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Seasonal Affective Disorder People Who Suffer
1,085 wordsEveryone recognizes spring fever, the giddiness that lifts the spirits as the short, dark days of winter become the longer, sunnier days of spring. But, have you ever noticed the decrease of energy during the fall and winter month? Doctors first noticed this opposite, annual winter depression, 150 years ago, but the condition remained a theory until the early 1980 s, when researchers began linking the darkening of peoples winter moods to the lack of sunlight from November through March. Today, t...
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Plays An Important Role Weight Gain
694 wordsAlthough it has nothing to do with international boundaries or population size, it is the people of America who are expanding at the waistline. In the United States thirty three percent of the adult population are obese. One is considered obese if one is more then twenty percent over ideal The main cause of obesity in humans is the calorie. A calorie is a unit used to measure the energy value of food and the energy used by the body to maintain normal functions. When the calories from food intake...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder B
1,036 wordsScientists Shed Light on the Winter Blues When a case of the winter blues feels more like depression, you may be suffering from SAD. SAD stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is a seasonal disruption of mood that occurs during the winter months and ceases with the beginning of spring. Symptoms usually begin in September when days begin to shorten, and last through the winter into March when the days begin to lengthen again. The symptoms of SAD usually include episodes of depression, hypers...
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Anorexia Nervosa Laxatives Diuretics
1,273 wordsRefusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (e. g. , weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85 % of that expected; or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85 % of that expected). Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight. Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-e...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Bipolar Disorder
1,292 wordsWhat is unipolar illness? When the mood is just depressed. This is far more common than bipolar illness. What is bipolar disease? Bipolar disorders (manic-depressive illness) are marked by periods of manic, greatly elated moods or excited states as well as by periods of depression. Although the manic-depressive psychosis may alternate from one of its phases to the other, one or the other phase is usually dominant for a while. Depression is more often dominant than mania. Manic-depressive patient...
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Antidepressant Medications Blood Pressure
698 wordsThe most outstanding behavior seen in an anorexic includes a conservative rigidity, outward compliance toward others alternating with temper-tantrum behavior, and repetitious patterns normal in the infant and toddler but not in the adolescent (Levenkron 3 - 4). Anorexics also have peculiar behavior with food. Some prepare elaborate meals for families, but eat nothing themselves, or they toy with food on their plate and eventually throw the whole meal away (Marx 51). Depending on which perspectiv...
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Fast Food Restaurants Junk Food
1,447 wordsWHAT IS JUNK FOOD? Junk food is defined in Elook. org as food that tastes good but is high in calories having little nutritional value. This definition paints junk food as something that has no importance to everyday lives. Some examples of junk food as cited in Answers. com are soft drinks, hamburgers, potato chips, and French fries. These foods are high on calories. But calories are not bad for the health according to an article reviewed by Dr. Mary L. Gavin. She cites, for example, that our b...
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People Who Suffer Eating Disorders
1,638 wordsEating Disorders This paper is about eating disorders, illness / condition , its characteristic features and likely causes. In this paper current treatments for eating disorders and services available in the northern territory will be described. Also I would like to discuss what the likely effect will be on the individual, family and friends. Eating is controlled by many factors, including appetite, food availability, family, peer, and cultural practices, and attempts at voluntary control. [] Ea...
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Coronary Heart Disease Type Ii Diabetes
1,704 wordsObesity According to surveys conducted by various organizations including the Center for Disease Control, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), obesity in the United States is a serious and mounting epidemic. In the United States, just about 300, 000 deaths a year are attributed to obesity (Pr Newswire, 1999). In comparison, Ohio is ranked 31 st (ranked best to worst) in 1999, among 50 states plus Puerto Rico an...
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Eating Disorders Marilyn Monroe
1,687 wordsMedia's Misleading Issues On Women Cultural ideals shape and body image changed through the ages. For example in 1890 's a rather plump body and a pale complexion considered as the pink of perfection. Such appearance emphasizes the wealth state of the family the woman belonged to. In early 1900 's woman considered astonishingly beautiful if she had hourglass figure. Such look demanded tight corset, which in turn leads to different health problems. In 1920 's came the era of the flat-chested, sli...
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Eating Disorder Body Image
1,726 words... old they received over 250, 000 commercial messages through the media. Some surveys found that 50 % of ads in teen girls magazines and 56 % of television ads appeal to use a beauty as a product. This constant exposure to female-oriented advertisements may influence girls to become self-conscious about their bodies and to obsess over their physical appearance as a measure of their worth (Dittrick, L. "About-Face facts on BODY IMAGE. " About-Face web site. Online: web) I already mentioned that...
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Fast Food Nation Fast Food Restaurants
1,930 wordsFast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal The affinity of the American people with fast food can be understood because it enables people to eat on the go and to be able to take out their meals that are set to an affordable price. Fast-food restaurants address a societal need of Americans today which is the lack of time to cook their own food for themselves. If there is such a thing as instant coffee then it would make perfect sense that instant meals would be accepted by the popul...
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Manic Depressive Illness Common Side Effects
950 wordsProgram on Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a persons mood, energy, and ability to function. Different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through, the symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe. They can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide. But there is good news: bipolar disorder can be treated, and people with this illness can lead full and produc...
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Childhood Obesity Physical Exercises
2,722 wordsTable of contents Abstract... 2 Introduction 3 Decline of physical education in public schools. 3 Childhood obesity: rise, causes, treatment... 4 Conclusion... 10 Abstract The rise of childhood obesity is a great concern among policy experts, health care professionals and naturally parents. Nowadays obesity has become a real epidemic. It was reported that the number of students who attend physical training every day had decreased to 29 percent in 1999 compared with 42 % in 1990. It is possible t...
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Overweight Weight Loss And Human Health
1,756 wordsOverweight, Weight Loss and Human Health In terms of public health, only smoking is more dangerous than obesity. Here's an update on the latest assessment techniques and, weight-loss regimens, including the newest medical treatment. Approximately 100 million Americans or almost 3 out of every 5 adults are overweight or obese. [ 1 ] The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other organizations estimate that the costs of obesity to society in this country may be in excess of $ 100 billion annual...
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