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Reasons To Be Fit
<view this essay>.... important part of a
fitness program. You can do your favorite sport, along with some aerobic
exercise, which are very important, and there is a wide variety of them.
The best fitness program is one that have an exercise(s) and a diet that
you enjoy. The rewards and benefits of fitness can all be reaped, if you
work at it.
There are many benefits to fitness. The main one is health.
Research has shown that people who are in shape and fit are less prone to
disease such as coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, frailty, diabetes and
conditions like obesity than the people are not. Fit people also tend to
live a longer life. Doing aerobic and weight exercis .....
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Huntington's Disease
<view this essay>.... The average age of onset is between the ages of 30 and 50, but the disease can develop at any age and has been found in the elderly as well as the very young. The symptoms manifest themselves gradually, usually lasting for 15-20 years after first surfacing. Huntington's is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder, meaning that if a parent has the defective Huntington's gene, his/her offspring have a 50/50 chance of also developing the disease.
Until 20 or so years ago, very little was known and very little literature was available pertaining to , but recently all that has changed. In 1993 the gene that causes HD was discovered and from that great progress has .....
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Abortion: Life Or Death Ä Who Chooses?
<view this essay>.... individual human being?
The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful thinking
of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Those of us who
would seek to protect the human who is still to small to cry aloud for it's own
protection, have been accused of having a 19th Century approach to life in the
last third of the 20th Century. But who in reality is using arguments 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 w .....
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Teenage Years
<view this essay>.... easier. We are such easy prey for big
name companies who advertise using the pressure of popularity, looks and
sex to force us to buy their product that, as it turns out, we never wanted
or needed in the first place. Our lives are filled with stress. One of the
greatest sources of pressure is school. Where we are herded like cattle
from room to room, chewing on our cud, while the hay of knowledge is force
fed to us as we are trying our hardest to gulp it down as more and more is
shovelled in. Another great source of pressure is ourselves. We try our
hardest to be accepted among a certain group or circle. Whereas most of the
time we are rejected and we become .....
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Blood And Excerise
<view this essay>.... acid accumulated in the contracting muscle from
insufficient oxygen is then made available to inactive muscles (e.g., the arms)
from the central circulation of blood. The remaining lactic acid that is not
directly oxidized for fuels is sent to the liver, where it is stored as glycogen.
In the process of exercise, glycogen is released into the blood stream to form
glucose.
Lactate is Good
As coach and athlete you must learn how to teach the body to handle lactic acid.
It is imperative, if you want successes in today's highly competitive field of
athletics to train your muscles, body and mind to accomplish gains in
performance even in the presence of lactic .....
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Malpractice Or Poor Judgement?
<view this essay>.... of doctors across India was immune to charges of
malpractice, but the tide has begun to turn. Doctors are now having to dish out
larger sums of money in order to insure themselves adequately. Insurance
companies have caught on as well, raising the price of malpractice insurance on
most doctors. For instance, a doctor who would have had to pay Rs. 125 annually
now has to pay up to Rs. 1500. These costs will only be passed along to the
patients in the long run, and the condition is only going to worsen. Take for
example the United States, where surgeons annually pay an average of $75,000 on
insurance premiums. On top of these premiums, doctors who prac .....
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The History And Facts About Nicotine And Tobacco
<view this essay>.... introduced it to England in 1585. Raleigh also introduced the tradition of smoking it in a pipe. To comfort this tradition, many colonial inns hung clay pipes above their hearths for use of travelers. After smoking their tobacco they would break off a bit of the end and place it back above the hearth for the next person.
By 1620, planters started to grow their own supply of tobacco. They started growing up to 100,000 pounds of tobacco a year! At this rate, the figure of tobacco got to be as high as 100 million pounds by the time of the American Revolution.
In the 17th century, cultivating tobacco became the most important industry of the Virginia and M .....
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The Lymphatic System
<view this essay>.... a one way system in which lymph flows only towards the
heart. This entire transport sytem starts in the lymph capillaries. These are
very commmon, usually occur in the places blood capillaries occur. Lymph
capillaries are not found in bone, teeth, bone marrow, and entire central
nervous system. Lymphatic capillaries are very permeable. The endothelial cells
that make up the walls of the capillaries are not tightly joined. Filament
anchor the endothelium cells so they can expand. Pathogens can spread through
the body through the lymphatic stream.
There are many cells in the lymphoid tissue. One type is lymphocytes,
which are reffered to often as T or B .....
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