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Vegetarian Diet
Number of Words: 2410 / Number of Pages: 9
... non-meat diet among his followers as a diet that was the most natural and healthful (Messina 3).
A excludes the consumption of meat, and can be exercised by people for a number of reasons. The largest majority of individuals chose vegetarianism for health related reasons. For example, someone with an ulcer might be prescribed a strict diet of vegetables in order to promote the healing process. Or someone with a dangerously high level of cholesterol might be advised to follow a to lower his or her fat and cholesterol intake.
The immorality of consuming animal flesh is another argument touted by a sm ...
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Shellfish Poisoning
Number of Words: 874 / Number of Pages: 4
... DSP, NSP, and ASP. DSP is primarily observed as a generally mild gastrointestinal disorder, i.e., nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain accompanied by chills, headache, and fever. Both gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms characterize NSP, including tingling and numbness of lips, tongue, and throat, muscular aches, dizziness, reversal of the sensations of hot and cold, diarrhea, and vomiting. ASP is characterized by gastrointestinal disorders (vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain) and neurological problems (confusion, memory loss, disorientation, seizure, coma).
Jellyfish in spite of the ...
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Schizophrenia
Number of Words: 1712 / Number of Pages: 7
... with it unique catatonic, or motionless, state. These people spend lomg periods of time weeks, months, and occasionally years motionless or in other words "dead to the world" (Hamilton 120). When they do snaqp out of their catatomic state they are extremly hostile and aggressive. Last is paranoid which is characterized by the false beliefs or delusions the person has. For example the thought that the FBI planted a secret microchip in their brain and is controlling them. Alomg with these specific types of are some symptoms that pertain to all schizophrenics.
Firstoff, all people diagnosed with ha ...
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Eating Right And For The Right Reasons
Number of Words: 1272 / Number of Pages: 5
... and grew up there his whole life in a middle-class home, but received a private and exclusive education at Catholic school. He does work a little and he gets most of his money from his school loans or from his parents. Once a week he goes home to get his food and laundry for the week which is prepared by his parents. He is 5’11” and weighs 205 lbs.. Male B is Filipino and is 24 years old. He came from a lower-class family. He lives with two other guys from his fraternity. He works about 30 hours a week and goes to school part-time. He supports himself and is just an average guy. He is 5’11” a ...
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The Physical And Psychological Effects Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 1457 / Number of Pages: 6
... 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 normal
after cannabis use has stopped..
Another claim made was that cannabis causes chromosome breakage. The
primary source for this are studies that were conducted by Dr. Gabriel
Nahas in the early 1980s. Nahas obs ...
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Miscarriage
Number of Words: 1710 / Number of Pages: 7
... is a relatively common situation. The second word used is, spontaneous /abortion, and it indicates that the abortion occurred naturally and that it was not induced. Complete abortion means that all the products of conception-the fetus, placenta, and amniotic sac-have been expelled from the uterus, and that the uterus is empty and a scrape is not necessary. Very early s, before 7 weeks’ gestation, are usually complete. Incomplete abortion means that only some of the products of conception gave been expelled and that some remain in the uterus. This means that there is a risk of further bleeding an ...
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Teen Drug Use In The United States
Number of Words: 1314 / Number of Pages: 5
... and the brain by blocking the nervous tissue. Some common depressants include any type of sleeping medication, anti-depressants, marijuana, and inhalants. These drugs are known to relax you. They put you in a mild comfortable stage of euphoria. Stimulants may include anything from cocaine to any sort of amphetamines; and to a much lesser degree, caffeine as well as nicotine. These types of drugs stimulate nervous tissue in the brain and central nervous system unlike depressants, which do the exact opposite. Yet both types of drugs alter your physical and mental condition.
Cannabis for example ...
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Right To Die
Number of Words: 772 / Number of Pages: 3
... or agent”(Death and Dying,92). The most recent case is that of The State of Florida v. Charles Hall. “Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the State of Florida to let him die by a self-administered lethal injection without fear of prosecution”(http://www.rights.org/ deathnet/open.html). On January 31, 1997, a Judge ruled that Charles Hall could take his own life with the aid of a doctor. Senior Judge S. Joseph Davis, brought in from Seminole County, “found that Florida’s strict privacy law and the equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution entitled Hall, 35, and Dr. McIver to carry ...
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Plagues And Diseases
Number of Words: 2566 / Number of Pages: 10
... comebacks throughout the next 400 years, but never like it did
the first time. It also reached into Africa, China, Russia, and the
Scandinavian countries. It was truly a worldwide pandemic. But, it has a
secondary effect that not many people are aware of. The colonies of Greenland,
settled by the Vikings, were stricken by the plague and they soon disappeared.
It is known that these colonies kept in contact with "Vinland", which was near
New Foundland, in Canada. The Vikings had already discovered North America!
But, alas, with these colonies all dead, Greenland was forgotten, and not
discovered ...
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Alcohol Consumption By Adolescents
Number of Words: 1413 / Number of Pages: 6
... development. Alcohol
intake by children can result in learning impairment, hyperactivity, and
personality and behavior problems, because today's society has accepted the
casual use of alcohol (Effects, 1996, 1). Among men, research suggests that
greater alcohol use is related to greater sexual aggression (Shalala, 1995, 2).
Students living on campuses with higher proportions of binge drinkers experience
more incidents of assault and unwanted sexual advances because of their peers'
drinking than do students residing on campuses with lower proportions of binge
drinkers (Shalala, 1995, 2). Some campu ...
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