In our society today, there are many health issues.

People are choosing fast food more, since there are so many fast
food restaurants. People aren't even thinking about what food they put in their mouthes. Everybody needs to realize
that the more fat and cholesterol they put into their bodies, the slower their heart will beat, and that will lead to
shorter lives. Some people realize they are unhelathy and set their minds to eat healhier, but the fats and cholesterol
in the food is sucking them back in.

A disease is a particular abnormal condition, a disorder of a structure or function, that affects part or all of an organism. The
causal study of disease is called pathology. Disease is often construed as a medical condition associated with
specific symptoms and signs.[1] It may be caused by factors originally from an external source, such as infectious disease, or it
may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such asautoimmune diseases. In humans, "disease" is often used more broadly to
refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress,social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar
problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes
includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of
structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories.
Diseases usually affect people not only physically, but also emotionally, as contracting and living with a disease can alter one's
perspective on life, and one's personality.

A disease is a condition that impairs the proper function of the body or of one of its
parts. Every living thing, both plants and animals, can succumb to disease. Hundreds of
different diseases exist. Each has its own particular set of symptoms and signs, clues that
enable a physician to diagnose the problem. A symptom is something a patient can
detect, such as fever, bleeding, or pain. A sign is something a doctor can detect, such as a
swollen blood vessel or an enlarged internal body organ.
Every disease has a cause, although the accuses of some remain to be discovered. Every
disease also displays a cycle of onset, or beginning, course, or time span of affection, and
end, when it disappears or it partially disables or kills its victim. An epidemic diseases
one that strikes many persons in a community. When it strikes the same region year
after year it is an endemic disease. An acute disease has a quick onset and runs a short
course. A chronic disease has a slow onset and runs a sometimes years-long course. The
gradual onset and long course of rheumatic fever makes it a chronic ailment.
Kinds of Disease
Infectious, or communicable, diseases are those that can be passed between persons
such as by means of airborne droplets from a cough or sneeze. Tiny organisms such as
viruses, bacteria, fungi and worms can produce infectious diseases. Whatever the
causative agent, it services in the person it infects and is passed on to another.
Sometimes, a disease-producing organism gets into a person who shows no symptoms of
the disease. The asymptomatic career can then pass the disease on to someone else
without even knowing he has it.

Cancer - an introduction
Cancer is a general term used to refer to a condition where the bodys cells begin to grow and reproduce
in an uncontrollable way. These cells can then invade and destroy healthy tissue, including organs.
Cancer sometimes begins in one part of the body before spreading to other parts.

How common is cancer?

Cancer is a common condition and a serious health problem. More than one in three people will develop some
form of cancer during their lifetime. Excluding non melanoma skin cancer, there are around 7,000 new cases
diagnosed each year in Northern Ireland.
What is diabetes?
Diabetes mellitus arises when insufficient insulin is produced, or when the available insulin does not function correctly. Without insulin,
the amount of glucose in the bloodstream is abnormally high, causing unquenchable thirst and frequent urination. The body's inability to
store or use glucose causes hunger and weight loss.

Obesity and overweight

1. Introduction
One of the most common problems related to lifestyle today is being overweight. Severe overweight or obesity is a key risk
factor in the development of many chronic diseases such as heart and respiratory diseases, non-insulin-dependent diabetes
mellitus or Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and some cancers, as well as early death. New scientific studies and data from life
insurance companies have shown that the health risks of excessive body fat are associated with relatively small increases in
body weight, not just with marked obesity.
Obesity and overweight are serious problems that pose a huge and growing financial burden on national resources. However,
the conditions are largely preventable through sensible lifestyle changes.

2. What is obesity and overweight?

Obesity is often defined simply as a condition of abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in the fat tissues (adipose tissue) of the
body leading to health hazards. The underlying cause is a positive energy balance leading to weight gain i.e. when the calories
consumed exceed the calories expended.
In order to help people determine what their healthy weight is, a simple measure of the relationship between weight and height
called the Body Mass Index (BMI) is used. BMI is a useful tool that is commonly used by doctors and other health professionals
to determine the prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity in adults. It is defined as the weight in kilograms divided by
the square of the height in metres (kg/m2).