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Obesity
Number of Words: 1370 / Number of Pages: 5
... obese people the problem lies with genetic predisposition,
metabolic problems, binge eating or sometimes all. These factors make dieting
virtually impossible because these problems are not ones that can be solved by
simply cutting calories. Especially the problem of binge eating.
Compulsive "binge" eating in the obese is not caused by just wanting to eat.
The want to eat is caused by looking for a sense of security. A sense of
security wanted because there are poor or no coping skills for stress or
depression and low self-esteem. Therefore, when a compulsive overeater or binge
eater diet, th ...
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Smoking Banana Peels
Number of Words: 259 / Number of Pages: 1
... in Berkeley , California to the ' Berkeley Barb ' and explained how to
smoke a banana peel to get high. First you have to peel the banana peel and then
scrape the white material that is next to the peel out . You then must put this
white material in the oven at 200 Degrees C. until it is dry then roll it into a
cigarette. A bunch of other hippie papers copied the instructions and it became
a craze and even TIME and NEWSWEEK wrote about it.
Someone I know says he smoked banana peels once but he was "tripping" on
mushrooms at the time so he didn't know if it made him high or not. A friend o ...
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Lucid Dreams: The First Virtual Reality
Number of Words: 1130 / Number of Pages: 5
... for dreams and dreaming(1). If we
sleep long enough we will reach an advanced stage of sleep where our body begins
to experience rapid eye movement (REM). It is during this REM period that we
experience most of our dreams. Many scientists try to speculate the reasons for
dreaming through biological our psychological means. This proves to be very
frustrating for someone trying to find empirical meaning and truth about his or
her dreams.
There are countless books written about dreams with just as many
different interpretations and meanings for specific dream references. For
psychics, astrologists, or ...
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The Molecular Biology Of Cystic Fibrosis
Number of Words: 1515 / Number of Pages: 6
... high electrolyte concentrations in sweat, sterility due to vas deferens obliteration, and subclinical cirrhosis of the liver . However, as the severity of these symptoms varies in different patients, and because of the presence of normal lungs after birth, it is difficult to make an early accurate prognosis (Bunch 95). The presence of mucus in the lungs provides a site where bacteria or viruses are easily caught, but which are not removed from the lung by the action of the bronchial cilliary epithelium (Figure 1).
Figure 1 - In CF the mucous layer becomes so viscous that
the cilia can no long ...
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
Number of Words: 2062 / Number of Pages: 8
... of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan, Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor-assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period of the new law anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in prison and fined more than $2,000 (Reuters, 1993).
With the passing of this law I thought that most people would be against the right-to-die, not so. In a poll cited in a 1991 issue of USA Today eighty percent of Americans think sometimes there are circumstances when a patient should be allowed to die, compared to only fifteen perce ...
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Tourette Syndrome
Number of Words: 874 / Number of Pages: 4
... and there may not be a link to family
history involved. These cases are mild however, and not full blown. The onset
of Tourette Syndrome must be before the age of fifteen, and usually occurs after
the age of two. The mean age onset of motor tics is seven. The mean age onset
for vocal tics is nine. In order for a person to be classified as having
Tourette Syndrome they must have both multiple motor tics and vocal tics. These
tics however do not have to occur everyday. In fact, affected individuals may
rarely exhibit all of the symptoms, or all of the tics. The vocal and motor tics
must also occu ...
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Kidneys
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... medulla. The medulla is divided into 8 to 18 cone-shaped masses of tissue
named renal pyramids. The apex of each pyramid, the papilla, extends into the
renal pelvis, through which urine is released from the kidney tissue. The
cortex arches over the bases of the pyramids (cortical arches) and extends down
between each pyramid as the renal columns.
Urine passes through the body in a fairly complex way. The initial site
of urine production in the body is the glomerus. The arterial blood pressure
drives a filtrate of plasma containing salts, glucose, amino acids, and
nitrogenous wastes such as ure ...
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The Dangers Of Smoking Marijuana
Number of Words: 1055 / Number of Pages: 4
... Smoking
it can be done three ways, through a pipe, a joint, blunt. A joint is a
rolled piece of paper that is twisted at the ends. A blunt is normally an
emptied cigar wrapper filled with marijuana. In a blunt you can fit much
more marijuana. Though a blunt isn't always purely marijuana, it can be
mixed with other drugs such as angel dust.
The results are varied when someone smokes marijuana. Different
people will get different results, and certain types of cannabis can cause
different effects. The amount of THC (marijuana's main active chemical)
may also change the result. If ...
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Elephantiasis
Number of Words: 341 / Number of Pages: 2
... 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 intermediate host. These hosts are various genera of
mosquitoes, notably A?des, Anopheles, and Culex. Within 10 to 11 days
after ingestion by a human skin they migrate to the lymphayic vessels
where they mature and reproduce. There isn't really any ...
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The Real Side Of Tobacco, Drugs, And Alcohol
Number of Words: 1231 / Number of Pages: 5
... to breathe more heavily. Teenagers who smoke have been proven three
times more likely to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijuana,
and 22 times more likely to use cocaine.
Among the many drugs used by people, marijuana is the most commonly
used. People who use this drug become less motivated and less social.
Also, their emotions become less apparent. It can also cause problems with
having children. If enough of this drug is taken over a long period of
time, then it can cause psychotic episodes. The more the drug is used,
the more of a tolerance is built up, thus meaning the more mari ...
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