... diseases from happening. Also, most people do not have a proper diet so vitamins would help out greatly if you are old or young. Just because you are in your youthful years and you can eat twice what you weight and still not gain a pound doesn't mean that you are getting proper vitamin intake. Jessica Donze of TeenHealth.com comments " chronic vitamin deficiencies could be dangerous as we get ... a lot of different things from happening to your body. For example vitamin A promotes good eye vision and an healthy immune system. Without vitamin A you will have bad vision and it will be eas...

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... result from an interplay of genetic, environmental, and hormonal factors. "Many researchers suspect that a special type of allergic reaction causes the disease."(Leslie Epstein 6) Lupus is more common in certain ethnic groups, as well as in women. "The body sometimes attacks healthy tissue ... instead of dangerous organisms like viruses or bacteria."(Graham R.V. Hughes 1) Still, the basic question which remains unanswered is what event sets off the mechanism which causes antibodies to be produced against one's own tissues. Solving this question may be the one step ... . "Medication is th...

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... result from an interplay of genetic, environmental, and hormonal factors. "Many researchers suspect that a special type of allergic reaction causes the disease."(Leslie Epstein 6) Lupus is more common in certain ethnic groups, as well as in women. "The body sometimes attacks healthy tissue ... instead of dangerous organisms like viruses or bacteria."(Graham R.V. Hughes 1) Still, the basic question which remains unanswered is what event sets off the mechanism which causes antibodies to be produced against one's own tissues. Solving this question may be the one step ... . "Medication is th...

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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You "You sound like you have a cold," my grandpa said over the phone. "Yeah, I have had it for almost two months now but it seems to be getting better," I replied. " ... had but then she informed me that livestock was the most common carriers but not the only. After that incident, I started to ponder about this deadly disease. Is it a disease? To start, all I knew to be true about Anthrax is that it can kill people and that the vaccine is not available to the general public. ... 't tell me how to avoid getting Anthrax or how it can be contracted. After reading deep...

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... infected tissue, and placing maggots on the infected area. These treatments were often very effective if diagnosed and treated within 2 weeks. Current treatments for this disease include powerful antibiotics, amputation, draining, or surgery. Doctors today are able to diagnose and treat the infection with an 87% chance of success if diagnosed within 3 weeks. Each following week the percentage declines by about 10 ... , any skin injuries should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with antibiotic ointment. After a skin injury watch for symptoms and consult a doctor immediately if symptom...

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... really 18. It's really sad. All this is just because of this horrible disease called AIDS. He got the disease because he was forcibly injected with a needle that had been contaminated with the disease. Of course there are many ways to get the disease. However, the three major causes of AIDS are through blood transmission, unprotected sex and contaminated needles. One cause of people contracting AIDS ... this case, the blood which is given to the patient might have the AIDS virus. Another example of what causes you to get AIDS is having unprotected sex. Having unprotected sex, especially...

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... in the ileum. People with Crohn's tend to have abnormalities in the immune system; which then causes the inflammation of the intestine. Crohn's is a very difficult disease to diagnose; it is often mistaken for appendicitis. There are many ways to test for Crohn's; the most common being a colonoscopy. During a colonoscopy your doctor would insert a long, flexible tube; which is linked to a TV ... strive for. Some people with Crohn's" find that eating certain foods makes their symptoms worse. Though there is not a set diet for a person with Crohn's there are some recommendations of what a...

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... cough to go with it. There's also explosive diarrhea that you'll have for a week. You'll also have vison loss fever stiff neck and might develop a cancer. If you get the virus here are some steps so you don't spread it. There are plenty of ways to prevent you from getting aids. The use of a condom during intercourse ... go to the Dr. and they will provide with an alternative to give the baby instead of breastmilk. If you catch HIV/AIDS there is no cure for it but there are ways for you to treat it. A variety of different drugs can be used in combinations to help control the virus. Each ...

