The message to be thin and successful has caused countless women to start diet, making the diet industry a multimillion business. ... Therefore, the advertisements encourages females to start dieting excessively. ... Therefore, the body we see on television is flawless. ... While watching Sex in the City, women start observing the beauty and the fashion techniques of the actresses. By observing these traits, women start to look for the perfect accepted form. ...

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Cancer is the result from abnormal cells throughout the body. ... "Cancers are named depending on where they start out in the body" (Leukemia, Medline Plus). ... Chronic lymphocytic leukemia over time eventually starts to affect the lymph nodes. ... The doctor may start off checking family history and doing a physical evaluation. ... "The drugs can interfere with any cell in the body. ...

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This tumor can spread invading other surrounding body tissue and parts to eventually consuming the whole body if left undetected and untreated. ... We start out by standing in front of a mirror and note as described above. ... Start in a consistent circular, waving, or whirlpool path from the below beginning of your armpit until you reach the center of your nipple. ... Your pattern must start from under your arm reaching your lower bra line, and then proceeding across your collarbone. ... It destroys the undetectable cancerous cells in the body and or breast. ...

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Normal skin helps to protect all of the major organs in the body and is the largest organ of the body. ... The subcutis helps protect the body's organs from any injury by its shock- absorbing effect, and it helps the body to conserve heat (Melanoma Skin Cancer, 2013). ... Melanomas can start anywhere, but are more common in certain areas of the skin. ... This means that "the cancer spreads from its starting point in the primary tumor to other parts of the body, occurs when cancer reproduces and sheds cells through the lymphatic system and blood vessels "(Poole, p.73). ... Dis...

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Tobacco Smoke The ways in which tobacco smoke affects the human body have been under extensive research and study for many years. ... Barely anyone starts to smoke after that age (adulthood). 4) 70% of adolescent smokers wish that they hadn't started and have tried to quit but did not succeed. 5) More than 80% of adolescent smokers who smoke more than a pack a day, report that they need or depend on cigarettes. ... These feelings become less intense as the body adjusts. ... The body is now receiving more oxygen than it is used to receiving, but in a few days it should return to nor...

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In chemotherapy, the patient takes cancer fighting medications that travel trough the body to slow the growth of cancer cells or even kill them. ... Hormone therapy exploits some of the chemicals the body naturally produces. ... The treatments generally start several weeks after surgery so the area has some time to heal. Once therapy treatments start, there are expected to receive small daily does of radiation over a period of several days to several weeks. ... If the cancer has remained in the breast or has spread to other parts of the body will also be brought in to consideration. ...

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More often than not the start of anorexia in a young girl follows the realization that she does not like the shape of her body and that she is overweight. The point of being overweight and not being happy with your body is common for most young girls although in the case of girls with anorexia, it becomes an obsession. ... Despite the responses of the body most patients suffering from the disease continue to exercise their normal routines, which increases the heart rate to that of a normal woman. ... As well by starving their bodies they alter the quantity and composition of their saliva, w...

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Tobacco Smoke The ways in which tobacco smoke affects the human body have been under extensive research and study for many years. ... Barely anyone starts to smoke after that age (adulthood). 4) 70% of adolescent smokers wish that they hadn't started and have tried to quit but did not succeed. 5) More than 80% of adolescent smokers who smoke more than a pack a day, report that they need or depend on cigarettes. ... These feelings become less intense as the body adjusts. ... The body is now receiving more oxygen than it is used to receiving, but in a few days it should return to nor...

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You exam your body you find a lump on your breast. ... The next sign is that the breast nipple becomes inverted, and starts to develop a type of rash. Further more changes in the skin texture may start to develop. ... The doctor may also exam the body to find any signs of it being spread. ... The only way to get breast cancer is through uncontrolled cell growth in the body. ...

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Instead of the normal, "grow, divide, die" routine that most cells have, cancerous cells keep growing, and they form abnormal cells that can invade other tissues in the body. ... This abnormal cell growth can happen anywhere in the body. ... This disease can have devastating effects on the human body with just the symptoms alone. ... Chemo and radiation therapy can have extremely bad effects on the body, wearing it down and destroying the immune system. ... If caught early, there is a chance that the disease could be more easily treated; but as of now, pancreatic cancer can stay in t...

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Surgeons didn't start keeping detailed records of breast cancer until the mid 1800's. ... Researchers at the University of California discovered that certain genes in normal body cells somehow became abnormal. (3) Before this discovery, the cause of cancer was unknown. ... If a woman has stage IV cancer, the cancer is no longer in just the breast and underarm lymph nodes, but has spread to other parts of the body as well. ... Most women who have had tumors and are in remission have recurrent cancer, meaning the cancer cells start reproducing and taking over normal cells again. ...

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Most spermatocytic tumors grow very slowly and usually do not metastasize (spread to other parts of the body). ... Other types are called secondary testicular tumors are those that start in another organ and then spread to the testicle. ... There may also be cancer in parts of the body such as the bones or liver. ... It may come back in the same spot of the body or other areas. ... The third and last procedure is chemotherapy, which uses anticancer drugs to kill cancer cells throughout the body. ...

