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It is important to have any available Healthcare near you. Healthcare includes dentists, surgeons, doctors, and therapists. People need some type of health insurance to be able to pay for checkups and medications. Most people will take advantage of any available healthcare.
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Culture is a pattern of ideas, customs and behaviors shared by a particular people or society. It is constantly evolving. Culture can influence your health even in the slightest. From the text, the food you eat depends on the culture as well as emotions.

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The way people act is caused by habits that can either be positive or negative on your health. For example an acceptable habit would be running at least a mile a day which is healthy for your body and an unacceptable habit would be going out to smoke with friends.

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Ever wonde red why we do what we do.... Ever pondered over why it is so easy for us to do something after we have done it consistently for some time....

Royston was scared of Maths. It was as though he had a phobia for the subject. He could never get himself to even think of doing anything right in Maths. If he would get something right - he would think it was just luck. He avoided working on the subject like plague. He was comfortable without it.He did not want to stress too much by focusing more on it. Slowly his grades in the subject reduced. He fared very poorly. And it was so bad that he started feeling out of place among his own circle of friends, who did pretty well in their academics, just because of his performance. His friends started avoiding him.

Slowly it dawned on him that he needed to act. It was time to do something about his "comfort zone". He forced himself to work on Maths a little extra every day. It was very uncomfortable in the beginning. He had to rise earlier than usual; he had to forgo his other activities. But he was determined to get his place back among his friends. He continued being uncomfortable and ensured that he worked every day. Slowly, the effort did not seem too much for him. He found it easy to work on Maths, and scored good grades in the next term.

What did Royston do? There is no rocket-science behind him being successful.

Knowingly or unknowingly he got himself a new "habit". This is precisely what happened to him. He developed a "habit" of working on Maths every day. It is the same with us all. Habits, whether good or bad, are formed by a process of repetition. We commit an act once, we repeat it the second time, we repeat it a third time, and after some time we do it without effort, quite involuntarily. Eventually, a habit becomes a part of our nature and we don't pause to think about why we are doing it.

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What is a "habit" - A habit is an acquired behaviour, or thought pattern that we have repeated so many times, that it has become almost unconscious. Habits can be both, helpful and harmful.

It is, therefore, imperative that we learn to behave correctly and form the right habits when we are young, so that we grow up to be a pleasant, efficient and likable adult. When we have good habits, such as arriving on time at work, or being optimistic, we create a positive forward motion that we don't have to think about. We can then use our energy to focus on things that need our special attention. However, the same is true of bad habits. We involve ourselves in bad behaviours without much thought, and they can damage our personal lives and careers, without us being aware of them

Experts say that when we perform a certain action, or do s omething continuously for 21 days, it becomes a "habit" . This tried and tested method indicates that "Consistency" is the secret to inculcating a new habit. Also, if we read the stories of successful individuals, we will realize that they all came out of their "comfort zone". They even went through discomfort to finally become successful. It only goes to prove that successful people had developed good personal and professional habits to achieve success.

Sometimes we are stuck with bad habits. We try our best to stop them, but after a few days give up completely. It's never too late to break a habit. All habits are flexible, and it depends on us, as individuals. It is finally our decision to break a "bad" habit. The best way to break a bad habit would be by making it a personal goal. Just as we have professional and financial goals - let's set ourselves goals for forming good habits and getting rid of bad habits.

Wish us all the very best in our new personal goal of developing good habits and bringing to an end any bad ones, which we may have...

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Ever wondered why we do what we do.... Ever pondered over why it is so easy for us to do something after we have done it consistently for some time.... Royston was scared of Maths. It was as though he had a phobia for the subject.

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As stated in the text, With the technology of today it can help doctor detect health problems sooner and improve the quality of treatment toward patients.

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Social environment has a huge influence on one's health. Some factors that might affect health would be social norms, exposure to crime, violence, drugs, ect, public saftey, and exposure to mass media.

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The surroundings of a physical and social condition can influence a persons health, both indoor and outdoor. From where you live,work,play,eat,walk, etc, can all affect you in many ways. Being aware of your environment can help protect your health. For example having a dark room can affect your vision on a daily basis. https://sites.google.com/site/onwardsingapore/_/rsrc/1323202311050/physical-environment/dsc40452lg.jpg?height=212&width=320

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The text states that any source of entertainment that can cause a positive/negative that affects your health. It can be affected by certain  people being a bad influence and keeping you away from physical exercise.  For example in this photos technology is keeping the girls distracted from important things like schoolwork.

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heredity is carried on from the parent to the child and may affect the health in a good way or bad way. Some sicknesses and health levels are already determined at birth.

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You might already have a general understanding about heredity that - it is carried from parents to their children and will affect the health and physical characteristics of children. But do you want to know more about what is heredity and how it affects the health and other physical and mental characteristics? Then we answer in detail to your questions.

We know that genes play an important role in determining our physical characteristics. But to know how genes work, let's get into some biology facts. Cells in human body contain a substance called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA is wrapped together to form structures called chromosomes.

What is Heredity?

