You Are What You Eat: Early Life Diet and Obesity Risk
Obesity and sedentary behaviors are commonly viewed as a reflection of cultures with widespread availability of cheap high-calorie and high-fat foods, often in ...
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Are we predisposed to being obese?
Common convention has each of us believing that being overweight or obese as a sign of being lazy, apathetic, or even just slovenly. When we walk down the stre...
Obesity: Who or what is to blame?
Everyone knows that to live a healthy life, we must eat good food and exercise. Despite this knowledge, two-thirds of Americans are considered overweight or obe...
Breaking Down the Vicious Cycles of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive illness, is a mental disorder characterized by extreme unusual shifts in energy, mood, and activity levels, imp...
A Look into Bipolar
Mental illnesses have been more of a focus in medicine in the last decade because of the increased number of diagnosis. Bipolar otherwise known as manic-depres...
Beyond the Shakes: Brain Pathology of Parkinson's Disease and Non-motor Symptoms
If you have ever witnessed someone with Parkinson’s disease suffering from tremors, it is a heartbreaking experience. To see someone trapped in a body they cann...
A Look at Parkinson's Disease
The first time I heard of Parkinson’s disease was when I watched an interview of Michael J. Fox. I was a huge Back to the Future trilogy fan. I remember s...
Knock Knock Who's There? Concussion!
If you wondered what many Americans were doing Sunday afternoon, I could give you an answer. They were watching football. Baseball claims that its America’...
Is your sweet tooth breaking down your brain? Insulin’s role in Alzheimer’s Pathology
Living in a society where overindulgence of food is commonplace and obesity rates are rampant, we are well aware that too much sugar and fat in our diets is bad...
Scooby-Doo and the Medical Marijuana Mystery
Before I break down the mechanisms behind medical marijuana, I would like to emphasize that I am not affiliating my favorite childhood T.V. show with marijuana ...