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... at this time. Every year, approximately 1 million people over the age of 20 are diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism and metabolism is the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. A large percentage of the food we eat is broken down into what we call glucose. Glucose is the sugar that's in our blood and is the ... main source of fuel that our body runs off of. When we eat food, our pancreas is automatically supposed to make the right amount of insulin so that the glucose can move from our blood, into our different cells. When you have diabetes, th...

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... very basic scientific fact. Your brain is responsible for every bodily function you ever perform from before you were born until the time you die. Your brain sends those instructions through a vast telephone network (known as the nervous system) to every cell, tissue and organ in your body. If those telephone lines are interfered with in any way, those instructions coming from the brain ... Science, 1981 WHO NEEDS THAT? "The quality of healing is directly proportional to the functional capability of the nerve system to send and receive nerve messages." -J Edwards, MD, PhD., BET YOU DIDN...

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... at you all because of 3 little letters? Had family after family reject you because of one small problem? Did you know more than 8,000 people die a day because of what I have? Did you know that only because of a young hemophiliac boy did the government do anything? Did you know ... that at the end of 2003 more then 5 million people died? All because of one little virus one little virus that turns into a syndrome that turns into death, one small word can make a difference in a person's life. For over 40 million people are ... affected with this and around 30 million deaths. It is a diseas...

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... have been lead to believe so many fictional stories about the ways of contracting Aids its hard to know what to believe. The truth is, the main way of getting this disease is unprotected sex. Although condoms do work most of the time they are not 100% effective. Abstinence is the only sure way of not contracting Aids. Besides sexual contact with a person ... into your system. (Faulk p1) Sex, infected blood, vertical transmission is the three main ways to spread Aids. The most common is having sex with an infected person. (Fertzer p.16) You can't get it from mosquito bites, coughing, or ...

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1. What is meant by the term "stressor", "immune system" and "cardiovascular disorder"? A stressor is a physical or psychological stimulus which threatens an individual's psychological and / or physiological well-being. (Something that causes stress, e.g. moving house, a new job, first day of school.) Stressors ca be different for different people, you have to consider an individuals perception of stress, as it will differ from person to ... person. You also have to look at their ability to cope. The immune system protects the body from disease. It should act like a system, identifying and ki...

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... . When broken down completely your body will catch a simple sickness that would usually not affect you because your immune system would have taking care of it would kill you. People who are affected with this disease usually die a slow and painful death. What people are not realizing is that this disease is deadly and by having premarital sex and not being monogamous they too have a higher possibility ... that they might contract this disease. People are very aware that this disease is out there but they do not understand ... that it can affect them. Children are another aspect that has...

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... ; (Mother Jones). It has become such an issue, doctors are now refusing to take on patients whose families don't intend to inoculate. Is a dead child better than an autistic one? That seems to be the soap box that Jenny McCarthy is standing on. "If you ask a parent of an autistic child if they want the ... measles or the autism. We will stand in line for the f-cking measles." She might just get what she wished for. According to the CDC, 92 percent of measles outbreaks happened in ... individuals that were not inoculated. "Even scarier is the fact that one or two in every 1,000 infected ...

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... , in the middle of the afternoon. At first doctors conjured up all sorts of weird concoctions to cure what they thought was a bacterium. Researchers didn't know that the flu is a virus until many years later. Chapter Three Prophylactic - acting to defend again something, especially a disease Regular discrete particles of influenza After repeated growth in the lab. Highly pleomorphic (irregular) influenza particles as ... cell Fact #1 o Potentially life threatening o Contagious o Caused by a virus o Influenza attacks lungs, lining of respiratory tract is damaged o Tissues swell, but go do...

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... they should be the ones that know better than to get a prostitute and help spread the disease. A quote by the great author P.J. O"Rourke says that overpopulation is, "just enough of me, too much of you." This is extremely true in Africa because if the government realized what the population was doing to them then they would do something about it. Instead they relish ... in their own wealth while their "minions" are scrambling to spread an apocalyptic disease. It is now however, too late. The next problem that ... can also be fixed through isolation is the population situation, and the ...

