Anabolic Steroids
.... million per year. One
million Americans, half of them adolescents, use black market steroids (Schrof,
54).
Anabolic steroids are synthetic compounds that resemble the natural male
sex hormone testosterone. Male hormones have two different effects in the body.
Hormones have an anabolic effect, which stimulates growth, and they have an
androgenic effect, which increases male sexual characteristics. Anabolic
steroids are constructed synthetically to maximize the anabolic (growth) effect
and minimize the a .....
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Tourette Syndrome
.... transmission however, has not been
established. Some researchers believe that the mar is on an autosomal dominant
trait. Some cases however are sporadic, and there may not be a link to family
history involved. These cases are mild however, and not full blown. The onset
of Tourette Syndrome must be before the age of fifteen, and usually occurs after
the age of two. The mean age onset of motor tics is seven. The mean age onset
for vocal tics is nine. In order for a person to be classified as having
Tou .....
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Blood And Excerise
.... 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 acid. Coaches and athletes should
design training programs with this being a primary focus. This is done by two
basic components of training. Long Slow Distance (LSD) training beyond the
normal racing distance, will develop tissue enzyme .....
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Concepts Of Lifetime Fitness
.... The production of Adenosine Triphosphate or ATP in the
mitochondria of the muscles produces heat. If the body temperature does not
rise immediately after this, then a second function begins. The brain will
signal the blood vessels near the skin to constrict or narrow in diameter. This
occurs so the heat deep in the muscles is conserved. Since the vessels are now
smaller in diameter, less blood is needed to fill them. Since less blood is
needed through the vessels, the heart begins to slow. If the .....
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Two Brains?
.... line, in being efficent. The right brain
controls the left side of the body and leans more to the creative, the intuitive.
It is concerned more with the visual and emotional side of life.
Most people, if they thought about it, would identify more with their
left brain. In fact, many of us think we are our left brains. All of that non-
stop verbalization that goes on in our heads is the dominant left brain talking
to itself. Our culture- particularly our school system with its emphasis o .....
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Human Variations In High Altitude Populations
.... than that
thrive in this type of environment.
In this paper I will describe the high altitude stresses. Along with
adaptations made by the populations living in them. The two high altitude
populations which I will examine in this paper are the Tibetan people of the
Asian Himalayas and the Quechua of the South American Andes.
The Quechua are an Indian people who inhabit the highlands of Peru and
Bolivia. They speak Quechua, which is a branch of the Andean-Equitorial stock.
They show many remnan .....
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Ebola Virus
.... (CDC), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ebola Zaire if great at what it does, to well. It kills so quickly that
the index case, the first person to start an outbreak is usually dead before the
proper authorities can show up and try to back track where it came from, defying
a decent strategy to keep people away from its natural reservoir. However, it
destroys the body so quickly that it doesn't have a chance to spread very far,
at least in humans. This virus is a true paradox.
Ebola Zaire is a nasty little .....
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Viruses: Complex Molecules Or Simple Life Forms?
.... are each examples of a different virus structure. Each
individual protein subunit composing the capsid is a capsomere.
The tobacco mosiac virus has a helical capsoid and is rod shaped. The
adenovirus is polyhedral and has a protein spike at each vertex. The influenza
virus is made of a flexible, helecal capsid. It has an outer membranous
enevelope that is covered with glycoprotein spikes. The T-even bacteriophage
consists of a polyhedral head and a tail. The tail is used to inject DN .....
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Introduction To Human Services
.... out
of the prison you're in?', but then I remember that I used to be in the same
place, and it took years to find my way out. I still struggle with my addiction,
and it still affects me, just not so profoundly."
"What I would like to do is work with teenagers. As a teenager, I was
befriended by a Young Life leader. He was a man in his 40's and didn't want
anything from me but to be my friend. When I drank beer at lunch, he didn't
tell me to not drink. I don't remember his words so much as the feeling .....
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What Is Angina? And What Is The Cure?
.... syndromes
caused by blockage to the flow of blood in those arteries supplying the heart
muscle itself, i.e., the coronary arteries.
Like any other organ, the heart requires a steady flow of oxygen and nutrients
to provide energy for rmovement, and to maintain the delicate balance of
chemicals which allow for the careful electrical rhythm control of the heart
beat. Unlike some other organs, the heart can survive only a matter of minutes
without these nutrients, and the rest of the body can survive on .....
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Your Brain
.... the bottom line, in being efficent. The right brain
controls the left side of the body and leans more to the creative, the intuitive.
It is concerned more with the visual and emotional side of life.
Most people, if they thought about it, would identify more with their
left brain. In fact, many of us think we are our left brains. All of that non-
stop verbalization that goes on in our heads is the dominant left brain talking
to itself. Our culture- particularly our school system with its empha .....
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Braces: A Pain In The Ass
.... to brush their teeth before their
visit, they will regrettably become immortal as the doctor announces the left-
over remains of Taco Bell in-between molars.Braces become a constant source of
embarrassment.
Braces are three years of physical torture beginning with the very first
office visit. The application of the brackets itself is long, tedious, and
uncomfortable. First, cold, polydent flavored clay is thrust into the crevices
of the mouth, forcing imprints. Jagged metal squares are glued to .....
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Biosafety Protocol: Is There A Need For One?
.... risks of transgenic organisms to the environment
is still being determined.
A. Some experts warn that there is a danger that biotechnology
can create mutant hybrids.
B. Biotechnology has the potential to harm the economies of some
developing nations.
C. The last and possible the most important argument for an
international biosafety protocol is in the name of ignorance
and caution .....
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Anxiety And Depression In Afro-Americans
.... and it can be found in two forms. The
life of Afro-Americans is filled with both eustress and distress, but it is the
high rate of distress due to socio-economic circumstances that are responsible
for higher rates of depression and anxiety amongst them.
Depression is an emotional state characterized by extreme sadness,
gloomy ruminations, feelings of worthlessness, loss of hope, and often
apprehension, while anxiety is a generalized feeling of fear and apprehension.
The number of reported cases combinin .....
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Illness
.... hand. you know your paper is
due, and that you must get it to school somehow, but yet you do not want to do
it and only want to curse the teacher that gave it to you.
Of course people will say that I could have written a good three page
essay in the time that it took me to scribble this down, but I believe this is
untrue. As this paper took no concentration and just my thoughts coming down on
paper. If a real essay would to come to me now that is what would be on the
paper. But as you see it is not a .....
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