Anorexia is an eating disorder which is exemplified through starvation and major psychological problems. Only certain people actually meet the criterion which considers one to be anorexic. The majority of anorexic people are often teenage female girls between the ages of sixteen and twenty three. The importance of understanding the facts behind this disorder are mainly to help those who suffer from anorexia and to help prevent its occurrence in general. William Gull was the first psychologist who was credited with the first published study of anorexia about two women in nineteen seventy four. This original study allowed more recent psychologists to further enhance the study of anorexia and used Gull’s research as a stepping stone toward new and improved inquiries.

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder which is portrayed by extreme amounts of fear of weight gain and major concerns about body image. Such fear can lead to starvation. It is not to be confused with Bulimia Nervosa, which although is a psychological disorder, involves different psychological and behavioral criterion. Anorexia has been compared to a leading sexual disorder called inhibited sexual desire (ISD) which is difficult to cure. This has even been termed “sexual anorexia” since there is no sexual desire or pleasure from touching, kissing or caressing. Over 90% of people who suffer from this disorder are women (Meadow and Weiss, 1992).

The food pyramid had been around for a long time. It was also revised in 1992 (Building your own Food Pyramid, 2005). Through its years the food pyramid has undergone many changes. In 2005, the government designed a new food pyramid. This food pyramid is different in many ways from the previous one. It focuses more on the individual rather than America as a whole.

This new food pyramid has vertical columns rather than the horizontal boxes. The columns are color coded to show the different food groups. While the government had kept the original names for the groups, it didn’t keep the portions. The government understands that everyone is different and doesn’t need the same six to eleven servings of grains, as was in the old pyramid. The emphasis is now on the calorie intake, which also differs from person to person. They focus more eating more whole grains not refined grains, vegetables and fruits, lean meats, and drinking low-fat or fat free dairy products. More over, they feel that people should lower the intake of fats, sugars, and salts. The brand new thing they added to the pyramid is the person walking up the stairs. This shows that exercise is important to a daily routine. All of these changes reflect individual’s needs (Gupta & Abedin, 2005).

Emergency departments are the ‘front door’ of hospitals. They are often a patient’s first point of entry to a hospital and are characterized by diverse and often unpredictable events, which are controlled by a professional team. Since I was a little girl I have been interested in being a nurse, a provider of care for people when they are ill and helpless. I think that I could achieve this level of satisfaction by working in an emergency department where this type of care is required continuously. The role of the Nurse Practitioner is defined by the Emergency Nurses Association as the following: The Nurse Practitioner is a registered nurse who through study at the Masters or Doctoral level has become an expert in Emergency Nursing (Chang et al, 1999). There is currently a shortage of emergency nurse practitioners who are both experienced and educated in the emergency setting; there is also an increase in the demand for nurses, due to an aging population (Schriver et al, 2003). The problems of today will also expand into the future as the professional roles of nurses become more complex by assuming larger roles in management, quality improvement, risk management, patient safety and developing more integrated relationships with physicians and other emergency personnel.

In life, everyone has battles they must face, standards they must abide to, and life changing decisions they must make. Some people are able to cope with the stress that your lives present to us everyday, yet for others this anxiety overcomes them and dealing with the stress isn’t as easy. For many people, especially teenagers in today’s society, the only way out are drugs. For them, drugs are a harmless substance that takes them to a worry free world where everything is good. This place becomes better and better every time they go, and eventually becomes addicting. Teens become so addicted that nothing else in life matters. The increase of the severity of the consequences for teens who abuse drugs is vital. By making the rules about drugs harsher in the law, in school, and at home, teen drug abuse will decrease.

Our latest writing assignment in College Composition was to write a mini sort of research paper. The topic was to pick something that we are passionate about. I decided that I would write mine on AIDS. It’s a very interesting topic, and I thought it would be something that could benefit my education. In the next few paragraphs I am going to explain some of the most interesting things I learned about AIDS. All of the information is educational, but a lot of it is very devastating.

AIDS has been around for a long time, but it became a very dangerous disease in the early 1970’s. Despite evidence that prevention programs instituted some time ago are beginning to have an impact in some countries, the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to grow. At the end of last year, (2005) the number of AIDS patients had grown to over 40 million people, which is double the number from ten years ago. In 2005 alone, there were 17.5 million women with AIDS, and 2.3 million children under the age of 15. More than 700,000 children became newly infected with AIDS in 2005. 3.2 million of the 4.9 newly infected patients with AIDS in 2005 occurred in South Africa. Ninety Six percent of AIDS patients live developing countries; most of them are from South Africa. In Africa, three quarters of the infected patients are women. Worldwide, only one in ten people infected with AIDS have been tested and know that they have AIDS.