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Experts should stop warning people about what is good or bad for their health, and let them do as they please. Do you agree?

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Nadine Richters
Sommersemester 2008
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Universität Hamburg
Course.: Written Expression A+B
Day/Time: Friday 10-14
Due Date: 20
th
of June 2008
Title of task: Essay on: "Experts should stop warning people about what is good or bad for
their health, and let them do as they please. Do you agree?" (550 words)
Experts should stop warning people about what is good or bad for their health, and let
them do as they please. Do you agree?
Within the last few decades, the media have increasingly reported on health threats and
ways of dealing with them. On the one hand this information on medical prophylaxis might be
useful, in particular if the positive medical effects of these measures are investigated and
verified, but on the other hand there are unfortunately many canards, for instance, the mobile
phone issue and then some aspects affecting dental care.
Firstly, the authors of many media reports mostly exaggerate. For example, since the
advent of mobile phones, concerns have been raised about the potential health impacts from
frequent use. The Scandinavian health authorities have carried out continuous long-term
studies of the effects of mobile phone radiation on human beings, especially children.
Numerous studies have failed to substantiate that suspicion. Recently, one could read in the
media that mobile phones can cause cancer in children.
Furthermore, doing sports, eating healthy foods or taking dietary supplements, are
recommended by medical scientists. However, they have not proved yet whether these
methods are really effective and life prolonging. There are human beings who are slim, who
work out and who maintain a healthy diet, and are taken ill nevertheless. Doing sports is
considered good for bones and muscles. In that case, I wonder why there are a huge number
of people who suffer from physical afflictions such as bursitis, arthrosis and further joint
inflammations which can all be easily caused by doing sports? Moreover, the same arguments
apply to tooth decay as well. There is no known method to regenerate large amounts of tooth
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Title:
Experts should stop warning people about what is good or bad for their health, and let them do as they please. Do you agree?
Event:
Sprachpraxis: Reading and writing
Author:
Nadine Richters
Year:
2008
Pages:
3
Archive No.:
V113327
ISBN (eBook):
978-3-640-14079-4
DOI:
10.3239/9783640140794
File size:
47 KB
Language:
English

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Experts Sprachpraxis Reading health

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Nadine Richters, 2008, Experts should stop warning people about what is good or bad for their health, and let them do as they please. Do you agree?, Munich, GRIN Publishing GmbH

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