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Aromatherapy
1071 Words - 4 Pages.... the ancient practice of using different kinds of natural plant essences to promote a person's health and well being as well. It consists of pure essential oils obtained from a wide assortment of plants. These have been distilled or cold-preserved from roots, bark, flowers, and fruit (what). History shows that has been a vital part of caring for the mind body and soul. Our ancestors have inhaled the sweet aroma, which was used to stimulate the mind. started when a chemist named Rene-Maurice Gattefosse became interested in healing the body by using all natural essential oils. He came across the technique of using distilled plants and fruits for a wonderful smell. His mind ....
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Treatments Of Huntington's Disease
292 Words - 2 Pages.... causes this disorder. Shortly after the Huntington's gene was identified, researchers found the protein it produces, a larger than normal molecule they called huntingtin that was unlike any protein previously identified. The question that they did not know was what either the healthy huntingtin protein or its aberrant form does in a cell. Recently, a team from Johns Hopkins University found a second protein called HAP-1, that attaches to the huntingtin molecule only in the brain. The characteristics of this second protein has an interesting feature- it binds much more tightly to defective huntingtin than to the healthy from, and it appears that this tightly bound comp ....
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Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
4437 Words - 17 Pages.... of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Those
of us who would seek to protect the human who is still to small to cry
aloud for it's own protection, have been accused of having a 19th Century
approach to life in the last third of the 20th Century. But who in reality
is using arguments of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of
biological science - Make no Mistake - that from the moment of conception,
a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their
knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of
science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human
be ....
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Abraham Maslow's Theory Of Human Needs
818 Words - 3 Pages.... basic needs are at the bottom, and the needs concerned with man's highest potential are at the top. The hierarchic theory is often represented as a pyramid, with the larger, lower levels representing the lower needs, and the upper point representing the need for self-actualization. Each level of the pyramid is dependent on the previous level. For example, a person does not feel the second need until the demands of the first have been satisfied.
1. Physiological Needs. These needs are biological and consists of the needs for oxygen, food, water, and a relatively constant body temperature. These needs are the strongest because if deprived, the person would die.
2. Safety Needs ....
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The Argument Against Female Circumcision
1145 Words - 5 Pages.... from The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in
the Arab World (1980), she explains her argument against female
circumcision and retells some interviews she had with women who underwent
the operation.
El Saadawi goes into detail telling about the procedure that the
girls underwent in her culture, usually around the age of seven or eight.
The local midwife called the daya, would show up to perform the operation.
In most cases two women members of the family would hold the girl by her
thighs to expose her genitals and to prevent struggling. Then the daya
would proceed to cut of the clitoris of the girl with a sharp razor. One
of the women El Saadawi interviewed explained "the daya sat ....
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Soda Pop And Its Problem
466 Words - 2 Pages.... and food debris can find its way into the pockets and create
infectious problems. When this occurs this it is called diverticulitis.
This doesn't occur very often though, but when it does surgery is
recommended.
Pop can also be a big concern for young women. If woman growing up
doesn't drink enough milk between the ages 9-25 then later in life she will
probably be in a wheelchair or have bone problems. Most people don't think
ahead that far in life to really care. But when your older you are going
to wish you would have drank more milk. People are drinking more pop than
of milk nowadays because of the taste and of the advertising of these
beverages. If ....
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Ebola
1207 Words - 5 Pages.... The first Strain is the Zaire. This strain was discovered in Zaire in 1976. The next strain is the Sudan. It was discovered in Sudan in 1976 and identified by Dr. Karl Johnson. This type of resurfaced again in sudan in 1979. Then Came Reston. This virus was brought by African monkeys that were imported to the United States in 1989. It was identified by Dr. Peter Jahling This type of is not believed to cause health poblems in humans. The most recent strain discovered is the Tai. It was identified by Dr. Bernard Le Guenno in 1995. It was discovered in the Ivory Coast of west Africa in the Tai Forest. A Swiss researcher was the first to contract thi ....
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Hemophilia
949 Words - 4 Pages.... the female x chromosomes carry the gene. Therefore this disease is more common in males. There are two types of , A and B. A is a hereditary disorder in which bleeding is due to deficiency of the factor VIII. In most of the cases, this protein is reduced, but in a rare amount of cases, this protein is present by immunoassay but defective. B, the other type of , is a result of the deficiency of the factor IX - also known as Christmas disease. This protein deficiency of causes the blood to not be able to form a firm clot, and there a person who gets bruised or cut, keeps on bleeding. Not more, but longer. There are also other blood clotting disorders such as von Wil ....
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