.... supplements are usually man made and do not require some of substances, still un-identified, in meat. A carnivorous diet has always been in American history. Turkey is eaten on Thanksgiving, not Tofu Surprise. Fish on Fridays, not salad. Pop and son would go hunting in the winter for fresh game to eat, they wouldn’t go picking berries and roots. Those who could not or would not eat meat did not survive. Studies have been done by M. J. Lentze, a German who found that vegetarianism causes impaired growth in children five years or younger. Vegan children even fail to grow as well with supplements that exceed the Recommended Daily Allowance. It is true that many ve ....

.... diseases. Unfortunately, this attempt at prevention could have an adverse affect on the human body’s ability to absorb iron. Recent studies have shown that eating a normal daily allowance of calcium cuts iron absorption by as much as 50-60%(Hallberg et al. p.118). Other studies examine the affect of iron bioavailability on menstruating, pre- menopausal, and post-menopausal women(Rossander-Hulten et al and Gleerup et al). One of the fears of an increased amount of calcium intake is the increased possibility of anemia in women who are already susceptible to this condition. The iron inhibition by calcium is a classical example of how the correction of one nutritional proble ....

.... In short, the more virulent strains have greater success in shortening the length of onset of AIDS after contracting HIV (1). The second type of virulence noted by Ewald (1) was in circumstances where contraction of the pathogen did not guarantee death to the host. Most pathogens we are familiar with today fall into the latter category. In this case, virulence of the pathogen can, and is, measured by mortality rates. Here, more virulent strains kill more hosts. If mortality rates are very low or not present at all, greater virulence can be expressed as causing more symptoms of illness. One such pathogen is Vibrio cholerae, which causes the disease known as cholera. ....

.... lost the ability to read and speak. Kussmal, a German physician called this "word-blindness." As more and more cases were reported it was found that there were two types of word-blindness. In one type, a person could not read or write, in the other the person was able to write but was still unable to read. When the brains of these patients were studied they reveled hemorrhages (Copper 1). Another early case of was reported in 1895. Dr. Pringle Morgan diagnosed Percy a fourteen year-old boy with congenital word blindness. Percy was described as bright, healthy and skilled at mathmatics. He, apparently, however had difficulty reading and writing. In 1897 several cas ....

.... other body function. They are not true , and do not increase the likelihood of developing back pain, arthritis, disc herniation, or any other musculoskeletal problem. Treatment of scoliotic curves of ten degrees or less is unnecessary; sometimes these curves may correct themselves (. 1997). However, curvatures that measure between ten and twenty degrees bear watching (Rosenthal, Mark S. MD : A sensible approach. 1997). These behave much the same as those under ten degrees, except that they may progress during growth. Therefore, if a patient has finished growing and has a curve less than twenty degrees, no further treatment or follow-up is needed. A child with a curve ....

.... means being in the final stages of a disease that is incurable (Hentoff, p.10). If a person has a despairing disease such as AIDS, that person may not want to live the rest of their short life with all the pain and frustration. Next, the terminally ill might injure their body even more by taking up the decision in their own hands. Offering help in assisted suicides to the fatally ill would prevent anything like this from happening. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals created a law that prohibited physicians from helping their patients die (Lemonick, p.82). Now, patients who are terminally ill and who wish to die might decide to kill themselves in a manner that ....

.... the immune system of the infected patient to become much less efficient until it stops working altogether. The first drug that was approved by the American Food and Drug administration for use in treating the AIDS virus is called AZT, which stands for azido-thymidine. AZT was released under the brand name of Retrovir and it's chemical name is Zidovudine, or ZDV. The structural name of AZT is 3'-azido-3'- deoxythymidine. AZT works by inhibiting the process of copying DNA in cells. More specifically, AZT, inhibits the reverse transcriptase enzyme, which is involved in the DNA replication process. When DNA is replicating in a cell, there is a specific enzyme that works al ....

.... the bio-chemical defect associated with CF, and possible treatments of the disease. Finding the Cystic Fibrosis Gene: The classical genetic approach to finding the gene that is responsible for causing a genetic disease has been to first characterize the bio-chemical defect within the gene, then to identify the mutated protein in the gene of interest, and finally to locate the actual gene. However, this classical approach proved to be impractical when searching for the CF gene. To find the gene responsible for CF, the principle of "reverse genetics" was applied. Scientists accomplished this by linking the disease to a specific chromosome. After this linkage, they isolated t ....