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- 6901: Meditation: A In-Depth Look
- ... the patient as medicine can not cure everything. Individuals are assuming responsibility for their own well-being. Meditation appeals to educated people and has been very popular and successful in helping the upper classes of American society deals with stress. More recently, as meditation moves into mainstream medicine the lower income classes are also beginning to explore meditation. Andrea La Fave of the Maharishi Vedic University in Madison says the majority ...
- 6902: Down's Syndrome
- ... add another $2,000 to $2,500 to its costs. (www #2) The Triple Screen The "triple screen for Down syndrome" has been in existence for over five years. However, just this past year, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists officially recommended that this test be offered to all pregnant patients of all ages. This implies a legal mandate to practicing physicians who cannot afford the liability of not offering ...
- 6903: Tocacco And Its Effects
- ... every state now restricts smoking bands for indoor workplaces. The U.S. Surgeon General has proposed that America become a completely smoke-free society. Despite such progress, tobacco use remains widespread. About one in four American adults mokes, and each more than 400,000 Americans die from effects of cigarette smoking. Nonsmokers subjected to the smoke of others also suffer: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke causes more than 50,000 annual ...
- 6904: Tourism In New Zealand
- ... today both in New Zealand and internationally. Travel facilitators are simply the factors that facilitate travel for a person. These are an adequate disposable income and enough leisure time. As a result of the industrial revolution in the second half of the 19th century global tourism increased as the middle class became increasingly wealthy. Then with the introduction of paid holidays and pay parity for men and woman, within the last ...
- 6905: The Effects of Stress, Alcohol Outcome Expectancies, Gender, Coping Styles, and Family Alcoholism on Alcohol Consumption
- The Effects of Stress, Alcohol Outcome Expectancies, Gender, Coping Styles, and Family Alcoholism on Alcohol Consumption Abstract One large component of American popular culture today is alcohol. A common stereotype for the effects of alcohol is that as a drug it acts as a stress antagonist. This theory was introduced by Conger (1956) as the Tension Reduction ...
- 6906: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... general population (Jacobson et al., 1992). There are other effective treatments for bipolar disorder that are used in cases where the patients cannot tolerate lithium or have been unresponsive to it in the past. The American Psychiatric Association's guidelines suggest the next line of treatment to be Anticonvulsant drugs such as valproate and carbamazepine. These drugs are useful as antimanic agents, especially in those patients with mixed states. Both of ...
- 6907: Anabolic Steroids
- ... imposed in addition to the jail sentence, or by itself. The fine can be as high as $250,000. Statistics: 260,000 students in grades 7 to 12 either use or have used steroids. The American Heart Assoc. estimates at least half of all Division I college football players have used steroids over a substantial period of time. Black market steroids are topping sales of $400 million per year. One million ...
- 6908: Alcoholism: Symptoms, Causes, and Effects
- ... alcoholism can have on the different aspects of a person's life are the best ways that we can help control the number of alcoholics in the United States. Works Cited Caplan, Roberta. "Alcoholism." Academic American Encyclopedia. 1992. Gitlow, Stanley E., M.D. "Alcoholism." New Book Of Knowledge. 1991. Johnson, Vernon. Everything You Need To Know About Chemical Dependency: Vernon Johnson's Guide For Families. Minneapolis: Johnson Institute, 1990.
- 6909: Unfoldingone Art
- ... strangeness that can underlay ordinary events"("Elizabeth Bishop"). The text (Literature an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama) makes reference to Bishop's use of metaphor. Elizabeth Bishop refers to losing as an art. The American Heritage Talking Dictionary defines art as a skill that is practiced ("art"). "One Art" makes specific reference to practicing losing (line 7). Loss is defined as a condition of being deprived or bereaved of something ...
- 6910: Vegans
- ... apparel. In addition, the group acknowledges that the elimination of exploitation of any kind is necessary in order to bring about a more reasonable and humane society and to emancipate both humans and animals. The American Vegan Society promotes the philosophy of Ahimsa, a Sanskrit word interpreted as "dynamic harmlessness," along with advocating service to humanity, nature and creation. In other words, in order to practice veganism, it is not sufficient ...
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