Adrenoleukodystrpohy
.... to progress rapidly with increased spasticity and paralysis,
visual and hearing loss, loss of ability to speak or swallow.
~Inability to move themselves anywhere at all from one place to
another.
Diet Goals
~to decrease the exogenous source of VLCFA- food sources of
fats, cholesterol, grains, nuts, fruits and vegatables skins,
milk (very restrictive diet)
~to decrease the endogenous production of VLCFA with the
ingestion of monosaturated VLCFA’s
Types of Oils
~Glyceryl Trierucate Oil (GTO)
- 90% oleic acid found naturally in olive oil & sunflower seed oil
- ingestion results in decrease in VLCFA .....
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Elephantiasis
.... feature of these worms is the periodic swarming of the
microfilariae in the bloodstream. In most species swarming takes place at
night. The embryos can be taken up by an insect only when they are in a
human's bloodstream. They develope into infective larvae in the insect,
which is the intermediate host. These hosts are various genera of
mosquitoes, notably A?des, Anopheles, and Culex. Within 10 to 11 days
after ingestion by a human skin they migrate to the lymphayic vessels
where they mature and reproduce. There isn't really any prevention to this
disease.
Bibliography
Drimmer, Frederick; THE ELEPHANT MAN; Putnam Pu .....
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Personal Commentary On The Drug Problem
.... tenth, and twelfth graders who believed there was a “
great risk” in trying drugs. But in 1994, the use of drugs increased and
the Department of Health and Human Services stepped up to try to help our
parents protect their children from the resurgence of drugs. The
government is doing everything to let parents know about drug abuse, but it
is ultimately up to the users. The Gov. cannot change children’s behavior
or anybody else’s.
In schools there is even a bigger problem. The states have created
an educational program against drug abuse for the public school system and
some authorities claim that this is not a school problem, .....
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Bulimia
.... as if it was a joint disease. Finally, in
1979, doctor G.F.M. Russell was the first physician to describe this
disorder as a separate disease from anorexia to which he called it bulimia
nervosa (Epstein 40).
Today this disease has seemed to grow to quite an absurd level.
Unlike when this disease began in the early 20th-century, there are no
longer a few rare cases of an eating disorder, but a rather large number of
people fighting such a problem. A 1987 study has shown that 19% of college
students have bulimic episodes. It is also noted that 80 to 95% of bulimic
cases happen to be women, usually between the ages of 13 to .....
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Caffeine And Its Affects
.... to sixteen hours after the last
dose, such as: drowsiness, headaches, lethargy, irritability, disinterest
in work, depression, occasional nausea and vomiting.
How caffeine affects you depends on what and how much you drink.
Strongly brewed coffee or tea has much more caffeine than a weakly brewed
drink. Age and size make a difference too: A caffeinated soft drink
consumed by a child can have the same effect as four cups of coffee for an
adult. In moderate doses (more than 200mg, depending on body weight and
physical condition) it can produce trembling, nervousness, chronic muscle
tension, irritability, throbbing headaches, disori .....
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The Circulatory System
.... veins, which enter the left auricle. When this
chamber contracts, blood is forced into the left ventricle and then by
ventricular contraction into the aorta. The bicuspid, or mitral valve
prevents the blood from flowing back into the auricle, and the semilunar
valves at the beginning of the aorta stop it from flowing back into the
ventricle. Similar valves are present in the pulmonary artery. The aorta
divides into a number of main branches, which in turn divide into smaller
ones until the entire body is supplied by an elaborately branching series
of blood vessels. The smallest arteries divide into a fine network of still
more min .....
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Steroids
.... to be a man, so their voice deepens,
body hair develops. They start to look more like a man.
Some studies show that the only reason why athletes use steroids is
to help stay injury free, to heal, to make themselves look better and to
help in their sports.
The amount of testosterone that the body makes is very small
amounts. Males have twenty to sixty times the testosterone than females.
Large amounts of testosterone are needed three times during a man’s life,
when still in the embryo, because his male features are forming. The next
is right after birth, and lastly during puberty.
Some steroids are taken as pills wh .....
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Skin Cancer: “What Disease Am I”
.... it can spread to other parts of the body. It
is estimated that there are 2,300 deaths from squamous cell carcinoma every
year.
Another type of this cancer is malignant melanoma. Malignant
melanoma is the most harmful. It develops on about 32,000 Americans
annually. Every year are estimated 6,800 Americans will die from melanoma.
Melanoma like its less aggressive cousins, basal cell and squamous cell
carcinomas, is almost always curable in its early stages.
Melanoma has its beginnings in melanocytes, the skin cells that
produce the dark protective pigment called melanin. It is melanin that is
responsible for suntanned ski .....
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Asbestos: Helpful Aspects Vs. Harmful Effects
.... work into four different classes
depending on the amount of exposure to asbestos during a specific
employment. The categories consist of classes I, II, III, and IV, with
Class I work having the greatest amount of exposure to asbestos and Class
IV work having the least amount of exposure to asbestos. However, two of
the most common health effects of exposure to asbestos are caused by the
formation of asbestosis and various forms of cancer. Asbestosis is a non-
cancerous disease whereby “scar tissues clog the lungs” (Jackson 6).
According to Jackson, “other related diseases through the inhalation of
asbestos are Heart Failur .....
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Clostridium Difficile And Psuedomembranous Colitis
.... some cases were noted to start after antibiotic therapy
had been discontinued. The antibiotics that cause clostridium difficle to
release the toxins that cause psuedomembranous colitis are clindamycin,
ampicillian, cephalosporins, pennicillans, erythromycin, sulfamethoxazole,
chlorampheniocol, and tetracycline. Psuedomembranous colitis often affects
the rectosigmoid section of the colon and occasionally can occur in the
proximal segments of the colon. The sign of psuedomembranous colitis is
severe abdominal pain. Symptoms of psuedomembranous colitis are can be as
mild as the loosing of stool to the active colitis and bloody .....
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The Physical And Psychological Effects Of Marijuana
.... and reporting "changes"
that occur normally in the mammalian brain. Wu et al. found a correlation
between cannabis use and low sperm counts in human males. This is
misleading because a decrease in sperm count has not been shown to have a
negative effect on fertility and because the sperm count returns to normal
after cannabis use has stopped..
Another claim made was that cannabis causes chromosome breakage. The
primary source for this are studies that were conducted by Dr. Gabriel
Nahas in the early 1980s. Nahas observed abnormalities in somatic (not
sex) cells of rhesus monkeys in vitro (i.e., in test tubes and petri
dishes) and .....
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Alcoholism: Cunning, Baffling, Powerful, Patient And Deadly
.... most pleasurable thing I know.
(filter out the negative effects)
POLARIZED THINKING:
Things are black and white, good or bad. You are perfect or a
complete failure. E.g. - My life would be void of pleasure with out alcohol.
OVERGENERALIZATION:
To come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece
of evidence. E.g. - Alcohol has made for some great times with friends. I
must have alcohol in order to capitalize on the potential for fun.
MIND READING:
You think you are able to define how people are thinking about you.
E.g. - People will not like me if I give up alcohol. There is a side that
come out that is .....
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