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Blood Sugar Levels Complex Carbohydrates
1,437 wordsAbout four years ago we started to notice that my dad was having problems sleeping, he was very moody, and he started getting headaches a lot. After it got to a point where my dad was feeling bad every day we all started to worry. So as any normal person would do, my dad went to the hospital to have it checked out. The doctor found that my dad had developed a disease called hypoglycemia. At first this was very hard for my dad to handle because to subdue the symptoms of his disease he had to dras...
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Size And Strength Adrenal Glands
1,248 wordsAnabolic Serious. What are they? Where do they come from? Why are they used? From amateurs to pros, from body builders to football players and every sport in between, Serious, or "road" as they are referred to, have been in the circle of athletes since the 1950 's. Is it vanity that drives athletes to use serious? Do they understand the end results from the abuse of "road"? What psychological effects do serious have on users? In order to understand the psychological effects of serious, you must ...
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The Disorder Of Anorexia Nervosa
798 wordsAnorexia nervosa, more commonly known simply as anorexia, is a psychological disorder that can have devastating physical affects. Anorexia nervosa is an irrational fear of gaining weight. It causes victims to compulsively starve themselves, and exercise an excessive and unhealthy amount. This disorder is particularly dangerous because it is very difficult to diagnose, and there is no guaranteed cure or treatment because the cause itself is somewhat ambiguous. The vast majority of people who suff...
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Common Sleep Disorders Insomnia Narcolepsy
627 wordsPeople who suffer from the most common sleep disorder, insomnia, have difficulty falling or staying asleep. Sleepiness caused by insomnia reduces concentration and slows reaction time during waking hours, leading to reduced productivity and accidents. One in three adults experiences some degree of insomnia at one time or another, especially during periods of stress. Longer-lasting cases of insomnia, called chronic insomnia, are less common and may be caused by a number of factors in addition to ...
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Kill Cancer Cells Breast Cancer
856 wordsIn the United States women each year develop breast cancer. Although these statistics are alarming, there are a number of treatment options available for those that are diagnosed with breast cancer. The best way to treat any disease is to prevent it. Since little is known about breast cancer, there are no established rules for prevention. women age twenty and older perform monthly breast self-exams, and it also suggests clinical examinations every three years. Mammography is also a wonderful too...
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Play A Role Men And Women
1,108 wordsGender Socially Accepted Behavior PMS differs from milder premenstrual discomfort in that its symptoms are severe enough to interfere with a womans personal, social and work life. Its symptoms occur regularly. That is, instead of occurring randomly, they occur frequently, in at least two out of three menstrual cycles. Symptoms tend to appear somewhere between ovulation and the beginning of a period. And the time span when symptoms occur is followed by a time usually the two weeks right after the...
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People With Bulimia Binge Eating
1,172 wordsBulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by episodes of uncontrolled binge eating, often involving extremely large amounts of high-calorie foods, followed by induced vomiting or the use of laxatives, or diuretics to purge or cleanse the body of the food eaten during the binge. An estimated thirty percent of high school and college age girls use this method to stabilize their weight, and then it turns into a fixed pattern of conduct. The binge eating and purging are carried out in secr...
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Depo Provera Sexual Predators
453 wordsBiological Psychology: Essay # 2 What are some arguments for and against the use of hormone treatments on sexual predators? California became the first state in 1997 to mandate chemical castration for several classes of convicted sexual predators. Proponents for the use of hormone treatments on sexual predators give several very good arguments. First the injections of Depo-Provera are a temporary and reversible suppression of sex drive in certain kinds of sexual predators. Therefore no harm is d...
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Birth And Prevent Genetic Engineering People
723 wordsCREATION AND CURES Imagine not worrying about being perfect. Having IQ levels better than Einstein, but with an appealing appearance, singing better than the Backstreet Boys, and playing a favorite sport like a professional. Well, fortunately scientists have found a way of making those imaginative thoughts into reality through Genetic Engineering. Decades ago genetic engineering began, in its most simplest form, by cross breeding crops and cattle as well as domestic pets. Different traits were s...
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Form Of Depression Bipolar Disorder
874 wordsIn today s society, we are faced with or placed in many unpredictable and stressful situations. However, many of us manage to properly analyze the situations and maintain our sanity, experiencing only a mild form of depression, if any. Others may encounter similar situations and become mentally depressed. Some reasons for being depressed are normal, such as, a death of a family member, parents divorce, or loss of job; but, depending on how long you are depressed, as a result of these mis fortuna...
