...When we hear the words overweight or obesity we tend to relate these words with adults. A reason to this could be, because obesity affects our body’s function. Many health problems arise in the forms of type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and lack of range of motion. The majority of times, we see these health complications in older adults. Now, the health problems experienced by adults due to obesity are now being experienced among children. When a child is overweight or obese during childhood, the percentages of developing heart disease when adulthood is reached are higher, the same happens with metabolic disorders like type II diabetes, if they are not experience during childhood the person is most likely to develop it during adulthood...
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...Childhood Obesity and its Relation to Adult Hypertension Team C Childhood Obesity and its Relation to Adult Hypertension Childhood obesity has become a growing global epidemic, specifically impacting the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014) childhood obesity has doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents over the past 30 years. One of the main dilemmas in childhood obesity is the risk factor of comorbidities leading to adult hypertension, otherwise known as high blood pressure (CDC, 2014). A European longitudinal research study, focusing on childhood body mass index and its associations with adult hypertension, discovered a direct correlation between obesity and blood pressure. Results indicated that child participants with a high body mass index were more likely to develop high blood pressure in adulthood (Sabo, Lu, Daniels, and Sun, 2012). The study’s participants consisted of adult men and women and researchers concluded that based on the number of participants it was unclear whether or not the correlation was similar across genders (Sabo, Lu, Daniels, and Sun, 2012). Since previous studies have indicated a greater increase in hypertension in women, researchers claimed further testing was needed. The previous work by Sabo, Lu, Daniels, and Sun (2012) has led researchers of the current study to ask questions regarding the correlation between childhood obesity and adult hypertension. For example, researchers in...
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...Stages of life: Childhood and adulthood. BY: Laura Geraldine Ramirez. Definitions of life stages can be found in Greek literature from the time of Socrates and Plato. These descriptions are based on the changes and behaviors which humans have during life. Basically, a stage of life is a period of time when people suffer a big physically change and in their mind as well. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the differences between two stages of life: Childhood and adulthood. Childhood and adulthood are two important ages of a person; however, some people decide to define one of them as the best stage of their life, depends on these fourth main aspects which make each one totally different to the other: physical appearance, cognitive development, the interaction with others, and the way of they view the world around them. Children and adults share some main characteristics which defined them as humans, but one of the most notable differences between a child and an adult is the physical appearance. Children development depends by the age, and the conditions that the little boy has. Also, children do not care about their physical appearance. For example they do not think about the effect of diet on health. In contrast, adults always want to be perfect and want to belong to the stereotypes created by society: a symmetrical face, a slender body, a perfect teeth and be fashionable. The second aspect to consider is the cognitive development...
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...violence in the schools probably because of time constraints on the part of the “working parent” or maybe because parents look at the event as “petty”. In reality, cases of bullying and other forms of violence in schools should be viewed not just a “school” problem but as a “societal” problem. Bullying is now the number one non-academic issue that most educators face, and is one of the top concerns of many parents. Bullying that happened during childhood has a great impact on an individual’s adult life. The idea that childhood bullying is not at all confined to childhood is becoming clearer and clearer as researchers follow affected kids throughout the years, peeking into their lives as adults. One study, for example, showed that kids who play the roles of bullies and victims grow up to have more mental health problems in adulthood – anxiety disorder, depression, panic disorder, and suicidal behavior. Now, the same team has extended their work, illustrating the many areas of adult life that can suffer as an apparent result of childhood bullying. It turns out that not only do bullied kids have more psychological problems, but they have problems in just about every other area as well – physical health, social relationships, education, and even employment. This...
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...illness.Slide 4 An explanation of the impact of this disease/condition on adults to the health care system and nursing practice. Slide 5 A description of the impact of this disease or illness during childhood. Slide 6 A description of the impact of this disease in adults. Explain why adults live into adulthood with this childhood condition or why adults would contract this childhood illness during adulthood. Slide 7 A validation of the health problem with demographic and health statistics, including citations of sources. Slide 8 Evaluate how this disease or illness impacts the adult client in the following areas: a) Mentally and emotionally. b) Physically. Slide 9 c) Sexually. d) Economically, specifically as it relates to the ability to access health insurance and health care. Slide 10 e) Susceptibility to engage in substance abuse. f) Prenatal care and childbearing. Slide 11 g) Occupational considerations and hazards. h) Ability to cope with stress. Slide 12 Slide 13 slide 14 Develop a care plan that addresses the following: a) Identify expected outcomes for an adult client living with this childhood condition. b) Develop health screening, health promotion, health interventions, and education for adults with this condition. c) Identify a comprehensive set of relevant resources, both community and national, for adults with this condition. Provide description of resources. Slide 15 References ...
