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The NHS- national health service
The NHS was founded in 1948 and is the worlds largest publicly funded health service. The NHS is free for all UK residence and aims to give good health care to all regardless if wealth, this is a principal that has guided the NHS for 60 years and remains core to their system ever today, although patients have to pay for care like prescriptions, optical and dental care. The NHS has cover everything from screening to long term conditions, transplants, emergency care and end of life care
How will my investigation benefit society?
My investigation will befit other by advise inch them on how to lower or maintain their BMI so they can live a healthier lifestyle, letting them work longer and not use NHS treatment to loose weight. If more and more people took the advise my investigation NHS taxes will lower giving people more money o put in to the economy, helping the UK become more efficient and better way of living.
Dietician
Dieticians are experts of food and nutrition. They advise people on what they need to eat in order to lead a healthy life style , however they can also guide people who have certain dietary requirements on how to still get nutrition they may lack.
The Essay on Health Insurance Record Care People Uninsured
Within the previous four years, the number of uninsured Americans has jumped to forty five million people. Beginning in the 1980's, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has been trying to fix this problem of health insurance coverage for everyone with a basic reform. The AAFP's plan imagined every American with ensured coverage for necessary improved services that fall between the ...
Qualification and skills of a dietician
To become a dietician you need a minimum of a bachelors degree from an accredited university, completion of an approved internship and completion of the registration exam, a masters degree is also highly recommended. Dieticians can work in hospitals, fitness centres, private practises, nursing homes, corporations, food service companies and Government entities. Some origination require registration while other only require a license
Responsibilities
The typical day starts with a review of a patients medical record followed by a patients background and can begin to structure a diet suitable for for their needs and lifestyle. The dietician will complete a nutritional assessment based on the information from a review and interview. Dieticians provide basic nutrition information in diet and lifestyle to the patients, they will also structure a diet plan, inform then on the importance of nutrition and explain how the diet plan works and how it will suit their needs.
My investigation
I am going to investigate wether a high BMI is connected to over eating so I can find an effective way of lowering my BMI to a lower healthier number.
My BMI
My height in meters – 1.58m
My weight in kg – 59.62kg
BMI calculation – mass/height2
59.62/(1.58 2)= 23.88
I have a normal BMI
Hypothesis
I think the higher the energy intake above the PER the higher the BMI. This is because the intake above the PER (personal energy intake) all access energy is deposited as fat. When taking the BMI (body mass intake), the mass of the body is divided by the height squared. The more fat the more body mass, meaning a higher BMI.
Http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/dietician
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The Term Paper on Impact: Mass Media
The presence and intensity of media influences—television, radio, music, computers, movies, videos, and the Internet—are increasingly recognized as an important part of the social ecology of children and youth, and these influences have become more visible and volatile in recent decades. The influence of the media on the psychosocial development of children is profound. Thus, it is important for ...
Http://www.nhs.uk/NHSengland/thenhs/about/pages/overview.aspx
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Http://www.ehow.com/facts6780214_day-life-dietitian.html#ixzz2eugqimv
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