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Alcohol
Number of Words: 1925 / Number of Pages: 7
... Concentration (BAC) level that I am about to show you. Along with
drinking their are different levels to it:
0.02-0.03 BAC: No loss of coorination,slight euphoria and loss of shyness.
Depressant effects are not apparent. 0.04-0.06 BAC: Feeling of well-being,
relaxation, lower inhibitions, sensation of warmth. Some minor impairment of
reasoning and memory, lowering of caution. 0.07-0.09 BAC: Slight impairment of
balance, speech, vision, reaction time, and hearing. Judgement and self-control
are reduced, and caution, reason and memory are impaired. 0.10-1.125 BAC:
Signficant impairment of m ...
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Male Circumcision: A Social And Medical Misconception
Number of Words: 1561 / Number of Pages: 6
... community is examining the need for a
surgical procedure that is historically based on religious and cultural doctrine
and not of medical necessity. Possible complications of circumcision include
hemorrhage, infection, surgical trauma, and pain. (Gelbaum, 1992) Unless
absolute medical indications exist, why should male infants be exposed to these
risks? In essence, our society has perpetuated an unnecessary surgical procedure
that permanently alters a normal, healthy body part.
This paper examines the literature surrounding the debate over circumcision,
delineates the flaws that exist in the r ...
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Synthetic Drugs Of Abuse
Number of Words: 758 / Number of Pages: 3
... made the user restless,
euphoric and alert. Amylnitrite produced strong rushes of euphoria. The average
man could not seem to control his/hers use of the drugs, and as a consequence,
all of theese products where put under federal control. They cannot be obtained
legally without a prescription from a doctor. People with an insight in
chemistry and a lack of morale, startet to produce these compunds for their own
financial gains.
The really clever chemists avoided doing anything illegal by creating
pharmacologically-active compunds, which where derived from known illegal drugs.
Not only where they able ...
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Concepts Of Lifetime Fitness
Number of Words: 658 / Number of Pages: 3
... If the body temperature does not
rise immediately after this, then a second function begins. The brain will
signal the blood vessels near the skin to constrict or narrow in diameter. This
occurs so the heat deep in the muscles is conserved. Since the vessels are now
smaller in diameter, less blood is needed to fill them. Since less blood is
needed through the vessels, the heart begins to slow. If the body remains in
this slowed state, hypothermia could result. Hypothermia is the condition in
which metabolic processes are inhibited. The medical world has taken advantage
of this by inducing hypothe ...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors
Number of Words: 1955 / Number of Pages: 8
... rituals of OCD are intense, the victim's work and
home life disintigrate. Obsessions are persistant, senseless, worrisome, and
often times, embarrassing, or frightening thoughts that repeat over and over in
the mind in an endless loop. The automatic nature of these recurant thoughts
makes them difficult for the person to ignore or restrain successfully.
The essence of a Compulsive Personality Disorder is normally found in a
restricted person, who is a perfectionist to a degree that demands that others
to submit to hisher way of doing things. A compulsive personality is also often
indecisive and ...
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
Number of Words: 922 / Number of Pages: 4
... That is what Sue Rodrigous was suffering from for well over a year.
Knowing that her condition was only going to get worse, and eventually,
after the pain and suffering, would result in death, Sue wanted to die. She
wanted people to remember her as a lively healthy woman, not just a body
lying helpless in a hospital bed. With that thought in mind, Sue went to
court to fight for right to die by euthanasia. The courts did not agree
with her though.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, proposed the creation of a new medical specialist, the
"obitiarist," who would assist terminally ill patients to take their own
live ...
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Blood And Excerise
Number of Words: 1269 / Number of Pages: 5
... want successes in today's highly competitive field of
athletics to train your muscles, body and mind to accomplish gains in
performance even in the presence of lactic acid. Coaches and athletes should
design training programs with this being a primary focus. This is done by two
basic components of training. Long Slow Distance (LSD) training beyond the
normal racing distance, will develop tissue enzyme adaptations that will rely
upon the use of free fatty acids for energy production, which will result in
less lactic acid being produced. LSD training will also increase the rate of
lactic acid remova ...
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Sickle Cell Disease
Number of Words: 1403 / Number of Pages: 6
... cells or reducing red blood cell production. Two of the most common forms of are sickle cell anemia (SS disease) and sickle "C" disease. Sickle beta thalassemia is a less common form of . The effects of vary greatly from one person to the next. Some affected people rarely see their doctors for sickle cell-related complaints; others may be hospitalized frequently.
Infants and young children with sickle cell disease are especially vulnerable to severe bacterial infections, such as those that cause meningitis and pneumonia. Infections are the leading cause of death in children with sickle cell disease; ...
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The Female Body
Number of Words: 1660 / Number of Pages: 7
... quite acidic. This acidity helps keep the vagina healthy & free of infection, but it is also hostile to sperm. Although vaginal fluid of adult woman is acidic, it tends to be alkaline in adolescents, predisposing sexually active teenagers to sexually transmitted diseases.
In virgins, the mucosa near the distal vaginal orifice forms an incomplete partition called the hymen. The hymen is very vascular & tends to bleed when it is ruptured during the first coitus (sexual intercourse). However, its durability varies. In some females, it is ruptured during a sports activity, tampon insertion, or ...
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Abortion And Euthanasia: A Significant Difference
Number of Words: 1078 / Number of Pages: 4
... and at the same time remain conservative in regards to abortion.
It is possible that the dilemmas of birth control and birth selection can extend to the problems of death selection and death control whether by the individual or society. However, the theories of ‘birth’ and ‘death’ are by far two very separate concepts. It is true that birth must occur for death to happen, yet the rationalizing behind each are very different. The physical and mental factors and circumstances involved with abortion are quite separate from the factors behind active euthanasia; thus one cannot in anyway be expected t ...
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