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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Gestational Diabetes
1,238 wordsDiabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can be associated with serious complications and premature death, but persons with diabetes can take measures to reduce the likelihood of such occurrences. 15. 7 million people -- 5. 9 % of the population -- have diabetes. But only 10. 3 million people are diagnosed so that leaves 5. 4 million people not diagnosed. Studies have foun...
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Physical Activity And Weight Control
1,063 wordsRegular physical activity is an important part of effective weight loss and weight maintenance. It also can help prevent several diseases and improve your overall health. It does not matter what type of physical activity you perform -- sports, planned exercise, household chores, yard work, or work-related tasks -- all are beneficial. Studies show that even the most inactive people can gain significant health benefits if they accumulate 30 minutes or more of physical activity per day. Based on th...
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Violence On Television Hours A Day
1,612 wordsIn today's society, children are exposed to forms of media that never existed in past generations. They have the world at their fingertips through the Internet and computer based programs. According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, playing video games, watching television, and listening to music consumes almost forty hours a week of a child's time. Children are spending "a lot of time with influences that parents aren't doing much to understand or control. " (Weiner) The most prevalen...
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Coronary Artery Disease Heart Disease
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1,121 wordsThe author of Dispensing With the Truth, Alicia Mundy, is the Washington bureau chief for Mediaweek and a contributing editor at Washingtonian magazine. She has written for U. S. News & World Report, GQ, Philadelphia Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She is best known for her investigative report which originally broke the 1992 scandal revealing that top United Way executives were stealing money from the organization's accounts (Brown, 2001). Alicia Mundy is the winner ...
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Freedom Of Expression Rest Of The World
1,206 words... their neighbors. Life in America is too busy, cliquish and anti-social for much community interaction anyway. And in addition, our media perpetuates paranoia among the population against strangers, making us even more closed and cliquish. In fact, I would say that out of all the countries I've been in, US society is the most cliquish, stuck-up, anti-social, and closed toward strangers I've ever seen. Nowhere else is the social vibe like that. Only Japan and Taiwan come close. Most Americans ...
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Patients Who Received Tagged As Having Involved Hypnosis
1,320 wordsBased on studies using the Stanford scales, researchers with very different theoretical perspectives now agree on several fundamental principles of hypnosis. The first is that a person's ability to respond to hypnosis is remarkably stable during adulthood. In perhaps the most compelling illustration of this tenet, a study showed that when retested, Hilgard's original subjects had roughly the same scores on the Stanford scales as they did 10, 15 or 25 years earlier. Studies have shown that an ind...
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Blood Flow Carbon Dioxide
1,475 wordsCaring for women in pregnancy presents a unique challenge to the healthcare team. Obstetrical nursing requires an in-depth knowledge of the physiological, psychological, and social processes of the high-risk childbearing woman and her fetus during pregnancy. In a community hospital setting, care challenges can be further complicated by the possible limitations of available resources. The following case study will explore the necessary insights and their implications in caring for the high-risk p...
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Fast Food Average Woman
354 wordsA Speech on Fast Food Fast food is an integral part of our everyday life. Most of us cannot imagine life without hamburger or hot-dog. Is it true that fast food is not so healthy? All physicians and dietitians share the same opinion. They say that fast food can be of only two types: unhealthy and very unhealthy. The main problem is that fast food contains plenty of calories. Fast food is rich in fats and carbohydrates with little quantity of vitamins. All these hamburgers and hot dogs are very t...
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Tobacco Smoke Healthy Lifestyle
1,649 wordsOpinion Paper United States is a truly unique country. When President Bush and his Bible thumping cronies introduce legislations that legalize tap wiring, torturing of suspected terrorists and keeping people in jail for years, without charging them with any crime, people think of it as normal. However, once the municipal authorities introduce legislations that are meant to promote public health, many citizens consider it as something that deprives them of their civil rights. In 2003, New Yorks M...
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Class Action State Courts
836 wordsPassage of the Class Action Fairness Act is good for America Class-action lawsuits have become a problem in the United States. The judicial system is not fair. It is unbalanced, it is tilted, " said President Bush. "And members around this table understand that, and members around this table are willing to set aside their political party to do what is right for worker and business owner alike, " he added, as he met with both Democrats and Republicans from the House and Senate. (1) My opinion is ...
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Women In America Status Of Women
1,897 wordsA Comparison of the Status of Women within Two Ethnic Groups It is not a secret that throughout the history women suffered an underprivileged social status. This particularly applies to Muslim society, where even up to this day women are often thought of as having no soul. With the change of American immigration policy in sixties, the people of predominantly non-White origins started to pour into this country, thus contributing to the creation of multicultural society that we immensely enjoy now...
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Is The Atkins Diet Safe
1,072 wordsIs the Atkins Diet safe? Personal records of Dr. Atkins Dr Atkins experience; Celebrities are fans of Atkins Diet; Atkins Diet: a lifelong style of rational nutrition Necessary arrangements before diet; The main aims of Atkins Diet; Stages of Atkins Diet; Stage I: Products you can eat without limit; Products you can use with restrictions; Beverages; Oils and fats; Sweeteners; Food supplements; Stage II Stage III Atkins Diet: Is it really as safe as seems to be? Glycogen = fuel for your body; Red...
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Dietary Supplements Proper Nutrition
1,203 wordsAre Vitamins Really Good? As the 20 th century draws to a close medical sciences concerns differ significantly from those of earlier years. According to the Background on Adult Nutrition from the Family Haven site: prior to World War II, Americans main nutritional problems stemmed from lack of sufficient food or variety of foods. Nutrition scientists of that era focused on defining essential nutrients, primarily vitamins, in order to outline the minimum food intake for good health. (Flex) Vitami...
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Ventromedial Nucleus One Eating
307 wordsThe part of the body that motivates eating is the hypothalamus. The small gland is located in the midline at the base of the brain, just below the hypothalamus, and interacts closely with the pituitary gland and acts in coordination with the reticular formation. The two components of the hypothalamus dealing with hunger are the lateral hypothalamus and the ventromedial nucleus. The lateral part is what allows a person to feel hungry and sends out signals to the rest of the body that one is ready...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Blood Glucose Levels
925 wordsDiabetes mellitus is a disorder caused by decreased production of insulin, or by decreased ability to use insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that is necessary for cells to be able to use blood sugar. The cause of diabetes mellitus is unknown, but heredity and diet are believed to play a role in its development. Diabetes results when the pancreas produces insufficient amounts of insulin to meet the bodys needs. It can also result when the pancreas produces insulin, but the cel...
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Type 1 Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes
1,356 wordsNearly 16 million people in the United States nearly one out of every 17 people have diabetes. And about 1, 800 new cases are diagnosed each day. Technically, this disease is known as diabetes mellitus, diabetes from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for honey diabetic urine is filled with sugar and is sweet. There are three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. All of them are a little different. But everyone w...
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Wall Street Journal U S News
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Low Self Esteem Drug And Alcohol Abuse
958 wordsEating disorders are not severe diets; they are illnesses with severe health risks. There are three different types of eating disorders that include, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. Each of these has very different qualities of poor health and very unusual habits. Denial is one of the main elements in these illnesses. It is hard for an individual to differentiate between healthy weight loss and an out of control problem. Friends and family members should watch for warning si...
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Coronary Artery Disease Heart Disease
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