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Medicine and Nutrition Term Papers and Reports |
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How Moods Are Affected By The Sun
705 Words - 3 Pages.... why this happens. "It may be that certain individuals have inherited
vulnerability that causes them to develop depression in the absence of exposure
to sufficient environmental light"1. Frederick A. Cook, the arctic explorer,
provided a vivid description of the effects of prolonged darkness on the human
psyche: "The curtain of blackness which has overfallen the outer world has also
descended upon the inner world of our souls," Cook wrote in his journal on May
16, 1898, "Around our tables . . . . men are sitting about sad and dejected
lost in dreams of melancholy. For brief moments some try to break the spell by
jokes, told perhaps for the 50th time. Ot ....
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
937 Words - 4 Pages.... and they often have insomnia. Many live from day to day with distressing physical symptoms such as trembling, sweating, muscle tension, stomach pains, or headaches that tend to worsen when they face even mild stress (Harvard Health Letter, 1998)
In 1994, (GAD) became an identifiable mental disorder with a DSM-IV diagnosis. The diagnostic criteria for GAD are:
A. Unrealistic or excessive anxiety and worry about life
circumstances for a period greater than 6 months, during
which this person has been bothered by these concerns for
more days than not.
B. The person has difficulty controlling the anxiety and
worrying.
C. The anxiety and worry are associate ....
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AIDS: Risk Factors / Modes Of Transmission / W. Africa
1674 Words - 7 Pages.... or in the population” so rather than focusing on Western Africa alone, it is most feasible to acknowledge modes of transmission across the African continent as a whole (Bethel, 138). Also, “we can assert that AIDS cases do not occur on the African continent in a uniform fashion but rather form an “AIDS Belt” in central, southern, and eastern Africa” (Bethel, 138).
First, by mentioning the fact that the Third World contains three fourths of the Earth’s population, and combining that fact with that of those worlds having an overall lesser knowledge upon transmission, prevention, and AIDS in general, it is not surprising that these countries populations are gr ....
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Cystic Fibrosis
761 Words - 3 Pages.... parents are carriers than their child will have a 25% of having CF, a 50% chance of being a carrier and a 25% chance of not being affected. CF is common in both males and females, there is not a specific sex that it is more common in.
There are many symptoms to this deadly disease including: salty tasting skin, constant coughing, large amounts of mucus, trouble gaining weight, frequent greasy, foul smelling bowel, growths in the nose (nasal polyps) and clubbed or enlarged fingertips and toe tips is another symptom. Now there are many tests that can be done to find out if a person has CF.
Doctors can now do genetic testing for CF, but about 10 years ago they couldn't. In 1989 ....
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
922 Words - 4 Pages.... is a memory of a person lying there helpless, not able to
feed themselves, get out of bed, or talk to you.
One notable euthanasia case would be Sue Rodrigous. She had a disease
known as Lou Gehrig's disease or ALS, which is a rare incurable disease of
the nervous system. ALS gradually destroys the nerves that control the
muscles. The results of which are weakness, paralysis, and eventually
death. That is what Sue Rodrigous was suffering from for well over a year.
Knowing that her condition was only going to get worse, and eventually,
after the pain and suffering, would result in death, Sue wanted to die. She
wanted people to remember her as a lively healthy woman, not ju ....
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Theory Of Human Development
3344 Words - 13 Pages.... are produced by conscious choices and decisions, also known as free will, or "determined" by forces beyond one's control. I believe in the free will explanation, but not the type of free will commonly imagined. Humans do ultimately have the power to choose their actions, however the extreme influence of other factors, such as heredity, environment, and learned behaviors, may make it seem like a person's actions were predetermined. For example, if a starving people were put into positions where they could either eat a Subway turkey round placed in front of them or just sit there and stare and stare at it, common sense shows that these people would eat. However, it is possible ....
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Menopause
1366 Words - 5 Pages.... to aging.
is the cessation of menstruation cycles, it begins sometime in the middle forties, for most women it serves as a biological age marker in many societies for the start of advancing age. The direct cause of is a steady and continuing decline in the production of estrogen by aging ovaries. This decrease along with other hormonal changes has some side affects. One major consequence is vasomotor instability. Other wise known as hot flashes, these may occur when sort burst of capillary expansion that cause a warm flushed feeling around the neck or head these may last for less than a minute or more and can happened one or as many as dozen times a day. Some women after ....
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Euthanasia
812 Words - 3 Pages.... inherit. Every person makes the light of the world brighter. The world needs everyone’s power and contribution. It’s the power and energy of the elderly, and the strength and will of the ill that give the world life.
All of us no matter how good we take care of ourselves, exercise, or eat our vegetables, are going to die. We cannot escape this. As our population grows in this country the issue of will continue to be debated. "In 1995 two lawsuits were filed in New York and Washington State by a handful of terminally ill people and doctors claiming that the state laws that made assisting in suicide a criminal offense were unconstitutional.” What most people find tro ....
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