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Ignorance Is Risk
By Peace | December 22, 2006
Anything that we touch around us can mean a health hazard or risk to us.
The more you read, the more facts you know. The least things you read, the more ignorant you are. Many people who do not read widely do not understand how diseases come about. These people do not know why people get sick, what’s the meaning of signs and symptoms of diseases, and why different people have different kind of illness. Depending on the food you eat, to the habit that you have, all these will determine what kind of potential illness you are going to have.
People who are illiterate, people who never study biology or listen to any health talks or read any health books, are totally ignorant of what is health all about. What they do is just enjoy life, eat to fill their stomach, eat to enjoy the food, look nice, work to earn money and so on. Who care about health so much when there are so many things in life to do!
If such people do not pay attention to their health, the price they are going to face is early health deterioration. There are simply too much issues to talk about health. Only when the mind is hunger for health facts can a person know more about health. However, knowledge and putting facts to action is yet another thing. There are simply too much things for you to weigh to achieve good health.
A lot of time, people like the hairdressers who constantly are in touch with chemicals, hair dyes are very prone to health risks. Little do they know that by smelling and handling these chemicals, they are facing ‘cancer risks’ everyday. Even if they know, they need to earn a living. They have to support their families. This is the facts of life. If nobody would want to be hairdressers, who will cut hair for you then?
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Health risks that you might not know about
Risk is everywhere around us. Our health faces risks all the time too. At home or in any interior places, you face the risk of falling down, tripping down, chemicals injury to your body, accidental consumption of wrong food, choking, fire injury and so on. Outside the home or in outdoor, you faces the risk of knocking down by vehicles, accidental assault, natural disaster such as strike by lightning, earthquake, typhoon and so on. We cannot escape risks totally, but we can reduce risks on our part, as by taking precaution in whatever things that we do.
Those risk that we face are all external. They are all accidental health risks that we can possibly face in our lives, whether you are a child, teenage, adults or old people. Besides accidental health risks, other health risks that we face could be the short-term health risks and the long-term health risks.
Our body are in constant touch with foreign objects in our surroundings. All these foreign objects are all health risks to us. From food preparation to cooking and eating of food, there are already health risks involved in every steps that we do. For example, food that are not washed properly such as vegetables might contain parasites’ eggs from soil particles on the vegetables. These eggs might hatch into parasites in our stomach(favourable condition for them). Meat that we eat if they are not cooked properly will still have parasites exist in them. So when these meat are eaten, our health is at risks — risks of parasite infestation in our body. Parasites can compete with our body for nutrition and it can also cause sickness to us and sometimes can even be fatal.
Besides parasites, other potential health risks from food we eat are germs. When seafood and poultry products are not washed properly or when they are not fresh, they have germs — the bad bacteria in them, that can cause people to suffer from symptoms of food poisoning after consumption of them. Sometimes, besides improper food handling, ignorance can also cause us to have risks of our health, as in food poisoning when eaten food that is kept in the fridge for too long, or even food consume after left over in the room for a long period of time. These are short-term health risks. They cause immediate results to our body.
Other examples of short-term health risks that we face are allergies. Eating food that our body ‘cannot accept’ such as seafood or eggs for some people can have immediate rashes, and ‘watery and red eyes’ and other symptoms for some people. Food allergies and medicinal allergies can sometimes be life threatening. Other than food allergies, allergies can arise from hobbies such as gardening, as when handling certain plants. Allergies can also be toys that children like, such as soft toys, when these people have asthma.
Now, lets consider the long term health risks that we possibly face from our environment. These are mostly chemical reaction between the food we eat and also in our body. We cannot see these reactions nor can we see germs which are harmful to our bodies. We need to drink water everyday. The water source is a place where chemical reactions can take place. From water pipe to our home, it is at home then we can have control of water handling. Plastic bottles are known to cause chemical reactions to the water we drink. These ‘plastic’ that we constantly associate with is actually carcinogenic. Cookingwares and bakewares, nowadays also contains various types of coatings for ‘non-sticking’ purposes. However, some coating are known to interact with the food we eat too. At home, no matter how much precaution you take, but when you have meals at public places such as hawker centres or restaurants, you have no control over what sort of containers and cookingwares they use for cooking!
Besides food, people who smoke will have extra health risks imposed upon themselves through long-term harm to their lungs. People who are constantly in association with external foreign objects, besides cigarettes, can be hair dyes, cements, etc Constant use of hair dyes can cause people to suffer from cancer in the long term. People who are in the construction or contractor industry, especially those handling abestos have an increase risks of developing cancer in the long run too. All these reactions are accumulative and the symptoms of the disease only shows after many years! Likewise, diseases such as hepatitis and aids are known only after many years.
So you can see, health risk is really everywhere. It is impossible to say everything here. There are too much to be mentioned. The things like chopping board, cups, cosmetics that we are in contact with everyday are actually all health risks that you are not aware of! Though you can reduce it on your part, you really cannot totally omit it because you have no control over other areas. Sometimes, because of survival, such as hairdressers, contractors, they have to face these occupational hazards risks. This is just parts and parcels of life that we need to face. Since health risks is everywhere, knowledge of health is importance to reduce risks.
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