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Medicine and Nutrition Term Papers and Reports |
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Prozac: Harmful Or Helpful?
1762 Words - 7 Pages.... are many possible causes for depression, ranging from stress, physical and emotional changes, crises, and chemical imbalance in the brain. There are also several ways to treat depression such as therapy, a change in diet, and a regular exercise program. The current trend is for doctors to immediately prescribe Prozac before exploring the other treatment options. However, Prozac “was associated with more hospitalizations, deaths, or other serious adverse reactions reported to the FDA than any other drug in America” (qtd. in Freundlich 2).
Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company created Prozac in 1974, but it wasn’t approved by the FDA until 1987. The first of the SSR ....
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Psychological Bond Between Infants And Parents
2438 Words - 9 Pages.... Signaling. The infant is around the age of zero to three months. There is no attachment to a particular person. They have specific needs that they want met. Mary Ainsworth (1989) said these behaviors are general and are not being directed toward any one person.
Phase 2 is called Focused on One or More Figure(s). The infant is now three to six months. The baby is now starting to focus his/her attachment on the primary caregiver. The infant is starting to smile at the caregiver more than he/she would a stranger. This is not a full-blown attachment. The baby does not feel a sense of security.
Phase 3 is called the Secure Base Behavior. Bowlby thought that at the age o ....
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Anorexia Nervosa
486 Words - 2 Pages.... if they were thin, and want everything in their lives to be perfect, sometimes obtaining an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Many anorexic people are usually good students, and involved in many things, to keep them busy and moving. However, the pressure comes out when a grade drops, or when an emotion triggers. Many anorectics seem to be part of a very close, constricted families, having a special relationship with one of the parents. Anorectics are often highly conforming people an anxious to please, even obsession in their habits.
There are also many problems caused by . Girls with stop having their menstrual periods, which is also called amenorrhea People with anore ....
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The Ebola Virus
452 Words - 2 Pages.... take up to
8 to 10 years to kill you, this virus can take as little as to 8 to 10 hours to
result fatally. It starts off with a fever and symptoms of the flu. Then the
muscles in your face stop moving freezing your face into a mask. Just before
death, you start to bleed from every opening in your body starting from your
nose and mouth to your gums. Your internal organs liquefy and you vomit them up.
In reality, the virus has attempted to turn its host into a virus. You are dead
before you have even started to show signs of this virus. It is believed that it
is some sort of mutated form of AIDS because it started in the original spot as
AIDS did, Kinshasa and moved along the ....
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"Braces Suck!"
462 Words - 2 Pages.... dentist's office is also a source of
embarrassment. Most offices are filled with other patients and operating rooms
are easily accessible making it easy for others to watch the pain and
embarrassment the patient has to goes through. If one should forget to brush
their teeth before their visit, they will regrettably become immortal as the
doctor announces the left-over remains of a Turkey and Cheese sandwich stuck
between the molars. Braces become a constant source of embarrassment.
Braces are three to four years of physical torture beginning with the
very first office visit. The applying of the brackets itself is long, tiresome,
and uncomfortable. First, cold, flavor ....
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Diabetes
646 Words - 3 Pages.... of deaths a year, 400,000 to be exact. Those who suffer from run risk of having. 1)Heart Disease 2)blindness 3)kidney failure 4)lower extremity amputainos not related to injury.
and its complications happen to all Americans of any age, and of any race, and ethnic groups. This disease hits the elderly the hardest, because they don't really have anyone to take care of them. And somethimes they get forgetful and don't take medication or their insulin shots. Heres a question "What is ?"
The word diabetes describes either a deficiency of insulin or a decreased ablitby of the body to use insulin. Insulin is secreted by the pancreas. Insulin allows sugar to enter body cel ....
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AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
2425 Words - 9 Pages.... and is dotted with footnotes.
AIDS FACTS
"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced
back to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also
called 'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of
antibodies in the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number
of functional T4-cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot
be produced and the defenceless patient remains exposed to a range of
infections that under other circumstances would have been harmless. Most
AIDS patients die from opportunistic infections rat ....
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Don’t Let The Bed Bugs Bite
1858 Words - 7 Pages.... getting enough sleep is that their before bed rituals are keeping them awake. “Do not use your bed for anything but sleep; that is, do not read, watch television, eat, or worry in bed” (Hauri 21). Your aim is to strengthen the association between bed and sleep, so that bed automatically elicits sleep. In order to accomplish this, all other associations to bed must be eliminated. “Never remain in bed, awake, for more than thirty minutes” (Riley 88). If you stay in bed awake, you are subtracting many valuable minutes of deep, restful sleep. If you do get out of bed do something boring to make you tired. Do not eat or drink because your pleasures will strengthen ....
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