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Getting Daily Exercise
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 444.... If we get an excessive amount of exercise, then again, the same result.
What I have been told over the years, was to get at least twenty minutes of exercise, three times a week. This article states that you should get at least thirty minutes of moderately intense exercise everyday of the week. I feel this is quite a bit for some people and should not be stated as the “minimum” amount you should receive. I agree with having an exercise routine throughout your life, beginning when you are young (although it is never too late to start). I do not agree, however, with .....
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Abortion Should Not Be Legalized
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 790.... that 250,000 women die every year because of legal and illegal
abortions: 75,000 of them die of self-inflicted abortions; 75,000 die of
convulsions; and the other 100,000 die of blood poisoning caused by an infection
of the uterus. Therefore, if abortion is legalized there will be not only more
fetal murders but also more mothers will die.
None of the methods women use to abort are completly safe. One of the most
common methods used is Suction Aspiration. The doctor uses a special tool to
suck the baby into a collection bottle. Great care must be taken to prevent the
ut .....
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Teenage Stress
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 746.... 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, but your response to those situations constitutes the actual stress.
Teenagers face a sp .....
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Eating Disorders: Anorexia
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1570.... recognize the problem and encourage the
person to seek treatment.
Anorexia nervosa is a disorder where people intentionally starve themselves. It
usually starts around the time of puberty and involves extreme weight loss.
Sometimes they must be hospitalized to prevent starvation because food and
weight become obsessions. For some, the compulsiveness shows up in strange
eating rituals, some even collect recipes and prepare gourmet feasts for family
and friends. Loss of monthly menstrual periods is typical in women with this
disorder and men with this disorder usually become im .....
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Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 881.... the final days of life. The dying individual regains dignity and respect in this difficult right to die issue.
There are several terms related to euthanasia that must be understood. In this country the most widely used right to die policy comes in the form of refusing medical treatment. This term is known as passive euthanasia. This is the allowing of the disconnection of life support equipment or stopping of life-sustaining medical procedures. There have been numerous notable legal battles in the execution of this policy. Such as in 1975, a young woman named Karen Ann .....
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Nursing Homes And The Lutheran Home For The Aging
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2930.... that she held for twelve
years explained to me how she was "Grandfathered" into her social worker
position and did not have to take a test for a license until it was required
after years of responsible and professional work in the Home for the Aging.
The Lutheran Home for the Aging was founded in 1906 by John C. Koch,
with the motivation and desire to promote residential care for his fellow aging
Lutheran constituents. Along with the supportive interests of other Lutherans,
he purchased approximately eight acres of land. A large house on the property
served as the Home' .....
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The Flu
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1887.... the flu and the flu shot. Using our
Internet research and the data we gathered from our questionnaire, we
learned some of the myths people generally believe about the flu and the
flu shot. During the course of our research we learned ways to educate the
public to eliminate those beliefs.
We have gathered seven resources with information pertaining to the
flu and the flu shot. Two articles came from journals of medicine called
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the American
Journal of Nursing (AJN). The last five sources we found on the Intern .....
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Iron Absorption From The Whole Diet: Comparison Of The Effect Of Two Different Distributions Of Daily Calcium Intake
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1435.... iron bioavailability on menstruating, pre-
menopausal, and post-menopausal women(Rossander-Hulten et al and Gleerup et al).
One of the fears of an increased amount of calcium intake is the increased
possibility of anemia in women who are already susceptible to this condition.
The iron inhibition by calcium is a classical example of how the correction of
one nutritional problem can be the cause of another.
The physiological mechanism of this calcium-iron relationship remains a
mystery, however there are two feasible theories. One states that calcium
competes for an iron bind .....
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