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    Amanda Spake, senior writer for U.S. News and World Report and editor to the Washington Post and Mother Jones, focused her article "Rethinking Weight" around whether obesity should be considered a disease, consequently, increasing the coverage of weight loss treatments by insurance companies. Spake 's purpose in writing her article was to bring attention to the debate regarding whether it was appropriate to define obesity as a disease which determines the availability of treatments for the obese…

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    Osteosarcoma Case Study

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    Osteosarcoma is an aggressive form of cancer that affects the bone growth locations in the body known as epiphyseal plate. Cancer occurs when the body’s cells being to divide at an astounding rate, but in the case of Osteogenic Sarcoma the cells are multiplying rapidly and creating a weak bone matrix replacing the healthy bone matrix. This disease affects young adults because bone growth is quicker in their bodies. It especially targets bones like the femur, tibia, humerus, but is not limited to…

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    In my opinion, the human body is one of the most complex mechanisms known to mankind – even more complex than the latest iPhone X. The human body comprises of many different systems: the digestive system, the endocrine system, the exocrine system, the muscular system, the urinary system, the reproductive system, the respiratory system, the circulatory system, the sympathetic system, the skeletal system. The human body consists of about 300 bones at birth and this number decreases to 206 by…

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    Momordica charantia (Ampalaya) is found throughout the Philippines. It is a climbing vegetable with a smooth annual vine with a rounded, 2.5 to 10 centimeter diameter long leaves cut nearly to base to the base into a five or seve , oblong, variously toothed and lobed, and heart-shaped to the base. The leaves are good sources of iron and calcium, and also phosphorus. It is also noted that the leaves can also be used to clean metals (Quisumbing, 1978). The leaves aalso contain bitter alkaloid and…

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    Kiss Of Life Book Report

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    superhero in Emraan’s life who fought cancer. The superhero is none other than his cute munchkin Ayaan, who is Emraan’s son and was diagnosed with cancer. Emraan shares the book with the world, which is about the effects that cancer can have on children and he even shares the emotional journey from diagnosis to treatment. This is an inspiring story and we share you our top five reasons to read this book. Reason 1: An Inspiration to kids battling with cancer…

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    1. INTRODUCTION The French paradox describes the lowered incidences of coronary heart diseases (CHD) in French people with respect to their diet which consists of high amounts of saturated fats. It is one of the many paradoxes with examples such as the Israeli paradox, which shows that although having a diet low in saturated fats, the Israeli Jews have increased incidences of CHD . This paradoxical event caused elevated interest in the causative factor that can seemingly lower the incidences of…

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    Leroy et al. (2000) used 4 microsatellite primers to characterise Brassica oleracea accessions. Among the 136 reproducible fragments generated, 25 (18.4%) fragments were common for all Brassica, 27 (19.9%) were unique and 84 (61.7%) were phylogenetically informative. Flannery et al. (2006) assessed polymorphisms in Brassica, Arabidopsis, Camelina, Raphanus and Sinapis using 10 plastid SSR primer sets. Eight loci were polymorphic, and separated the individuals of Brassicaceae into taxon-specific…

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    A memorable day in my life is the day i went into surgery, although all surgeries have risks this was a very low risk surgery, I was just getting a fatty deposit removed from my lower leg. Even though it was a low risk surgery I was still very nervous, at this time I was only about 10 years old or so and had never had surgery before. Preparation for the surgery was simple, don't eat for 24 hours, and wash your body with special disinfecting soap that was given to me by the hospital a week or so…

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    Breast Cancer Definition

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    Definition Breast cancer is an uncontrollable production of breast cells (Julian, 2015). The two main types of breast cancer are invasive and non-invasive breast cancer (Julian, 2015). Non-invasive meaning cancerous cells reside in a certain region of the breast, while invasive refers to the potential of cells advancing to other body parts via bloodstream or lymph nodes (Julian, 2015). Patient Centered-Care of Patient with Breast Cancer Description and Background of Topic Breast cancer has…

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    Were you aware that Quail egg or even the egg of Coturnix japonica bird is known to have a lot better nutrient instead of chicken eggs? The quail egg has almost 13% protein which is bigger than the protein that chicken egg have which is about 11 %. Quail egg even has other nutrients, such as Vitamins E, B2, zinc, iron, as well as other beneficial nutrients. It is stated a while ago that quail egg has 5 x greater content of iron and also potassium if it is compared to a chicken egg. Listed…

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