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3 environmental health hazards that cause illness and/or disaster within your community or any other community within South Africa and globally:

1. Global Warming-Rapid global warming due to climate change poses a serious threat to economic growth and development in southern Africa. It will exacerbate poverty and current inequalities in the region, but it can also serve as an opportunity to address these issues. The specific effects of climate change on various sectors including: food safety, already a humanitarian crisis in the region, will be further exacerbated by climate variability and climate change. Irregular rainfall increases already food shortages where drought damage and destroy maize crops in southern Africa. Climate change will cause additional pressure on the already unreliable sources of water and health, will be particularly affected the outcome.
2. air pollution has direct and potentially dangerous effects on human health. Air pollution includes two types: emissions and particle emissions. Non-hazardous, but unwanted air pollution contains odors from some manufacturers and fast food restaurants, etc.
3. noise can have a significant impact on both people's health and quality of life for residents in a community. Such pollution is most often associated with airports, highway and interstate traffic, large industrial plants and high traffic volumes, truck and car on city streets.
http://www.greenability.co.za/being-Green/Causes-and-Impacts-of-Global-Warming/
http://www.lic.wisc.edu/shapingdane/Facilitation/all_resources/Impacts/analysis_environmental.htm

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To overcome AIDS and HIV:

* Nutrition

The most important aspect of living with HIV is nutrition. It's pointless to even take your medicine unless you are feeding well.

Except in special circumstances, there is no special diet for most people living with HIV. The only important thing is that the ...

“Smoking cigarettes is harmful to health” Essay

“Smoking cigarettes is harmful to health” That is a warming sentence which shown on pack of cigarettes. Therefore, the effects of smoking cigarettes on human’s life are serious. The main purpose of this essay is to discuss three main effects of smoking cigarettes on human’s life: smokers’ health, non- smokers living together smokers and economy of family and country.

            One considerable effect of smoking cigarettes is that it can make smokers’ health get worse. Firstly, people who smoking cigarettes is easy to get diseases such as: cough and lung cancer. Smokers are always coughing or clearing their throat. My father, uncle and my friends who smoke all seem to have a perpetual cough. They take cough drops and other medicines to counteract the cough but they do not succeed. Besides, the greater danger is that it may deteriorate into something worse like lung cancer. Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Smokers are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non- smokers. Pregnant mothers who smoke may give birth to smaller and less healthy children. Secondly, the number mortalities because of diseases connected with smoking become increasing. According to report of worth health organization, Vietnam is one of countries which have the highest smoker rate on the world. Yearly, Vietnam has over 40.000 mortalities from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes. To summary, smoking cigarettes has negatives effect on smokers’ health.

            Smoking cigarettes not only affects smokers but also affects people living around them. Actually, it also make non- smokers’ health get worse. When my father smokes cigarettes, I feel choked on the smoke and cough. Therefore, people don’t smoke but living together smokers, they are threatened their health especially children. Adults get lung cancer, asthma and other diseases; children get pneumonia. Besides that, non- smokers feel annoyed about the appearance of smokers. Smokers usually

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Here Is to Your Health

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Here’s to Your Health
Joan Dunayer
Joan Dunayer contrasts the glamorous “myth” about alcohol, as presented in advertising and popular culture, with the reality—which is often far less appealing. After reading her essay, you will be more aware of how we are encouraged to think of alcohol as being tied to happiness and success. You may also become a more critical observer of images presented by advertisers.

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As the only freshman on his high school’s varsity wrestling 1 team, Tod was anxious to fit in with his older teammates. One night after a match, he was offered a tequila bottle on the ride home. Tod felt he had to accept, or he would seem like a sissy. He took a swallow, and every time the bottle was passed back to him, he took another swallow. After seven swallows, he passed out. His terrified teammates carried him into his home, and

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his mother then rushed him to the hospital. After his stomach was pumped, Tod learned that his blood alcohol level had been so high that he was lucky not to be in a coma or dead. Unfortunately, drinking is not unusual among high-school students or, for that matter, in any other segment of our society. And that’s no accident. There are numerous influences in our society urging people to drink, not the least of which is advertising. Who can recall a televised baseball or basketball game without a beer commercial? Furthermore, alcohol ads appear with pounding frequency in magazines, on billboards, and in college newspapers. According to industry estimates, brewers spend more than $600 million a year on radio and TV commercials and another $90 million on print ads. In addition, the liquor industry spends about $230 million a year on print advertising, and since 1966 it has greatly expanded its presence on cable and independent broadcast stations. Just recently, NBC became the first network station to accept hard liquor ads for broadcast. To top it...

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Nutrition, Health, and Safety Training for Early Childhood Educators

This summative assignment is to develop a PowerPoint presentation designed as training for the staff of an early childhood education program focusing on strategies to support the health, safety and nutrition of young children. This project must include:

 Title Slide to include the training’s title, student’s name, course title/number, instructor’s name and date.

 Thesis Statement regarding the overall wellness of young children and the role an early education setting can play in a young child’s health and well-being.

 Purpose Statement as to “why” comprehensive health, safety, and nutrition strategies are important for early education programs.

 Considerations for the development of well-defined health, safety and nutrition practices for an early learning environment.

 Identification of developmentally appropriate practices for teaching young children about their own health, safety, and nutrition.

 Examples of learning activities which foster a young child’s understanding of the importance of physical activities, physical fitness, health, nutrition and safety.

 Describe teacher responsibilities to ensure a safe and healthy learning environment.

 Describe strategies to involve and engage families and communities in the physical fitness, health, safety and nutrition programs in the early childhood education setting.

 Conclusion which includes a restatement of the opening thesis statement and summary of the health, safety and nutrition strategies and practices discussed throughout the project.

 Resource Page.

The PowerPoint Presentation must include 15-20 slides. Students are encouraged to creatively address the material; including graphics, visuals, charts and/or graphs. Slides should be designed to clearly and concisely address the material. The PowerPoint Presentation must be formatted according to APA style including a title and reference slide and citing within the slides when appropriate. The notes section of the PowerPoint must be utilized to provide additional information. Students must use a minimum of four external resources and the course text.