Most cells in human body have 23 pairs of chromosomes, thus making a total of 46. But, individual sperm and egg cells have only 23 unpaired chromosomes. A child receives half of chromosomes from mother's egg and the other half from father's sperm cell. A male child receives an X chromosome from his mother and a Y chromosome from his father. Females get an X chromosome from each parent.

Genes are sections or segments of DNA that are carried on chromosomes and determine specific human characteristics, such as health conditions, hair color, etc. Some characteristics come from a single gene, whereas others come from gene combinations.

Heredity is the passing of genes from one generation to the next. It is what that determines what you are today. Heredity plays an important role, but your environment also influences your abilities and interests.

DNA contains four chemicals - Adeninine, Guanine, Thymine, Cytosine - that are strung in patterns on extremely thin, coiled strands in the cell. The DNA patterns are the codes for manufacturing proteins - chemicals that enable the body to work and grow. Genes hold the instructions for making protein products. As your cells duplicate, they pass this genetic information to the new cells. Genes can be dominant or recessive. Dominant genes show their effect even if there is only one copy of that gene in the pair. For a person to have a recessive disease or characteristic, the person must have the gene on both chromosomes of the pair.

Cells can sometimes contain variants in the information in their genes. This is called gene mutation. It often occurs when cells are aging or have been exposed to certain chemicals or radiation. Fortunately, cells usually recognize these mutations and repair them by themselves. Sometimes, however, they can cause ill health such as some types of cancer. If the gene mutation exists in egg or sperm cells, children can inherit the mutated gene from their parents.

Heredity and Health

There are more than 4,000 diseases that are caused by genetic variants. But, having a genetic mutation that may cause disease doesn't mean that a person will definitely get that disease. Because you inherit a gene from each parent, having one disease gene may not cause any problems. Normal gene can allow your body to make the normal protein.

People probably carry from 5 to 10 variant or disease genes in their cells. Problems actually arise when the disease gene is dominant or when the same recessive disease gene is present on both chromosomes of a pair. Problems also occur when several variant genes interact with each other - or with environment - that increase susceptibility to diseases.

If a person carries the dominant gene for a disease, he or she will usually have the disease, and each of the person's children will have a 50% chance of inheriting the gene and getting the disease. Diseases caused by a dominant gene include achondroplasia. Marfan syndrome and Huntington disease.

People who have one recessive gene for a disease are called carriers. They don't usually have the disease because they have a normal gene of that pair that can do the job. When two carriers have a child together, however, the child has a 25% chance of getting the disease gene from both parents and in turn getting the disease. Cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and Tay-Sachs disease are caused by such recessive disease genes.

Some recessive genetic variants are carried only on the X chromosome, which means that usually only guys can develop the disease because they have only one X chromosome. Girls have two X chromosomes, so they would need to inherit two copies of the recessive genes to get the disease. X-linked disorders include the bleeding disorder, hemophilia and color blindness.

Sometimes when an egg and sperm unite, the new cell may get too many or too few chromosomes. Most children born with Down syndrome, which is associated with mental retardation, have an extra chromosome number 21. In some cases, people who are concerned that they might carry certain variant genes can undergo genetic testing, so they can learn their children's risk of having a disease. Pregnant women can also have tests done to see if the fetus they are carrying have certain genetic illnesses or not. Genetic testing usually involves taking a sample of someone's blood, skin or amniotic fluid, and checking it for signs of genetic diseases or disorders.

Gene Therapy offers Solutions

Gene therapy is a promising new field of medical research. In gene therapy, researchers try to supply copies of healthy genes to cells with variant or missing genes so that the healthy genes will take over. Viruses are often used to carry the healthy genes into the targeted cells because many viruses can insert their own DNA into targeted cells.

But there are many problems with gene therapy. Scientists haven't yet identified every gene in the human body and what each one can do. Huge scientific efforts like 'The Human Genome Project' and related projects have recently completed a map of the entire human genome. But it will take many more years to find out what each gene does and possible interactions between them. For most diseases, scientists don't know if and how genes play a role. And, there are major difficulties inserting the normal genes into the proper cells without causing problems for the rest of the body.

There are also concerns that people might try changing genes for ethically troubling purposes. No one knows what the long-term effects of that kind of change would be. Still, for many people who have genetic diseases, gene therapy holds the hope. Let us wish that with the advances in gene therapy, present and future generations would be able to live better and healthier lives.

Therefore, heredity does affect our physical as well as mental health. Some of the hereditary diseases are:

Diabetes

Hypertension

Cancer

Stroke

Heart diseases

Down syndrome

Depression

Schizophrenia

Cystic fibrosis

Sickle-cell anemia

Polydactyly

Autism

Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome

Obesity

Huntington's disease

Besides the heredity factor, the environmental factor also plays an important role in these diseases. With proper precautions, one might avoid some of the diseases which are passed on because of genes. Basic preventions and lifestyle changes can help one avoid certain hereditary diseases and help us live quality life. Look at the positive aspect, you don't have to spend a huge amount of money on health care.

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