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- 4171: Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics
- ... subpopulations as well as a group of hospitalized anorectics. The first test conducted in the survey was the shortened form of the Eating Attitude Test known as the EAT-26. This test was administered by school nurses and is proven to detect instances and levels of eating disorders. The determining factor in this test, as stated by Apter, "was the oral control factor - an indicator of impulsivity and presumable of sexuality ...
- 4172: Preventing Health Problems Through Running
- ... aerobic capacity have a higher risk of developing premature coronary artery decease that those who were more fit."(47) The article also talks about Martha L. Slattery, Ph.D., from the University of Utah Medical School. Maria Slattery also found that running is a good preventive measure for heart disease. She says, "The greatest increase in protection was between those men who were sedentary and those who had some activity."(48 ...
- 4173: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... planning ahead with an educational team better prepares the teachers for a challenging situation, and the team will be more likely to behave consistently. This article concluded with a list of detailed steps of what school districts can do to meet the needs of FAS students which included prenatal alcohol and drug exposure in the district health screening protocol, distribution and use of information gathered from the health screening, the provision ...
- 4174: AIDS
- ... risk of contracting HIV infection while donating blood. The routes of HIV transmission are well known, but unfounded fear continues concerning the potential for transmission by other means, such as casual contact in a household, school, workplace, or food-service setting. No scientific evidence to support any of these fears has been found. HIV does not survive well when exposed to the environment. Drying of HIV-infected human blood or other ...
- 4175: Obesity
- ... not, make overweight people feel unattractive. Many people assume that obese people are gluttonous, lazy, or both. However, more and more evidence contradicts this assumption. Obese people often face prejudice or discrimination at work, at school, while looking for a job, and in social situations. Feelings of rejection, shame, or depression are common. Doctors generally agree that people who are 20 percent or more overweight, especially the severely obese person, can ...
- 4176: Psychoanalysis
- ... be cured by psychoanalytic treatment, though the patient can often benefit from psycho-pharmacological treatment- -sedatives, tranquilizers, anti-depressants--in combination with psychotherapy. TRAINING In the United States most psychoanalysts are physicians who, after medical school, first specialized in PSYCHIATRY and who then were trained as psychoanalysts in an institute for psychoanalysts. Institute training typically takes from five to seven years. Outside the United States many non-medical psychologists and other ...
- 4177: Jane Addams and The Hull House
- ... living in the overcrowded tenements. Urban Chicago women were required to work long hours because of the economic conditions leaving their small children unsupervised and forcing older children to scrounge for themselves and to leave school and work. Women were always in fear of losing their jobs and the little pay were harder to bear than the work itself. Schooling was inadequate, and teachers were scornful of children who could not ...
- 4178: Addiction: Its Causes and Effects
- ... ruined her life. Gaylon turned to prostitution, drove her recovering husband back into alcoholism and stole $30,000 from her children. Rafael Rios seemed to have everything going for him. He graduated from Harvard Law School and joined a prestigious law firm in Chicago. Yet, for 18 years he shot up heroin spiked with cocaine. What made him continue this dangerous addiction for so long? Why did the star of Grace ...
- 4179: Your 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 on the three Rs (decidedly left-brain territory) - effectively represses the intuitive and artistic right brain. If you don't believe it, see how far you get at the office with ...
- 4180: Two Brains?
- ... 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 on the three Rs (decidedly left-brain territory) - effectively represses the intuitive and artistic right brain. If you don't believe it, see how far you get at the office with ...
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