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American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer
697 wordsProstate Cancer is a malignancy of the prostate gland, a walnut-sized organ located under the bladder in males. The prostate gland surrounds the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the penis. The American Cancer Society estimates that 317, 100 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed annually in the United States and that 41, 400 men die from the disease each year. It is the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer in American men. The specific cause...
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Hold True Holds True
1,718 wordsLate in his life Socrates went around the market place having discussions with the countrymen. He believed that if someone claimed to know what X was then they should be able to define it. So he would usually ask a question such as, what is X? Socrates would not be pleased by just any answer; it had to be a solid definition. According to Socrates a solid definition consists of three conditions. The first is that the definition of X must hold true for all things that are X, but not for those thin...
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Loose Weight Weight Loss
1,087 wordsOnce upon a time in the land of perfect dreams, I was a beautiful princess and I lived in a castle and could eat anything I wanted. Quotes Simply Sarah. Teenagers with eating disorders, specifically Bulimia, often desire one thing, perfect body. They believe that being overweight is the cause of all their misfortunes, and if they could only loose the fat, all of their problems would disappear as well. When in fact most of them arent overweight, and are around normal size for their age. When they...
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Food And Drug Medicinal Purposes
863 wordsDrugs are anything chemically based which alter your perceptions in life and give you a high that sometimes you would like to have forever. Sometimes people dont need this high in their life all the time but for others they always want that ultimate feeling. The feeling of no worries, pain, or sorrow. Some people take drugs for the fun of it, while others seriously have a problem and are addicted to the drugs. For some it is easy to just take drugs such as LSD, snort a line of coke, or smoke a j...
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E Coli Food Preparation
559 wordsSince E Coli is mostly a result of unsanitary food and living conditions, an education program to increase the awareness of what causes the disease would be effective for prevention. We would launch a media education campaign which would air 30 seconds spot ads providing information on the disease and how to prevent it. These commercials would be broadcast globally, especially to third world countries and the countries most effected by the disease. If certain areas affected by the disease do not...
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Term African Slave Trade
1,642 wordsThe first thing that needs to be established is just how many slaves were brought to the Americas. This has proven to be quite difficult at best. There have been many scholars debate just this subject alone. As you will see, many well known scholars have problems justifying their own estimations or guesses. A quick study of Philip D. Curtin's work: From Guesses to Calculations: Shows his writings are a compilation of bits-n-pieces of information from previously thought of unimportant publishing'...
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Illegal Drugs Illegal Substance
1,170 wordsDrug smuggling is on a current up raise and there seems to be no way of stunting it growth. But here a some ways some states are trying to slow the rate of drug smuggling. In Illinois there is a program called "Operation Cash Crop" or the OCC. This is a combine of the ISP and the DEA. It's goal is to locate places where marijuana is grown then destroy all of it's gardens. During the span of 1983 - 88 these "OCC" led to 442 arrest and destroyed over 2 million marijuana plants. And in 1984 there w...
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Why French Women Get Fat
758 wordsOur definitions of what constitutes a meal vary from culture to culture. Despite differences in food preferences, every culture uses food for more than just nourishment. Food forges and maintains human relationships. And that is how it should be. But in the modern era of fast foods, that is far from it. Yet author Mireille Guiliano of the book French Women Dont Get Fat think it should be that was people will not worry about getting fat at all. The book is peppered by all kinds of delicious recip...
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Deaths Caused 1 Percent
649 wordsBUT was Simon mistaken? In 1997, the Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, a self-described "old left-wing Greenpeace member, " set out to disprove Simon's disproofs and confirm the claims of environmental alarmists. But he failed spectacularly -- and, what is much more unusual, in The Skeptical Environmentalist he says so. In 25 chapters supplemented and supported by almost 3, 000 footnotes, Lomborg takes a fresh look at the data, using the newest publicly available evidence to examine long-term t...
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A Cultural Difference American Weddings Versus Hispanic
1,260 wordsA Cultural Difference: American Weddings versus Hispanic Weddings It is very important to understand that each culture has the traditions of its own. While the Americans are individualists, the Hispanics belong to a collectivist culture. No wonder these differences find their reflection in cultural traditions of the nations, thus making the traditions between the two cultures so different. The research paper compares and contrasts the cultural differences between the American culture and the His...
