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This report discusses the affects low health literacy has on a person's health status and why health literacy is important to overall health. Low health literacy affects a person's health status more than any other factor, including education, income, and employment or race. Because people with limited health literacy don't tend to seek preventative care and are less likely to follow prescribed treatments, health is compromised and the possibility of a hospital stay is more likely. The report aptly describes the reasons why health literacy is important.

The report discusses how the complexity of medical information affects the health of the patient. The terminology used by doctors and other health professionals contribute to low literacy in patients, and because of the difficulty patients have understanding medical information, health outcomes of patients are jeopardized. The report makes interesting points that expose the unnecessarily complex and confusing language doctors insist on using when talking to patients.

Vernon, lead author of this report, and fellow colleagues, discuss the economic inefficiency in the U.S. healthcare system caused by low health literacy. Annual costs to the U.S. economy are in the billion dollar range. The report shows that low health literacy is associated with lack of stable coverage and reliable health care access, a national health reform to improve health literacy would result in major savings as well as better health care. Vernon and associates make valid points to the cost of low health literacy to the economy.

This is a case report about the Mozart Effect. In the study, it dealt with a 56-year-old man who throughout his life dealt with gelastic seizures, which is laughing off random. After having many testes done on him cure this problem, the doctor decided to do a intervention. In that intervention, Mozart's music was used which enhanced his spatiotemporal reasoning.

The youth participation during the 2008 Election will be astounding. The Y Generation is making their presence felt. Voters under the age of 30 are 45 million strong, and have the possibility of determining who is elected. This article reports statistics that will be helpful to the reader, based on election registration and turnout.

The author reports on the study "To Read or Not to Read," which was released by the United States National Endowment for the Arts. The study found that Americans read less in 2007 compared with previous years. The study found that reading abilities for teenagers and adults have declined, whereas reading abilities for younger children have increased. The impact which the decline in reading abilities has had on American workers is discussed. The author states that the amount of time which people read on a daily basis has declined. (Abstract from EBSCO.)

'Mozart Effect' Revisted talks about the history of the Mozart Effect, which is a study method for students to use when withholding information. In this text, it''s combining the Mozart Effect with children. For example, Ten years ago Chinese University neuropsychologist Agnes Chan reported that adults who had been taking music lessons for more than 6 years had better memory for words.

Many patients misunderstand the written questions American doctors have them answer before physical exams, a finding that calls into question the usefulness of these screening tools, new reports say.

The number of Americans studying in China increased by 25 percent last year, according to a new report.

The Report discusses how nearly half of all American adults have difficulty understanding and using health information. Many patients do not always understand health information, so they get less preventative health care and use expensive health services such as emergency care more frequently. By incorporating health knowledge into the existing curricula of kindergarten through 12th grades classes, as well as into adult education community programs, confusion in health literacy can be eliminated. The IOM makes valid points and suggestions for ending the confusion with health literacy.

Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" and other works, was artist-in-residence recently at the University of Maryland at College Park. This is part of a conversation he had with reporter Valerie Strauss about young people and literature.

The latest NCAA graduation success rate report shows UD in the top 10 nationally with Notre Dame, Duke and Northwestern, among others.

This article compares between second-hand effects encountered by people living next to colleges with high levels of binge drinking, and others living next to schools with low levels of binge drinking. It explains that binge drinkers also affect non-binge drinkers and their neighbors. The study is completed using a telephone survey. It shows that as the number of alcohol outlets increases, binge drinking also increases. This also increases the second-hand effects encountered by people living next to colleges. Lastly, it suggests that decreasing the density of alcohol outlets would decrease the consumption of alcohol among college students. This article clearly portrays the second-hand effects of alcohol use. However, it is a limited study since it relies on a telephone survey.

Todd and Variyum research the use of nutritional labels. This study finds that numbers have gone done from 1995 to 2006, in how many people read the nutritional facts labels on foods. They concluded that the majority of this decrease was from people 30 and younger. This source was very valid becuase it comes from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and has reputable sources.

This article from the Washington Post discusses the problem of aliteracy. Much more prevalent than illiteracy, it is also more insidious because unlike teaching someone how to read, which is fairly straightforward, how do you teach someone to LIKE to read? This article contains statistics on aliteracy in America and interesting ways in which aliteracy has changed the way our society functions.

This article discusses diabetes. It goes into the background and outlook of the disease. DIscussing how manageable it is. This article is off topic but can be a good side note to the obesity epidemic. I can use it to support the diseases caused by overeating and under-exercising.

This article adresses obesity increasing in the US. It is less current (1999) but still useful facts about the background of over-eating. The chronology is useful to my research. Also the article has good background that I can use in my introduction.

This article addressed the increasing obesity in the US. The article is helpful becuase of its focus of the unhealthy aspects of over-eating. I can use its mention of the food industry seeling high-suger, high-fat foods. This can be useful in my introduction. Also it is current (2003).