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Diet And Cancer... What Is The Link?
... of the study
were supported by later research done by NAS, the Surgeon General, Department of
Agriculture and Health and Human Services, and the National Institute of Health.
Based mainly on the study by NAS done in 1982, the American Institute
for Cancer Research (AICR) devised a guideline with four parts to help lower
people's risk of developing cancer. The guidelines have been updated since then
to reflect recent research on the link.
The AICR guidelines are:
1. Reduce the intake of total dietary fat to a level of no more than 30%
of total calories and, in particular, reduce the intake of saturated fat to ...
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The Influence Of Ecstasy On The Youth
... drug abuse.
Rave culture is highly attractive to the youth audience in general, regardless of class or ethnic background. Raves are non-elitist, and are primarily for the working class. This makes Raves quit different from all other postmodern sub-cultures. The legalization of a Rave has not prevented the illegal taking of the drugs. This means that there are a lot of young people indulging in Rave culture and recreational drug taking every weekend.
Rave has provided an environment where drugs like ecstasy are socially acceptable. Rave like other cult is self-stupefying and refuses to question the ...
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Profile Of The Simon Fraser Health Region
... December 1996 the Ministry of Health merged the Simon Fraser Health Region and the Burnaby Health Region which comprised The Burnaby Hospital (April 1996) forming a new Regional Health Region named the Simon Fraser Health Region.
The Health Region encompasses New Westminster (local health area 40), Burnaby (local health area 41), the Tri-Cities (local health area 43), including Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore and Belcarra, and Ridge Meadows (local health area 42) which includes Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. The SFHR serves a region of 350,000 hectares and services a population base of 460,000 in 199 ...
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Insanity
... in his or her spontaneous actions, not in their everyday behavior itself.
Take Andy Kaufmann for example. Throughout his career, comedian Andy Kaufmann was labeled as being insane, just because he would go to the extreme to get a reaction out of people. Wrestling women and totally manhandling them caused several people to hate or dislike him. He saw how angry people got with him and continued to wrestle women and completely embarrass them. After defeating numerous women, he declared himself the “inter-gender wrestling champion,” which created major controversy in the wrestling industry. People had a very hard ...
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Current Status Of Malaria Vaccinology
... necessary to look at all the aspects in order to assess the
possibility of a vaccine.
The disease has a long and complex life cycle which creates problems for
immunologists. The vector for Malaria is the Anophels Mosquito in which the life
cycle of Malaria both begins and ends. The parasitic protozoan enters the
bloodstream via the bite of an infected female mosquito. During her feeding she
transmits a small amount of anticoagulant and haploid sporozoites along with
saliva. The sporozoites head directly for the hepatic cells of the liver where
they multiply by asexual fission to produce merozoites. These mero ...
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Forensic Pathology
... detectives. The medical examiners office
usually sends a field examiner to the scene of a crime. At the scene many
preliminary examinations are used to aid in determination of cause of
death. Some of these include the following: pronounce victim(s) dead,
look for external injuries, stage of rigor mortis, take body temperature
to determine time of death, examine area around body, determine how and
when the body will be moved, and make preliminary sketches and notes.
There are numerous ways a person can die. A forensic
pathologist's main role is to figure out how a victim died. First they
look at the proxim ...
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Diabetes
... and have a family history of diabetes.
People with diabetes often experience symptoms. Some of the symptoms
are:
1)being very thirsty
2)having to go to the bathroom very frequently
3)weight loss
4)increased hunger
5)blurry vision
6)skin infections
7)wounds that don't heal
8)and/or extreme unexplained fatigue
In some cases, there are no symptoms, this happens at times with Type II
diabetes. In this case, people can live for months, even years without knowing
they have the disease. This form of diabetes comes on so gradually that symptoms
might not even be recognized.
Diabetes can occur in a ...
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Schizophrenia
... theories: the Genetic Theory, the Environmental Theory, the Biochemical Theory, and the Bio-Psycho-Social Theory.
The Genetic Theory argues that is caused by traits in a person's genetic makeup. A normal person has twenty-three pairs of chromosomes. Each pair contains one chromosome from each parent. In corresponding locations called loci of each chromosome, the genes for specific traits are located. Some researchers believe that mutations with these genes can cause . We inherit our genes from our parents, but this does not mean that the parents of a schizophrenic are mentally ill. Problems in a person ...
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Anxiety
... are pills and treatments for , but sufferers are too afraid to seek them out. Anxieties can be simple things like being nervous before a test, but can also be large things like being afraid to go out in public. One woman said “When I went grocery shopping I would worry that people were watching me. Sometimes I would have to leave the store or I’d choose times to shop when there were not as many people there.” Problems such as this are the serious effects can have on you. It becomes serious when you have to start changing your lifestyle to avoid your anxieties. can take the form of many situations. ...
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Vaccine
... outweigh those of going unvaccinated (1). Therefore, there are many
questions concerning the safety and effectiveness of vaccines as opposed to
those of going unvaccinated.
Vaccines can cause complications that are more harmful than those of going
unvaccinated or even the disease itself. Professor of epidemiology at the
university of Washington, Dr Russell Alexander, points out that the panel set
up to determine the risks of vaccination did not compare it to those of being
unvaccinated (qtd in Miller 9). This means that the research done by the panel,
which proved vaccination risks to be 'too small to co ...
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