HEALTH
Health is a very broad topic that covers everything from medicine to nutrition to fitness to psychological well-being. The topics I explore here are some of the ones I find the most intriguing.
Appearance is something that everyone has been and will be concerned about for a very long time. During an age when both obesity and eating disorders are on the rise, I wondered what sort of societal and mental factors have contributed to such trends. In "The Fat Cycle," I discuss how the term "fat" is perceived and affects both "fat" and "non-fat" people. I then re-mediated this argument of definition paper into a video that raises awareness on how using the word "fat" damages people's psychological and social health and argues against its use to insult and discriminate people.
I became interested in vaccines when I saw a short segment on the possible harms of vaccines in my physiology class. As an aspiring doctor, I thought this subject was worth pursuing because for the most part, vaccination has been viewed as a positive contribution to medicine and global health. In this essay, I consider the validity of the less familiar side of the vaccine debate.
And finally, man's best friend: food. Food has benefited our society in many ways, making it hard to consider and accept the negative effects it can have. For an environmental science class, I explored how genetically modified foods can negatively impacted people and the environment. It can be difficult to understand how eating genetically modified corn can impact fish populations, so this piece aims to elucidate the importance of thinking, acting, and living beyond ourselves. In my English 225 course, I evaluated the effectiveness of the National School Lunch Program, which affects over 30 million children across the country, and considered ways in which it can be improved to better serve our younger generations.
Appearance is something that everyone has been and will be concerned about for a very long time. During an age when both obesity and eating disorders are on the rise, I wondered what sort of societal and mental factors have contributed to such trends. In "The Fat Cycle," I discuss how the term "fat" is perceived and affects both "fat" and "non-fat" people. I then re-mediated this argument of definition paper into a video that raises awareness on how using the word "fat" damages people's psychological and social health and argues against its use to insult and discriminate people.
I became interested in vaccines when I saw a short segment on the possible harms of vaccines in my physiology class. As an aspiring doctor, I thought this subject was worth pursuing because for the most part, vaccination has been viewed as a positive contribution to medicine and global health. In this essay, I consider the validity of the less familiar side of the vaccine debate.
And finally, man's best friend: food. Food has benefited our society in many ways, making it hard to consider and accept the negative effects it can have. For an environmental science class, I explored how genetically modified foods can negatively impacted people and the environment. It can be difficult to understand how eating genetically modified corn can impact fish populations, so this piece aims to elucidate the importance of thinking, acting, and living beyond ourselves. In my English 225 course, I evaluated the effectiveness of the National School Lunch Program, which affects over 30 million children across the country, and considered ways in which it can be improved to better serve our younger generations.
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