Passion For Health Research Paper

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My passion for health and wellness sparked when I was separated from my parents at the age of 11. My father was diagnosed with tuberculosis that later turned out to be Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. This forced my parents to relocate to less polluted areas while my brother and I stayed in the city to attend the school for the gifted. Education was scarce and even harder to enroll in an institution that will open the doors for higher education. My brother and I lived in Ho Chi Minh City with a nanny and only saw my mother twice a week. My mother left me these words shortly after the move, “If there is anything that you can’t do, imagine that you do not have parents and no one will help you, except yourself. Be strong”. With these words embedded in my heart, I spent the rest of my school years perusing healthcare and wellness in order to impact the health of society as a whole and to prevent any child from experiencing what I have. I am confident that my passion will have an effect on …show more content…

From infants to the elderly, there was no source of knowledge to help people heal from within. I made it my long-term goal to cross the ocean where education is plentiful and become a registered dietician. My goal as a registered dietitian is to improve the lives of others by working in the community and educating them how to change or modify their current lifestyle; I begged my parents to agree with my decision. However, due to the small family that we had, they refused and allowed me to go only on certain terms. The terms were to achieve the highest scores on governmental exams to receive financial support, find the courage to leave the nest and make it on my own, and also get a scholarship to a university. I achieved all of their terms and departed Vietnam with the tears of my family staining in my heart, and I was the only one who didn’t shed a tear because my determination was very

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