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...named Alex. Alex is facing the dilemma whether he wants to stay in childhood or move on and enter adult¬hood. Alex’s parents, John and Frances, are having trouble figuring out their marriage. These troubles affect their son, and make him decide, that he wants to grow up and become an adult. The coming of age is the dominating theme through the story. Alex is a young boy, which exact age we do not know, but trough the story he seems like a boy who is being at the crossroads between childhood and adulthood. In the opening of the story, we can trough comparison with his mother se that Alex is clearly on a different level. On page 1 Alex is being a child by thinking of the fact that he did not get the subject beetles, which he wanted but instead he got earthworms, as a problem. Frances does not manage to understand his problem, which illustrate the differences between them and their experiences in life. Alex is using his imagination very much, which makes him childish as well. Alex likes to think of the dad’s vernissage as a person, he stretches out the word and transforms it to a persons name: Vernie Sadge. In this quotation Alex describes what “Vernie Sadge” would look like and how he would be: It is obvious that Alex does not like “Vernie Sagde”. Alex knows that the vernissage is to blame for the troubles between his parents. Later on (page 2), Alex is eating banana sandwiches, which symbol¬ises his childhood. He is trying to make up his mind, whether he should continue eating...
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...fast, you do not have the time to understand. In “The Secret Lion” by Alberto Alvaro, the narrator and his friend Sergio experience growing up, without really knowing what is going on. As they start in junior high school, things as they know them, begins to change, and everything turns different. They do not like the change; however change is inevitable for them. To escape school, where “everything was backward-like” (197), the boys seek to the arroyo, the place that never changes. The arroyo illustrates their childhood, their sanctuary, where they can rebel and be children, without parents and teachers take away their freedom by making up rules and new expectations. “It was our river, though, our personal Mississippi, our friend from long back, and it was full of stories” (197). The arroyo is the place they found when they were younger. They know it well, trust it and feel like it is theirs, because they have shared so many memories and stories. Since it was not adults who showed it to them, they could form their own impressions of the place. As the boys grow older the arroyo does not change, but the boys’ view of it does. They feel like it is the arroyo that changes, when in fact it is themselves who change, as they grow older. When you grow...
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...In the novel, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger, the main character, Holden, is a teenager who refuses to grow up because he is naively fixated on childhood. Throughout the novel, Holden struggles through teenage life because he cannot accept the given responsibilities that come with growing up. Holden is obsessed with childhood because he chooses to be wedged between a world of the innocence of children and the complex world of adulthood. Holden deities his two younger siblings as if they're candidates for sainthood because of his fixation. Holden is a teenager who refuses to grow up because he is afraid of gaining the responsibilities that come with it. So, Holden struggles hard to stay childish. For example, throughout the book, he does not want to take responsibility to communicate with others that may want to help him. He refuses to go home and confront his parents and face the consequences. Along with this, he also pulls the childish silent treatment toward his parents; because that's the only knife he has to hurt them: ."..she wouldn't've been the ones that answered the phone. My parents would be the ones. So that was out." (pg. 59) He is afraid to talk to people close to him because they'll be critical to him. This would also explain his lack of interaction with Jane Gallagher: ."..I kept standing there, of giving old Jane a buzz- I mean calling her long distance at B.M... The only reason I didn't call him was because I wasn't in the mood." (pg. 63) Since he is...
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...Gold Always Goes As everyone transitions into the new year, self reflection is inevitable. As years pass, humans try to grasp onto their youth and cling to it, hoping that although time may age, they won’t have to. Teenagers and young adults are constantly faced with having to leave behind the comfort and innocence, a topic often explored in literature (like bildungsromans) and coming-of-age movies. Having to grow up isn’t always wanted or welcomed, but it is something everyone must do eventually. This is explored in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and the Twenty One Pilots song, “Stressed Out.” Although one may be saddened by coming of age (because of the changes that come with...
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...Thinking about social-development issues in adults always leads me down the road of men and their mid-life crisis. This article looks at how a difficult childhood could possibly be a cause for a mid-life crisis later in life. Three cases are examined to support the thesis of this study that an emotional deprived childhood is a contributing factor in a male mid-life crisis. In an emotional deprived childhood the child would develop a poor sense of self. This poor sense of self might be hidden down deep until a certain age like our early 40’s where we begin to reflect back on our life. Missing a maternal love as a child has repercussions in adulthood that can result in no success being good enough to satisfy the adults need to compensate for the missing maternal love. A mid-life crisis is a topic that has always interested me. Some men and women use the term mid-life crisis as an excuse for any bad behavior or mistakes they make in their early to mid-40’s. The cause behind a mid-life crisis has always interested me, knowing that someone did not wake up one day and decide to spend an obscene amount of money on a little sports car or commit adultery after a very loving marriage. In a male child’s life, a mother plays a very large role in creating a healthy sense of self and belonging. It only makes sense that for any male that is lacking a loving maternal relationship will suffer social-development setbacks at some point in their life. When reaching a certain point in...
