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Sleep Deprivation Consequences

Sleep deprivation is common for all adults. We miss sleep for social engagements, we miss sleep because of stress and worry, we miss sleep because of work, we miss sleep because of time changes, and illnesses. Most of the time people think that they will miss a little sleep during the week and make up that sleep on the weekend when they do not have work commitments.

Burger King Statement concerning the change

Burger King officials say that they stopped including a fountain soda with their kids meals in order to offer guests more options that meet their lifestyle needs. Drinks will still be included with the kid’s meals, but the drinks will be fat-free milk, 100% apple juice, or low-fat chocolate milk. Soft drinks will still be listed, and will still be available to children, but they will not be listed on the kids menu.

Our Need for Fat

Everyone wants to be thin, and to have as little body fat as possible, but the human body needs a certain amount of fat in order for it to be healthy and function normally.
The layer of fat on our bodies helps us to stay warm when temperatures are low. The fat on our bodies is burned as energy and fat plays a critical role in the protection of organs. Fat is positioned around some organs to protect them from injury. Fat also plays a role in the correct hormonal balance we have.

Concerns of Pediatricians about Teens and Marijuana Consumption

Marijuana can create memory lapses, and concentration problems, in users. Teens who use marijuana may start to fail in their studies. The drug is known to impair motor skills of users. When teens use marijuana and have impaired motor skills, they are more apt to be involved in an accident.
The teen that are often using marijuana are at a greater risk of falling and injuring themselves because the drug interferes with mobility and coordination. The more often that a teen uses this drug the larger risk they take of injury or death from the side effects.

Most of the pediatricians who took part in the survey said that they were frequently asked by parents to change the schedule for the vaccinations their children needed. Many of the pediatricians said that they did spread out vaccination schedules for parents who requested them to do so.

The Risks

The vaccination schedule has been established so that children get the proper doses of vaccine into their blood stream to stop them from contracting serious cases of childhood diseases. Many of the vaccinations that are given to protect children from things like measles, mumps, and chicken pox, are given in multiple doses. Each dose contains a small amount of the vaccine and the children grow immune to the disease over a period of time as the medicine is introduced at increasing levels into their bloodstream.

Hygiene Hypothesis

This hypothesis suggests that children who grow up in too clean of an environment do not develop the natural antibodies they need so they are more prone to becoming allergic to common bacteria. These children are supposedly more susceptible to microorganisms because they have never been exposed to common bacteria that would have promoted their own antibody growth.
A home that is too clean is one that uses nothing but antibacterial soaps, detergents, and cleaning agents. The children from these homes do not play with animals, they do not play in bare-feet, and they are not generally allowed to get dirty.

Heart Attack Facts

About 720,000 people in the United States will have a heart attack this year. Once a person has a heart attack their heart is capable of reorganizing itself so that it can maintain function, or in some cases improve function. Many people have hearts that undergo adverse changes after the cardiac arrest episode. These hearts may include an enlargement of the muscle. An enlarged heart will have a decreased ability to pump blood throughout the body. The added strain on the heart muscle will make it work harder and can cause people to suffer from arrhythmias for the rest of their life, or in worst case scenarios it can cause people to experience heart failure.

Drug Testing Statistics

When a company decides to develop a new drug, they must be prepared to spend about five billion dollars to develop the medication. More than half of that money will be spent in the initial research and development of the medication. A large number of drugs are tested on animals before they are tested on humans because animal lives are not considered to be as valuable as human life.

With the development of an artificial human organ that would respond just like a living animal, or person, would respond, the drug companies could effectively test their medications without putting any lives at risk.
This type of testing would allow the drug companies to spend less money on their development of the drugs so medications could be priced lower for the consumer, and it would mean that no life was ever endangered during the testing phase. Drugs could be tested and approved a lot faster making the growth of the drug industry increase rapidly.

The Study Group

The children that participated in the study were between the ages of ten and eighteen with the most common age being fourteen. Each child had one parent or guardian participate with them. Most of the children came from homes that had an average income of $55,000. The majority of the participants were female ad the majority of the parents who participated were also female.

The study group

One hundred and ten Korean adults averaging an age of fifty six and one half, that all had type II diabetes for at least twelve years, and they suffered from metabolic syndrome.

The Metabolic Syndrome Factors

The most frequent metabolic syndrome factor was abdominal obesity, which was present in eight six percent of the subjects. The second highest metabolic syndrome recorded among the participants was elevated blood pressure levels, in which seventy eight percent of the participants had high blood pressure. The third most frequent metabolic syndrome was smoking and the abuse of alcohol.