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Papers on Health and Medicine
Nutrition: Facts On Malnutrition
Number of words: 914 | Number of pages: 4.... especially those under 5 years of age, suffer from the effects of starvation more quickly than adults. In severe situations, they can develop a condition which is life threatening called protein energy malnutrition. This means that their diet provides too little energy and protein. Kwashiorkor and marasmus are the two most common diseases caused by lack of protein and energy. In developed countries, diets very low in energy are rare. People who suffer from psychological problems, such as anorexia nervosa and older adults who are ill or have lost their appetite may reduce their food and energy intake.
Protein and Fat
The di .....
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Human Nature
Number of words: 544 | Number of pages: 2.... do anything similar from
then on, because he knows that it is socially unacceptable. The child
might also continue to do bad things, because he doesn't realize that what
he did was wrong.
Another way evil may be introduced into a person can also be from a
movie or the media. The first time a person sees a movie with violence and
killing, the person might copy what he sees in the movie, and choose to
murder.
Aristotle says "Every act and every inquiry and similarly every
action and pursuit is thought to aim at some good." This idealism is
strongly disagreed with. Since of all the wars, murders, robbers and other
evil things t .....
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Borderline Personality Disorder
Number of words: 946 | Number of pages: 4.... However,
those with Borderline Personality Disorder(B.P.D.) must also have these
symptoms:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal
relationships characterized by alternating between
extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats,
or self-mutilating behavior.
4. Affective instability: marked shifts from baseline
mood to depression, irritability, or anxiety, usually
lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days.
5. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
6. Inappropriate, .....
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Cancer In American
Number of words: 330 | Number of pages: 2.... cardiovascular diseases
accounted for a higher percentage. In 1990 the American Cancer Society
predicted that about 30 percent of Americans will eventually develop some
form of the disease. In the United States skin cancer is the most
prevalent cancer in both men and women. Lung cancer, however, causes the
most deaths in both men and women. LEUKEMIA, or cancer of the blood, is
the most common type seen in children. An increasing incidence of cancer
has been clearly observable over the past few decades, due in part to
improved cancer screening programs, to the increasing number of older
persons in the population, and also to .....
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Abortion: Complicated Issue With Moral, Political, Ethical, Religious And Economic Factors
Number of words: 1030 | Number of pages: 4.... would suffer punishment in the afterlife.
Some are not religious motivated they just think that killing what they consider life is wrong, and that point brings up the hardest question to answer. When does life begin? Arguably life begins when you come out of your mothers body and are self sufficient in getting your own air and can eat your own food and water. Although there have been studies that show fetuses having brain patterns, respond to stimuli, they grow , eat , excrete wastes and all the other signs of life in which case abortion could be considered murder because killing a person is illegal. Many of the Pro L .....
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Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Number of words: 791 | Number of pages: 3.... the alpha-EEG anomaly. This condition was uncovered in a sleep lab with the aid of a machine which recorded the brain waves of patients during sleep. Researchers found that patients could fall asleep without much trouble, but their deep level (or stage 4) sleep was constantly interrupted by bursts of awake-like brain activity. Patients appeared to spend the night with one foot in sleep and the other one out of it. In most cases, a physician doesn't have to order expensive sleep lab tests to determine if you have disturbed sleep. Some FMS patients have benn found to have other sleep disorders, such as sleep-myoclonus, PLMS ( .....
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Teenage Drinking
Number of words: 629 | Number of pages: 3.... seem to be directed at a younger crowd. Take for instance the Budweiser frogs and iguanas. They have a playfully image that can be received by children and teens.
It is known that drinking alcohol has very negative effects on the human body. Molecules in the alcohol act as neurotransmitters and turn cells off in the Reticular Activating System, RAS for short. When these cells turn off you become drowsy, your cerebellum is tricked to think you are asleep and you begin to stumble and fall. The alcohol also affects your speech, making it slurred and hard to understand.
What causes teens to drink? Teens start drinking for .....
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Number of words: 1852 | Number of pages: 7.... nurses concerning babies born with FAS. Because alcohol drunk
by a pregnant mother passes through her bloodstream to the placenta and
into the baby's bloodstream, and the fetal metabolism is fifty percent
slower than the mother's, the effects of the alcohol stay with the baby
long after it does with the mother. Doctors and nurses said that some
babies are born smelling of cheap wine, since they soaked in it in the
mother's alcoholic amniotic fluid before birth. Additionally, some babies
are actually born drunk. As a result, they need to be sobered and
detoxified as soon as the umbilical cord is cut. Even though these are two
e .....
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Auguments About Abortion
Number of words: 1078 | Number of pages: 4.... construed to deny or disparage others retained by
the people." This in turn, is guaranteeing a women the right to have an
abortion. Pro-choice people say that abortion is the killing of a child, but
pro-choice people do not consider the fetus a child. A philosopher, Mary Anne
Warren, proposed that consciousness, reasoning, self-motivated activity, and
self awareness are factors that determine 'person-hood'.
But, a misconception that held is that people who are pro-choice are
actually pro-abortion. Many people that support the right of a women to decide
what to do with her own body may be personally against abortions. But, t .....
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Baseball
Number of words: 775 | Number of pages: 3.... the
pitchers in the bullpen. At first, the athletes thought I was telling them to
put their mask on as an authoritative figure; however, after I explained to them
it was for their own good, and I was only looking out for their safety, they
realized why I was doing it. I believe one way to get the respect of the
athletes and coaches on a team is to let them see you care about them, and you
as the trainer care about them winning.
Warming and cooling down before and after practice is another good way
to prevent injury. Warming up by running and then stretching will help prevent
injury. Light jogging gets the blood supply f .....
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