... popular magazines. For example, Newsweek, in 1986, referred to our healthier eating habits as "vegetarian chic," and Time, in 1988, praised the new vegetarian preferences of health-conscious young adults. Indeed, many individuals have stopped eating meat for health reasons, although some have also been influenced by the animal liberation movement, religious beliefs, concerns about world hunger, or an awareness of the environmental damage caused by livestock production. But whatever their motives,one thing is clear: Vegetarianism can no longer be viewed as a fringe phenomenon. The Gallup poll also revealed that nearly three fourths of Americans reject the notion tha ...

... on a sufficient weight gains. Women who begin their pregnancies at a healthy weight need to gain about 30 pounds, which covers the growth and development of the placenta, uterus, blood, breast, and infant. By reamining active throughout pregnancy, a woman can develop the strength she needs to carry the extra weight and maintain habts that will help her lose it after birth. From conception to birth, all parts of the infant, bones, muscles, organs, blood cells, skin, and other tissue are made from nutrients in the foods the mother eats. Nutrients needs during pregnancy and lactation are higher than at any other time. A pregnant women needs ...

... alone is an example of why PAS can never be legal. The Hippocratic oath is an oath that every doctor must take. The Hippocratic oath states "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect"(Weir 5). Opponents agree it is all right for a doctor to opt to not resuscitate, or to cut off life support. However, they say it is not all right to chose to use PAS when suffering with a terminal illness. Opponents fear that if PAS is legalized for use with terminally ill patients, it will not be very long before its uses broaden and people other than the terminally ill decide to try and benefit from the law (Kam ...

... life. A career in the medical field is an exceptional choice for an intelligent person who has ambition to help people in need, has the hungry for knowledge, and is motivated to work to the best of his ability. Hippocrates is the father of modern medicine (1). He probably was one of the best known physicians who really gave a basis for medicine. His enthusiasm in medicine helped him in his quest to help humanity. Hippocrates developed a set of medical ethics that influences medical practice still to this day (Hopke 494). Physicians that are starting to practice medicine generally take the Hippocratic Oath, which Hippocrates gave to his peers that were starting medic ...

... requires: (a) experience of a significant traumatic events; (b) re-experiencing of the trauma in one of several different thought, emotional, or behavioral forms; (d) persistent symptoms of increased arousal, Particularly when exposedto stimuli concretely or symbolically reminiscent of the trauma; (e) symptoms lasting at least one month. (Famolaro, Maternal and Child Post traumatic... 28)". Children are now becoming realized as significant sufferers of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is particularly bad for children under the age of 11, because they lack many of the skills needed to protect themselves. Furthermore, this vulnerabili ...

... Some people adopt it as a fad, while others profess to do it because of an aversion to eating animals. There are religious reasons for not eating meat and still others follow as a way to lose weight, using it as a diet. In each case it can be a healthy or a harmful way to eat. The benefits or harm of is associated with two factors: education about nutritional needs coupled with food choices. Even groups like athletes can thrive on a vegetarian diet if they are well educated to the bodies' dietary needs and are well aware of the limit-less choices available on a vegetarian diet. What follows in this essay, is first: a brief, yet insightful look at the ...

... aggressive, and certain sites of occurrence (scalp, shoulders and nose) are associated with worse cases. Malignant melanoma may have a thin stage, in which survival rates are excellent. The length of thin, or radial, growth phase may be months to years. If untreated at some point melanoma enters a quick growth phase. When this occurs the survival rates plummet.(Brandt, 1996) Skin Cancer can be avoided. A change in lifestyle can reduce the risk of skin cancer. This includes awareness of the reality of skin cancer, avoiding the sun, and self-examination and screening. Most of the time when people think of a serious disease they think of things like l ...

... disease weakens the body's immune system, allowing other diseases to occur. The most common treatments available for this virus are the drugs called AZT, DDI, and DDC which interfere with HIV'S ability to reproduce itself. These are the only known ways to slow down the production of the virus. This virus is spread through the exchange of body fluids {semen, blood, and blood products} this virus can stay in the body for as long as a decade with no symptoms. People who have AIDS have to go through a lot of complications and anxiety.The most common anxiety is that they have to go through their life knowing that they are going to die from this disease, anoth ...

... tissue. These traits are passed down as the cell reproduces therefore spreading the cancer. Neoplasms are generally classified into two groups: malignant and benign. Malignant tumors, or abnormal tissue, grow more rapidly than benign tissue and they invade normal tissue. Benign tissue is structured similar to normal tissue while malignant tissue is abnormal and has an unstructured appearance. Of greater importance, benign tissue does not metastasize, or begin to grow in other sites, like malignant tumors do. Cancer always refers to metastasized tumors but the term tumor is not always necessarily cancer. A tumor is any living tissue that is distinguishable as abnorm ...

... changes such as a headache, change in mood , sluggishness or involuntary jerking are some of the common symptoms that tend to precede a seizure. These symptoms are different from the aura or feeling that precedes a generalized seizure and comes seconds or minutes before the actual seizure. In most people, however, seizure are unpredictable and unrelated to the person’s current situation some external determinants may trigger seizures though. Lack of sleep, emotional stress, missed meals, alcohol ingestion/withdrawal, even fever or some infections may produce seizures. There are many possible cause of but in more than half the causes, the precise cause c ...