<p>In 1849, a steamship named after President James Monroe headed from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, Iowa. The passengers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Philadelphia. At St. Louis, they were joined with a group of California gold diggers from Jeffersonville, Indiana. But their trip was interrupted when cholera broke out on board. Local fourteen-year-old James McHenry discovered the steamship after it landed at Jefferson City and observed the dead and dying victims along the riverbank. Author Gary Elliott details the history of the outbreak in the city and its far-reaching effects.</p>

The 1849 Cholera Outbreak in Jefferson City (Disaster)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Elliott, Gary

Diseases & Physical Ailments

The History Press

1849 Cholera Outbreak in Jefferson City (Disaster)

History PR

Hang Tough!: Grant Sawyer - An Activist in the Governor's Mansion (University of Nevada Oral History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Sawyer, Grant

King, R. T.

Leaders & Notable People

Univ of Nevada Oral History

Hang Tough!: The Public Life of Grant Sawyer, Governor of Nevada, 1959-1966 : From Oral History Interviews With Grant Sawyer

Regional U.S.

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Psychology - Clinic and Health Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Atlantic International University, language: English, abstract: The term 'Orthorexia' was first coined in 1997 by Dr. Steven Bratman. The combination of the Greek words 'orthos' meaning correct or right and 'orexis' meaning appetite gives the lose definition of correct eating; prior to coining the term Bratman (2007) previously referred to Orthorexia as "righteous eating". Predominantly, the primary focus is eating healthy food. In addition to healthy eating, Battaglia purports that orthorexics "obsess" over the quality of the food they eat more than the quantity.  Not uncommon to many 'diet plans', the orthorexic places high importance on large quantities of fruit and vegetables in the eating plan, but often will fixate on eliminating what they deem 'bad' foods; some sufferers trying to "completely eliminate fat, sodium and carbohydrates" from their diet (www.waldenbehaviouralcare.com). Dr Bratman affectionately refers to orthorexics as 'healthfood junkies', unfortunately this rather tongue-in-cheek term does little to relay the seriousness and potentially life-threatening nature of the disorder.  In Dr Ingrid van Heerden's paper Orthorexia- a new eating disorder? Catalina Zamora describes this disorder as a "pathological obsession for biologically pure food". The obsession in this disorder stems from the restrictive nature of the person's relationship with their food. What usually begins as a healthy diet progressively becomes more and more restrictive as additional items are removed from the diet; this deprivation of food items in the diet can have adverse effects on the orthorexic. Research was conducted at the Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sepienza in 2004; of the 404 subjects in the study, scientists concluded that 7% of them suffered with orthorexia (www.eating-disorder.com). Giving prudence to this research, Ellin (2009) explains that Dr Jam

Orthorexia. When healthy eating becomes an obsession

Psychology & Counseling

GRIN Verlag

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