Assisted suicide

Sunday, December 13, 2009 12:08
Posted in category Life, Suicide

Suicide or Assisted suicide, is it a crime? The laws for some countries, for assisted suicide are not clearly defined, whereas some have strict laws and rules to pursue. Though it is not mentioned in law code of some countries it does not mean it’s not an offence. There is a myth among people that both suicide and assisted suicide are personal affairs of individual and no laws or criminal code can indulge in between. Many people have been affected with this and have faced many problems. The laws are not revised for suicide and assisted suicide. It says suicide is not a crime but assisted suicide is a crime by some or the other way. Let’s clear the gloom and understand the real view.

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Dream Science

Thursday, December 3, 2009 10:27
Posted in category Psychology, dreams

Loss of dreaming is a sickness experienced by few people who are affected by mental sickness or trauma or incident that has affected the brain. Human beings go through dreaming process throughout their sleep. Some of them tend to remember their dreams and some forget it. We experience dreaming in rapid-eye movement or non-REM sleep.

We normally forget our dreams when we wake up. But if you can recollect your dream and try to evaluate and understand your dreams, it has a meaning. By evaluating your dreams you can acknowledge your mistakes and flaws and try to get moral sense of evaluating right and wrong. Thus it helps you and also develops functioning of your mind. Normally, human beings are habituated to use only one portion of their psychological function, but this helps other function to perform and work.

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The 7 Days Cabbage Soup Diet Plan

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 3:35

The 7 Days theory says you lose to 10 to 15 pounds by eating as much soup you can. For results follow the rules and regulation of the Soup Diet. It says you can have all low-calorie vegetables included in your soup like onions, tomatoes and undoubtedly Cabbages and can add tomato puree or onion soup mix or clear broth. The theory of Seven day program allows you to eat specific mentioned food day wise that includes fruit juice, selected vegetables including your favourite potatoes and beef for a day.

Day 1:

  1. Savour taste of all your favourite fruits, just no bananas.
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Female Athlete Triad Syndrome in Olympic Level Athletes

Monday, November 30, 2009 6:10

Disordered eating, amenorrhea and osteoporosis make female athlete triad syndrome1. The syndrome came into notice of health care professionals during 1980’s. Endurance competition for women, like First Women Olympic Marathon held in 1984 and first 10,000 meter race was held in 1988. The fashion for thinness also began in the same era leading to anorexia nervosa. Intense training and disordered eating habits in these athletes are considered to be etiological factor. The syndrome begins with disordered eating then amenorrhea and osteoporosis occurs3. The Incidence of amenorrhea varies in different type of sports and shows training intensity, calories taken and age group involved as associated factor in endurance sports.

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Prostate Cancer

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:57
Posted in category Cancer, Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancers are carcinomas that arise in peripheral (outer) part of prostate gland.

Incidence

Prostatic cancer is commonly found in United States (black population), UK and Northern Europe. In United Kingdom it is the third most common male cancer and second most common cause of cancer related death in males; and fifty males out of every one hundred thousand males suffer with it. It is less common in Asian countries like China and Japan. It is uncommon before 60 years of age and the mean age of prostate cancer is 70 years.

Symptoms

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Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Monday, November 23, 2009 17:10
Posted in category Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an acute respiratory illness that has recently developed radiological changes like segmental pulmonary shadowing or pulmonary shadowing that affects more than one lobe of lung.

Depending upon the setting pneumonia can be community acquired, hospital acquired or acquired by patients with impaired immune functions. The community acquired pneumonia causes one million hospital admissions per year in UK.

Spread and risk factors

Microorganisms causing community-acquired pneumonia spread by droplet infection (coughing, sneezing, nasal secretions). The patients are previously well, but have risk factors like cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, corticosteroid therapy, old age, recent influenza infection, lung disease and contact with sick birds or farm animals.

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Myocardial Infarction

Sunday, November 22, 2009 17:54
Posted in category Heart Disease

Myocardial Infarction (MI) is a disease of heart due to blockage of coronary arteries by blood clots (thrombi) or dislodged blood clots (emboli). The blood flow to heart muscle (myocardium) is stopped resulting in irreversible damage (infarction) to myocardium if patient does not get urgent medical treatment. The damage to myocardium can be protected with urgent treatment as it takes several hours to damage myocadium permanently.

Symptoms

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Use of natural herbs to lose weight

Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:08

There are thousand ways to lose weight, but losing weight through natural herbs is the best and effective way. The process to again be in shape through use of natural weight loss product is quite slow as the herbs are naturally extracted from plants.

Below are few listed herbal weight loss alternatives that you can look into before deciding the products:

Herbal weight loss products

Market these days are flooded with ample option for herbal weight loss products. Just a simple click on World Wide Web and you will have list and ways of herbal weight loss products.

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All you want to know about diabetes

Friday, November 13, 2009 19:20
Posted in category Diabetes, Sugar

Diabetes has become a terror and most familiar disease in the United States. It’s surprising that 5.4 million people already affected by diabetes are unaware about their illness. And over 16 million Americans by now are affected with diabetes. In last 50 years, Diabetes mellitus has become the primary cause for death among US population. There has been a rising strike of diabetic patient in U. S population. This guideline about diabetes provides us with ways and means to cure diabetes entirely.

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Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Thursday, November 12, 2009 15:12
Posted in category Arthritis, Bones, Joints

Rheumatoid Arthritis is the most common disease of bones and joints and about 1% population of UK is affected by RA. It usually starts at middle age and affects more females than males. Three out of every four patients are females. It is an immunological disease that is triggered by favorable environmental factors in genetically predisposed people. The disease runs variable course in patients and has remissions and relapses.

Symptoms

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