Oral presentation about diseases.

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Hi guys! Let’s get started. Good morning ladies and gentlemen.We are Neus and Marina as you know.

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In this oral presentation we are going to talk about different diseases, exactly four: cancer, AIDS, bulimia and anorexia.
Nowadays this illness are very common, the fact is that in our experience we know some people who has suffered this.

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CANCER:
We would focus in breast cancer because few years ago, my mother had it. Well, I’m going to star to explain this disease:
Less than 10% of breast cancer cases are genetically inherited. However, most women diagnosed with breast cancer don’t have a family history of this disease.

You know there are a lot of ONG which are fighting the breast cancer, moreover, there are a lot of web pages where talk about that, like this is: http://www.y-me.org/.
In this page tells about the different kinds of treatment options, like: Chemotherapy, Side Effects, Biological Therapy, Mastectomy, Radiation, Hormonal Therapy...
But, as you know, treatments options are determined based on your individual case.

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AIDS: (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
It’s a set of symptoms and infections resulting from the damage to the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane: such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, breast milk...

You know that this disease is very popular and common around the world, in particular in Africa there are a lot of people who has got this disease, for example In Kenya, where poverty drives some girls to sleep with older men for money.
On the other hand, teenage girls are seven times more likely to be H.I.V. positive than boys the same age.Well, I finish talking about AIDS and now…

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…we’d like to say something about food because is very important.
Because, on the one hand there is American people who is typical to eat fast food, and for this, they are fad. And, on the other hand, there is people who doesn’t eat, the fault is the society because it says that when more thin is a girl, she is nicer, and for that, teenage girls want to be beautiful and for this reason they don’t eat.
Also, in Spain, and other countries there are a lot of anorexic and bulimic problems, the girls don’t eat or they put their fingers to bring up, like this, she feels good.

BULIMIA:
First thing first I want to say that many people think that only young females have bulimia, but It’s wrong. It is true that there are many more women than men: in fact, 9 out of 10 people with bulimia are women. But bulimia cans affect other kinds of people like: men, older women…
There are different factors cause bulimias:
- Culture. Women in the U.S. have pressure to be very thin.
- Families. Many people with bulimia have sisters or mothers with bulimia.
- Life changes or stressful events. Traumatic events.
- Psychology.
- Biology.

ANOREXIA:
It is the decreased sensation of appetite, the fault is a psychological problem or mental disorder. Anorexics see a fat person when they look in the mirror. This people don’t see the tremendous physical and emotional damage that they have got, so they continue to diet, and over-exercise/forced exercise.

There are many possible causes for a decreased appetite, which of them may be harmful for the person.
- Some people use medicaments, antidepressants for example, to suppress appetite.
- Also they drink a lot of water because like this, they aren’t hungry.
- A lot of teenagers, when they arrive in home, say that they already eat in school, and later they don’t eat to lunch or dinner.
- Etc.

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Now, we’ll read an interesting story about anorexia:

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Maria’s StorySeventeen-year-old Maria has been on one diet or another since she was in junior high. She recently lost 10 pounds from an already slender frame after becoming a strict vegetarian. Her parents are concerned about the weight loss, but Maria insists that she’s just under stress at school. Meanwhile, her vegetarian diet is becoming stricter by the day.Maria obsessively counts calories, measures food portions, and weighs herself at least twice a day. She refuses to eat at restaurants, in the school cafeteria, or anywhere else in public, and she lives on salad dressed with vinegar, rice cakes, and sugar-free Jell-O. Maria also has a large stash of fat-free candy in her room. She allows herself to indulge as long as she goes for a run right afterwards.Slide 8:Nothing more to say.We hope you like our oral presentation.If there are any questions we’ll be happy to answer themThank you for your attention.