Athletes who participate in "thin-build" sports - gymnastics, dance, figure skating and long distance running - are at a greater risk of developing eating disorders than their "rowdy" sport counterparts. Since athletes are known to be competitive and perfectionistic, they are "at a predisposition to embody many obsessive traits, putting them at a higher risk for disordered eating" (Disordered). The constant pressure placed on athletes by family, coaches and their communities, may pressure them to engage in unhealthy practices in order to appease those expectations and achieve success on t...

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LD appear in frequency as people live longer, especially if the risk factors include behavioural choices like a sedentary lifestyle or a diet high in unhealthy foods such as refined carbohydrates, trans-fats, or alcoholic beverages. ...

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Kingdom Protista What is Kingdom Protista? Kingdom Protista is a part of domain (also called "superkingdom") eukarya, which includes all organism composed of eukaryotic cells. Protista, the most diverse kingdom, includes more than 200,000 species (Corliss, 2001). It consists of eukaryotic microogranisms and their immediate descendants; some organisms in this kingdom may be more closely related to eukaryotes in other kingdoms (Plantae, Fungi, Animalia) than they are to one another (Tree of Life 1998). Recently is has been referred to as "protoctista" rather than "protista" because the term...

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Alexie first mentions this when Thomas walks into the Trading Post, describing its shelves "stocked with reservation staples: Diet Pepsi, Spam, Wonderbread, and a cornucopia of various carbohydrates, none of them complex." ...

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"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions," Elizabeth Gilbert. An emotion is a subjective experience, which includes various expressed feelings, observable behavior and multiple changes in body state. They make up an immense role and dominate people's lives yet they are intangible. Emotions are greatly varied negative and positive, they range from love, serenity, awe to anger, panic, fear and grief. Emotions operate on many levels. ...

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Schizophrenia is considered to be the most costly, severe, chronic and devastating psychiatric illness that presents the most challenging mental health problem (Andreasen, 1989; Carson, 1996). Considered the leading public health problem, the lifetime prevalence rate is high at approximately 1% of the population; the occurring rate is one in 4000 diagnosed per year with severe morbidity and significant mortality rates linked to a high numbers of suicides (Andreasen & Carpenter, 1993; Silverstein et al., 2006). Bleuler's unique concept, that the defining features of schizophrenia are the s...

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Based on the results of this study, it was determined that biological processes such as cell cycle, protein transport, carbohydrate metabolic processes, apoptosis and cell proliferation were much more expressed in CAFs while immune response, lipid metabolic processes, cell differentiation, and cell adhesion were more expressed in NAFs (Campos et al., 2013). ...

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