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Stress
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 273.... things that cause me to have . One factor for me is being on the foul line during a basket ball game. I get nervous and my hands start sweating and I can't concentrate, then sometimes I miss the foul shot. Another example is when I am playing baseball and there is a man on first and third and the count is 2 and 3 in the 7th inning. The game is tied and the pressure is on, which causes .
People who don't handle their situations sometimes turn to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. If isn't handled, it can really impact your health. It can cause heart trouble, headaches, u .....
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Seasonal Affective Disorder
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1047.... he exposed the patient to artificial sunlight. He
found that over a period of time the patient had recovered from the depression.
Today light therapy is the most commonly used method in treating SAD.
The two hormones that are affected by the sunlight, and are thought to be
the cause of SAD, are melatonin and serotonin. Both of these chemicals “are
influenced by photoperiodism, the earth’s daily dark-light cycle” (Wurtman 1989).
Melatonin is the chemical that effects mood and energy levels. In the human
body melatonin is at its highest at night and is lowest in the da .....
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Culture From Cranium
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1704.... context from which it came, was surprisingly
successful. The Oneida Community, in Oneida, New York was a unique
religious communist society in the mid-nineteenth century. The community
was based on the radical religious beliefs, and biblical interpretations of
John Humphrey Noyes.
Noyes grew up in a well to do household in Vermont. He Graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1830 with high honors. Up to that point he had
been cynically agnostic. But in 1831 he attended a revival with his mother
lead by Charles Finney, the leader of a large religious movement in the
northeast. D .....
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The Effects Of Altitude On Human Physiology
Number of pages: 14 | Number of words: 3674.... and then observe
the important changes that occur in the internal environment of the body in
response.
HIGH ALTITUDE
In discussing altitude change and its effect on the body mountaineers
generally define altitude according to the scale of high (8,000 - 12,000 feet),
very high (12,000 - 18,000 feet), and extremely high (18,000+ feet), (Hubble,
1995). A common misperception of the change in external environment with
increased altitude is that there is decreased oxygen. This is not correct as the
concentration of oxygen at sea level is about 21% and stays relatively un .....
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Abortion: Life Or Death Ä Who Chooses?
Number of pages: 17 | Number of words: 4436.... of a
bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no
Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge,
can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that
when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new
human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely
different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all
are, of the great human .....
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No One Can Prepare Themselves For A Sudden Death
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 602.... may not see death as “real." This is conformed by
cartoon characters who “die” and “come back to life” again. Children ages
five and under may be filled with questions about what death is, how it
happens, and why it happens. These questions are part of a young child's
grieving process.
The questions of whether a young child should be allowed to attend
the funeral and what he should or shouldn't see- has seen much debate.
Generally attending funeral is okay. However a child under seven should not
see the deceased. Instead of providing closure this will often traumatize .....
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How The Government May Have Created AIDS
Number of pages: 33 | Number of words: 8886.... in the early 1970's, Henry Kissinger wrote a
top secret document -- a National Security Memorandum ("NSM 200") -- in
which he indicated that "depopulation should be the highest priority of US
foreign policy towards the Third World." This Memorandum which can be
obtained from the US National Archives, which was only declassified very
quietly in 1990, was adopted by the National Security Council as official
US foreign policy towards the Third World. Now, this is a classic example
of the "secret government" in action, because of none of this was known to
the Congress, and cert .....
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Creatine Supplements And Athletes
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1171.... from theory to application, creatine supplementation does improve body composition and athletic performance.
Creatine is derived from the amino acids arginine, glycine and methionine. It can be produced in your liver, pancreas and kidneys or can be obtained from a diet rich in meat or fish (2.2 pounds of meat contains approximately 5 grams of creatine). Ingesting creatine increase the amounts of free creatine and phosphocreatine (PCr) in the muscle. The energy to rephosphoryate adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is largely determined by the PCr .....
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