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Most spermatocytic tumors grow very slowly and usually do not metastasize (spread to other parts of the body). ... Other types are called secondary testicular tumors are those that start in another organ and then spread to the testicle. ... There may also be cancer in parts of the body such as the bones or liver. ... It may come back in the same spot of the body or other areas. ... The third and last procedure is chemotherapy, which uses anticancer drugs to kill cancer cells throughout the body. ...

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The amount of processed and fast foods that we ingest on a daily basis are starting to take a toll on us and it's becoming more and more obvious with each generation. ... This is a foreign, unwanted condition in our body and to rid it, our body draws calcium from our bones. Calcium is our bodies number one acid buffer. ... He soon started to realize that the more affluent families, that could afford to eat meat products were more susceptible to liver cancer. ... So why are these products unhealthy for our bodies? ...

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Normally, cells divide in an orderly way to produce more cells only when the body needs them. ... They do not invade nearby tissue or spread to other parts of the body. ... Through the lymphatic system is one of cancers best modes of transport for spreading to form new tumors in other parts of the body. ... Carcinogenisis is the mutating of DNA because of a chemical in the body. ... She envisioned the mice gnawing away on the cheese and she just started feeling better and better. ...

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What happens to your body when you give up smoking 20 minutes after giving up Your blood pressure and your pulse rate return to normal. ... Carbon monoxide reduces the uptake of oxygen from the lungs - the higher the levels of carbon monoxide, the lower the levels of oxygen.3 Oxygen is vital for the functioning of all energy systems in the body; so as soon as you cut carbon monoxide levels, you will experience enhanced energy levels. 24 hours after giving up Carbon monoxide is eliminated from the body. What this means Look forward to better sports performance, with stronger endur...

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These are the stages that Colon cancer progresses in and they are as follows:  Stage 0: The disease starts as a small non-cancerous growth, called a polyp, in the colon. Stage 1: The cancer has started to work its way through the first layers of the colon - the mucosa and the sub mucosa. ... "Cancer specialists suggest that screening for such individuals start at age 50 and consist of tests that detect colon cancer in the body.... These therapies can remove or destroy cancer in a particular area of the body such as the colon, rectum, liver, lungs, peritoneum, etc. Systemic therapy c...

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Obesity is classified as having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or higher. BMI is a common method used by doctors to indicate when a person is obese by measuring their body mass. This condition occurs when the body stores energy as fat, gained over the time by consuming more calories than what are actually needed. ... Accumulation of fat starts since childhood because parents believed that the more "chubby" a kid were the healthier and full of life he or she would be. ... It means that your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high, and your body slows or stops making insulin,...

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Carcinomas, which tend to destroy an increasing proportion of normal breast tissue over time, may spread to other parts of the body. ... Back in the day women didn't smoke until they were adults. 95 percent of smokers today start when they are teenagers. ... Treatment of breast cancer depends on a woman's age and health as well as the type, extent, and location of the tumor, and if the cancer has remained in the breast or has spread to other parts of the body. ... In chemotherapy, a patient receives cancer-fighting drugs that travel through the body to slow the growth of cancer c...

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If the exposure of the carcinogens to the cells increases, the cells will become more cancerous and will start to spread. ... The implant is placed directly into a tumor or inserted into a body cavity. ... During radiation therapy, the body uses a lot of energy healing itself. ... It is also caused by the inflammation when the cancer is broken down and removed from the body. ...

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Animals have just started to be cloned in laboratory settings. ... In this therapy, patients are given strong medications that stop the cancer cells from spreading throughout the body. ... By cloning these nerve and spinal cells, then implanting those cells into a patient's body where repair is needed. ...

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How did scientist start studying zebra fish? ... From the time they both eat the apple and that time forth, human beings started changing themselves. ... Bonnie's doctors didn't know what treatment she needs to start to save her life. ... Everyone will be made up the same way and a new disease will come in and kill the human race as we know it because our bodies will not know how to fight off the disease (Newsweek 134:24). ... The problems of cloning start with the safely risks to the child, the egg donor, and birth mother. ...

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Cancer research has had strong support from disease specific charity organizations, non-disease specific funding bodies and the pharmaceutical industry but stroke, another common (but not as common as cancer) disease affecting elderly people, has received less support for research due to the lower mortality rate of the disease (Rothwell 1612). ... Intel Corporation, well known for its world famous Pentium processor, has started a Proactive Health Strategic Research Project (PHSRP), in the hope to find new technologies that "can support behaviors that help prevent disease, foster independen...

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I"m not much of a reader so I turned on the TV and put it on the news channel, I was watching the news and all of a sudden they started talking about an outbreak of some type of disease. ... What is anthrax and can the effects it has on the human body be prevented. ... So I decided to start with newspaper and magazine articles. ... Since I had a good idea of what anthrax looked liked, I decided I should start finding background information and facts about anthrax. ...

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He started to say that it is a great thing for the schools to be teaching the kids about marijuana since it is a very deadly drug. He also said that organizations such as D.A.R.E. are also good because they teach about every aspect of drugs and how they are horrible for you and your body. ... The reason marijuana is so effective in its treatment is that the lungs are very good at allowing the chemical to enter the body without being rejected by the stomach. ...

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