The Grieving Process
.... loss in their lives. Many efforts are made to push the
feelings out of their mind. This is normal because the thought of the loss
is too overwhelming for them to handle. However, this disbelief or shock
will diminish as you begin to express and share your feelings about your
loss with others.
Following feelings of shock or disbelief, you gradually be¬ gin to realize
that the loss is real. Then you begin to ex¬ perience deeper and deeper
implications of the loss. Anger or depression usually follows. This .....
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Aspartame And Olestra: Will We Buy The Bull?
.... somehow like a miracle. Until now, diabetics, for example, were faced
with two choices: eat the fake foods that taste nothing like the real thing,
or pass. Sure, a man with a heart disease will not be able to eat a steak,
but maybe he will be allowed to eat the French fries to go with it if they
are prepared with Olean (Olestra). Olean is a fat derivative that
chemically resembles real fat, with the exception that is much bigger,
cannot be absorbed by the organism and therefore, passes right through .....
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Myotonic Dystrophy
.... referred to
as anticipation. Anticipation occurs more frequently when the gene is
passed from mother to child rather than from father to child. Anticipation
appears to be explained by the ability of the gene to expand from
generation to generation. Amplification is frequently observed after
parent-to-child transmission, but extreme amplifications are not
transmitted through the male line. This explains anticipation and the
occurrence of the severe congenital form almost exclusively in the
offspring of a .....
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Adrenoleukodystrpohy
.... & Effects
~Difficulties with speech in a noisy room or over the telephone
~Visual disturbances i.e. Field cuts, strabismus, & visual
activity
~ Focal or generalized seizures
~Hyperactivity
~Tends to progress rapidly with increased spasticity and paralysis,
visual and hearing loss, loss of ability to speak or swallow.
~Inability to move themselves anywhere at all from one place to
another.
Diet Goals
~to decrease the exogenous source of VLCFA- food sources of
fats, cholester .....
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Elephantiasis
.... the mature worm lives tightly coiled in the lymphatic vessels
where they reproduce. The female holds the fertilized eggs in her body.
Later the embryos, called microfilariae, are discharged alive. An
interesting feature of these worms is the periodic swarming of the
microfilariae in the bloodstream. In most species swarming takes place at
night. The embryos can be taken up by an insect only when they are in a
human's bloodstream. They develope into infective larvae in the insect,
which is the intermediat .....
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Personal Commentary On The Drug Problem
.... Health and Human Services says
the use of drugs has decline dramatically since the 1970’s and 1980’s when
drug use was at its peak level. The use of drugs has declined in the
percentage of eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders who believed there was a “
great risk” in trying drugs. But in 1994, the use of drugs increased and
the Department of Health and Human Services stepped up to try to help our
parents protect their children from the resurgence of drugs. The
government is doing everything to let parent .....
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Bulimia
.... in the late 19th century,
although it was never really taken seriously until the 1940’s, when it was
considered as a symptom of anorexia (Epstein 40). For many years bulimia
was associated with anorexia as if it was a joint disease. Finally, in
1979, doctor G.F.M. Russell was the first physician to describe this
disorder as a separate disease from anorexia to which he called it bulimia
nervosa (Epstein 40).
Today this disease has seemed to grow to quite an absurd level.
Unlike when this disease began .....
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Caffeine And Its Affects
.... users, but its impact on creativity
and other intellectual activities is hard to define.
Caffeine can be habit-forming. Some regular users who give it up
may experience withdrawal symptoms twelve to sixteen hours after the last
dose, such as: drowsiness, headaches, lethargy, irritability, disinterest
in work, depression, occasional nausea and vomiting.
How caffeine affects you depends on what and how much you drink.
Strongly brewed coffee or tea has much more caffeine than a weakly brewed
drink. Age .....
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The Circulatory System
.... the tricuspid valve, which
completely closes during contraction of the ventricle. In its passage
through the lungs, the blood is oxygenated, then it is brought back to the
heart by the four pulmonary veins, which enter the left auricle. When this
chamber contracts, blood is forced into the left ventricle and then by
ventricular contraction into the aorta. The bicuspid, or mitral valve
prevents the blood from flowing back into the auricle, and the semilunar
valves at the beginning of the aorta stop it from .....
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Steroids
.... in
massive hysteria. Also shrinking of the male reproductive organ. Later in
life the pecks will start to look more like breasts. In women they will be
basically taking the hormone they lack to be a man, so their voice deepens,
body hair develops. They start to look more like a man.
Some studies show that the only reason why athletes use steroids is
to help stay injury free, to heal, to make themselves look better and to
help in their sports.
The amount of testosterone that the body make .....
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Skin Cancer: “What Disease Am I”
.... also common to Caucasians.
It is found on the rim of the ear, the face, the lips and mouth. It is
rarely found on dark skinned people. It will develop into large masses
unlike basal cell carcinoma, it can spread to other parts of the body. It
is estimated that there are 2,300 deaths from squamous cell carcinoma every
year.
Another type of this cancer is malignant melanoma. Malignant
melanoma is the most harmful. It develops on about 32,000 Americans
annually. Every year are estimated 6,800 Americ .....
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Asbestos: Helpful Aspects Vs. Harmful Effects
.... “there are six types
of asbestos fibers: Chrysotile, Amosite, Crocidolite, Anthophylite,
Actinolite, and Tremolite” (8). OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health
Administration) has categorized asbestos work into four different classes
depending on the amount of exposure to asbestos during a specific
employment. The categories consist of classes I, II, III, and IV, with
Class I work having the greatest amount of exposure to asbestos and Class
IV work having the least amount of exposure to asbestos. How .....
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Clostridium Difficile And Psuedomembranous Colitis
.... bacterium.
Psuedomembranous Colitis
Psuedomembranous colitis primarily affects the elderly and debilitated.
It usually occurs from three to ten days after that start of antibiotic
therapy, however some cases were noted to start after antibiotic therapy
had been discontinued. The antibiotics that cause clostridium difficle to
release the toxins that cause psuedomembranous colitis are clindamycin,
ampicillian, cephalosporins, pennicillans, erythromycin, sulfamethoxazole,
chlorampheniocol, and tetracy .....
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The Physical And Psychological Effects Of Marijuana
.... other studies found no structural or neurochemical atrophy in the
brain at all. Furthermore, it should be noted that Heath's work was
sharply criticized for avoiding safeguards of bias and reporting "changes"
that occur normally in the mammalian brain. Wu et al. found a correlation
between cannabis use and low sperm counts in human males. This is
misleading because a decrease in sperm count has not been shown to have a
negative effect on fertility and because the sperm count returns to norm .....
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Alcoholism: Cunning, Baffling, Powerful, Patient And Deadly
.... for continued use of alcohol is centered on,
Common addiction distortions.
MENTAL FILTER:
Magnify the negative details and eliminate the positive. E.g. -
using alcohol is so incredible. It is the most pleasurable thing I know.
(filter out the negative effects)
POLARIZED THINKING:
Things are black and white, good or bad. You are perfect or a
complete failure. E.g. - My life would be void of pleasure with out alcohol.
OVERGENERALIZATION:
To come to a general conclusion based on a single incident .....
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