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- 4501: Celiac Sprue Disease
- ... and absent in people that have celiac sprue. The treatment of celiac sprue is straighfoward, at least to the physician. Many patients are told "Just follow a gluten-free diet and you'll be feeling great in a couple of weeks." Unfortunately, many otherwise excellent diagnosticians do not understand the implications, complexities, difficulties, and frustrations encountered in this simple order. Having a brother who was diagnosed with this disease this past ... card we have that instructs the chef everything he can and can't have. Although this is a disease that will stick with him for the rest of his life, he has been doing a great job keeping a positive attitude about the whole thing.
- 4502: Cheetah
- ... fetch. The Sumerians were the first people known to tame cheetahs. Many cheetahs were kept in the Orient, far beyond their natural habitat. Three historical figures were recorded as having cheetahs; Genghis Khan, Ackbar the Great, and Charlemagne. Ackbar had kept 9,000 cheetahs in his 45-year reign and tried to breed them. However only 1 litter was produced. How Cheetahs Hunt. The cheetah is a carnivore that eats small ... you to volunteer your time to do projects and also to make donations to help cheetahs. They have a special adopt-a-cheetah program that a lot of people are involved in. This is a great organization that you can use to help cheetahs.
- 4503: Caffeine
- ... acid can aggravate ulcers or hightail hernia, and cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Caffeine can cause an accelerated and irregular heartbeat. Where caffeine lifts your spirits, when it wears off there can be bouts of depression. If drank too close to bedtime, caffeine can disrupt your sleep. You can get the shakes from caffeine. Recent studies have failed to find any relationship between caffeine and strokes or increased risk of heart ... thought by some. Several studies have hinted that MS and caffeine may be related. A 1990 study of students found that the more caffeine the subjects consumed, the more severe their symptoms of MS (anxiety,depression, mood swings, bloating). It won't eliminate MS but cutting back on your caffeine intake may alleviate the symptoms. If you rely on caffeine to start your day off, to keep you going all day ...
- 4504: Creatine 2
- ... body from relying on another energy system called glycolysis, which has lactic acid as a byproduct. This lactic acid creates the burning sensation you feel during intense exercise. If the amount of acid becomes too great, muscle movement stops. But if you keep on using ATP because of all the creatine you have, you can minimize the amount of lactic acid produced and actually exercise longer and harder. This helps you ... may benefit, although other studies show that creatine either does not help or may actually hurt. The difficulty in these situations appears to center on the increased muscle mass which creatine provides. While that's great if you're a bodybuilder or wrestler, it can be a detriment if you have to carry all that weight around during a marathon or triathlon. It becomes a tradeoff between the increased strength you ...
- 4505: Bio-report
- ... the availability of the food on each of the levels. If there is an overpopulation somewhere it is quickly taken care of and the balance is restored. c.Surprisingly the effects would not be that great because the snails that feed off of the toxic material would die off or adapt to it until it stopped, the lake trout would of course just find another food source until the balance was restored. Even if the effects of the toxin were great eventually a balance would be restored.
- 4506: Computer Viruses
- ... programs that disrupt the computer’s normal operation by means of interfering with its hardware and operating system. Viruses are designed to replicate and to avoid detection. In recent years computer viruses have caused a great deal of damage to personal computers and computer systems around the world. The damage can be extensive; mostly due to the loss of time spent recovering the infected data. A computer virus in a system ... problems resulting from attacks of all types, the anti-virus software market is expected to grow from $700 million in 1997 to 2.6 billion by 2001 (Davy, 1998 , p14). Some computer viruses have caused great deal of damage. A few cases are described below. The Pakistani-brain virus This virus is one of the best known in the PC world. This virus infected approximately one hundred PC computers at the ...
- 4507: Cloning Has Science Gone Too Far
- ... provide them with the natural habitat that they need. Let us not forget that it is the diminishing environment from which they come that is to blame for their extinction. And while it would be great to save the Panda bear population, we should focus our efforts more towards the real reason for their extinction. As stated earlier, there are many possible genetic deficiencies that can result from cloning. Now, taking ... produced in a natural environment. Undoutedly, the most beneficial result that cloning can present is the ability to create organs. But, we must realize the risk involved as well. There would most likely be a great many failures before there were to be even one success. And there is no substantial evidence that this would even be possible. So the risk seems to greatly outweigh any possible benefit. The risks involved ...
- 4508: Cloning 5
- ... the interests of humanity as a whole. This includes providing funding for, and endorsing cloning research. The ban on human cloning should be reconsidered. The positive aspects that cloning has to offer are entirely to great to ignore. Recently the United Nations has adopted a declaration against cloning. The declaration calls on all nations around the globe to ban reproductive cloning (HCF 1999 ). There are more reasons to clone human beings ... plants. Imagine all of the species of life on this planet that may never have become extinct if were able to clone. Never again would we be forced to stand by idly, watching as a great animal becomes little more than a fossil. Cloning would allow us to make extended journeys into our universe. By perpetuating our physical selves scientifically, we could embark on space journeys of infinite distances. We would ...
- 4509: Cloning 3
- ... one? A cloned child may also feel obligated to follow the pre-determined path of their gene donor. This would bring about a lot of confusion and emotional damage for the individual. There is a great margin of error in the new technology of cloning. Because we are still developing these scientific procedures, there is a lot of room for mistakes. This means that in the process of experimenting, clones with great genetic abnormalities could be created. What would happen to these degenerate individuals? Should they live life as rejects of society or be disposed of as mistakes? Cloning is currently a very expensive process. It requires ...
- 4510: Chinese Shih Poetry And Philosophy
- ... the moral code of man was set down by heaven, and if those in positions of authority did not set good examples, then they would deposed by the forces of heaven. One of the first great Chinese poets to write of Confucianism was T’ao Ch’ien. T’ao Ch’ien’s poem Substance, Shadow, and Spirit shows a comparison between Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and the views on life and death ... frantically replying to their letters. Besides being open minded to the ideas of Confucianism and Buddhism, T’ao Ch’ien was also an ardent Taoist. His Taoist poetry about attaining tranquillity and serenity are at great contrast with the world around him, which was full of chaos and turmoil. In the final section of the poem Substance, Shadow, and Spirit he discusses the Taoist view, which is that one should not ...
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