.... know about modern medical science - or perhaps because of it. After all, many treatments we take for granted today were once considered miracles. How can we tell the difference? Not all advertisements for health products are false, of course. In fact, the vast majority aren't .So just what is quackery? Simply put, quackery is the promotion of a medical remedy that doesn't work or hasn't been proven to work. In modern times, quackery is known as health fraud. But call it quackery or call it health fraud, the result is the same - unfulfilled wishes, wasted dollars, endangered health. Often quack products are fairly easy to spot, like the magic pills you are supposed to take ....

.... is better than taking the wrong action. People believe that to be the cause of someone’s death is wrong. No one wants to be blamed for someone’s death, so people believe passive euthanasia is acceptable because the doctor is not actually killing the patient. People believe that a doctor should not play God and make decisions concerning someone else’s life. What happens if a cure is found for the disease? The sick person died for no good reason. What if the patient gets better? If they are killed then they have no chance to get better. According to the American Medical Associates doctrine that was adopted, killing someone is wrong but letting someone die is ....

.... to anorexia, bulimia, or binge . Anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by a distorted body image accompanied by an intense fear of appearing overweight. People with anorexia have a preoccupation with food and weight which often masks an underlying psychological problem. They lack self-esteem and feel that they can gain admiration by losing weight and becoming thin. The patients will deny being hungary or claim to be full after eating only a few bites of a meal. Dangerous signs of a person with anorexia are hair loss on the head, fainting spells, heart tremors, shortness of breath, constipation, compulsive exercising, intense fear of weight gain, cold hands and ....

.... than 90 % of sufferers. This more common form has been recently discovered to affect those who possess a certain allele of the APOE, apolipoprotein E, gene located on Chromosome 19. APOE, which encodes a protein that helps transport cholesterol in the body and also is involved in nerve cell repair, comes in three alleles, e2, e3, and e4. Those with one or two e4 alleles are deemed at higher risk of Alzheimer's disease, although those who possess APOE-e4 are not guaranteed to develop the disease. APOE-e4 may simply be unable to efficiently repair nerve cells. The presence of e4 does not signify if person will develop Alzheimer's; instead, it signifies when he or she will ....

.... by physical changes (for example, sleep and appetite disturbances) as well as emotional and behavioral changes (Cited in Matsumoto, 1995, p 232). Rosenhan & Seligman (1995) state that, " there are two kinds of depressive disorders; Unipolar depression in which the individual suffers only depressive symptoms without ever experiencing mania, and bipolar depression in which both depression and mania occur" (Cited in Rosenhan & Seligman, 1995, p 352). Furthermore, Rosenhan & Seligman (1995) go on to say that, normal depression differs in the degree of symptoms to unipolar depression. Both have similar symptoms but, unipolar differs in the severity, frequency and duration ....

.... it arrived via the ports, carried on merchant and Naval ships. However, were the infected fleas carried by the rats in the grain or bales of cloth and cotton, or on the backs of the crew, passengers or returning soldiers? Furthermore, how did the disease spread from the ports to the town and country? Via wild rodents in the countryside, by the rats and fleas in transported freight, or by the fleas on their human hosts?Although the evidence is mixed and debatable, it is suggested they all played a role. There is evidence to support that plague was caught from baggage and bales of clothes and cloth, as in Eyam in Derbyshire in 1665. There is also existing evidence that human t ....

.... types of dietary fibre are the product of sunlight, water and carbon dioxide combining in green plants. Most form part of plant cell walls. But unlike the other carbohydrates, fibres do not break down into sugars in the human digestive system and then course through the blood stream fueling muscles and nerves. Rather, when eaten they tumble intact through the stomach and small intestine and end up in the colon where billions of bacterial feed on them - in turn producing intestinal gas. No wonder, then, that dietary fibre has been unwelcome in many of history's nicer neighborhoods. Even 20th century doctors reasoned that since the bulky material provided not a single nut ....

.... to the people who need it. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Federal agency responsible for conducting and supporting research related to mental disorders, mental health, and the brain, is conducting a nationwide education program on anxiety disorder, a group of illnesses. The program's purpose is to educate the public and health care professionals about the disorder and encourage people with it to obtain effective treatments. To continue , in a panic disorder, brief episodes of intense fear are accompanied by multiple physical symptoms (such as heart palpitations and dizziness) that occur repeatedly and unexpectedly in the absence of any external thre ....