Papers on Health and Medicine
Dreams
Words: 864 - Pages: 4.... is remembering the dream. But there is a way to remembering . It is believed that are remembered more accurately immediately after awakening during the night rather than in the morning. Remembering takes time, effort, and patience.
Researchers discovered that people who tend to forget their show a greater amount of rapid eye movement, which is associated with greater amounts of activity in the dream. However, when these people did remember the content of their , it was rather bland and inactive.
With all of dream research, there still is no definite answer to the question: βWhat is a dream?β are phenominans which occur in .....
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Abortion ALlows Women To Retain Constitutional Rights
Words: 659 - Pages: 3.... prevent them from keeping them jobs, from feeding them families, and from serving others in a way they consider necessary and appropiate. Pregnancy and child birth may dtermine whether a woman ever gets to start or complete her education, which will significantly influence her ability to support herself and her family.
The availability of abortion makes it possible for people not only to choose the number of children they want, but also to create the kind of family life they have always wanted for themselves, to meet their responsibilities. If a woman can not choose to terminate an unwamted pregnancy, she is denied the right to the "pos .....
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Bulimia
Words: 795 - Pages: 3.... or corn.
They are not easily digested. That is followed by mass quantities of junk
food. Common foods that are used for bingeing are foods that can be
obtained easily without much notice such as McDonalds or Kentucky Fried
Chicken. These foods can be obtained by driving up to a window to order
them. No one pays much attention to a person in a car who is ordering
large quantities of food. After eating the person vomits or uses laxatives
to get rid of the food. When they see the apple peel or corn leave the
body they know that the food they have eaten has been totally eliminated
because the apple or corn is easily recognized and does not .....
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Adrenoleukodystrpohy
Words: 337 - Pages: 2.... is transmitted by the female.
~ It occurs in 1 out of 100,000 males.
~ May skip a generation.
~ Female offspring may become carriers of the disease.
Symptoms & Effects
~Difficulties with speech in a noisy room or over the telephone
~Visual disturbances i.e. Field cuts, strabismus, & visual
activity
~ Focal or generalized seizures
~Hyperactivity
~Tends to progress rapidly with increased spasticity and paralysis,
visual and hearing loss, loss of ability to speak or swallow.
~Inability to move themselves anywhere at all from one place to
another.
Diet Goals
~to decrease the exogenous source of VLCFA- food sources of
fats, .....
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Nutrition In Schools
Words: 2003 - Pages: 8.... them, such as an abundance of fried foods. Students that spoke at a USDA and Senate hearing complained of school lunches regularly consisting of, "greasy cheeseburgers and tater tots or french fries. Another student held up a napkin soaked with grease from a piece of pizza served at his school! Other students complained about canned vegetables being drenched in butter(Norvell, 1995).
Many of the school meals sacrifice taste and appearance. When this happens it leads to the children to neglect their main course and go to class hungry. In a study conducted for The American School Food Service Association and sponsored by Sabetass .....
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The Heart
Words: 1535 - Pages: 6.... aorta is the biggest artery in the
whole body. Which will be covered in the report. The pulmonary vein takes the
blood out of the heart and takes it to the lungs.
Today we will talk about many different parts of the heart: The Three
Layers of Muscle, Atriums, Ventricles, Systole and Diastole, Treatments for the
Heart, Valves, and many Diseases.
The Three Layers of Muscle
The heart has three layers of a muscular wall. A thin layer of tissue,
the pericardium covers the outside, and another layer, the endocardium, lines
the inside. The myocardium is the middle layer and is the biggest of all.
Myocardial Infarction is a d .....
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Comparing Treatment Approaches
Words: 1189 - Pages: 5.... off the drug. By destroying all effects, both main effects and side effects, of the drug, patients taking it would receive no "high", no positive reinforcement, and would gradually be able to become successful in a treatment program. The problem with this point of view is that cocaine has not been shown to be very physically addicting, as there are no major symptoms of withdrawal that the patient is trying to combat by self-administering more of the drug. By making the drug ineffective in the blood stream, addicts would not receive what is thought to be positive reinforcement through cocaine's effects on the dopaminergic systems in t .....
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Words: 1533 - Pages: 6.... different thought, emotional, or
behavioral forms; (d) persistent symptoms of increased arousal, Particularly
when exposedto stimuli concretely or symbolically reminiscent of the trauma; (e)
symptoms lasting at least one month. (Famolaro, Maternal and Child
Posttraumatic... 28)".
Children are now becoming realized as significant sufferers of
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is particularly
bad for children under the age of 11, because they lack many of the skills
needed to protect themselves. Furthermore, this vulnerability is enhanced when
the child is exposed to any maltreatment. According to recent s .....
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Opposing Euthanasia
Words: 2069 - Pages: 8.... of painlessly putting to death persons who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps. It comes from the Greek words for "good" and "death", and is commonly called mercy killing. Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask their physician, friend or relative, to put them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play God on the operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of euthanasia is having a .....
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Psychological Stress
Words: 1785 - Pages: 7.... will cause frustration. Frustration occurs from something blocking our attainment of certain goals or needs (Corey 207). All of the little things that frustrate us include waiting in lines or traffic, sense of failure or inadequacies, bad relationships, deaths, and loneliness. Self-defeating thoughts are a way in which we almost deliberately block attainment of our needs. If in our heads, we have this preconceived notion that we are incapable of obtaining something that we want or that others could not possibly love us, we create a self-fulfilling prophecy. I used the word "deliberately" in describing self-doubt because we have t .....
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