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- 381: Cocaine and Its Dangers
- ... is toxic, although few people realize it, overdoses deaths from injected, oral, and even snorted cocaine have occurred." "Repeat inhalation often result in nostril and nasal membrane irritation and injection with nostrils equipment can transmit AIDs and other infections." "It can also cause a spectrum of side effect form heart failure, to non-life-threatening damage." "Using cocaine can lead to series of seizures, and damage to the brain, it may ...
- 382: Diabetes
- ... also called "insulin-dependent" diabetes. In this type, the body is unable to store and use glucose as an energy source effectively. The pancreas secretes a hormone called insulin that helps lower blood sugar and aids in the passage of glucose out of the blood cells into body cells. In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas does not produce enough insulin. This type may occur in both sexes and mainly in children ...
- 383: Smoking on Campus
- ... been known to cause cancer, emphysema, and other horrible illnesses. The deaths of over 420,000 Americans this year will be attributable to cigarettes. With all the other causes of preventable deaths, alcohol, illegal drugs, AIDS, suicide, transportation accidents, fires, and guns, cigarettes still account for more preventable deaths than all of those combined(Bristow 333-336). If I were a smoker and knew those facts I would think twice before ...
- 384: What Causes Infectious Diseases to Strike?
- ... disease remain unanswered today. This mysterious virus ha sdisturbing symptoms and almost no incubation period. Ebola liquefies every organ of the body and causes bleeding from every opening. The virus is twice as deadly as AIDS and works one-thousand times as fast, killing victims in three to ten days. Ebola is spread from mostly by means of close contact with an infected person and can also be tranfered through sexual ...
- 385: Which is the Best Contraceptive: Condoms or the Pill?
- ... covers the entire penis, there is no actual contact, nor exchanges of bodily fluids. "Except for abstinence, latex condoms are the most effective method for reducing the risk of infection from the virus that causes AIDS, other HIV-related illnesses, and other STDs" (A Guide to Contraceptive Choices). Birth control pills, on the other hand, provide absolutely no protection from STDs what so ever. Its objective is strictly birth control. It ...
- 386: Effects of Drugs on the Body
- ... though it endangers their lives. Addicts fail to eat well and to maintain personal cleanliness. As a result, many addicts suffer from malnutrition. Addicts who inject drugs may get such diseases as hepatitis, tetanus, or AIDS from an unsterile needle. The effects of marijuana use has been controversial for years. Many say it is less dangerous than tobacco while others say it has more dangerous effects. The primary reason people use ...
- 387: Xenotransplantation
- ... slaughtered for transplants since they are currently being killed for human consumption. Xenotransplantation could affect the overall quality of human life, if perfected. People would suffer less from hemophilia, diabetes, Alzeimers, Parkinsons diseases, and aids. People would no longer have to wait for transplants from other humans, for the animal supply would be abundant. It would affect me personally much in the same way. If any family member, friend, or ...
- 388: Man-made CFCs are Jeopardizing our Future
- ... skin cancer deaths and its incidences have sharply increased around the world within the last few years (Caldara 22). Melanoma has already reached epidemic proportions, with an increase of 96% since 1980 ("Losing" 1). The AIDS virus has demonstrated all too well the inability of damaged immune systems to cope with the ravages of opportunistic disease. Increased exposure to UV rays is expected to lower the body's resistance to invading ...
- 389: Rheumatoid arthritis
- ... and decrease pain (5). Reflexology has also been a treatment used for arthritis. Specific points on the foot correspond to different organs in our body. Stimulation of these points helps the organs function properly and aids the body in balancing itself. For arthritis, reflexology should be done to the entire foot with emphasis on the spine, parathyroid, solar plexus, diaphragm, kidneys, adrenals and the reflex area for the afflicted areas. The ...
- 390: Schizophrenia
- ... of it. Another intriguing fact about viruses as a possible cause of schizophrenia is the fact that they may remain latent for many years at a time, like the HIV virus before it turns into AIDS. That would be a possible explanation for the reasons behind why schizophrenia doesnt show up until later on in a persons life. Of all the thoeries that are present in todays society the ...
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