The Effects Of Creatine
.... the rest of us, no matter how hard we try. For decades people have turned to nutritional supplements to give them an edge in athletics. However, this was most limited to vitamins, minerals, and the ever popular “weight gainer”, which consisted mostly of sugar and protein. Similarly, people who wanted to loose weight looked to magical pills composed of tropical plants, strange chemicals, or chromium picolinate. Though there may be benefits in taking some of these supplements, none gave the user the res .....
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Sleepwalking
.... grow out of, while with older people, stress and substance abuse play a larger role.
Sleepwalking is most common among children from the ages of 4 to 12. Estimates for the percentage of the population which will sleepwalk at least once in their lifetime range quite a bit. Some sources say that most children will walk in their sleep at least once, with 15% of them sleepwalking more regularly. Others claim that 18% of the population is "prone to sleepwalking". There is consensus, however, on the fact th .....
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Pursuing A Career In Psychiatry
.... of civilization, people have attempted to understand the causes of human emotional behavior. Most primitive societies believed that mental illnesses were caused by a demon who took possession of the victim’s body. The early civilizations would treat the mental illnesses by trying to make the body so uncomfortable that the demon would want to leave. But, by the late eighteenth century, most people were convinced that mental disturbances were not caused by supernatural powers. Scientists, however, we .....
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Being An Athletic Trainer
.... also has to prescribe and support equipment to allow athletes to continue playing.
Personal and physical characteristics are important to any career. Some jobs are more demanding than others physically. While others suggest a challenge more mentally than physically.
Physically
For an athletic trainer, physically you must be able to communicate well with athletes on proper use of equipment and confer with coaches and physicians. You also have to kneel, stoop, and crouch to examine and treat injurie .....
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AIDS And Its History
.... is not a new virus, he says. It is perhaps "as old as America". It is carried by a small, fairly constant proportion of the population and is harmless.
It is present in many AIDS patients because most of them have risk factors in their lives such as drug abuse, sexual behavior or other shocks to the system that expose them to many microbes.
AIDS is therefore not infectious, Duesberg argues. He thinks the epidemic is the result of an explosion in the use of "recreational" drugs such as cocaine, which ba .....
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The Problem Of Teens And Smoking
.... 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 Maryland colonies. Sometime later it became the major industry in North Carolina.
“The first of the tobacco manufacturers to mass-produce cigarettes was Washington, Duke and Sons of Durham, North Carolina (Theodore, 77).”
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Steroids And The Big Picture
.... protein diet, these drugs can increase muscle bulk, which may improve performance in certain sports. It is estimated that 99% of all professional bodybuilders are using steroids. Teenagers know that steroids will help them build muscle but they don’t know about the side effects and the long-term effects. Teenagers have a hard time looking ahead to the near future, never mind much later in their lives. But society continues to tell the youths of today that society wants muscular physiques. Pick up any teen .....
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Caregivers
.... 25 million family caregivers in the United States according to the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA). NFCA conducted a survey of membership which provided valuable insight as to who caregivers are and the significant contributions they make.
81% of caregivers are female
79% are married
70% are between age 40-60
54% care for spouses
21% care for parents
69% of care recipients live with their caregivers
55% of caregivers help recipient with daily living activities.
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Narcolepsy
.... in severity at a gradual rate over a period of years.
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS) and Cataplexy are the two primary symptoms of narcolepsy. Other symptoms include Disrupted Nighttime Sleep, Sleep Paralysis, Hypnagogic Hallucinations, and Automatic Behavior . However, only 20 to 25 percent of narcolepsy patients suffer the complete range of symptoms.
EDS is usually the first symptom to be noted. It is sometimes expressed as sleepiness, tiredness, lack of energy, sleep attacks, or an unusual .....
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Should Athletes Use Creatine?
.... refuel faster. (Zeibak, 1) Creatine is normally obtained by the foods that we eat. The highest sources of naturally occurring Creatine are meat and fish. After a meal, Creatine is absorbed from the blood into skeletal muscle through the activity of muscle surface transporter molecules. (Dr. Omar, 3) Creatine Monohydrate involves a workout with. You can’t just take it and expect to see results.
One of the myths that have appeared around Creatine is that it is only beneficial for weightlifters. (Zeib .....
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Ban Smoking In Restaurants And The Workplace
.... 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! Second hand smoke is serious a serious matte .....
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Things That Affect And Influence Our Health And Our Lives
.... my body, and the manner in which to help improve my body through what I eat, I began being more aware of what I ate and learned on what effected me. I began changing my diet to a low-carbohydrate, and high-protein diet, thus enabling my body to stop burning the energy from the high-carbohydrate foods I eat to the fat cells in my body. Also, instead of snacking on ice cream or candy, I ate much more vegetables and healthier fruits such as bananas, apples, and oranges. As I began changing my dietary habit .....
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Biologic Nutrition And Nutrients
.... a role in preventing disease and maintaining health. Vitamins do not contain calories and do not supply energy. In other words, they do not contribute to weight gain. They are, however, most important as constituents of enzymes, those organic catalysts which enable biological processes to take place.
It is totally impossible to imagine life without vitamins and enzymes. Through enzymes, vitamins stimulate metabolic processes, converting food to energy and accelerating biological functions. They a .....
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The Ebola Virus: One Deadly Disease
.... a patient in a hospital thought he had malaria. Ebola was also discovered in the United States in 1989. A shipment of African Green and Rhesus monkeys arrived in Virginia from the Philippines. The one hundred and forty-nine workers that had worked with the monkeys were not effected by the virus at all, although two have developed antibodies from the Ebola Reston. Many other countries have been affected with this deadly disease and are spreading rapidly.
Like many things, the Ebola Virus is a member .....
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Eating Right And For The Right Reasons
.... Male A is 23 years old and he is the white male. He lives with two other guys about the same age as he is. He is from Stockton and grew up there his whole life in a middle-class home, but received a private and exclusive education at Catholic school. He does work a little and he gets most of his money from his school loans or from his parents. Once a week he goes home to get his food and laundry for the week which is prepared by his parents. He is 5’11” and weighs 205 lbs.. Male B is Filipino an .....
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