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Asthma
Number of words: 701 - Number of pages: 3.... gravity changes. Also our lungs do not clear secretions as well at night, which leads to mucous retention, and that can increase the obstruction to air flow. Furthermore, at night our bodies produce smaller amounts of certain chemical that help to decrease airway spasms and keep airway tubes open. All of these factors add up to a greater chance of symptoms worsening at night.
An asthma attack begins when the smooth muscles in the walls of the bronchial tubes start to tighten and narrow when they are exposed to a trigger when this bronchospasm occurs, air can’t flow into or out of the lung .....
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Tobacco
Number of words: 1165 - Number of pages: 5.... studies suggest that maternal smoking during pregnancy produces changes on the offspring's neural functioning, including reductions in uptake of serotonin, alterations in dopaminergic systems, alterations in peripheral and central noradrenergic neurons, and changes in DNA and RNA synthesis in the brain (9). Children prenatally exposed to nicotine consistently score lower in the two subcategories of expressive language and conceptual comprehension.
Evidence from studies of human neonates suggests that maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with increased rates of neurobehaviora .....
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Euthanasia
Number of words: 825 - Number of pages: 3.... over turn the law. Also Kevin Andrews was strongly not in favour and with
Howard's support he introduced a bill overriding the N.T laws. But still in
the end the law was still standing. If our leaders are divided we could say that
the citizens of Australia would have been divided on this Issue. Maybe a
referendum would have been appropriate, but still euthanasia would still occur
illegal and secrecy.
Christian groups and Christian have strongly supported their view on euthanasia ,
they have seen it as a sin. For a Christian his life is not just his because his
life is part of god' .....
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To The Victims Of ADHD
Number of words: 342 - Number of pages: 2.... "feedback" is supposed to teach the child to increase certain kinds of brain-wave activity and decrease other types. Training usually involves 40-80 sessions, each lasting 40 minutes or more. This "treatment" costs $3,000 to $6,000. The studies which suggest impressive results for EEG Biofeedback are seriously flawed. Sample sizes were small and appropriate control groups were not used to determine if any results are due to maturation or an "expectancy" effect.
Did you know that a large number of studies have examined the link between sugar and hyperactive behavior. A few of these studie .....
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Diet And Cancer... What Is The Link?
Number of words: 504 - Number of pages: 2.... then
to reflect recent research on the link.
The AICR guidelines are:
1. Reduce the intake of total dietary fat to a level of no more than 30%
of total calories and, in particular, reduce the intake of saturated fat to less
than 10% of total calories.
2. Increase the consumption of fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
3. Consume salt-cured, salt-pickled and smoked foods only in moderation.
4. Drink alcoholic beverages only in moderation, if at all.*
Most cancers start when the body is exposed to a carcinogen, a cancer-
causing substance that is found everywhere in our environment f .....
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AIDS: A Life Or Death Issue
Number of words: 782 - Number of pages: 3.... it originated. AID's originated somewhere in Africa
about 25-30 years ago and was thought to have been brought here in the
'70's. It first appeared in heterosexuals of both the sexes. It was
probably spread so quickly through female prostitutes. AID's has already
become a crisis of staggering proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it
is estimated that 20% of their people carry the virus. That is 2 out of
every 10 people you see walking down the street. And that figure is
increasing. And if no cure is found that same thing will happen here in
the United States.
AID's was first se .....
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Diet And Disease
Number of words: 2489 - Number of pages: 10.... health requires that the total intake of all fats, especially animal fats is reduced. Fatty deposits in the arteries and gallstones are to a large extent made up of cholesterol (19). When foods high in fat content are eaten, excessive amounts of cholesterol are made in the body. Individuals who have fat concentrated in the waist and abdomen instead of thighs and buttocks are prone to diseases that accompany obesity (Pruitt 121). Some of these diseases are: (in females) cancer of gallbladder, breast, uterus, and ovaries, (in males) cancer of colon, prostate, rectum. 'Saturated' fat is .....
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The Ear And Hearing Loss
Number of words: 1113 - Number of pages: 5.... are only to receive and
amplify sound. Those parts ofd the ear are only present in amphibians and
mammals, but the inner ear is present in all vertebrates.
The ear can hear in several different ways. They are volume, pitch, and
tone. Pitch is related to the frequency of the sound wave. The volume depends
on the amplitude or intensity of the sound wave. The greater the frequency, the
higher the pitch. Humans can hear about 30 and 20,000 waves or cycles per
second. High pitch sounds produce more of a trebly sound, while low pitch
sounds produce a rumbling bass sound.
When a perso .....
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Surrogate Mothers
Number of words: 758 - Number of pages: 3.... were in another
predicament? It is surely easy to say what one would do in any situation, but
one can never know exactly what they would do until that situation comes.
How many of you have ever held a small child in your arms and looked into its
small eyes and felt the love that you had for it. Perhaps it was a younger
sibling, perhaps even a child of your own. You know how much that you love that
little one. And of course, you all know how much the child's mother loves it.
What must it be like, I ask you, to be a mother or a father and know that you
will never have a son or a dau .....
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The Plague In 1347
Number of words: 532 - Number of pages: 2.... symptoms of this plague began from bloody noses as a fatal prognostic. Then certain tumors in the groin or under the armpits would form, some as big as a small apple, others as an egg. Afterwards purple spots in most parts of the body; in some cases large and but few in number, in others smaller and more numerous both sorts the usual messengers of death. The cure of this plague, neither medical knowledge nor the power of drugs was of any effect; whether because the disease was in its own nature mortal or that the physicians could form no just idea of the cause.
While this was occurring, p .....
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