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...LIFE STAGES: | Life stages: | Physical: | Intellectual: | Emotional: | Social development: | Conception: | Conception is the beginning of the human life. A fertile woman averagely produces one egg cell each month , roughly down from the ovary ,and along the fallopian tubes towards the uterus. If you having sex whilst the egg is in the tube there is a possibility for conception for a another life to be formed. | Not even movement. | There is no intellectual what so ever the brain haven’t even formed yet | The embryo doesn’t well feelings like being sad or happy or angry haven’t come to the stage of feelings development | The embryo has no social development at all because the bay has no proper development. | Pregnancy: | The egg and sperm meet and make an embryo .The beginning of the three weeks after conception marks the start of the embryonic period. After two or three days there are enough new cells to make the fertilised egg the size of a pin head . This collection of cells travels to the lining of the uterus where it becomes anchored .The developing collection is now called an embryo. Its attached to the wall of the uterus by a placenta. Once the embryo is attached to the uterus wall, a chemical signal stops the woman from having another menstrual period. | At stage layers of cells from which all the baby organs and Body parts will develop. In the second month the baby is now as big as a kidney and is constantly moving .After eight weeks ,the embryo may have...
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...Transition to adult services for young people with disabilities:current evidence to guide future research DEBRA STEWART MSC OT REG 691 words The transition from adolescence to adulthood is an important developmental stage for all young people.1 This period of transition presents particular challenges for youth with disabilities, their families, their medical and rehabilitation teams, and the broader healthcare system.2,3 Young people with disabilities face numerous barriers in achieving autonomy and independence, and they often need support from their family and community to make a successful transition into the adult world.4,5Almost two decades of study indicate that young people with disabilities and chronic health conditions do not have the same outcomes as their peers on such important domains as health status, academic achievement, interpersonal relationships, community participation, and employment. During the transition to adulthood, young people with disabilities are transferred from child- and family-centred systems, such as school and pediatric rehabilitation centres, into adult systems6,8 The importance of adequate preparation for young people with chronic health conditions and disabilities as they move towards adulthood has been identified by a joint consensus statement on healthcare transitions released by three American professional bodies representing pediatricians, family physicians, and internists.2 Whereas earlier consensus statements focused on transition...
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...English 1301 Christine Morgan October 20, 2014 Childhood VS. Adulthood As we go through our life we have two important parts and those include the time of childhood and adulthood. It is all a matter of how you see both time periods. Although both are key stages in life, the responsibility free and fun loving lifestyle of childhood is nostalgic. One major difference between childhood and adult hood is that children are able to be free in their behavior. For example, children can make all these notable mistakes because as a young child that is when you are starting to learn right from wrong, so you will not get severally punished. Plus young children can also be silly all the time and not be as serious about certain situations. It is like a care free sense of behavior because you do not do things to impress or get people to think highly of you. Plus a child`s behavior is full of boundless energy it is like you are never tired. Unlike when you are an adult your behavior should be on point always on the streets, at work, and with family. Because as an adult you should already know right from wrong and it is not as easy to get away with your mistakes or abnormal behaviors. As an adult you also have to be more serious about almost every situation you are faced with you cannot just blow it off carelessly. You would have to tend to it. Not to mention that your energy level basically decreases the older you get so an adult just feels more drained. Children are also free of...
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...Red from green The short story “Red from green” is written by Maile Meloy and we follow a young girl, Sam, during a couple of days in the summer. The story takes place by a river in Montana in a hot July month, Sam is just turned fifteen and has been offered a scholarship to a boarding school back east, but she doesn’t know if she will go yet. It is her father who suggested her to apply. Sam is a bit quiet, and she doesn’t talk that much with her dad. Sam has never fired a gun, before Layton shows her how to. At first she doesn’t tell her father that she have done it, but then he finds a bullet and then she tell him that she have shot... Every summer she and her father take a float trip on the river. This time they are companied by her uncle Harry, a private attorney, and the central client Layton, in a class action law suit her uncle is litigating. The trip is meant to smooze the client who is thinking of dropping the suit and moving away; if he leaves, the case dries up. Throughout the day the girl watches as her father (who is a district judge) allows the man to take advantage of his desirability. The client catches fish that are too small but keeps them anyway, something her father usually has no tolerance for. Later the client takes the girl out to practice shooting, using illegal hollow point bullets. Late in the evening, after the uncle has already retired to his tent, the father also gets up from the fire and goes to his tent. Before entering it he looks back...
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...In the article “Suffering, Selfish, Slackers? Myths and Reality about Emerging Adults”, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett defines early adulthood as the time of instability and identity crises, even as it is rarely a time of despondency or collapse. She also theorizes that emerging adults are self-focused but not selfish and also have mixed feeling about becoming an adult. When reading this article, I definitely think that there are costs and benefits to becoming an adult. Not all adolescence is in a storm and stress idea of being at war with the parents and the world. This really depends on what environment they grew up in and how much the parents nurtured their child rather than supported but challenged their child. The cause of “war” with the parent...
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