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Creatine
848 Words - 4 Pages.... of work so that is when creatine steps in it gives up its phosphate
to ADP while more ATP is being made. Since it takes you less time to
recover you can work at a higher intensity for longer. This will make your
muscle growth speed up.
Who does creatine effect? Well it benefits those people who are
serious about training body builders, track and field (mostly throwers),
sprint swimmers, anyone who works out for long periods of time at high
intensity. So it won't benefit you if your idea of a work out is getting
some food from the kitchen for the movie you are about to watch.
As of right now creatine is legal in every level of competition
from high schoo ....
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A Look At Abortion
951 Words - 4 Pages.... had such unrestricted abortion before the
S.C. decreed it to be national policy in 1973. But the consequence of this
judicial decision are now abvious; since 1973 more than 15 million children
have been aborted for various reason, none of them have seen their first
glimse of light, that is 10 times the number of americans killed in all our
nation's wars. Make no mistake though, abortion on demand is not a right
granted by the constitution. Instead Roe vs. Wade had been a continuing
reminder to the conscience of this nation. The nation reflects today that
we can't diminish the value of human life(the unborn child) without
diminishing the value of all human life including ....
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Down Syndrome
822 Words - 3 Pages.... blot dosage analysis, therefore mapping out the chromosomal makeup of Down's patients. Their research revealed abnormalities on the twenty first pair of chromosomes. With the new research findings, Down's syndrome was traced to it's source, an error in cell development and the mutation of autosomal cells which results in three major types of Down's syndrome.
Trisomy 21, involves the presence of extra genetic material on the twenty first pair resulting from an anomaly in cell division during the development of egg or sperm during fertilization. About 95% of Down's syndrome births are Type Trisomy 21.
Roughly 4% are caused by Translocation, "where the extra chromosom ....
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Anabolic Steroids
922 Words - 4 Pages.... in 1953, having a
strength building effect five times stronger than the natural hormone
testosterone. Not since the development of the anabolic steroid has any
performance enhancer been so effective and so desired by athletes. Today, black
market sales of anabolic steroids are topping $400 million per year. One
million Americans, half of them adolescents, use black market steroids (Schrof,
54).
Anabolic steroids are synthetic compounds that resemble the natural male
sex hormone testosterone. Male hormones have two different effects in the body.
Hormones have an anabolic effect, which stimulates growth, and they have an
androgenic effect, which increases male sexual c ....
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The Quest To Understand The Origins Of Humans
1286 Words - 5 Pages.... general beliefs and fears of the century and people living
in it. People use to endue their gods with the qualities that are natural
for themselves and which they hate most of all. Religion was used from the
beginning of the earliest civilizations as a tool to conquer, kill and
destroy and it was usually used as a justification of those actions. People
were not responsible for the killings, instead gods were. When people can
not handle problems, which arise every day in front of them, they try to
hide under the mask called god, but by doing that they do not solve them,
they only ignore and try to escape their everyday problems, which makes
everything worse. The desperate att ....
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Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
1341 Words - 5 Pages.... in which the parent intentionally induces or feigns illness in his/her child, commonly inducing seizures, apnea (sudden failure to breathe), infections, and many other defects by means of poisoning, smothering, and making the child ingest foreign substances (Feldman 148). The term “syndrome” was named after Karl Friedrich Freihess Von Munchausen, an 18th century figure known for telling extremely tall tales of his adventures. In 1977 an English pediatrician by the name of Meadow first described “,” when he discovered that the mothers of his epileptic patients were inducing their children’s seizures. Due to the extremity of the abuse, nine percent of Muncha ....
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Clostridium Difficile And Psuedomembranous Colitis
698 Words - 3 Pages.... to its sporical
capabilities. Transmission could occur from contaminated linens, bedpans,
commodes, showers, patient to patient contact, or any place where fecal
matter could be contacted. The lack of proper aseptic techniques is the
leader for the spread of this bacterium.
Psuedomembranous Colitis
Psuedomembranous colitis primarily affects the elderly and debilitated.
It usually occurs from three to ten days after that start of antibiotic
therapy, however some cases were noted to start after antibiotic therapy
had been discontinued. The antibiotics that cause clostridium difficle to
release the toxins that cause psuedomembranous colitis are clindamycin,
ampicill ....
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Culture From Cranium
1704 Words - 7 Pages.... can a culture result almost fully from one
person's intellect.
There have been many cases of such things happening throughout
history. Some have met with success, and some not. For the purposes of this
essay I have chosen to examine one case, which, considering it's sharp
deviation from the cultural context from which it came, was surprisingly
successful. The Oneida Community, in Oneida, New York was a unique
religious communist society in the mid-nineteenth century. The community
was based on the radical religious beliefs, and biblical interpretations of
John Humphrey Noyes.
Noyes grew up in a well to do household in Vermont. He Graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1830 w ....
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