Papers on Health and Medicine
Things That Affect And Influence Our Health And Our Lives
Words: 2425 - Pages: 9.... unit, I ate anything that was good to my taste. After extensive learning on the effects of certain foods on my body, and the manner in which to help improve my body through what I eat, I began being more aware of what I ate and learned on what effected me. I began changing my diet to a low-carbohydrate, and high-protein diet, thus enabling my body to stop burning the energy from the high-carbohydrate foods I eat to the fat cells in my body. Also, instead of snacking on ice cream or candy, I ate much more vegetables and healthier fruits such as bananas, apples, and oranges. As I began changing my dietary habits, I began seeing a ch .....
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Suicide
Words: 937 - Pages: 4.... age group, due to an increase in mental illness in young people, increased drug use, and availability of firearms.
Gender also plays an important role. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, four times as many men, as women, complete . Women are about two to three times as likely to try to kill themselves, as men. It is believed that more men succeed in committing because they are more deliberate in their intentions, they tend to use more lethal methods to kill themselves, and are less likely to talk to anyone about their plan.
There are several factors, which place individuals at a higher risk for . Psychologic auto .....
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Evaluating Methods Of Contraception
Words: 1676 - Pages: 7.... contraceptives to suit the different stages in their lives. A method that is useful for preventing pregnancies temporarily is not necessarily adequate for the woman who wants to stop child bearing completely. And a contraceptive that works well for someone who has sexual intercourse only occasionally may not be sufficiently effective for those who have sex often.
Various methods of contraception are available in the United States today, including condoms for men and women, spermicidal foams, gels, vaginal films including the diaphragm and cervical caps, the Pill, IUD’s and even awareness methods that rely on periodic abstinence. There .....
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Solutions To The Abortion Issue
Words: 600 - Pages: 3.... second term as Governor of Texas George W. Bush made the statement “ Part of our responsibility era understand the value of life. I would hope that our next leader would lead America to respect all levels of life, including the life of the unborn”(Thomas). This is a statement that the majority of the population would agree with. The thing now is that we need to get on into office that is able to pass laws making it more difficult for one to have an abortion done. In the past George W. Bush has passed laws in Texas making it to where a minor has to have the permission of a parent to have this procedure done. This was a step to making abor .....
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Cholera
Words: 597 - Pages: 3.... Cholera is widespread
should not drink the local water. They should cook all foods that may have
been exposed to water. Peru, already afflicted by economic ills and
feastering guerilla insurgency, is now plagued by an epidemic of Cholera.
As of February 25, 1991, the disease had claimed 90 lives and infected at
least 14,000 people. It is the first major outbreak of Cholera in the
western hemisphere since early in this century. In Peru, local authorities
have moved quickly to stem the epidemic, which is spread by poor hygiene
and contaminated water, raw food, and fish. To avoid spreading, health
officials in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile, h .....
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Angina Pectoris
Words: 4452 - Pages: 17.... knowledge at quite a fast
pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are
being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease remains the number
one killer in the world.
The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse, homicides,
AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that coronary heart
disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths. In fact, the
number of deaths from heart disease approximately equals to the number of deaths
from cancer, accidents, chronic lung disease, pneumonia and influenza, and
others, COMBINED.
One of the symptoms o .....
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The History Of Birth Control
Words: 956 - Pages: 4.... We have better technology today (tons
better).
Now you might be asking about the different types of birth control.
The forms of birth control that have been used over the years and currently
include pesssaries, plants, condoms, and birth control pills. While there
have been others it is best that we not discuss them here(trust me you
don't want to know).
Pessaries are vaginal suppositories. Used from ancient times to the
present, they can be a fairly effective form of birth control. In ancient
times, pessaries often contained acacia gum, which, while having some
possible spermacidal effect, very likely sealed up the cervix, making it .....
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Performance Enhancing Drugs
Words: 661 - Pages: 3.... with no drugs in her system, she was rumored to have taken small doses of anabolic steroids during her illustrious track and field career. Another reason is many health risks, many not resulting in death though. These include stoppage of growth, loss of bodily functions, dehydration, and many more. Plus, these drugs are illegal in sports. Many are available only through a doctor’s prescription for certain diseases.
The sport that sees the highest rate of competitors using is bodybuilding. Many of these athletes were skinny and not very popular during their high school years. They use the steroids to bulk up and create a shield again .....
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Our World In Medicine
Words: 1226 - Pages: 5.... Because
they have to apply themselves to their job at all times, they are payed at very
good wages.
Human beings have been suffering from disease since they first appeared
on the earth about two and one -half million years ago. Throughout most of this
time, they knew little about how the human body works or what causes disease.
But medicine has gone through many stages throughout history.
In prehistoric times, people believed that angry gods or evil spirits
caused disease. To cure the sick, the gods had to be pacified or the evil
spirits driven from the body. In time, this task became the job of the first
"physicians".3 The first - .....
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The Negative Portrayal Of LSD
Words: 1899 - Pages: 7.... world news and national information. Television situation comedies created ideal families and contenting distractions from unsettling national realities. Mainstream media, both fact and fiction, influenced the nation’s minds resulting in the effect of political change and further media influence over the government. The new decade, along with the effects of the Vietnam War and the strong influence of television, began to leak from the cracks of the nation a new counterculture of rebellious teenagers, unfamiliar narcotics, and a wave of promiscuity. Among the many issues and events molding our nation into a new decade, came the question .....
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