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Performance Enhancement Drugs In Sports
1,530 wordsPerformance-Enhancement Drugs in Sports The essence of sporting activity has long ago lost its classical meaning. It ancient times, sport used to be thought of as just physical expression of peoples healthy mentality. The Olympic Games were originated in Greece in 776 BC. Back than, people were aware that it was necessary for the individual to have a harmony between his physical and mental health. However, in our time, sport ceased to be a sport, in traditional sense of this word, and turned int...
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Childhood Obesity Child Obesity
417 wordsChildhood obesity Childhood obesity in United States is mounting at an alarming rate. If this problem is disregarded, it may have stern impact on future generations. Overweight children have become double in the last two to three decades. Mainly, overweight is the outcome of caloric imbalance (Ogden, 2006). It is necessary to analyze the root causes of obese child in todays environment. People have traditional thought that parents and media are responsible for childhood obesity but it is not alw...
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Running Head Drive Thru Convenience Store
773 wordsRunning head: Drive-thru convenience store Name: University: Lecturer: Date: Business proposal: Drive through convenience store My drive through convenience store will be a life-long passion finally accomplished. Since I was young, Ive always been interested in marketing and sales. I also realized that there is a niche in the market that is rarely covered by other mainstream shopping malls. This niche is the busy customers who usually dont have time to walk through conventional shopping malls, a...
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Excessive Drinking Bone Density
990 wordsRunning head: Osteoporosis Name: University: Lecturer: Date: Osteoporosis Outline of contents Contents Page Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Normal anatomy / physiology of the skeletal system 4 Symptoms of osteoporosis 5 Causes of osteoporosis 5 Prevention of osteoporosis 6 Diagnosis of osteoporosis 6 Treatment 7 References 8 Abstract Osteoporosis is characterized by loss of normal bone density. Under normal circumstances the bone structure is formed when there is adequate protein, collagen and calcium...
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Deaths Due Highest Rates Smoking
341 wordsCigarette smoking is considered to be injurious to the health of a person. It is the reason many diseases that include lung cancer, cancer of larynx, kidney, bladder, and cervix. The habit of smoking has increasingly gained importance due to various harmful effects on the human body that have led to numerous deaths. The media has played an important role in creating awareness about the same. Some reports, however, reveal a completely different side of the story. These reports throw light on the ...
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Blood Sugar Feel Great Fat
891 wordsWhen you turn on the TV or open a magazine you are bombarded with messages about what you should eat and how much and how you should feel after doing so. Sometimes it is confusing and most of the time discouraging. There are four basic building blocks of nutrition that your body needs everyday. They are protein, carbohydrates, fat, and water. Eat these four and you body will function at a healthy state. In recent years a funny thing has happened. There was a time that we all ate to much protein ...
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Potato Chips Liver Cancer
929 wordsOh! Olestra! Olestra FAT-FREE FAT? ? ? Oh! Olestra! It sounds like a musical to me. I imagine scads of scantily clad showgirls with big headdresses kicking it Vegas Style as the dance and sing the praises of Olestra, the fat substitute. Oh! Oh! O-Les-Tra eat it up and the pounds melt right away! And your favourite treat will taste more sweet, when you know that it will not make you gain! Yeah, something like that. But right when the curtain for the second act is about to go up the stage manager ...
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Conventional Ways Of Farming Producing Crops For The Public Organic
499 wordsMicheal Pollan? s? Playing God in the Garden? addresses the many unseen aspects of farming and the technologies that are being designed to make planting effortless and safe. Pollan discusses how New Leaf (the plant company which has created the new biotechnological seeds) advertises a safer and less expensive way of farming, while concealing the harmful aspects of its product. The idea of genetically altering organisms has always made me uncomfortable. When I began to read this article, I assume...
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Married Couples Middle Class
1,067 words1. Introduction As we enter the 21 st century with all its challenges and opportunities, the idea of the traditional family has changed. Now, the dual-earner family, with husband and wife each maintaining separate careers and contributing to the financial success of the household, has become commonplace. The economic commitments and expectations of todays world often require two incomes to meet the overall expenses of the family. The biggest questions are often, How will we plan for our own reti...
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Term Side Effects Long Term Effects
572 wordsIn the past, athletes had to turn to such things as anabolic steroids or blood doping (the process of taking out blood and adding oxygen to it and putting it back into your body in order to increase a persons endurance) to get an edge over the competition. However, these procedures have many drawbacks. Mainly, they are illegal. An athlete may be suspended form playing their sport for using them. They have many long terms and short term side effects. Now there is a new drug that can give an athle...
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