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Men And Women Percent Of Women
772 wordsAn article in Scientific American called " Why are so many women depressed" , by Ellen Liebenluft, focused on the reason why females are more depressed than males. First, Depression comes with a variety of symptoms. For example, a person suffering from depression may experience sleep disturbances, hopelessness, and feeling of worthlessness, difficulty concentrating, experience fatigue and sometime even delusions. Depression is very common among women. If affects nearly 20 percent of wo...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Blood Sugar Levels
791 wordsDiabetes Mellitus, disease caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism and characterized by abnormally large amounts of sugar in the blood and urine. Diabetes mellitus affects approximately five percent of the United States population, about 10 - 12 million people, of whom about half remain undiagnosed. Diabetes mellitus can eventually damage the eyes, kidneys, heart, and limbs, and can endanger pregnancy. Proper treatment, however, can minimize these complications. Diabetes mellitus is usually ...
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Fatty Acids Small Intestine
1,001 wordsIts a typical day. After school you get home and you are starving, but you just want a snack. What should I eat? , you ask yourself. Then, after looking through the cabinets for a few minutes, you find Cheetos and decide to eat a few. With just the presence of those Cheetos in your sight, the digestion process begins in your 9 meter long digestive tract. Crunch, Crunch, Crunch. As you munch on those first few Cheetos the digestion process begins in your mouth. Here, mechanical digestion begins t...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Drugs In Sport
1,108 wordsDrugs in Sport Stuart Fox 4 T I am certainly a great sporting enthusiast. I love nothing more than to watch a great sporting encounter, no matter which sport. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly common for sportsmen and women to use substances to aid their performance. That is not to say all competitors use illegal substances, however when competitors start to use illegal substances, they ridicule the whole ethos of sport and competition. I cannot see the point of people competing when th...
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Short Term Memory Evidence That Marijuana
1,148 wordsThe Benefits Of Marijuana Are you sick of hearing your girlfriend nagging you about letting go of your pot pastime? Have you been hearing a lot of negative things about the use of marijuana lately? Would you like to know what the real deal is behind the use of this infamous drug? Then read on because youre in for a surprise. One of the saddest things in North America is the lack of clinical trials on marijuana use. Many other countries in the world have already performed such tests in order to d...
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Carbon Dioxide Uric Acid
925 wordsAim: Exretory System Excretory System Aim: To examine and understand the structure, function and differences between different types of excretory systems. The difference between excretion and egestion is that whereas excretion is the process of removing toxic waste by-products of the body s metabolism, egestion is the removal of indigestible remains / substances through the alimentary canal. Through egestion, substances that were not able to be used in the body are removed, and through excretion...
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Menstrual Cycle Women Feel
588 wordsPuberty The arrival of the monthly friend. The principle sign that a girl has become sexually mature and is capable of reproduction is the onset of menstruation, a period of cyclic bleeding from the vagina. (Smith 1997, pg 217) This is one of the key physiological functions of the female body. An ovarian, or estrus, cycle is characteristic of all female mammals, but menstruation, periodic uterine bleeding that accompanies the ovarian cycle, occurs only in women, female apes, and some monkeys. Th...
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Genetic Engineering Farm Animals
653 words#What doesGenectic Engineering ## #What does Genetic Engineering Really do? Humans have been doing traditional biotechnology for a long time; but modern biotechnology or genetic engineering is a very recent development. Will fish mate with tomatoes or soybeans crossbreed with petunias? Will pigs mate with humans or rabbits with mice? Of course not, but some scientists are combining the genes of the diverse creatures against the laws of natural selection. This unsecured liaison invent by chemical...
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Estrogen Levels Forty Percent
839 wordsGynecomastia There are many lethal diseases that affect the human species. Doctors fight every day to save lives, and research is being done to find cures for them. Fortunately there are other diseases that are not life threatening, but they do cause discomfort and suffering. Some diseases affect only women, and some affect only men. Gynecomastia is a disease that affects only males. Gynecomastia is a common disease that occurs only in males, and it is generally a bilateral and symmetrical anato...
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Birth Control Pills Fallopian Tubes
794 wordsWhen the FDA approved the Pill for marketing in 1960, it changed America forever. The pill was released without adequate testing. Within two years, 1. 2 Americans were using it and by 1973 that number had risen to 10 million. In 1969 the book The Doctors Case against the Pill by Barbara Seaman showed people the dangers. By the end of the 70 s, the FDA required physicians and pharmacists to hand out sheets on possible negative effect and complications (Kalb 20 - 36). The pills contain two hormone...
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