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The Ministry of Health (2008) found that mental illness which includes addiction affects one in five New Zealanders. A key population health challenge Addiction Support Workers are facing is the culturally diverse population in New Zealand. Estimates show that one in five New Zealanders were not born in New Zealand compared to one in eight in the United States. Furthermore, Statistics NZ showed a 5,000 net gain of immigrants to NZ for the month of March between 2005-2015 (as seen in the figure…

What can be a better way of celebrating the Homemade Soup Day than with a bowl of sizzling chicken soup? This Homemade Soup Day, relish your soups and let your body reap in the benefits that a bowl of veggie or meat soup provides. Soups, be it vegetable soup or chicken soup, are essentially healthy as it is packed with the goodness of vegetables and is cooked minus oil. And, the health benefit of chicken soup, especially for common cold, has been known since ancient times and considered a…

The discovery’s history of the Hispaniola island tells us repeatedly that indigenous ancestors ate certain herbs and inhaled some hallucinogen powder with a reed for a magical-religious purpose; they called this ritual “COHOBA.” The first regulation of drugs that we know in the country was July 1st, 1918, in the executive order No 161 of the American military government, who settled in the Dominica Republic from 1916-1924. Currently, the narco-trafficking has become the most serious threat to…

a quarter turn (to the left or right) and rolled it out again to three times the length. I repeated this until the consistency was right. I rolled the dough out into two long triangles, filling one (down the centre), with de-skinned sausages and herbs. I left an inch allowance on one side, and left about 3 inches of space on the other side. I brushed egg wash onto the perimeter of the pastry, and folded the side of pastry with the most space over the filling. Once I thought that the sides were…

But the menu of the First Thanksgiving was much different. The smaller birds were spit-roasted, while the bigger birds were boiled. Birds were likely stuffed, though not how we stuff them today. Instead they were stuffed with chunks of onions and herbs. The pilgrims probably ate eels and shellfish like, lobsters, clams, and mussels. Thing have changed about Thanksgiving meals over the years. And other things ever since then. In 1637 Groton, Connecticut, over 700…

The diet of a wild cottontail rabbit consists of “brows[ing] at night on grasses and herbs and [they] are fond of garden fare such as peas and, of course, lettuce. [With their diets changing in] winter, [becoming] a bit coarse… consist[ing] of bark, twigs, and buds ("Cottontail Rabbit," 2015).” However, most pet rabbit owners opt to provide…

John’s wort benefits claimed. Two studies, one sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), showed that the herb was no more effective than placebo in treating major depression of moderate severity; ironically, the conventional drugs used in the study did not fare any better than placebo, either (LOL). It should also be noted that these two studies did not directly…

warmth, in order to replenish the inner fire that fuels the original qi” (Benedict). Some doctors believed that the new lifestyle was depleting yang among elite men, wealth in one place means poverty in another. “The basic nature of tobacco, as an herb that ascended upward and outward to protect heat, was pure yang” (Benedict). The medical practices using tobacco focused on the stomach and spleen. It was used as a treatment for numerous alignments, “tobacco had the power to aid digestion, to…

food. When they aren't looking she pulls out her wand and turns them all to pigs. Luckily one of his men escapes without being tricked. He quickly runs to tell Odysseus the problem. Hermes approaches them both as a young man and tells them to eat an herb that will protect them from Circe turning them into pigs like the others.…

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, many deaths take place. All of them can be traced back to the two people that started it all. Romeo and Friar Laurence are responsible for the deaths of 6 people because of hastiness and a lack of reason. Romeo is the boy who started the relationship between himself and Juliet. He is to blame because his hastiness caused them to be married after 1 day, and his lack of reason caused him to murder Tybalt, and get himself banished. This…