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... eczema improve by age two and about forty percent of patients outgrow the disorder by the time they are teenagers. Eczema can stay beyond puberty and stay with them while they are adults in another forty to sixty percent of patients. If you are young with the disease you should get help instead of waiting to outgrow it because it can stay with u even after puberty ... new type of drugs will improve or completely clear eczema in more than 80 percent of patients that are treated. The side effects on this drug have improved a lot compared to what it was when it first came out. Doctors say ...

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... is a mystery and both genetics and environmental factors, such as obesity and lack of exercise, appear to play major roles. It has been found that there are two types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce any insulin. It mostly affects children and young adults and was previously known as juvenile diabetes. The treatment for this ... problems: Over some time, the high blood sugar levels may start to hurt your eyes, nerves, kidneys or the heart. Or right away, your cells may be starved for energy. What produces insulin is the pancreas. The pancreas ...

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... lymphatic systems, the liver and spleen. It is usually a minor affliction, but symptoms can sometimes be much more severe. It is usually spread through saliva, hence it's name "the kissing disease", but it can be spread through other bodily fluids. Once mono is contracted it enters the body's lymphatic tissue. The virus also enters the salivary glands where it reproduces rapidly ... white blood cells. EBV usually triggers a general increase in B-lymphocytes, resulting in an elevated level of T-lymphocytes as well. Infected B-lymphocytes rapidly reproduce and take on an a-typical appeara...

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... group of diseases that results from the suppression of the immune system (A group of cells, molecules, and organs that defend the body against invaders causing disease). The AIDS virus first involves the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). People with the HIV virus gradually loses immune function along with immune cells and without ... is down 19 percent from 37,900 deaths in the U.S. during the same time period in 1995 according to the United States Centers or Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One reason for the decline, according to the CDC, was the reduced rate of new infections b...

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... . Oh well though. First off AIDS is in short for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Acquired means you can get infected with it. Immune Deficiency means a weakness in the body's system that fights diseases. And Syndrome means a group of health problems that make up a disease. That's basically what it means word for word. AIDS is caused by the virus called HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency ... preventing things from happening. AIDS can be stopped as long as a lot of the precursors are practiced. Unless you are 100% sure that you and the people you are with do not have HIV infection, you s...

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... Breast feeding Some mothers have to struggle to produce enough milk to keep the babies weights up. Other mothers say its time consuming and that breast feeding mothers are "self righteous; a slave to their babies," But don"t forget--the possibility of passing down HIV IS possible! Breast feeding Q&A Q: Can the baby catch ... because although studies show high levels of the virus in the milk, the immune cells in the milk target and sometimes kill the AIDs causing virus. Q: What if the child has an allergic reaction to the breast milk? A: Well, anything is possible. In that case, if the ba...

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... the war on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the threat of getting Human Immune Virus (HIV), and the "dishonor" of dying from an unknown disease? How many gay men and women have attended the funeral of a significant other or friend who has died of AIDS? Homosexual men and women have ... 60's and 70's. The American government has wasted enough precious time, money and talent trying to persecute and pretend. The landmines of "don't ask don't tell" are numerous. The "don't ask" part makes sense. Don't ask potential recruits about their sexual orientation. And don't waste defense do...

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... becoming sick. Usually, a person or animal becomes ill after eating contaminated foods. There are several kinds of people who are considered susceptible and at-risk to listeriosis. These people are pregnant women and their unborn and newborns, people undergoing cancer treatments, people with AIDS, diabetes and kidney disease (Listeriosis and Pregnancy 1). Generally, these people have a weakened immune system. This particular ... bacteria makes that kind of person sick because of that person's inability to ward off intruders. There are a minimal amount of ways to get listeriosis, and the...

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