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February 2020
Course: ENG-240-017 Instructor’s name: Muhammed Qureshi Student’s name and ID: ALYAA YASLAM 201701067 Assignment: Instructor’s points

“Chronic Diseases”

A)	Mind map:

Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are the leading causes of death and disability. Many chronic diseases are caused by key risk behaviors. By making healthy choices, you can reduce your likelihood of getting a chronic disease and improve your quality of life.

a)	Search Terms

Chronic diseases + injuries Chronic diseases + increased rate Chronic diseases + Implications Chronic diseases + Awareness Chronic diseases + Solutions Chronic diseases + Prevention

Annotated bibliography

Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, (2020). How You Can Prevent Chronic Diseases. Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/prevent/index.htm

Eating healthy helps prevent, delay, and manage heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and other chronic diseases. A balanced diet of fruits, veggies, whole grains, lean meats, and low-fat dairy products is important at any age. If you are overweight, losing even 5% to 7% of your body weight can help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes (CDC, 2020). Examples of chronic illnesses are: Alzheimer disease and dementia, Arthritis, Asthma, Cancer, COPD, Crohn disease, Cystic fibrosis, and Diabetes.

U.S. National Library of Medicine., (2020)., Living with a chronic illness - reaching out to others.Retrieved from: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000602.htm

According to this research, chronic diseases and illness involve in long-term conditions in which patient take time to recover and fully cure. Moreover, living with the chronic disease potentially involved feeling of loneliness which can cause other psychological disorders. Therefore, finding same categories of people who are experiencing similar diseases is critically important if they live and stay together; because providing them care would be easy.

Boeing, H., Bechthold, A., Bub, A., Ellinger, S., Haller, D., Kroke, A., ... & Stehle, P. (2012). Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases. European journal of nutrition, 51(6), 637-663.

Boeing et al., (2012), identified that natural diets have potential to prevent the chronic diseases; these food include dietary fiber, natural nutrients, and phytochemicals. This research concluded that consumption of healthy food such as fruits and vegetables should be used to prevent the chronic diseases.

Patel, V., Chatterji, S., Chisholm, D., Ebrahim, S., Gopalakrishna, G., Mathers, C., ... & Reddy, K. S. (2011). Chronic diseases and injuries in India. The Lancet, 377(9763), 413-428. According to Patel at el., (2011), chronic diseases involve in mental health disorder, cancers, diabetes and others which are leading cause of death and fatalities. This research article found that this is likely to increase the rate of death if these are not managed effectively through awareness and prevention initiatives. The current medical industry actively offers primary and secondary prevention approaches which can be used for low-income countries and other rural population.

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