarette (side stream smoke) and smoke breathed out by the smoker (mainstream smoke).

 

Unsafe sex

Unsafe sex can lead to unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
There are several different types of sexually transmitted infections (infection you can only catch through having sex with a partner). Using a condom is not 100% guarantee of not catching a STI but it does offer good protection. Sexually Transmitted Infections cannot always be recognised because some do not have any signs or symptoms for a long time, bt can lead to sterility.




Misuse of Alcohol
 

Alcohol can affect different people in different ways. Used moderately, it can actually contribute to disease prevention, especially blood circulation diseases, like heart infarction and stroke.

Large amounts alcohol consumed can give heavy risks to a person’s health and well-being and to the health and well-being of the family of that person. Alcohol can hurt the foster and give a newborn baby diseases such as FAS (Foetal Alcohol Syndrome) and ARBD (Alcohol Related Birth Defects) Alcohol affects us very quickly, within a few minutes. The limits fo safe use are:
* No more than 14 serving units in a week for  females.
* No more than 21 serving units in a week for males.

Unfortunately for women, males tolearate alcohol better that women.

 

Genetic inheritancee

Over 5000 genetic conditions is said to exist today. These in turn affect over 2 million people in UK alone if. Genetic conditions are caused by changes in genes that affect the way the body works or looks. People with a genetic disorder are perceived as being different than other people. Intellectually they are slower to learn than most average people and socially they don’t get their needs fulfilled as they don’t tend to socialise with anyone else because people discriminate them.

However people having a genetic difference from other people can also be more gifted in areas than the average level. It is wrong to diagnose any significant genetic variations as a disease. It is often a better approach to bear in mind that people are different because of different genetic inheritance, and need different living conditions to thrive. We have a situation where the diagnosis "genetic disorder" is grossly misused to characterize genetic variations, in order to gain profit, in stead of giving each person living conditions that makes him thrive.
 

Drugs used illegaly or prescribed unappropriately

Drugs are not all the same. Different drugs have different dangers associated with them. Drugs are substances that change the way your brain and body works. Drugs can be swallowed, inhaled, smoked, or injected. Whichever way drugs are taken, they end up in your bloodstream and go to all parts of your body. Both drugs used legally after prescription by a doctor and drugs used illegally can harm. Lagally used drugs may be of benefit if the doctor brescribes the after a sound judement of the condition and if the doctor know about eventual benefits of other methods.

Too often however, drugs ar prescribed only to decrease symptoms that the patient himsef or the society regard as unwanted, without making an effort to really cure the patients conditions or really remend social conditions that may be the real cause of behaviour or feelings by a patient.

 

Unsupportive relationships

Supportive relationships make you feel good about yourself. If somebody is being pressured into doing something that they don’t want to do they would no longer feel happy about the relationship. It could be that the person who is involved in the relationship is being abused both mentally and physically by their partner. This is known as an unhealthy relationship.

Also the relationship a person has to the society as a whole, to their bosses, to authorities, to the school or to the health care system can be unsupported and abusive.  Authorities of various kinds abuse people in a lot of ways as often as sposes, boyfriends, girlfriends, brothers, sisters parents, uncles or other relatives.

 

Poor diet

Different people like different foods and like to prepare the same foods in different ways. Culture, family background, religion, moral beliefs, cost, and food allergies can all affect people's choices. Healthy eating has a great impact on a person’s health and well-being as the food we eat can prevent us from diseases.

A many areas it is by now simply difficult to find really healthy food. Food companies are systematically cheating the consmers by making the food as cheap as possible. Therefore much food layed out in the stores has a minimal nurtient value.

 

Eating Disorders causing over-weight or under-weight

Eating disorders can affect a person’s health and well-being drastically.The most common eating disorder is an unsound appetite for fat and sugar, making a person obese and further giving diabetes, circulatory diseases and other conditions. Other types of eating disorers affect some people, for example Anorexia or Bilemia.

Most people are unhappy with their physical appearance, and unfortunately they have a real reason for this. Most people are in fact over-weight. Som of these however react in an irrational way when they try to get a better shape leading to Anorexia or Bulemia.

However, in a society where most people are overweight, and where overweight also affects very often health care people, there is a tendency to diagnose people having a normal weight as anorectic, and to force people with a sound weight to gain an unhealthy over-weight.

Pollution

The western societies are chemically polluted, and more so are ceratain eastern societies. Radioctive pollution is also a steadily increaseing hazard. The pollution also takes away the ozon shield in the antmosphere, causing people to be hurt by excessive ultraviolet light. All this  has a great impact on our health and well-being. It can cause disorders in the whole body, like cancer and neurological problems, and it can cause genetic disorders that will be inherited for generations.

 

Inadequate housing

Housing conditions cave a big impact on the Health and Well-being in every society. If a home is over-crowded, damp and cold it is likely to be the cause of ill-health. People living in high apartments or flats can suffer from social isolation and so depression. In the weatern societies echonomical inequality is a growing cause of bad housing. Some types of work is simply under-paid, and others are over.paid, and unemplyment is a growing problem.

A HEALTH MONITORING QUESTIONAIRE

Here is a queationaire that may be useful to go through, in order to asses how good you care for your health. Many of the questions do not have any definite answar valid for every person, but going through the questions may give you an understanding of how good you care for your health.

Do you know how a healthy diet is composed?

If so, do you generally follow a healthy diet?

How much alcohol do you dring during an avarage week, how may servings?

Do you smoke. How many cigarettes do you smoke every week?

Do you use any other kind of tobacco?

Du you use drugs you feel you should not, illegally or legally?

Do you feel that your doctor just give you drugs instead of going to the root of your prolems to solve them?

Do you exercise regularly?

Do you have an health issue that has not been investigated to find the reason?

What is the sate of your health insurance?

How often do you visit the dentist?

Do you have problems with your teeth that has not been taken care of?

Do you visit the doctor when you have flu or minor illness?

Do you ask your doctor to check your general health, (eg: blood pressure) when you visit?

How often do you book an appointment with your doctor just for a check up?

How often do you visit the opticians?

Have you had all the reccomanded vaccinations? List the vaccinations you have had.

If you had not have all the vaccinations, did you have a good reason for not having some of them. There may be good reasons.

Do you seek help on health matters from any additional places? if so, state which (for example: a foot practitioneer, chiropracter etc.)

Do you ever ask for a second opinion? or see another doctor/ optition/ dentist if you feel they are not correctly doing their job?

Do you ever let yourself miss an important optition/ dentist/ doctor appointment?

If so do you book another appointment straight away?

 

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. This information is nutritional in nature and should not be construed as medical advice. This notice is required by the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.