.... and opportunity to life. Stress can pump you up, give you energy, or supply that zest for living. Stress is an unavoidable part of life. The challenges caused by stress help to develop new skills and behavior patterns. The problems occur; however, when stress becomes excessive. It can become destructive and can turn into distress. Too much stress on your mind and body can make you feel miserable, worried, sad and ill. Contrary to popular belief, stress is not the pressure from the outside, such as divorce, death, burned supper, vacation that didn’t seem like one, and isolation. Those are simply the stressors, causes to the stress, .....

.... this contracts the ventricle drives the blood to the lungs. Blood is prevented from returning into the auricle by the tricuspid valve, which completely closes during contraction of the ventricle. In its passage through the lungs, the blood is oxygenated, then it is brought back to the heart by the four pulmonary veins, which enter the left auricle. When this chamber contracts, blood is forced into the left ventricle and then by ventricular contraction into the aorta. The bicuspid, or mitral valve prevents the blood from flowing back into the auricle, and the semilunar valves at the beginning of the aorta stop it from flowing bac .....

.... Muscular Dystrophy(DMD) is defined as "a genetic disease characterized by defective muscle cells that can not produce a protein called dystrophins (Science News 380). In patients of hemophilia, there is a deficiency of a protein needed for blood clotting, causing this hereditary bleeding disorder. In red/green color blindness, the broadest form of color blindness that affects six percent of the population, the cones in the retina that receive green light do not function properly. Unlike sex linked diseases, sex influenced diseases are not reserved solely for the male. However, the diseases occur in males much more frequently than in fe .....

.... an issue with just two sides. There are many shades of gray involved, so to speak. Euthanasia, after all, ranges from simply allowing an individual to die naturally without life support or “pulling the plug� (passive euthanasia), all the way to Jack Kevorkian’s suicide machine (active euthanasia). To complicate things further, there is also voluntary euthanasia, “Cases in which patient requests to be killed, and dies as a result of action taken by another person,� involuntary euthanasia; “cases in which no action is requested because the patient is unconscious, senile, or otherwise incapable of making a request, but the perso .....

.... recorded cases of the Ebola strand. Ebola Zaire, Sudan, Reston and Tai. Though all have been known to cause serious internal damage to all types of organs, whether it is human or animal, Ebola Reston does not seem pose a threat to humans in any way. “Ebola viruses are spread though direct contact with a person who is very ill with the disease. Usually wide-spread action of the virus takes place among hospital care workers or family members who were aiding an infected person.� Ebola can spread by the reuse of hypodermic needles, which occurs frequently in under-developed countries like Zaire and Sudan, but it is not likely to be infec .....

.... suicide or euthanasia. "Physician-assisted suicide occurs when the physician provides the patient with the means and/or knowledge to commit suicide"(Death and Dying,91). "Euthanasia is when the physician administers the death causing drug or agent"(Death and Dying,92). The most recent case is that of The State of Florida v. Charles Hall. "Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the State of Florida to let him die by a self-administered lethal injection without fear of prosecution"(http://www.rights.org/ deathnet/open.html). On January 31, 1997, a Judge ruled that Charles Hall could take his own life with the aid of a doct .....

.... model (McFarland 457). Each different model, for alcoholism have varied explanations as to how and why people use and abuse alcohol. The biologic-genetic model states that there is a specific genetic vulnerability for alcoholism. There has been extensive studies on factors in the genes that could determine or influence the use of alcohol from generation to generation. However, these studies have shown no hard evidence for an association between alcoholism and inherited factors. The learning and social model proposes that alcoholism is a process that is slowly developed within a social situation or atmosphere. This model of alcoholism .....

.... these. I’m talking about the silent killer, the murderer that travels undetected, the killer that is always there, waiting for you, hidden like a thief in the night. Who could this dangerous executioner be? SECOND HAND SMOKE! You’re probably thinking to yourself “second hand smoke? What a bunch of bs!� But it’s not. Second-hand smoking is serious. The Environmental Protection Agency found classified second hand smoke to be a Class A Carcinogen, meaning that is proven to cause cancer in humans. Second hand smoke kills more than 3,800 people each year in the United States alone. It KILLS thousands of people each year! Seco .....

.... body. Huntington's disease is an inherited mutation that produces extra copies of a gene sequence (IT15) on the short arm of chromosome 4. A genetic base that exists in triplicate, CAG for short, is effected by Huntington's disease. In normal people, the gene has eleven to thirty-four of these, but, in a victim of Huntington's disease the gene exists from anywhere between thirty-five to one-hundred or more. The gene for the disease is dominant, giving children of victims of Huntington's disease a 50% chance of obtaining the disease. Several other symptoms of the disease exist other than chorea. High levels of lactic acid have been detecte .....

.... radio ads and movies. It is estimated that by the time a teen turns 18 he/she has seen an estimated 100,000 beer commercials. With teens making up a large number of TV viewers and radio listeners, they are exposed to these advertisements on a daily basis. Some ads put out by beer companies seem to be directed at a younger crowd. Take for instance the Budweiser frogs and iguanas. They have a playfully image that can be received by children and teens. It is known that drinking alcohol has very negative effects on the human body. Molecules in the alcohol act as neurotransmitters and turn cells off in the Reticular Activating .....